Darren Rowse

It’s Monday morning here in Australia and even Problogger’s suffer from ‘Mondayitis’ and find it hard to get themselves going. However today has been a little different – for some reason today there’s a little extra inspiration in my inbox. You see today I had three completely unsolicited ‘thank you’ ...more

Do you blog for someone else? A blog you might want to subscribe to is Network Blogging Tips written by bloggers Jennifer Chait and Deborah Ng (both experienced bloggers blogging in blog networks). “Here we’ll share tips, advice and ideas for those who blog for someone else. We’ll offer commiseration, ...more

The Amazon Associates program have announced a new widget in the last day or two – it’s called the Carousel Widget. You can see one in action below with six blogging books. Amazon.com Widgets The unit above is a ‘carousel’ format (horizontal) but they also have a ‘ferris wheel’ format ...more

This is a guest post on improving blog traffic from Courtney Tuttle. Courtney writes about marketing online at Court’s Internet Marketing School. 1. Create link clusters within your blog A link cluster is a group of links that you can point at a post or page to improve its search ...more

This week I’ve had four readers email to tell me that they’ve received comment spam on their blogs from someone using my name. The comments say something about how their blog is really getting better and/or that I’m enjoying it. The link left goes to a Penis Enlargement site (or ...more

In this post Muhammad Saleem asks why do you write? Muhammad is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on many social sites. image by mezone Why Do You Write? Sounds like an odd question at first, doesn’t it? The reason why you write actually has a big ...more

Do you have a spare 10 minutes and want a thought provoking read on blogging? Download The Zen of Blogging (pdf). It’s a free ebook by Hunter Nuttall – not your typical ebook about blogging but a simple guide with plenty of areas of blogging to chew over. Oh, and ...more

In February I posted a first impression review of the Shopzilla Publisher Program. This CPC (cost per click) ad unit is similar to those used successfully by many with the Chitika program. There’s one live in action at the bottom of this post. I’ve been getting some good feedback from ...more

We all like a joke on 1 April (and it can even be good for your blog) but some good advice to remember when playing such ‘pranks’ is that jokes that impact others should seriously be considered. My mum used to say – ‘it’s all fun and games until someone ...more