Want to learn more about marketing a blog? Subscribe to ProBlogger today for free and check out our how to find readers for your blog page. It breaks my heart to see blogs with great content languish in utter anonymity, devoid of comments, saddled with a seven-figure alexa traffic ranking, ...more

2006 was a massive year for me both on a personal level but also on a blogging front. I became a Dad in July, V and I took a couple of interstate trips, I travelled to Canada, I started a new blog and forum at Digital Photography School, b5media went ...more

Well today’s the last working day before Christmas here and while a lot of my friends are out at office parties this work at home single person business guy is kicking back having my own little ProBlogger office party. I’m toying with the idea of photocopying my bum and/or making ...more

A few weeks back I wrote a post titled No-one links to the linkers. It had quite a few comments left on it but one (it was one of the last ones left) caught my attention above the others and as I read it I knew instantly that I could ...more

A few people have asked me what I’ll be doing with ProBlogger in the days and weeks after the birth of Mini-Rowse. It seems that every time I go on holiday or take time off I do something different with my blog (here’s 7 things I’ve done with my blogs ...more

Over at Kottke.org Jason (and his guest blogger Greg Knauss) reflected last week on the two types of bloggers (found via LexBlog): Referential – ‘uses the link (sometimes referred to as ‘link blogging’) as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned elsewhere’ Experiential – ‘inwardly ...more

The two week break is over and I’m back home after what was a wonderful couple of weeks in tropical far north Queensland (north eastern tip of Australia). We spent a week in Port Douglas and just under a week in Palm Cove. While we did catch the end of ...more

What are blogs anyway? A blog is a regularly updated website consisting of regular article postings. Links to and from other blogs and traditional websites are a prominent feature of most blogs. A blog tends to be focussed on a single topic or issue, and usually invites comments from readers on the posted articles, starting a conversation between writer (called a blogger) and the readers. A blog usually reflects the personality of the writer, and is most often written in a personal and informal style. Isn’t a blog just an online diary? An online diary, or personal blog is only one type of blog. Along with personal blogs, there are many types of business, technology, and professional blogs. The personal blog was once the predominate form of blog, but that is definitely no longer the case.

My bags are packed, the house sitter has arrived, the tickets are in my pocket and we’re about to run out the door to the airport. I’m going on vacation for a couple of weeks. I know it seems like I do this a lot but V and I are ...more