Darren Rowse

Today’s task in the 31 Day Project is aimed at driving new visitors to your blog by running a mini advertising campaign for your blog using StumbleUpon. Note – This task will take a small budget (unless you get creative and find another website willing to give you some free ...more

Amazon have emailed publishers in their Associates Program to let them know that their aStore shop tool has had an upgrade of features. These upgrades include the following: Access to every Amazon.com category and subcategory for automatically populating your product categories – If Amazon.com has created a group for it, ...more

It seems that AdSense is forming (or has formed) a secret new group made up of some of it’s most successful publishers. An email was sent to an unknown number of publishers in the last 24 hours inviting them to join it with the following email which was forwarded to ...more

Why does my Feedburner subscriber count fluctuate so much? Are people unsubscribing and subscribing as much as my Feedburner counter says? I notice your Feedburner counter goes up and down each day – why? My RSS Subscriber Counter Goes Down Every Weekend – Why? Over the last week I’ve been ...more

Have you ever wondered what readers of your blog do when they arrive at it? What do they look at? What links do they click on? What internal navigation do they use? What ads do they click? What positions on your blog do people gravitate towards? Today your task in ...more

As this post goes live MovableType 4.0 is being launched by it’s creators – SixApart. This new release has been a long time coming for those of us with MT blogs (I have a couple that I can’t wait to get upgraded) and so I thought it might be fun ...more

Click To Play

The potential for StumbleUpon to send traffic is often under-estimated, particularly by new bloggers. Unlike digg and del.icio.us, an item doesn’t need to become popular before you see immediate results. One or two votes can bring a hundred or more readers — more than a new blog might see in a day.

Today’s task in the 31 Days Blogging Project is to so some analysis of other blogs in your niche – your ‘competition’. Note: I use the word ‘competition’ hesitantly because the thing about blogging is that those blogging on the same topics as you are potentially your biggest allies. Connect ...more