Darren Rowse

Yesterday Jeremy Shoemoney Twittered to tell me that the review that he wrote of the ProBlogger book generated 38 sales of the book through his Amazon affiliate link. He went on to say that he made money money from the other things that people then went on to buy after ...more

In response to my question – “tell us about your blog’s ‘tipping point'” Collis Ta’eed from PSDTUTS and (Freelance Switch) responded with the following comprehensive guest post. Years ago when I had more time to spare, one of my favourite pastimes was to play computer games. In particular, I rather ...more

Here’s a question that might provoke some interesting discussion over the weekend: Which Social Bookmarking Site Would You Prefer to Hit the Front Page Of? Would you prefer to hit the popular page on Digg, hit StumbleUpon’s buzz page, make it big on Delicious, Mixx or Reddit or is there ...more

If you have a blog with a music focus the Amazon Associates program have today announced a widget that you’ll want to check out – it’s an MP3 Clips Widget that lets your readers listen to clips of music live on your site. You can hand select songs to be ...more

“When Should You Give Up On a Blog?” – question from the Q&A sidebar widget. While they won’t all apply to every blog – here’s a list of questions to consider when working out whether you should give up on a blog. What goals do I have for this blog? ...more

Today Brian Clark from CopyBlogger shares his Blog’s Tipping Point I think the tipping point for Copyblogger was the beginning of 2007. I had a good first year, attracting 10,000 subscribers, and as the new year began I decided I wanted Copyblogger to be one of the top blogs. That ...more

Google today announced that it has launched YouTube Insight – a tool for giving insight into who is watching your videos. So today I logged into YouTube to see what information I could glean about the viewers of my videos. from the new stats. Here’s what I learned about who ...more

Over in the question widget on my sidebar I was asked to comment on the future of blogging and where I see it heading. In this video post I explore 5 trends that have been emerging (and that I think we’ll see continue to grow) including: Multiple Author Blogs Multi-Topic ...more

A couple of days ago I talked readers through some different approaches to AdSense Ad Design and how it can make a significant impact upon the earnings of your AdSense ads. At the end of the post I mentioned that one great way to work out which ad design is ...more