Darren Rowse

“What is the best way to utilize ads on a blog and maximise their potential profit?” – Question from @RyanBarr on Twitter. This video post looks at 5 factors that help to make an ad be more profitable on your blog – it’s based on an older post here on ...more

Have you written a paid review on your blog was the question in our last reader poll here at ProBlogger. 1771 people responded and the result was fairly clear – over three quarters of you have never done a paid review.    77% have never done one and a further ...more

Affiliate Marketing is one income stream that many bloggers experiment with – but how many are attempting to make money in this way? n n {democracy:48} Once you’ve voted – here’s a few posts on the topic for those wanting to explore it more. 5 Lessons on Making Money with ...more

In this post Todd Fratzel from Home Construction Improvement and Today’s Green Construction shares how he doubled the AdSense revenue on his blog with a few simple changes. Several simple changes in my Adsense approach and layout have almost doubled my blog’s revenue. The results were so drastic and eye ...more

Dear Google – I have a suggestion that I submit to you for your consideration. It pertains to your excellent Feedburner service (particularly the email subscription element of it) which so many hundreds of thousands of bloggers (I’m taking a stab in the dark on that number, it could well ...more

One of the more commonly requested features that I see AdSense publishers making is for the ability to be able to change font size in their ads. The AdSense blog today announces this change: “The font size you choose will be applied to the body of the ad, with the ...more

Here’s a video answer to a question I was asked on Twitter a few days back on whether it’s good to have more than one blog or just to concentrate on one.

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“How do you balance having pre-written posts with timely content – what’s a good balance to strike?” question submitted to me using #pbquestions by @crystalsquest Using pre-written and scheduled posts is a strategy that many bloggers use to help them keep fresh content appearing on their blogs while maintaining a ...more