Darren Rowse

Time for a quick reader survey. I’m sitting here at FOOA and have heard a few presentations today highlighting different ways bloggers make money and how advertisers can target blog readers. These have been from companies like BlogAds, PayPerPost and Federated Media. It strikes me that these three models are ...more

Frank Johnson (no url provided) asks – “Darren – my question is how you find product photography for your product-related blogs. Do you 1) take photos of the products yourself; 2) grab them off the manufacturers’ websites after asking for permission to use them; 3) grab them off the manufacturers’ ...more

Anthony asks – “Hi Darren, I’m very interested in your work flow and routines. What is a regular day in the life of a ProBlogger like and how is it different from when you were first starting out.” I’m especially curious about how you split your time between many blogs. ...more

The following post has been submitted by Neil Patel from Pronet Advertising and Quick Sprout. If you are trying to increase the popularity of your blog, chances are you’ve already looked into search engine optimization (seo) or leveraging social media sites. There is nothing wrong with using these methods and ...more

Aziz asked: Have you ever had a thought about quitting to blog? Did you put in more hours of work at the beginning of your blogging career or now? What changes do you expect in the blogosphere 5 years and 10 years down the line. What do you think about ...more

Chris G reflects upon his experience with the Buy Me a Beer Plugin – he’s decided not to use it any more but thinks it would be suitable for some Nate shares 5 tips to make your blog more readable Shoemoney debates Rand from SEOmoz on disclosure on blogs Muhammad ...more

This post on Blogging for Yourself vs. Blogging for Others has been submitted by Deborah Ng who blogs at About Weblogs (for about.com), Simply Thrifty (for b5media) and Work From Home Momma (for Know More Media). I think she’s qualified for talking about blogging for others! While it started out ...more

AdSense have updated their policies today. Here’s a quick summary of the changes: The main change is for those who send traffic to their pages with AdSense on them via Advertising. You now have to adhere to the same guidelines that AdWords users do with their Landing pages. The other ...more

Richard asks – “I have a website and blog which is well established, many inbound links and high traffic. But the blogging software I can use is limited. It is difficult to customize and the categories are too big and slow to load. Is it better to keep going with ...more