Darren Rowse

Since Google have cracked down on the selling of text link ads on blogs text link selling has gone underground (as I wrote back in October last year). One example of this is the semi regular request that I get from text link sellers offering to buy in post text ...more

CopyBlogger has a fantastic five part tutorial on keyword research for bloggers. Really valuable stuff from Brian as usual.

update – I now have enough offers to write posts and am closing off applications. If you have already submitted your name and have heard back from me with login detail then you’re free to submit your post but unfortunately for others I can’t take any more as 100 people ...more

Last year I was fortunate enough to be invited by the web-famous internet marketer Yanik Silver to speak about blogging for money at his Underground Seminar (there’s another one coming up at the end of March) It was an amazing week which taught me so much about internet marketing. Since ...more

Got a spare hour (55.24 minutes to be exact)? No me either – but if you want something to listen to today while you blog you might like to listen to a podcast interview that Chris Garrett did with me a couple of days back – The Story of the ...more

Today I spent a little time looking at the popular page on delicious. Here’s a few of my scribbled notes looking at the headings (click to enlarge a little). I find doing this type of analysis quite inspiring as I think about the type of posts and construction of titles ...more

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein* Tangent – I’m not really into gaming (online or offline) but I do have one weakness – Tower Defense (warning – following that link could grind your blogging to a halt ...more

There are defining moments in everyone’s lives that often get looked back on as times that determined how things eventually played out. My reader question for today is to ask for you stories of defining blogging moments. What are the most important decisions and discoveries that you’ve made as a ...more

Late in December we ran a Community Consulting project for a blog called WifeAdvice. I invited Nancy Clark (one of the bloggers behind the site to come back and give some thoughts on the process and show us some of the changes that they made to WifeAdvice as a result ...more