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• What is a Blog?: ProBlogger Blog Tips

  February 14th, 2006 12:55 am

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• Alex Morganis

  February 14th, 2006 1:37 am

  Hey Darren. I forgot to Email you (but I don’t know your Email address), but I’m interested in writing one of these for the series. Could you please Email me? AlexMorganis(at)gmail(dot)(com). Thanks!

• One By One Media » Blogging For Beginners - Revelations of a Professional Blogger

  February 14th, 2006 1:55 am

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• Clique Communications » Blog Archive » Problogger: Blogging for Beginners

  February 14th, 2006 1:57 am

  […] Problogger, Darren Rowse, has a new series he’s starting on his site title Blogging for Beginners. By no means do I want to come across as the all knowing expert in this series - I’m very aware of my own limitations as a blogger and strongly believe that it is only collectively as a group that we really know anything. As a result I’d encourage everyone (beginners or old hands) to see each post in this series as an invitation to share what you know on the topics we cover. […]

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  February 14th, 2006 2:55 am

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  February 14th, 2006 3:15 am

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  February 14th, 2006 9:14 am

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  February 17th, 2006 4:15 pm

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  February 18th, 2006 6:39 am

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  February 21st, 2006 3:57 am

  […] Darren is doing a series on blogging for beginners that is just phenomenal. I highly encourage anyone thinking about getting into blogging or who feel like they just can’t do some of the stuff they’d like to do to check his series out. I’ve written two pieces for his series at his request and I look forward to those being published soon. […]

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  February 21st, 2006 10:07 am

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  February 21st, 2006 10:55 pm

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  February 22nd, 2006 3:00 pm

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  February 22nd, 2006 7:48 pm

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  February 27th, 2006 11:49 am

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  February 28th, 2006 1:16 am

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• H.A. Page

  March 2nd, 2006 8:42 am

  Thanks for the tips — this is all very helpful!!! All your articles are, in fact. Muchas gracias.

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  March 2nd, 2006 5:09 pm

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  March 11th, 2006 12:45 am

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  March 15th, 2006 12:51 pm

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• Bruce Clark

  March 16th, 2006 8:50 am

  Have you ever considered starting a “Blog U”?

  Sort of like a blogging college. People could apply on a subscription base and complete a series of “classes” with you. Then you could graduate them and give them your seal of approval as certified probloggers.

  I just visited your site for the first time today and already feel much more informed, I can only imagine how I would feel after completing “problogger University”?!?!?

  Again, thank you for the useful content.

• Darren Rowse

  March 16th, 2006 8:53 am

  Thanks Bruce.

  Actually that’s one of the ideas behind Six Figure Blogging.

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  March 27th, 2006 2:49 am

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  March 27th, 2006 2:49 am

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  April 7th, 2006 1:50 pm

  Just wanna say thanks as now I feel I’m getting somewhere.
  Before reading your blog late last year my site had a page rank of 1/10, now it is 4/10 (highest page has a PR of 5).
  I believe i got this improvement by following some of your ideas.
  Some of the ideas I had previously thought of, but its not until you read it on a successful site that you get the motivation to do it :D

  I now have a lot of top 10 results on Google and my traffic is improving weekly.
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• TradezMark.com » Should I Blog for Money?

  April 13th, 2006 7:17 pm

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• darren

  April 17th, 2006 12:25 am

  darren can i litrerally write about anything and post it

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• Catherine

  April 27th, 2006 9:26 pm

  Hi Darren, How’s it going. We are students of English in Hong Kong. Our teacher is John and he comes from England. There are 6 classmates in this group activity. We are talking about your web-site because it is very useful. We enjoy the group activity and email writing. This topic is very interesting and we can learn more English in this way.

  Can you tell us about your job? Do you work in computers? Is it safe to use blogging? Can you tell us what we should careful of. Thank you for your attention. We hope you can reply asap

• pat

  May 2nd, 2006 1:00 am

  I can never figure exactly what you’re trying to sell?
  A New Blog Site?
  Is it free?
  Or how to do a blog and earn money?

