Archive for Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Written on November 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
PR People Getting Pushier with Bloggers Since the Recession
A guest post by Krizia from Eat Smart Age Smart
I’ve been blogging since June 2007 when I launched my beauty site . In April 2009, I launched a healthy eating site with the encouragement of my Internet coach Yaro Starak and in the last few months I’ve noticed a shift in the way I deal [...]
Written on October 31st, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
How I Use Email Newsletters to Drive Traffic and Make Money
Yesterday I shared 6 reasons that I find email newsletters to be a more effective way of driving traffic to and making money from blogs than RSS.
Today I want to show you exactly how I do it.
Firstly a word about technology – I use Aweber to deliver my emails (I talk about why here). However [...]
Written on October 29th, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
How I Diversify My Site and Income
In this post I want to present some visuals on how I’ve expanded one of my blogs and diversified its income streams.
How do I expand my blog?
How do I move beyond the basics of making money with AdSense on my blog?
I’m asked these two questions a lot and in this post I want to [...]
Written on October 23rd, 2009 at 04:10 am by Darren Rowse
5 Plugins To Make Your WordPress Blog Blazing Fast
This is a guest post by Sid Savara, whose main passion is personal development and personal productivity. Follow Sid on twitter @sidsavara for motivation, inspiration and just chatting
If a tree falls in a forest, I don’t know if anyone hears it – but when your blog crashes or takes forever to load, I guarantee [...]
Written on October 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Learn How to Create Your Own Membership Site – Free Report
If there was one emerging trend spoken about more than anything else in the Make Money Blogging track at Blog World Expo it was ‘membership sites’. A number of sessions were directly on the topic while quite a few others touched on the topic (including the ones I spoke on).
It seems more and more bloggers [...]
Written on October 22nd, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
Community – Principles of Successful Blogging #4
Today’s principle in our series on successful blogging is all about building community on your blog. Let me share how I discovered that community was possible in the online space with a story:
I discovered the power of online community on the very first day that I went online (I think it was in 1996).
Up until [...]
Written on October 21st, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
5 Ways to Know if Your Blog is on the Right Track
In this post David Wright and Sean Platt from direct response copywriters share some suggestions on indicators of when your blog might be on the road to success.
Starting a blog was one of the most exciting things we have ever done. Building a loyal audience, gathering intelligent subscribers with insightful comments, and making plans for [...]
Written on October 20th, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
Stop Scrapers and Spammers Fast
One of the challenges that bloggers face is what to do when others want to use your blog for their own gain by either taking your content or spamming your comments section. The more I talk to bloggers about how they deal with these issues the more I realize how many different approaches there are [...]
Written on October 16th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Usefulness – Principles of Successful Blogging #3
Today we continue my series in principles of successful blogging by looking at something that is at the heart of my own philosophy of blogging (and business) – usefulness.
I’ve said it many times on ProBlogger but if your blog is not solving a problem or fulfilling a need or desire among your readers then you’re [...]


