Darren Rowse (known online as Problogger; born 27 April 1972) is an Australian

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ger, speaker, consultant and founder of several blogs and blog networks, including ProBlogger.net and digital-photography-school.com. He lives in

Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropol ...

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Career

In November 2002, he worked as a part-time

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, a custodian for an online department store, and a casual laborer.Becoming a ProBlogger - A story in Many Parts
/ref> Rowse started LivingRoom.org.au, a blog about living in Australia; religion (mainly the

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); politics; and other topics that he found interesting.Wendy Boswell
Interview with Darren Rowse of ProBlogger
/ref> Rowse contributes to around 20 different blogs, although he is only actively blogging on two, including topic-specific blogs such as the Athens Olympics and the Michael Jackson court case, which he runs with other bloggers.Sam Varghese
Living high on the blog
''Sydney Morning Herald'' His two main personal blogs are 'Digital Photography School', which features photography tips, and ProBlogger, which features tips on blogging. These two blogs get around 85,000–100,000 page views a day and over $20,000 in total ad revenue a month.Jason Hill
A blog's life
''Sydney Morning Herald''The Age

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''The Australian''KELLY K. SPORS
New Services Help Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue
''Wall Street Journal'' As of 22 May 2009, ProBlogger was listed as number two on Technorati's most favorited blogs listPopular Blogs Most Favorited
Technorati and number 40 on the most linked to blog.Popular Blogs Most Linked To
Technorati In 2006, Rowse was awarded the Best

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Weblog blog award in 2006 for ProBlogger.Congratulations Problogger - Bloggie Winner
cre8d design Rowse is a co-founder of b5media, the blog network he founded in September 2005 with fellow bloggers Jeremy Wright, Shai Coggins and Duncan Riley. The blog network claims to have over 300 blogs, and one of the largest new media networks in the world with one million page views a day in 2006.b5media
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/ref> The website b5media is on sale now - if user wants to visit more than 300 blogs inspired by Rowse visi
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Rowse was named in the Forbes Web Celebrity List in 2007.
''Forbes'' In 2008, Rowse co-authored the book 'ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income' (Wiley) and founded TwiTip—a blog dedicated to Twitter tips. He also has a Twitter page. Rowse is co-founder of the Third Tribe and founder of the Problogger Paid community. In 2011, Rowse was a speaker at the Blogopolis blogger conference in Melbourne.''blogopolis''
/ref> Rowse has also held two Problogger events in Melbourne.
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Outside of blogging

Rowse is married to 'V', and they have three sons. He is a former church minister and is still active in the local religious community. He also enjoys photography, reading, food, wine, and movies.

References

Bibliography

* ''ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Rowse, Darren Bloggers from Melbourne 1972 births Australian bloggers Living people