  Please do a short version!
  My attention span for reading all of it is short. Pat

• TheBizofCoding

  May 19th, 2006 9:37 pm

  Blogging, Blog Search & the Blogosphere — Social Search V/s Media Business Models

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• Peter Johnson

  May 25th, 2006 10:30 am

  Your information and attitude are wonderful, thank you. I’ve been looking into blogging as a back-up for my futile career soon ending and as an outlet for my original desire to write for a living when I left college. That was 30 years ago, but I’m getting there.

  I’m writing to suggest that perhaps there’s at least one reason fellow bloggers/others might be upset at your focus on making money…some of the people payng you could be scam artists. I say that because I’m almost certain a link - from your making money section, in fact - was a guy I briefly worked with until it was apparent he was renewing keyword contracts of (mostly retail store) clients without asking the client’s permission (using a cleverly-worded autorenew agreement). He also was selling/offering a pop-up blocker software for consumer download which not only was spyware but also delivered its own full-screen pop-up that overrode IE search results. Just a few of the ploys he used from his Florida boiler room operation (drug dealing being another side business). My beef with you on this is, while I can’t expect you to thoroughly research the practices of everyone to whom you lend credibility by providing their contextual links, I’d expect you to review their privacy policies (his is a cleverly worded license to legally spam on behalf of others), or at least expect them to have an address or corpoate information for contact and background somewhere on their site besides an 877 number no one answers (on purpose in the case of my guy) and an email address where complaints of spam will be reviewed (he never did, of course). Is what he does legal? Probably. Is it completely unethical? Of course. If your attitude is “not my problem” that’s a problem, no matter how busy you are. It DOES matter if you make money off guys who scam your readers without conducting some due diligence. It’s the kind of thing that can hurt your blog brand and ultimately harm the entire industry. Am I expecting too much of you by expecting the same nominal policing of advertisers from you that’s done by mainstream media? I think not.

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• Cobpo.com

  June 7th, 2006 9:34 pm

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• Conundrum

  June 24th, 2006 2:00 am

  You mention writing about what I love. What if there is nothing you really love? I have no real passion for anything so I write about that. I simply write about how I feel and think, and how I see this difficult world that I was thrown into so long ago.

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• lee

  July 22nd, 2006 8:45 am

  Blog is about hard working, am I right ?

• Terry Kohler

  July 24th, 2006 10:39 pm

  Mr Rowse,

  Being a new blogger among a newer niche category, I look forward to learning from your site and in return helping other bloggers earn money too. My new and 1st blogger site is at

  http://www.whoelsehasyourname.info

  Have a great and successful dayd,
  Terry

• kathleen ann

  July 30th, 2006 7:58 pm

  blogging???? hmmm….. i saw on television …. but!! im curios so much and want to try …. i wanna to learn more about blogging and want to earn more money. i hope you can help me, looking forward to blogging, ive got a lot to blog about ….

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• Dave

  July 31st, 2006 7:54 am

  Great articles and tips. Big help for new bloggers who are just getting started.

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• asokan

  August 11th, 2006 4:34 pm

  Hi dear Darren from down under there,

  I must thank you for taking the trouble to send me your lessons which I havent had time to go through but I wil do it soon and get back to you.

  However I see that this is just what I need to get over the starting block, me being a rawhand at blogging.

  Thanks again and keep up the good work

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  For a blogger starting out, what blog site would you recommend. In other words which ones offer the most exposure to search engines and give the best bang for your word.

• Sandal flip

  September 9th, 2006 1:16 am

  Thanks for giving all this useful advice to us Darrin. I’m creating my first blog now. I need this info.

• Slide

  September 12th, 2006 4:15 am

  I wonder what will eventually take the place of blogging. I hope we can make money off it :)

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• Stephen Oakes

  October 11th, 2006 6:30 am

  Darren or anyone who has tried text link ads…would http://www.contextualclick.com/ be a good way to bring in some additional revenue for my new site? Looking for a free text link service until I my traffic gets up there enough to upgrade. Thanks.

• binoculars

  October 16th, 2006 12:06 pm

  This is the best post ever, Darren. This is what I’ve been looking for. More information on blogging. Being a newbie is really painful. Then again, we all have to start from somewhere. I will keep on reading your blog.

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• Valentine

  October 23rd, 2006 7:57 pm

  I just visited your site for the first time today and already feel much more informed. I can imagine how I would feel after completing Problogger University :)
  Thank you

• charles keel

  November 14th, 2006 3:04 am

  I am new to blogging, but without reading all the titles of what blogging is about. I can see the titles are relevant to help anyone to understand what blogging is about.

