Darren Rowse

AdSense have announced a couple of changes. One is that they’ve replaced ‘site targeting’ with ‘placement targeting’. Now advertisers can target their ads to specific ad units on your blog (depending upon how you’ve set your channels up). The second change is that they’re now allowing advertisers to target sites ...more

On the off chance that anyone is online right now – if you want to drop by and have a little webcam fun with a few of us Mark from 45n5 is streaming himself here. I’m also playing with it for a little bit this afternoon here. Drop by and ...more

Anne Waymen asks a question that’s got me thinking a little today – Would You Still Write If You Had A Million Dollars? On Saturday night I was at a party and had a fascinating chat with a guy who had his own business. We were swapping stories about our ...more

Click To Play play_blip_movie_483532(); With millions of blog posts being added to the web each day – bloggers need to consider more than just the content that they are posting and think about how they can design their posts to grab attention. One element of this post design is adding ...more

image by //bwr If you’ve got a goal of Going Pro as a Blogger I highly recommend that you head over to a great post by JD who writes about the transition of Quitting his Day Job and becoming a Pro Blogger. I get asked ‘how and when should I ...more

New advertising network WidgetBucks has just updated publishers accounts with their earnings figures from the previous month of earnings. This includes three amounts. A $25 signup bonus, the earnings that their Widgets earned for October plus earnings from their referrals (10% of the earnings of those that they referred). While ...more

How do your blog’s readers perceive you and your personality? Joel Falconer from Blog News Watch explores…. Perception and personality play an important role in our friendships and relationships with the people around us – and in our relationship with readers. Bloggers’ perception is all about two things: design and ...more

image by mleak This guest post on blog branding is by Mark Hayward who blogs over at MyTropicalEscape and Culebra Blog. You can learn more about him in the footer of this post. Are you currently blogging to generate income, or have you recently thought about monetizing your site? As ...more

Can your Feedburner stats reveal habits of your readers that could help you make your blogging more effective at reaching them? Guest poster Max Pool finds out. As we know FeedBurner counts can naturally fluctuate. But what about when they fluctuate unnaturally? Can we find trends in our statistics? Interestingly, ...more