Darren Rowse

Last month at Digital Photography School I ran the biggest competition that I’ve ever run (on that blog). I put a $729 Nikon DSLR up for grabs for one lucky active member in my the forum attached to the blog. The competition was successful in my mind but today while ...more

Over the coming weeks and months I will be joining a team of bloggers to blog on the new ScribeFire blog. ScribeFire is a Firefox extension that allows you to blog from within your browser. They’ve just announced the release of version 2.1. I’m going to be covering some similar ...more

“Do not follow where the path leads, Rather go where there is no path, and leave a trail.” – David Perkins I’ve not been able to get this quote out of my head since hearing it over the weekend. I shared it last night on Twitter and half a dozen ...more

Twitter has a stronghold on the blogosphere, yet sometimes, it’s hard to be heard. If you’re struggling to grow your Twitter following, you’re not alone. I have more than 160,000 followers now, and quite a few readers have asked how I’ve grown my following. Here are my tips. 1. Leverage ...more

If you’re an AdSense publisher and are noticing problems with your account (like today when most publishers reports are showing stats that are much lower than normal) then you might want to bookmark the AdSense Known Issues page which is being used by AdSense to update publishers on the issues ...more

AdSense today announced that their search feature is now featured by Google’s Custom Search. This means that those using AdSense for Search get access to a few new features including: Site Search Improved indexing of your pages Vertical search Tuning search results and ads with keywords Selecting ad location Quick ...more

Good interview over at BlogHerald with Duncan Riley who today finishes up as a blogger at TechCrunch. The ground covered in the interview is great listening – from how he landed the TechCrunch job, to what it’s like to dealing with the email on such a position, to dealing with ...more

Last week I asked readers about their biggest sources of traffic to their blogs. The results reveal a fairly striking winner – Google. The comparison between Google and ‘Other Search Engines’ was fairly amazing – but what did interest me was the number of bloggers reporting Social Media sites as ...more

Post Post Post… yawn… Post Post Post… sigh… Post Post Post… eyes glazing over… Do you ever find blogging a little mind numbing as a blogger? Do you ever look at other people’s blogs and feel a little bored? Most bloggers who have been blogging for a sustained period of ...more