Darren Rowse

This post has been submitted by Neil Patel. Neil is co-founder and CTO of ACS) and writes regularly on social media issues through the company’s blog, Pronet Advertising. Engadget, The Huffington Post, Boing Boing, and TechCrunch all share the common thread of being wildly popular and successful. While that seems ...more

Alistair asks – ‘Having a niche blog means that I will never have the same amount of visitors as some of the larger technology/media blogs. This means that advertisers such as blog ads will not allow me to use their ads as they see me as having lower visitor numbers. ...more

Today’s guest post is from Chris Garrett from chrisg.com. For many bloggers their income focus is based on direct methods. Most bloggers have at least tried some advertising, particularly Adsense. There is a massive potential though for earning money indirectly from blogging. Direct methods would include Advertising – Adsense, Banners, ...more

Over the last few weeks I’ve had an influx of invitations to connect with people on Facebook. I’ve never promoted my page on this social networking site but as there seems to be some momentum on it I figure why not – so if you’d like to connect there please ...more

Edward asks – ‘How can I know where the readers of my blog mostly come from? Search Engines? MyBlogLog? Other Blog’s Links?’ Finding where the readers to your blog mainly come from is something that is well worth doing as it can help you grow and improve your blog. There ...more

This is pretty last minute but for those of you base in the Toronto area you might like to come along to an impromptu bloggers meet up that the b5media gang are putting together this Tuesday night. A number of the core b5 team are flying into Toronto over the ...more

The following post on custom vs premade blog themes was submitted by Matthew Coddington from Net Business Blog. At one point in every blogger’s career he or she has to make a choice between investing in a custom template or staying the course with a premade, downloadable template. There are ...more

Rhys asks – ‘I’ve been running a site with a few affiliates on it, I have enjoyed a healthy relationship with said affiliates, and likewise they’ve commented to me on a number of occasions that I have generated business for them from my site. Recently my site has experienced a ...more

AdSense have today announced that they’ve given their AdSense units a ‘spring clean’. They write that this is a result of testing and research and that the new look ads should lead to better performance for both publishers and advertisers. The new look ads will be rolled out in the ...more