Darren Rowse

Chad Randall (b5’s Ad Sales Manager) caused a real stir here at ProBlogger while I was traveling a few weeks back in his guest post about making a blog more attractive to advertisers when he suggested bloggers remove AdSense from their blogs. Chad wrote more on why he doesn’t like ...more

Get $5 for testing AuctionAds – find out more below. A couple of days ago I asked readers for their reviews of AuctionAds – a new income stream for bloggers that has been going for two months now. Today the team behind AuctionAds contacted me to let me know that ...more

Are you interested in coming along to the Future of Online Advertising conference on 7-8 June in New York where I’ll be speaking (alongside some other amazing speakers). I’ve got five free tickets to give to ProBlogger Readers – but you’re going to have to be very very quick because ...more

Journalism Hope has a good interview with Tom Biro from the New Media Strategies Team at MWW (a PR company) on the latest campaign that Nikon are doing with 50 bloggers to promote their D80 DSLR. The campaign is called ‘picture this’ and it involves Nikon loaning a D80 (and ...more

I’ve just jumped off a skype call with a blogger who has been testing Auction Ads since they were announced back in March. He wishes to remain anonymous as he’s wanting to protect his niche – however was very very excited as he’d just received a payment from them that ...more

Do you follow the ProBlogger blog Job Boards via RSS? If so – it’s time to change your feed address to a new one. We had a lot of problems with the old one so decided to start from scratch with it. The ProBlogger Job Boards have continued to grow ...more

Congratulations to Tim Ferriss who I Interviewed last week about his book The 4 Hour Work Week. I just logged onto Amazon to check out how it’s ranking and he’s cracked the top 10 list! Not bad for it’s first week of release. Well done Tim! PS: the interview series ...more

I’m a sucker for a diagram – here’s one that Raj Dash put together on a 901am post on personal branding and how bloggers are making a living from blogging and other related activities (click to enlarge). While I probably wouldn’t plot myself quite as Raj has plotted me (I’ve ...more

I wish I could get a screen capture of this but I think Google just added a new little feature to the AdSense for Search search field that I’m using here on ProBlogger in my sidebar. Here’s what happened: I was searching for something on ProBlogger and as I type ...more