Written on June 10th, 2008 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

How Many Posts Did You Publish On Your Main Blog in May? [POLL]

Reader Questions 121 comments

It’s time for another Reader Poll - this week I want to take a look at your posting frequency.
How Many Posts Did You Publish On Your Main Blog in May?
Pick your main blog and focus upon that. I responded for ProBlogger where I published 88 posts over May - 10 more than my three month […]

Written on June 7th, 2008 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse

Which Social Media Sites Would You Use if You Could Only use 3?

Reader Questions 154 comments

Here’s a question for the weekend that was submitted to me from Twitter friend philbaumann who asks:
if you were permitted only 3 social sites to work with, which ones would you pick?
So it’s over to you for your comments.
Which would you choose (be it social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon or Reddit, or social […]

Written on May 25th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

What Was Your Blog’s Tipping Point?

Reader Questions 55 comments

Over the last ten or so days I’ve been asking a series of successful bloggers what their ‘tipping point’ is. We’ve heard some great stories from a variety of bloggers including:

Leo Babauta
Andy Beal
Brian Clark
Collis Ta’eed
Frank Warren
Wendy Piersall
Jeremy Schoemaker
Smashing Magazine
David Peralty
Trent Hamm

So there’s the responses of 10 bloggers (plenty to chew on) but I’m interested to […]

Written on May 17th, 2008 at 02:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Which Social Bookmarking Site Would You Prefer to Hit the Front Page Of?

Reader Questions, Social Media 76 comments

Here’s a question that might provoke some interesting discussion over the weekend:
Which Social Bookmarking Site Would You Prefer to Hit the Front Page Of?
Would you prefer to hit the popular page on Digg, hit StumbleUpon’s buzz page, make it big on Delicious, Mixx or Reddit or is there some other social bookmarking page that you’d […]

Written on May 15th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

How to Respond to Individual Requests for Help From Blog Readers

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips, Reader Questions 46 comments

Today Lisa sent in this question which I thought might make an interesting post topic:

“I would love if you’d do a post on how you handle emails from people who ask for one on one help.
As my site and blog grows, I continue to get more and more emails for one on one assistance. I […]

Written on May 11th, 2008 at 06:05 pm by Darren Rowse

How do you Stay Motivated as a Blogger?

Reader Questions 83 comments

Here’s another question from webspear for some discussion:
“How do you keep yourself motivated, when your blog is not attracting much traffic.”
Staying motivated is a massive issue for bloggers. Without it a blog really suffers.
How do you keep yourself motivated? Do you have systems or practices that help you? I hope this discussion will be […]

Written on May 11th, 2008 at 05:05 am by Darren Rowse

Should you add Keywords to the Name Field when you Leave Comments on a Blog?

Reader Questions 119 comments

This weekend is a weekend for discussion here at ProBlogger and I’m posting some questions submitted by readers via Twitter.
jophllips asks:
“should you add keywords to the name field when you leave comments”
So another way to put it - should you leave your name, blog name or some other keywords in the ‘name’ URL when you […]

Written on May 10th, 2008 at 03:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Is Syndicating Other People’s Content on Your Blog OK?

Reader Questions 98 comments

This weekend I’d like to throw open a couple of discussion starters for the ProBlogger community. The questions come from some of my Twitter followers.
flabuless asks the following question to you the ProBlogger community:
“Is syndicating content is kosher or not…ie running someone elses content through rss into ones own blog?”
This is a particularly important question […]

Written on May 5th, 2008 at 09:05 am by Darren Rowse

What Do You Most Want to Learn About Blogging? [POLL]

Reader Questions 46 comments

I get asked a lot of questions about blogging but every now and again I like to run a poll to help me prioritize your needs. So this week’s ProBlogger poll is all about refining and ordering your needs.

I’ve taken the 9 most common topics that I’m asked about and have listed them in a […]