Darren Rowse

YouTube offer Publishers AdSense Embedded Video Players
I’ve had a number of readers email me in the last 24 hours to let me know that they’re seeing options to monetize sites using YouTube custom video players with AdSense units in them. Perhaps this was announced previously without me noticing it – but I can’t find any official ...more
Adsense

How Much Screen Real Estate do You Dedicate to Ads?
Serverdome has a good little survey of some blogs about blogging and how much of the space on their blog above the fold is dedicated to advertising. Like I commented on the post – I’d love to see them do the same thing with the 10 Ten Blogs on Technorati’s ...more
Advertising

Finding Your Blogging DNA
This blog post was written by Glen Stansberry, co-founder of the blog network LifeRemix. No two bloggers are alike. Everybody works differently, and everybody has their own routine when it comes to posting. Some work best on a routinely basis, posting every day. Others work best as the inspiration strikes ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

46 Tax Deductions that Bloggers Often Overlook
This guest post on Tax Deductions for Bloggers is by Kelly Phillips Erb from Tax Girl. Want to learn more about how to make money blogging? Subscribe to ProBlogger today for free. The most popular question in response to my guest post on Problogger last time was invariably some form ...more
Featured Posts

Forget About Page Rank and Build a Better Blog
Click To Play play_blip_movie_401849(); I get a lot of questions about Google’s Page rank and when it will update again. I’m not sure if people think I look like Matt Cutts or whether they think I’ve got some inside word – but the question hits my inbox quite a lot. ...more
Search Engine Optimization

Blog Maintenance Start Pages using Netvibes
Internet Duct Tape has a pretty cool blog tip on Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes. Using Netvibes you can watch comments, check your blog stats, watch email, twitter, social bookmarking plus much more. As I say – very cool.
Blogging Tools and Services

Building Your Blog With StumbleUpon
This guest-post on Building Your Blog With StumbleUpon is by Skellie. She gives away big and little ideas like these to bloggers, webmasters and web workers at her blog, Skelliewag.org. If you think this is another post about voting up your own articles on StumbleUpon, you’re mistaken. Every blogger should ...more
Blog Promotion

Full or Partial Feeds – Poll Results
Last week’s Poll of the week asked readers whether they use Full or Partial feeds on their blogs (or whether they offered readers the option of both). The results were very clear with 75% of ProBloggers preferring to offer Full Feeds. Here’s the breakdown of the results. Don’t forget to ...more
Reader Questions

How to Get Your First Freelance Blogging Gig
This post on getting your first freelance blogging gig was submitted by Chris Garrett. People often ask me how they can get freelance blogging work so when Darren asked me for a guest post I thought this was the perfect opportunity. Anyone who follows my writing on my own blog ...more
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