Written on November 16th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
What I learned about Blogging from the U.S. Presidential Election
In today’s guest post Trisha from Ideas for Women shares some lessons that she learned from the US Presidential Election.
I followed this year’s U.S. presidential election pretty closely on T.V. and also volunteered for one of the candidates. Over I time I began to notice some parallels between running a successful campaign and a successful […]
Written on October 31st, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
3 Successful Bloggers Share their Blog Tips [VIDEO]
Here’s another compilation of blog tips from three prominent bloggers - Jeremy from Shoemoney, Steve Pavlina and Andy Wibbels.
The video was shot at Blog World Expo 08 on a Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder.
See this video at full size on YouTube, Blip.tv and Viddler. See the last video in this series with another 4 […]
Written on October 27th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
The Psychology of Blogging
Today Life Coach Tim Brownson from A Daring Adventure explores 6 tips to get your mindset right when approaching blogging.
10 spare hours a week - Check
Niche market - Check
Basic understanding of SEO - Check
Google Adsense account - Check
Dummies’ guide to writing great content - Check
Burning desire to succeed - Check
There are a lot of great […]
Written on October 26th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Finding Your Posting Rhythm [Part 2]
Yesterday I suggested 4 tips for helping bloggers to find their posting rhythm:
There is no Right Posting Level
Start out Slow and Work Your Way Up
Monitor Your Readerships Response to Your Posting Levels
Consistency is Important
Today I want to share 4 more tips on posting workflows.
5. Work on Your Posting Workflow - Identify the Blockage Points
One piece […]
Written on October 18th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Why I’ve Been Offered Close to a Million Dollars for My Blog (and Why I said No)
“I’ve always treated the first two years of Digital Photography School as its launch phase.”
This was a statement that I made in a session at Blog World Expo that I’ve been asked about many times since - so I thought I’d expand upon it a little here in a post.
2006-2008: The Launch of Digital Photography […]
Written on October 16th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
13 Tips to Recession Proof Your Blog
How can I prepare my blog for a recession or economic downturn?
Image by Rednuht
Yesterday I asked my Twitter followers what they wanted me to write a post about on ProBlogger and this question (and variations of it) was asked repeatedly.
So today I want to suggest a number of ways that bloggers, particularly bloggers making a […]
Written on October 8th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
5 Ways To Optimize Your Blog and Capture More Repeat Visitors
Today Rich Page shares five tips on how to optimize websites to capture repeat readers.
You may be a blogger that thinks they have a pretty popular and well created blog - if so, well done. But remember every blog is a work a progress, and there is always room for improvement. Here are 5 great […]
Written on October 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 am by Darren Rowse
Google BlogSearch Adds Meme Tracking
Today Google released an update to their BlogSearch service - and it isn’t just cosmetic.
The update is all about tracking what’s hot around the blogosphere and presenting stories ranked in 11 different categories according to how many other blogs are linking to those stories. You can then drill down and see the blogs that link […]
Written on October 2nd, 2008 at 07:10 am by Darren Rowse
10 Prolific Bloggers Share Tips on Generating Conversation on Blogs
Yesterday I gave 13 tips for having great conversations on a blog. As a followup to that I shot an email to a number of bloggers that have a habit of having active comment sections to ask them how they make their blogs more conversational.
As expected - their responses were rich and full of goodness! […]


