Archive for: September, 2007

Written on September 25th, 2007 at 08:09 am by Darren Rowse

Full or Partial Feeds - Poll Results

Reader Questions 27 comments

Last week’s Poll of the week asked readers whether they use Full or Partial feeds on their blogs (or whether they offered readers the option of both).

The results were very clear with 75% of ProBloggers preferring to offer Full Feeds.

Here’s the breakdown of the results.

Don’t forget to respond to this week’s Poll Question - How […]

Written on September 25th, 2007 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse

How to Get Your First Freelance Blogging Gig

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 32 comments

This post on getting your first freelance blogging gig was submitted by Chris Garrett.
People often ask me how they can get freelance blogging work so when Darren asked me for a guest post I thought this was the perfect opportunity. Anyone who follows my writing on my own blog and copyblogger will know I do […]

Written on September 24th, 2007 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse

How to Climb Mountains

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 34 comments

This guest post was submitted by Collis Ta’eed of Eden.cc, who blogs about blogging over at NorthxEast.com.
No matter who you are, there is something you’d like to achieve that you probably don’t think you can.

Maybe it’s a subscriber number, maybe it’s earning enough blogging to turn professional, maybe it’s breaking into the top 100 on […]

Written on September 23rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm by Darren Rowse

How Many Unique Visitors Does Your Biggest Blog Get Per Day? POLL

ProBlogger Site News 122 comments

Just posted a new Poll in the sidebar:

How Many Unique Visitors Does Your Biggest Blog Get Per Day?

RSS Subscribers - Click Here to Vote.
Note - I’m asking for Unique Visitors - not ‘hits’ or ‘page views’. Most statistics packages will give you this information.
Those of you with more than one blog - just do your […]

Written on September 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 pm by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger - 3 Years

ProBlogger Site News 83 comments

It’s our birthday - ProBlogger.net was 3 years ago today when I transfered all of my blog tips from a subdomain on another domain that I’d been collecting them all on for a year or so.

For those of you waiting for the ProBlogger birthday competition that I’ve been gathering prizes for - I’m hoping […]

Written on September 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse

Minimalist Blogging

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 34 comments

This guest post was written by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.
In recent months, I’ve reduced the time I spend writing posts for my blog to about half a day’s work, and I spend about an hour or so more every day of the week responding to comments and emails.
That’s probably 20% of the time I […]

Written on September 22nd, 2007 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse

Are Excuses Hurting Your Blogging Success?

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 44 comments

This post has been submitted by Karen Andrews from www.miscmum.com.

Do you believe in writer’s block? Janet Evanovich doesn’t; Peter Straub doesn’t either. In fact, he says, “It should never be mentioned in respectable company.”

Frankly, I agree with them. The truth is, those of us who are blogging or writing professionally can’t afford that kind of […]

Written on September 21st, 2007 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse

The Top 5 Uncommon Timesavers for Bloggers

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 51 comments

The following guest post was submitted by Tim Ferriss author of The 4-Hour work Week and blogger at www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog. Read my interview with Tim.
1. Decide how you’re measuring success before writing a post—what’s your metric? Form follows function.
Is it Technorati rank? Then focus on crafting 1-2-sentence bolded sound bites in the text […]

Written on September 20th, 2007 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Handing the ProBlogger Keys Over to Guest Bloggers

ProBlogger Site News 16 comments

Over the next few days I am handing ProBlogger over to a capable and wise group of bloggers to do some guest posting for me while I get away for a bit to work on a project that I’ve been finding it hard to concentrate on (sound mysterious enough?).

I won’t be completely away (I’ll still […]

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