Darren Rowse

Just a quick update to my previous upcoming schedule post. I’ve just confirmed the second New York dates. I’ll be speaking at FOOA (Future Of Online Advertising) on 7-8 June. It looks like a pretty good lineup of speakers that they’ve already announced including Steve Rubel, Steve Olechowski from Feedburner, ...more

Another story of a blogger selling their blog surfaced today with the announcement by basketball blogger Henrry Abbott from TrueHoop that he’s sold his blog to ESPN. There’s no details of how much the sale was for – but Henry will be an employee of ESPN as part of the ...more

Over the last week or so I’ve been playing around with ZLio (aff) – a service that enables you to add a a shop to your blog or website. The most similar thing I’ve seen previously is Amazon’s aStore and Chitika’s Shoplinc program. ZLio’s service is a very professional looking ...more

Lorelle has written a comprehensive post (does she write any other kind) on Selling Your Blog: What Are Blog Buyers Looking For? which explores questions like: When is the Right Time to Sell Your Blog? How Much is Your Blog Really Worth? Selling Points for Selling Your Blog I agree ...more

Heather Green has posted that this week Pheedo will be releasing an RSS Powered Ads product. No it’s not an ad product to put in your RSS feeds – but one to promote your RSS feeds with. Heather explains: “Pheedo pulls the RSS feeds from marketers, retailers, and publishers into ...more

The AdSense blog today confirms what we’ve all been noticing for a while now – they’ve started including a little Google Checkout icons on advertisers who use it (see below). I’m interested to hear from publishers on whether they like it or not. On one hand it does add something ...more

This past two weeks I’ve been talking about how to make your RSS feed ‘Pop’ – to stand out from the crowd a little – however covering this topic has caused a few readers to ask RSS related questions that don’t necessarily relate to improving your feed but which are ...more

Chris Garrett writes a useful post on Better Blog Branding which talks readers through some of the issues associated with choosing a name for a blog Media Week reports that Podcasting will Generate $400 Million in Ads by 2011 SE Roundtable points at the Google checkout icons appearing in more ...more

Remember 12 year old blogger David Wilkinson from Techzi? David and I have kept in touch with one another since I posted about him last and recently I asked him to consider writing a guest post here at ProBlogger. I thought a 12 year old’s perspective on how to get ...more