  I intend to read all the inforamtion regarding blogging as you can always learn more. You always miss something which will loose you money. Or help to make you do things correctly.

  If you want to learn this will give you a lift up the ladder.

  regards

  goodluck222

• May Ong

  November 14th, 2006 6:35 pm

  I am an amateur blogger and have set-up a number of blogs since 2005.

  My blogs do not get visitors because I do not understand the use of Technorati etc.

  However, I find ProBlogger.net by Darren really good as he is really open and since in Teaching Beginners about Blogging either for our personal sharing blogs, infomation blogs or monetizing our blog.

  His tips are very refreshing, open, useful, creative, basic language, good tips.

  I highly recommend this to any Beginner.

  May Ong

• Stephen Oakes

  November 16th, 2006 5:56 pm

  I am a beginner who has been blogging almost every day since late June of 2006. For the first few months my ad revenue was close to nothing, but as time went on I began to see steady improvements in both revenue and traffic. My advice is to make sure you:

  1) Post on a frequent basis (daily if possible)
  2) Submit your articles to ezinearticles.com (generates more traffic)
  3) Ping at Pingomatic.com and Pingoat.com (generates more traffic)
  4) Continually make improvements and learn other bloggers
  5) Graph and study your traffic and revenue
  6) Keep at it…the work will pay off, but you have to remain committed. If you can’t handle posting all the time see if you can bring someone on board to post with you. New ideas and perspectives are a great way to appeal to different audiences.

  Best of luck to you,
  Stephen

• Terry

  November 18th, 2006 3:30 am

  “My blogs do not get visitors because I do not understand the use of Technorati etc.”

  May Ong, Technonati is not hard to use, all you have to do is submit your site, and ping it when you update.

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• Mike

  December 2nd, 2006 12:40 am

  Darren,

  Thanks for these great advices on starting a blog. I just started my own blog and will be looking at these for my own resource!

  Mike

• Revka

  December 6th, 2006 5:04 am

  Thanks! This series has been a big help to me, and I have highly recommended it on my blog.
  http://ourfamilyporch.blogspot.com/2006/11/help-for-clueless.html

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• Karaoke Kev

  December 31st, 2006 7:10 am

  Thanks Darren. The list above is a brilliant collection of resources. I shall bookmark and refer to it regularly during my blogging journey. I particularly enjoyed your post on blog tools. Keep up the good work.

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• Tom Jackson

  January 1st, 2007 7:26 am

  Great advice Darren. Is there any chance you can do a series of posts on AdSense alternatives for us unfortunates who have been kicked out?! Top list of resources.

• James Storr

  January 5th, 2007 1:05 am

  I have been reading Darren’s blog and i must admit is it ia real bible for beginners. You find all the stuff wanted. Even though some aspects are not explained in details, it gives an excellent general overview on how to proceed in order to have a successful Blog !

  I have used many of his advices regarding my blog design, layout, tags and content !

  I have finally launched my own blog to reach my goal which is to make a living as a student ! wish me good luck and dont hesitate to leave a comment on my brand new blog : http://dollarjames.com

• Dustin

  January 5th, 2007 2:17 pm

  Since I started reading your blog about 2 months ago, I was looking for an intermediate check list to go through to get off the ground. The links here are just that.

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• michael ck

  January 20th, 2007 5:22 pm

  Hi!Darren,

  Gerat tips! I really learned a lot from you. I have put up my blog for running an affiliate online hotel booking services couple of months ago. I will improve based on tips.

  Feel free to visit my blog and leave your valuable comment, how should I improve futher.

  Anyone who see this are most welcome to visit and leave comment too.

  Thanks and Best regards,
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  January 24th, 2007 10:25 pm

  Hi Darren,

  i just wanted to say, you have some great tips on this site and i have learnt a lot from you which i really appreciate, keep up the great work.

  - Phil

• pebble

  January 29th, 2007 5:46 pm

  I’m a newbie at blogging and you’ve some really useful tips in here. Thanks.

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  February 3rd, 2007 3:29 am

  Hi guys,

  Just got into the whole area of blogging.
  Got any advice? Being following the PB for a while now.

  Great Job Darren

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