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Written on June 13th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
How to Improve Your Blog When You Have No Internet Access
Here I am – sitting in my local cafe where I’d come to spend the morning working on my blog using my mobile broadband modem…. which today decides not to work.
Arrrghhh!
I spent 15 minutes trying to connect…. 5 minutes complaining about it on Twitter…. another 10 minutes trying to get it working…. 3 minutes grumbling [...]
Written on May 27th, 2009 at 07:05 am by Darren Rowse
Have You Ever Written Paid Posts On Your Blog
It’s been a few years since services like PayPerPost (and others) controversially came onto the scene and gave bloggers the option to be paid for writing posts about products, companies or services.
So I thought it’d be interesting to see how many bloggers have done paid posts (and how many still do).
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Have You Ever Written a [...]
Written on August 20th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
How to Craft Post Titles that Draw Readers Into Your Blog
Titles change the destiny of your posts.
Those few words at the beginning of your blog post can be the difference between the post being read and spread like a virus through the web like a wild fire and it languishing in your archives, barely noticed.
This month we’ve been talking about how to ‘craft’ blog posts [...]
Written on July 24th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
A Secret to Sustain Yourself as a Blogger
Today I want to talk about an issue may seem more suited to a ’self help’ blog than a blog about blogging – but it’s something that I think is pretty important you want to be a successful blogger. It’s something that is so important that it can make or break you.
Image by *nathan
However – [...]
Written on June 28th, 2008 at 09:06 am by Darren Rowse
The Long Tail of Blogging: Why Content is King
In this post Eric from Photography Bay examines the Long Tail as it applies to blogging.
Content is king. Yawn . . . right? You know this tired phrase is the gospel of blogging, but did you ever wonder why content is really king? You spend your time developing and massaging your posts [...]
Written on February 28th, 2008 at 07:02 am by Darren Rowse
9 Tips to Start Blogging Successfully
This post was written by Sudeep D’Souza
I have been blogging for close to 3 years just for the fun of it without realizing the amount of money you can make. One day while browsing the internet, I stumbled upon problogger.net and suddenly realized the opportunity out there. So I started to blog a bit more [...]
Written on February 27th, 2008 at 07:02 am by Darren Rowse
Pros and Cons of Niche Blogging
In this article Mark Avey discusses the pros and cons of running a niche subject blog, from a point of view of making money.
A little History
I run a number of blogs. Most of them cover pretty niche subjects but one, in particular, is about as niche as you can get – flight simulation. Nothing more, [...]
Written on January 15th, 2008 at 09:01 pm by Darren Rowse
Welcome to Readers of the Wall Street Journal
Welcome to readers of Wall Street Journal who may have found themselves here after today’s article in there.
If this is your first time to ProBlogger.net then let me give you a quick tour of my online home.
Firstly, my name’s Darren Rowse and as the article in the WSJ suggests – I’m a full time blogger. [...]
Written on September 4th, 2007 at 06:09 pm by Darren Rowse
Map Your Blog’s Visitors
Want to see where readers of your blog are geographically?
maps.amung.us might be a tool (toy?) that you find useful. Here’s the ProBlogger reader map (it could take a little time to populate – but it is supposed to be flash based so it won’t need to refresh the page to update)!
Of course it only [...]
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