Written on September 17th, 2008 at 07:09 am by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking – 17 September 2008
Here are a few links that caught my eye over the last week. I hope something in them inspires, teaches, motivates, informs or connect with you:
Scott Karp writes a fascinating post on how Drudge Report (a site that links out a lot) has a higher reader engagement level than other sites who link out less.
Shoemoney [...]
Written on September 8th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
16 Important but Potentially Distracting Blogging Tasks
Have you ever had one of those days where you set aside time to blog and while you spend the whole time that you put aside busily doing ’stuff’ – you don’t end up actually writing anything?
I had one of those days this last week. After what felt like a busy day of ‘work’ I [...]
Written on August 12th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
How to Craft a Blog Post – 10 Crucial Points to Pause
It hits you like a TON of BRICKS! It’s an idea for that KILLER blog post that is just bound to bring you all the traffic that you’ve ever dreamed of.
With the idea fresh in your mind you sit down at your keyboard and BANG it out – desperate to hit publish as quickly as [...]
Written on August 3rd, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
How Long Do You Take To Write a Blog Post?
As part of a little research I’m doing for a post (or a short series of them) next week here at ProBlogger I’d like to ask readers to answer this question:
How Long Do You Take To Write a Blog Post?
I know each post varies depending upon what it is – but on average how long [...]
Written on January 18th, 2008 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to Make Your Blog Posts Stand Out From the Rest – Lessons from the MacBook Air
Have you heard that Apple released a new laptop called the MacBook Air yesterday?
If you haven’t – you are not reading the same blogs that I am. The news is everywhere at the moment with thousands of bloggers ‘breaking’ the news.
Here’s how Technorati has tracked the mentions of ‘MacBook’ on blogs in the last month. [...]


