Archive for Case Studies
Written on November 20th, 2009 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Review This Blog – Man vs Debt
Last month here on ProBlogger we ran a community review on a reader’s blog. I posted a link to a blog with some comments from the blogger and then opened it up for readers of ProBlogger to review it.
The response from the post was great. 120+ comments were left including some great advice. I also [...]
Written on October 24th, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
How Would You Monetize this Food Blog
I recently received the email below from a reader asking me for advice on her blog. As I responded to them I realized that it might make an interesting discussion starter and that perhaps the ProBlogger community might together have some good advice to give – so lets do tackle it together.
What I’m going to [...]
Written on October 5th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Freedom to Be
I love hear bloggers talking about their journey of blogging and some of the discoveries they make alone the road. Today in this guest post Renee Mayne from Bra Queen does just that.
Everyone has a purpose, a reason as to why they start blogging.
Mine was because I had heard “It was good for business” So [...]
Written on September 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
Leo Babauta from Zen Habits Shares a Popular Post Case Study
This week I’m featuring a short series of interviews with successful bloggers looking at a popular post on their blog and why they think it went viral. Today Leo Babauta from Zen Habits has agreed to dissect the popularity of one of his site’s most popular posts.
1. What is the post on your blog that [...]
Written on September 18th, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
Duncan Riley of The Inquisitr Shares a Popular Post Case Study
This week I’m featuring a short series of interviews with successful bloggers looking at a popular post on their blog and why they think it went viral. Today Duncan Riley from The Inquisitr has agreed to dissect the popularity of one of his site’s most popular posts.
What is the post on your blog that [...]
Written on September 15th, 2009 at 01:09 am by Darren Rowse
Vitaly Friedman of Smashing Magazine Shares a Popular Post Case Study
This week I’m featuring a short series of interviews with successful bloggers looking at a popular post on their blog and why they think it went viral. Today Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine has agreed to dissect the popularity of one of their most popular posts.
1. What is the post on your blog that has [...]
Written on September 8th, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
The State of the Darren-Sphere
In this post I’d like to give an update of the different sites that I work on, how they’re going and what I’m working on with them.
3 questions that I get a lot are:
You seem to do a lot of ’stuff’ – can you give me a quick overview?
I know you from (insert blog/social network [...]
Written on December 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Characteristics of Traffic Generating Posts
When I set TwiTip up look after itself over the weekend (I set up a few posts to go live at specific times) I wasn’t expecting it to be a huge weekend of traffic. The posts were good – but there were less than during the week and past history shows weekends are quiet (particularly [...]
Written on November 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Search, Social and Direct Traffic – [TRAFFIC ANALYSIS]
This morning I spent a little time doing some analysis (using Google Analytics) of the traffic coming into my main blog – Digital Photography School.
My analysis was stimulated by a question from a reader who in response to last week’s two posts examining the place of Digg and Social Bookmarkingin a bloggers priorities asked me:
What [...]


