Darren Rowse

John Chow today posted a post outlining why he’s not an Amazon Affiliate. It’s a good post in that it gives an insight into his approach to affiliate marketing. The best point John alludes to is that Amazon doesn’t ‘fit’ with his blog. He makes more from other better targeted ...more

Over the weekend I managed to increase the number of subscribers to my Digital Photography School RSS feed by around 15%. Before Friday it was sitting at around the 20,000 subscriber mark and 3 days later it’s just over 23,000 subscribers. How did I do it? I did two things. ...more

I’ve noticed over the last month that the numbers of requests to connect (or become friends) on social networking sites has dramatically increased. Every morning when I go through my inbox I find I’m approving more and more of these requests from Facebook and LinkedIn and even when I head ...more

A few weeks back I asked readers for their opinion on a reader question – Should I Add Fake Comments to My Blog? 125 comments were left and I thought I’d sum it up with a quick graph to help visualize how people answered. I think this speaks for itself: ...more

For those unable to get to the Future of Online Advertising but wanting a bit more of a glimpse of what took place – you might be interested in seeing the powerpoint and keynote presentations from those presenting. They have now been added to main page underneath the names of ...more

Shoemoney has a good post on the value of speaking at conferences. He’s asked some key bloggers what they think about the topic. I think that it can be a valuable way of reinforcing your brand and have written more in the post. Raj shares 7 Suggestions for Making Your ...more

If you log into AdSense today and create a new ad unit you’ll be given the choice of creating ad units with rounded corners. You’ll now have three choices: Square Slightly Rounded Very Rounded Access the different options through the ‘Setup Tab’ of AdSense but keep in mind that if ...more

The following guest post has been submitted by Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar Most serious bloggers occasionally find opportunities to review some sort of product related to their blog niche, whether it be a book, a piece of equipment related to their blog’s area of expertise, or so on. ...more

Joanna asks – “I’d find it useful to hear your views Darren on the question of links opening in a new window. I was tutored to set them up to open in a new window so I didn’t lose visitors, but I see other people think it’s ‘spammy’.” The old ...more