Darren Rowse

A few links from the last day or three: Amazon’s Associate Program have announced that their Amazon MP3 Downloads can earn Associates 20% commission. Pro Blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick shares how he uses Twitter to pay his Rent Ooooh – Apple is releasing it’s new OS – Leopard on October 26. ...more

It’s time for another ProBlogger Poll. This week’s question is: Do you Disclose Affiliate Links? It is a question that I’m sure many of you will have strong opinions on and which others of you are probably grappling with on a regular basis (I know I do). Vote here or ...more

The first ever ProBlogger Community Consulting job has been wonderful to watch this last week. A quick recap on the idea – together we know so much more about blogging than any of us do individually. So together this week we’ve been critiquing and work shopping one blog – this ...more

The ProBlogger Blog Job Board has seen some interesting new jobs for bloggers go up over the last week. If you’re a blogger looking for a blogging job – here are a few you might like to check out: Bloggers/Writers Beijing Olympus Games 2008 Blogger Bloggers for Celebrity and Movie ...more

The Google Analytics team posted about some upcoming Announcements on their blog today. New features are coming to Google Analytics including: tracking of site search – ‘find out what people search for on your site and where these searches lead’ Event Tracking capability – reports ‘designed to help you understand ...more

Last week David put together a great list of 46 Things To Do Before Launching a Blog Network which might be worth a read if you’re considering going the network route instead of just having your own blogs. As I read his post a few comments on his list come ...more

When Brian Clark from CopyBlogger releases a free report – you know it’s going to be something you want to read. So when he emailed me a draft copy last week I put everything else aside and immediately devoured it. The report is titled ‘Teaching Sells‘ and having chatted to ...more

Since Google Reader started showing how many people subscribe with its service to different RSS feeds there’s been a lot of talk and analysis about how many subscribers different blogs and sites have. However one element hasn’t been talked about that much – the fact that many blogs have multiple ...more

Click To Play play_blip_movie_432379(); Over in my question box reader JoLynn Braley asked me: “Was there a time when you first started blogging that you became despondent and thought about quitting? If so, what happened that gave you the confidence to keep going?”