Darren Rowse

Avoid Clutter in Your RSS Feeds
One trend that I’ve noticed lately among some bloggers is to stuff their RSS feeds with a lot extra information cluttering the end of posts on their RSS feeds. RSS Extras This ‘extra’ material can include: Ads – some bloggers are including multiple ads – text links, banner ads, affiliate ...more
RSS

Speedlinking – 13 February 2007
Smashing Magazine posts 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (probably) haven’t Seen 45n5 shares 12 tools to help you find a domain name for your next blog The Technosailor auction has hit the $23750 mark – with a $30k BIN price – nice work Aaron. I wonder if this will cause ...more
Pro Blogging News

5 Pick Up Lines to Get You the Girl – and Why Opening Lines Matter
Pick Up Lines to get you the girl…. Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again? If you stood in front of a mirror and held up 11 roses, you would see 12 of the most beautiful things in the world. If I could ...more
RSS

Speedlinking – 10 February 2007
Google Operating System posts on how to backup your Blogger Blog (via Lifehacker) Emmense has posted a useful template Tag Reference Sheet for Blogger Movable Type and WordPress Bloggers (via Chris Garrett) Aaron Brazell is selling his Technosailor Blog. This will be an interesting auction to watch as he’s written ...more
Pro Blogging News

MyBlogLog Co-Branded Communities
I just noticed that TechCrunch’s MyBlogLog community page is different to other MyBlogLog communities. It’s actually been like this for a month or two (I’m not a regular visitor to their MBL page) and is part of MBL’s Co-Branded Communities alpha test. What are the differences between Co-Branded and Normal ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

ad Tech Sydney – Day 2
After a full day on the first day of adTech in Sydney I was looking forward to another good day. I should say that I did finish day 1 off with a bloggers meet up where I met some great people – some of whom I’m sure I’ll continue to ...more
Pro Blogging News

Use Titles with Bling – RSS Feeds that POP
Here’s the next part of the How to Make Your RSS Feed POP series. Much has been written about the importance of titles of posts in blogging (I have written about it here, here and here for example) – but in your RSS feed title’s power is most notable. News ...more
RSS

Affiliate Marketing – Speedlinking Special
There’s been quite a bit of chatter around the blogging for money community about affiliate programs in the last few days. So here’s three of what’s being written on that topic: Jeremy shares some tips on how to choose a CPA (cost per action) Affiliate – particularly focussing on whether ...more
Affiliate Programs

How to Blog With ‘Voice’ and Increase Community and Readership
This post has been submitted by Glen Stansberry. Most bloggers have a great advantage over traditional media: there’s no stingy editorial process to whittle away at our writing. We can say what we want, however we want. Yet many bloggers fail to take advantage of this fact, afraid to voice ...more
Writing Content