Darren Rowse

With so many blogs revolving around the theme of “make money online”, John Robinson of JWRmedia focuses on ways you can improve your blog through branding, marketing and optimization which will allow you to establish a name for yourself and gain Internet success. Why are there so many unsuccessful websites ...more

This is the last post in our series of tips for bloggers who have gone through their launch phase and want to grow their blog to the next level. In it we’re going to talk making money from your blog. Making Money From a Blog – Moving Past AdSense While ...more

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 ...more

This post belongs to a series on how to grow your blog once it gets past launch phase. Many bloggers that I chat with tell me that their blogs hit plateaus in terms of traffic after around 6 months of blogging. They launch with enthusiasm, great content, significant time invested ...more

Update: I’ve updated this post below with an update from AdSense. Please read it. AdSense have today announced a new type of ad – Expandable Ad Units. I’m pretty sure that I’ve seen these ads being tested on one of my sites (although bizarrely I am not able to use ...more

Today we continue to look at ways that blogs which have got past the launch phase can take their blogs to the next level. In this post we look at something that I touched upon two posts back when we looked at building community on your blog – expanding the ...more

AdSense today have added the ability for publishers located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain to view AdSense reports in Euros as well as USD. They write: “If you’re located in one of these five countries and make this update, we’ll convert your earnings to Euros on a ...more

In this post we continue to look at tips for established blogs wanting to step up to the next level (this is the 6th tip in this series) by taking a look at how to shape the brand your blog. One of the things that I’ve noticed happen once a ...more

Want to learn how to make your blog rank well in Google? SEO Secrets is a resource worth considering. Last year at an SEO conference I met a fellow Aussie by the name of Glenn Murray (pictured right). He introduced himself to me as an SEO copywriter and he made ...more