The subject of live blogging has come up for me three times in the last 24 hours so I thought it might make a good reader discussions.
“How would you go about live blogging at a conference?”
That was the question I was just asked - how would you do it? What tools would you use? What [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 06-Sep-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 0 times
In our last ProBlogger Poll I asked readers whether they run RSS ads on their main blog. The results are in - 66% of you don’t run RSS ads on your blog.
What I find interesting is that 18 months ago I ran this same poll. The results were that 75% of readers didn’t run RSS [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 31-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 1 times
Time for another ProBlogger poll - looking forward to hearing what you’ve got to say on this question:
Do you Make Money Online from non Blogging Sources?
Yes
No
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If your answer is yes - tell us what the source is in comments below.
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Published 31-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 1 times
It’s time for a new poll here on Problogger - this time the question is:
Do you Run RSS Ads on Your Main Blog?
RSS advertising has been around for a couple of years now and I see quite a few RSS ads appearing in my own RSS reading - but I’d be interested to know just [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 06-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 2 times
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 [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 02-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 2 times
If you only had one hour a day to blog what would you spend it doing?
A reader recently sent me a question asking how I’d approach blogging if I only had one hour a day. I can’t find the email for the life of me (if it was you please email me and I’ll give [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 26-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 3 times
I know quite a few ProBlogger readers are enjoying the iPhone App store - so I thought I’d ask the question:
What iPhone Applications are most useful for bloggers?
In addition to that - what iPhone apps would you like to see developed for bloggers?
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Published 19-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 2 times
A number of weeks ago skinner (from Twitter) asked me:
“what are the benefits of adding video to your blog?”
I thought it’d make an interesting reader question. How would you answer it?
Do you use video on your blog? Why (or why not)? What do you like and dislike about video on other people’s blogs?
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Published 10-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 3 times
Over the last few weeks I’ve run a poll here at ProBlogger asking readers what they want to learn most about blogging. I’ve run this to help me put together my editorial calendar over the coming months.
The results were fairly clear - just under a quarter of responses (1450 people voted) asked for more content [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 09-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 5 times
It’s time for another Reader Poll - this week I want to take a look at your posting frequency.
How Many Posts Did You Publish On Your Main Blog in May?
Pick your main blog and focus upon that. I responded for ProBlogger where I published 88 posts over May - 10 more than my three month [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 09-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 4 times
Here’s a question for the weekend that was submitted to me from Twitter friend philbaumann who asks:
if you were permitted only 3 social sites to work with, which ones would you pick?
So it’s over to you for your comments.
Which would you choose (be it social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon or Reddit, or social [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 06-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 3 times
Over the last ten or so days I’ve been asking a series of successful bloggers what their ‘tipping point’ is. We’ve heard some great stories from a variety of bloggers including:
Leo Babauta
Andy Beal
Brian Clark
Collis Ta’eed
Frank Warren
Wendy Piersall
Jeremy Schoemaker
Smashing Magazine
David Peralty
Trent Hamm
So there’s the responses of 10 bloggers (plent [..] Read complete article
Published 24-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 5 times
Here’s another question from webspear for some discussion:
“How do you keep yourself motivated, when your blog is not attracting much traffic.”
Staying motivated is a massive issue for bloggers. Without it a blog really suffers.
How do you keep yourself motivated? Do you have systems or practices that help you? I hope this discussion will be [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 11-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 4 times
This weekend is a weekend for discussion here at ProBlogger and I’m posting some questions submitted by readers via Twitter.
jophllips asks:
“should you add keywords to the name field when you leave comments”
So another way to put it - should you leave your name, blog name or some other keywords in the ‘name’ URL when you [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 10-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 6 times
This weekend I’d like to throw open a couple of discussion starters for the ProBlogger community. The questions come from some of my Twitter followers.
flabuless asks the following question to you the ProBlogger community:
“Is syndicating content is kosher or not…ie running someone elses content through rss into ones own blog?”
This is a particularly important question [... [..] Read complete article
Published 10-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 5 times
I get asked a lot of questions about blogging but every now and again I like to run a poll to help me prioritize your needs. So this week’s ProBlogger poll is all about refining and ordering your needs.
I’ve taken the 9 most common topics that I’m asked about and have listed them in a [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 04-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 7 times
Last month the ProBlogger Poll asked readers to tell us what their blog’s topic is. The results are in and it’s a fairly even spread across 11 categories. There were 3043 responses that categorized themselves as follows:
I was actually quite surprised by the evenness of topics covered. There is probably a skew towards ‘internet’ as [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 29-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 6 times
It’s time for another ProBlogger Poll.
What is the Biggest Source of Traffic to Your Blog?
Is it search engines? If so which one? Is it RSS subscribers and loyal readers? Is it Social Media sites? Do other blogs and sites send most? Or is it some other source of traffic?
If you want to base your answer [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 29-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 7 times
@SeanBannister asks “how many blogs do you write for and how many blog posts a day you make?”
These days I only write actively on two blogs - ProBlogger and Digital Photography School. At one point I was writing each week on around 25 blogs - but a lot of them were pretty much just watching [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 26-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 3 times
It’s time for a reader discussion/open thread and today’s question is:
What is the Biggest Mistake That You’ve Made as a Blogger?
What in your time as a blogger do you look back on with regret, wish you’d not done or wish you’d done differently?
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Published 05-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 8 times
A few weeks back I ran a poll here on ProBlogger asking readers why they blog.
Keep in mind that this blog is about making money from blogging so you’d naturally expect that the ‘money’ answer might be higher than in the wider blogosphere but here are the results.
There’s lots of good discussion in the poll [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 30-Mar-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 13 times
What topic do you blog on?
This is the topic of this week’s poll. I’ve chosen a handful of categories that I think most will fit into but if there’s another one that I didn’t include click ‘other’ and add your topic to comments below. Here’s the poll:
What is the Topic of Your Blog?
News/Current Events
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Published 14-Mar-2008 by Darren Rowse in reader questions Read 12 times
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