Archive for Blogging Tools and Services
Written on June 29th, 2009 at 10:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Become a Blogger Reopens for 5 Days Only - Now Cheaper Than Ever
One of the most popular resources for new bloggers - Become a Blogger - is reopening its doors to new participants - for 5 days only. Update: There’s only around 24 hours left to go on this offer - it ends Friday at Midnight EST (US time).
It’s cheaper than ever before
If you’re a new blogger [...]
Written on June 28th, 2009 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse
Get 30% off the Ninja Affiliate Plugin for WordPress - Limited Time Offer
The following is a ProBloggerDeal - exclusively for readers of this blog. For notification on Twitter of other deals, discounts and competitions for bloggers follow @ProBloggerDeals.
A few mont Ninja Affiliate Plugin for WordPress. The promotion was so popular and I’ve had so much positive feedback from readers about the plugin that I asked MaxBlogPress [...]
Written on June 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 am by Darren Rowse
Get Your Free Roadmap to Become a Blogger
If you’re new to blogging and just starting out - do yourself a favor and get your hands on the Roadmap to Become a Blogger - a free report by Gideon Shalwick and Yaro Starak.
The report has been downloaded by over 20,000 bloggers and has helped many get their head around some of the basics [...]
Written on May 31st, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
What Blogging Platforms Do We Use? [POLL RESULTS]
Last month I asked readers what blog platform they are using?
The results were clear with 43% of ProBlogger readers using WordPress.org, 29% using Blogger and 13% using WordPress.com.
This isn’t the first time I’ve run this survey. The first time I ran it was in January of 2006 - since then I ran it again in [...]
Written on April 22nd, 2009 at 05:04 am by Darren Rowse
Seven Essential Applications For Bloggers Using Windows
Looking for some cool blog tools and applications to help you be a more productive? Today Shankar Ganesh from Killer Tech Tips shares 7 to check out if you’re a Windows based blogger.
If you’re a blogger, you’ll be using a variety of applications that aid you in your daily chores. Most of them will be [...]
Written on April 1st, 2009 at 12:04 am by Darren Rowse
Using Aweber Web Forms to Track Conversions for Email Newsletters
While I’ve delayed the start of the 31 Day Challenge until next week I wanted to show you a glimpse behind the scenes of my signup process using one of the features that Aweber gives those using it’s email newsletter system - Web Forms.
The idea is simple - Aweber lets you make up as many [...]
Written on March 24th, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
Using ‘Canned Responses’ to Save Time While Helping Readers (and how I’d improve Canned Responses)
The amount of emails hitting my Inbox makes me feel physically ill. I just checked my ‘All Mail’ inbox in Gmail and in the last 30 minutes I’ve had 100 emails…. and it is the weekend as I write this (off peak).
On a single day last week I had 8987 emails - it was a [...]
Written on March 18th, 2009 at 12:03 pm by Darren Rowse
Likaholix - Get a Free Invite to the Alpha Here
Over the last day or two a new social network by the name of Likaholix has been released by two former Google employees. I’ve only just signed up in the last hour or so but like what I see so far.
I’ve also been given 500 invites to the closed alpha for ProBlogger readers (be [...]
Written on March 18th, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse
Google Chat: A Bloggers Best Friend
Today Eric Hamm from Motivate Thyself and Blogopolis Blueprint takes a look at Google Chat and suggests it as a great tool for bloggers.
I’m a cloud computing fanatic. Web 2.0 may just be a buzz word, but the growing number of ways we can connect over the digital airways is increasing by the day. [...]


