Archive for Blog Design
Written on August 16th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Split Testing: How To Increase Your Adsense Earnings 94% Overnight
In this post Brian Armstrong from StartBreakingFree.com shares some tips on using Split Testing to increase his AdSense earnings.
Long time readers of ProBlogger know that Darren is a big fan of split testing ads to improve your earnings. I took this advice to heart, and wanted to show you some real world results that [...]
Written on August 13th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
5 Methods to Enhancing Page Load
‘How do I make my page load faster?’ – it’s a question I get a bit so I thought I’d ask Aaron Brazell from Technosailor to tackle the question and offer some suggestions around enhancing page load times.
“The internet is dying.”
This phrase, though probably a bit sensationalist, is also not far from the truth. As [...]
Written on August 6th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Interview with Blog Designer – Chris Pearson
One of my favorite blog designers is Chris Pearson – the designer behind the newly released Thesis premium WordPress theme (which I reviewed here).
Chris has consistently produced great blog designs over the last few years so after the launch of Thesis I thought it would be worthwhile to do a short interview with him [...]
Written on August 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
GRAB Your Reader’s Attention and HOOK them into your blog
Do you want to learn how to SNAP readers out of their zombie like surfing and HOOK them into your blog?
If so – read on….
Image by Essjay in NZ
Before I was a blogger I did a lot of public speaking. I did a number of courses in public speaking and used to spend a [...]
Written on July 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
Dates on Blog Posts – Should You Have Them?
Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts.
My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further:
When you put a date [...]
Written on July 18th, 2008 at 10:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Thesis – a WordPress Theme Design Worth Considering
What do you get when you take one great blog designer and match him with a fantastic blogger with superb writing ability and marketing skills?
Not it’s not the start to a bad joke and yes the answer could be many things – but today I’m excited because one of my favorite blog designers, Chris Pearson [...]
Written on July 7th, 2008 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
Best WordPress Template Designs
Every week I’m asked by readers to recommend a WordPress template.
I thought it’d make an interesting discussion – which WordPress templates are your favorites?
I know it always varies from blog to blog when you’re choosing the best template for the job but I’d love to see some of your favorites.
Feel free to nominate both Free [...]
Written on July 3rd, 2008 at 04:07 am by Darren Rowse
How Many Posts Should You Show On Your Blog’s Front Page?
@tcdzomba (on Twitter) asked me – “Do u have a post up about how many blog posts to keep on the front page of the blog?”
It’s not a topic that I’ve written about specifically before so let me write on that topic now for you and open it up for some discussion (looking forward to [...]
Written on July 1st, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
The Importance of ‘Pause Points’ On Your Blog
Over the last week I’ve run some Crazy Egg heat map tracking on two posts on Digital Photography School (both of which got to the front page of Digg and got a lot of traffic) that both highlight to me a very simple method of increasing the number of pages that people view when they [...]
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