Archive for Case Studies

Written on November 27th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

Review This Blog – Groovy Vegetarian

Case Studies 43 comments

This week’s community blog review is of a blog by the name of Groovy Vegetarian (another ProBlogger.com member).
The idea behind these reviews is that readers of ProBlogger read:

the story of the blog
the goals of the blogger
the questions and areas of concern that the blogger has (all below)

Then readers are invited to visit the blog before [...]

Written on November 20th, 2009 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

Review This Blog – Man vs Debt

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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

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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

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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

Case Studies, Pro Blogger Interviews 51 comments

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

Case Studies, Pro Blogger Interviews 33 comments

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

Case Studies, Pro Blogger Interviews 40 comments

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

Case Studies, ProBlogger Site News 62 comments

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

Blog Promotion, Case Studies, Featured Posts, Social Media 40 comments

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 [...]

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