Darren Rowse

Yesterday I was interviewed by an Australian Financial Review journalist about how the falling US dollar is impacting my business. There’s not much to say except that: 95% of my income comes to me in US dollars. 5 Years ago when I started experimenting with blogging for money the US ...more

Building Credibility is something that is well worth working on as a blogger. We live in a world where people are increasingly suspicious of information that they’re presented with (particularly online where there’s a lot of dubious information going around) so when people find a credible source of information they ...more

This post on using Twitter was submitted by Sheila Scarborough from Family Travel, Perceptive Travel and Fast Machines. I’m Twitter-pated. Admittedly, when I saw random user “tweets” projected onto a big screen at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive last year, it seemed like a mildly-amusing but rather silly new tech ...more

One of the things that I love about blogging is the people that you ‘meet’ through it. One of the people that I met (both virtually and then in real life on a couple of occasions) is Yaro Starak – the guy behind the Blog Mastermind. The picture is from ...more

Last week I asked readers a simple demographic question – ‘how old are you?’ My reason for asking wasn’t because I’m gathering data for advertisers (although I’m sure they’d be interested) but to test a theory that I’d been hearing a number of commentators say recently – that blogging is ...more

This post was written by Aditya Mahesh of BlogOnExpo, a free digital conference for bloggers that will feature sessions about blogging and interviews with Darren Rowse from ProBlogger, RandFishkin of SEOmoz, and others. The conference kicks off on December 1st, 2007. You have a successful blog. You post on a ...more

If you’re heading to BlogWorld Expo next month in Las Vegas then you might be interested in getting there a day early for a whole extra day of free bonus teaching o blogging brought to you by b5media. The day of teaching (on 7th November) has a great schedule: 9:15 ...more

It has been a bit over two weeks since the new advertising network WidgetBucks announced it’s launch (here’s where I posted my first impression review of WidgetBucks) and as promised here is my update on how it has been performing for me. For those of you unfamiliar with WidgetBucks – ...more

Over the past 6 to 12 months the 125 x 125 pixel advertisement has emerged onto the blogging scene as a fairly common means of advertising. I don’t know who did it first – but there are hundreds (if not thousands) of blogs using it. Some of the more prominent ...more