Written on March 6th, 2009 at 06:03 am by Darren Rowse

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

Miscellaneous Blog Tips, Reader Questions 44 comments

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 a good sample of data [...]

Written on February 7th, 2009 at 07:02 am by Darren Rowse

What Do You Spend Most Time Doing on Your Blog?

Reader Questions 109 comments

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 find that they each have their own [...]

Written on February 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

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

Blog Promotion, Reader Questions 115 comments

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?

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

Yes

No

View Results

Feel free to add a comment below to tells us more about your answer – I’m particularly interested to hear [...]

Written on December 23rd, 2008 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse

What to Do With Your Blog Over the Holidays

Reader Questions 58 comments

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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 to Do with Your Blog when you [...]

Written on December 1st, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse

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

Blogging for Dollars, Reader Questions 107 comments

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 blogging revenue that you can tie [...]

Written on November 4th, 2008 at 07:11 am by Darren Rowse

What Blog Carnivals and Memes do You Participate In?

Blog Promotion 92 comments

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 familiar with the concept – a [...]

Written on October 19th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

What Name Do You Leave Comments on Blogs Under?

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 250 comments

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 is to leave my real name – that’s [...]

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