Make it Easy for Your Readers to Participate
17th of November 2011 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Make it Easy for Your Readers to Participate

At Blog World Expo this year, I was in a great session on using Facebook pages by Amy Porterfield. The session was very helpful on many levels, but one thing that Amy said that I immediately put into action—within a few seconds of her saying it, in fact—was to ask ...more
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Do You Attract Readers to Your Blog that Are Like You?
6th of March 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Do You Attract Readers to Your Blog that Are Like You?

A couple of months ago we ran a reader survey over at my Photography site that asked readers a few demographical questions, a few questions about their photography and a few questions about how they’d like to see the site develop. We had thousands of responses which meant we had ...more
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What Do You Spend Most Time Doing on Your Blog?
7th of February 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What Do You Spend Most Time Doing on Your Blog?

Here’s a question for a little discussion over the weekend: “What Do You Spend Most Time Doing on Your Blog?” Running a blog calls for all kinds of skills and activities. Writing content is probably the most obvious of these – but as I talk to different bloggers I often ...more
Reader Questions
Have You Ever Guest Posted on Someone Else’s Blog? [POLL]
2nd of February 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Have You Ever Guest Posted on Someone Else’s Blog? [POLL]

As a followup to yesterdays post on Guest Posting as a method to promote your blog I thought I’d ask how many readers have tried the technique? {democracy:42} Feel free to add a comment below to tells us more about your answer – I’m particularly interested to hear from those ...more
Blog Promotion
What to Do With Your Blog Over the Holidays
23rd of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What to Do With Your Blog Over the Holidays

Image by SummachPhoto Today I had a good discussion with my Twitter followers about what they were doing with their blogs over the Christmas break later this week. Most of the answers came down to the strategies that I mention in this old post here at ProBlogger – 7 Things ...more
Reader Questions
How Much Money Did You Earn from Blogging in October 2008?
1st of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How Much Money Did You Earn from Blogging in October 2008?

It’s time for another annual poll here at ProBlogger – this one asking readers how much they earned in October 2008? I’ve run this poll a number of times over the last couple of years and the results are always interesting. Just to qualify it – I’m asking about ALL ...more
Blogging for Dollars
What Blog Carnivals and Memes do You Participate In?
4th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What Blog Carnivals and Memes do You Participate In?

A year or two back ‘blog carnivals’ were all the rage as a way to put yourself out there and promote your blog. I know that they still exist and many bloggers still get into them – but I’m wondering how many bloggers use them these days? For those not ...more
Blog Promotion
What Name Do You Leave Comments on Blogs Under?
19th of October 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What Name Do You Leave Comments on Blogs Under?

Here’s a question for discussion this weekend: Do you use your real name when leaving comments on a blog or do you use ‘keywords’? I was moderating comments last night here on ProBlogger and noticed almost a 60/40 split between these approaches (with 60% using ‘real’ names). My personal preference ...more
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