Archive for Case Studies
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 [...]
Written on November 11th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
The First Week of My New Blog
1 week ago today I launched a new blog called TwiTip here on ProBlogger. In that launch post I documented some of the setup process that I’d already gone though (hosting, design, content, promotion etc). In a subsequent post I also outlined 10 WordPress plugins that I’d installed.
It has been 7 days since I launched [...]
Written on November 4th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Watch Me Launch My New Blog - TwiTip
Yesterday on Twitter I ’soft launched’ a new blog - TwiTip.
The idea for the blog has been ‘brewing’ in my mind for almost as long as I’ve been experimenting with Twitter but I never had the time to dedicate to starting it up. Late last week I realized that if I was waiting to ‘have [...]
Written on September 22nd, 2008 at 12:09 am by Skellie
10 Innovative Blog Business Models
Skellie wrote this post. For more advanced blogging tips and strategies, visit her blog, Skelliewag.
When people think about making money with a blog, they tend to think about things like AdSense and affiliate links. You write good content, people come to your blog, people click on links, and you make a bit of money. [...]
Written on September 9th, 2008 at 06:09 am by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger Reader Blog Review: Win a Tomtom GPS Unit
This week I’d like to run a ‘reader review’ competition here on ProBlogger. Chitika kindly emailed me last week to ask if I’d be interested in doing a giveaway with them and so instead of just running a ‘comment to enter’ competition we thought we’d do something that gave everyone a chance to win a [...]
Written on July 25th, 2008 at 01:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Million Dollar Blogger Interviewed
Yaro Starak has just published an audio interview with one of his former students (and now a coach) from BlogMastermind Alborz Fallah.
Alborz is behind a car blog here in Australia - a blog that has enabled him to grow his blog to a point where it’s been valued at over $5 million - have a [...]
Written on March 17th, 2008 at 03:03 pm by Skellie
The Top 5 Recommendations for Vista Rewired
It’s time to summarize over 40 reviews of Vista Rewired as part of our ProBlogger community consultation.
Before we begin, congratulations must first go to our three winners!
First-place reviewer Troy has won our 1,700 visitor prize, plus a one-month featured link at Vista Rewired.
Second-place reviewer Jacob Share has won the runner-up 500 visitor prize, plus a [...]
Written on March 11th, 2008 at 07:03 am by Skellie
Want to Win 1,700 Visitors? Review Vista Rewired
This week’s community consultation of Vista Rewired gives you the chance to win something very good for your blog: 1,700 visitors! Leave a helpful review with some non-intuitive tips in your comment and you could win a stampede of 1,700 StumbleUpon users to your favorite post. If your content is good, those 1,700 visitors could [...]


