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9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers
I was a little slow getting onto Twitter last year (when so many other bloggers embraced it). To be honest I didn’t think it had much to offer me - I’m beginning to see how wrong I was.In this post I want to explore how I’m using Twitter to:improve the quality of my blogsnetwork with […]

14% of Bloggers Prefer to Do It in Bed [POLL RESULTS]
A couple of weeks ago I polled ProBlogger readers about their favorite place to blog. 1481 readers responded.In many cases their choices were determined by where their computer was (it’s hard to take your desktop computer to bed) and so the ‘home office’ was the clear winner. But the other results were interesting.Also interesting were […]

Blogging On Expo - a Virtual Blog Conference
Just a short post to point to an online blog conference that is happening today - Blog On Expo. It is running over 3 days with some pretty good names as ’speakers’. I’m featured with an interview on Day 1 (here). See the rest of the first day’s sessions here.Share This

What is Your Favorite Social Bookmarking Site?
This week’s poll focuses upon social bookmarking sites.Bloggers have a fascination with these sites - some because of the lure of avalanches of traffic, others because they find them to be sources of inspiration for posts and others because of the social interaction.But which social bookmarking site do you like the most?What is Your Favorite […]

Aweber To Start Reporting Blog Broadcast Subscribers to Feedburner
Yesterday in my Review of Aweber a couple of readers commented that they wished Aweber would report those to Feedburner the numbers of those subscribing to RSS feeds via email with Aweber’s ‘Blog Broadcast’ feature.Today Andy reports that this is a feature that will be added soon. This removes one obstacle to going with Aweber […]

Elite Retreat Adds Brian Clark to Speaker Lineup
I just heard that Elite Retreat has added another quality speaker to it’s lineup (previously written up here).The new speaker is Brian Clark from CopyBlogger.Now I’m really wishing I could extend my stay in the US after SXSW!Share This

Welcome to Readers of the Wall Street Journal
Welcome to readers of Wall Street Journal who may have found themselves here after today’s article in there.If this is your first time to ProBlogger.net then let me give you a quick tour of my online home.Firstly, my name’s Darren Rowse and as the article in the WSJ suggests - I’m a full time blogger. […]

The Costs and Benefits of Running a Competition on Your Blog
‘How do I run a successful competition on my blog?’Competitions on blogs have become increasingly common in 2007 with an increased number of high profile blogs running them. As a result many smaller to medium sized blogs are considering them also.The problem is that a competition can actually hurt your blog if you don’t do […]

Blog Tips - Twitter Style [Competition]
Over this weekend I want to run a ‘little’ competition here at ProBlogger. I’m offering a ‘little’ prize (see below) and all you need to do to put yourself in the running for it is to submit a ‘little’ blog tip. Let me explain:Lately I’ve been getting into Twitter (I’ll write a post in the […]

Posting Less Frequently Can Lead to Higher Reader Engagement
I just read an interesting post by Terry Dean outlining Which 10 RSS Feeds He Actually Reads.Terry used the ‘Trends’ feature on Google Reader to analyze which blogs had the highest % of posts that he actually read. The list of blogs that he mentioned were all great blogs which would account for the high […]