Darren Rowse

Update: I’ve brainstormed 180 Blog Ideas for you! Yesterday we covered how to use mind mapping to come up with topics to post about. As I was writing that post I was reminded of a very similar process that I went through when planning my last new blog – Digital ...more

Those of you who use Google Analytics might be interested to see that they’ve announced a new graphing tool – ie that you can now compare not only time periods but different stats. For example you can view your page views vs bounce rate for a given period: Or you ...more

AdSense has just announced a fairly significant new feature that will help publishers to monitor what ads are being targeted on their blogs to see if they are relevant and appropriate for that site. I complained in a number of recent posts that I didn’t really have any idea what ...more

One of the things that I enjoy about this time of year is that the search engines release reports on what the most searched for words were during the past 12 months. Google just released their Google Zeitgeist 2007 Report (Yahoo did their one last week). At Google the fastest ...more

Yesterday I wrote a post on keeping the momentum going on your blog by building on previous posts. Today I want to extend that post (you knew I would) with a practical exercise that any blogger with a blog can do. It’s something that can take as little as 10 ...more

You slave over the writing of a great new post for your blog, you’ve researched, hypothesized, edited, spell checked, polished and made it look all pretty…. You Hit Publish…. What happens now? Are you done? Do you move on and push the post idea from your mind – searching for ...more

This week I’ve been without a permanent broadband connection – but I’ve become a more productive blogger. While I wait for my ISP to transfer my broadband connection from our old home to our new one I’ve been relying upon a mobile broadband connection (with limited monthly bandwidth) and dialup ...more

I’ve just had emails from a number of readers who are reporting seeing a new type of AdSense ad appearing on their blogs – ads with little arrow buttons on them which rotate ads. Here’s how they look (buttons circled): When you click the button the ad ‘slides’ up and ...more

A few quick links: Brian at Copyblogger asks Are You Someone’s User-Generated Content? and extends my recent post on blogging vs social media. AdSense have announced a few changes to their Manage Ads feature and hint at more to come. Stephen writes a post on making money online by leveraging ...more