Darren Rowse

Update – I have updated the list of my top income earners from blogging. It’s been a fair while since I talked specifically about my blogging earnings. I decided a year or so ago that I wasn’t going to put specific dollar figures to my income any more in public ...more

Today I’m fortunate enough to be in Sydney in the blogging contingent at adTech. As usual at these things there is a lot of content to listen to and many people to meet so I’ll keep my impressions so far (three quarters of the way through day 1) brief. Myspace ...more

Neil Patel writes a short tip on Increasing your StumbleUpon Audience which is a follow up to his previous one on promoting your sites through it. TechCrunch announces the launch of Fast’s AdMomentum product that lets publishers design their own ad network. From reading a little more about it I’d ...more

This week I’m writing a series on how to make your RSS feeds POP and coincidentally Ronald Huereca from Dev Lounge released a WP plugin that helps you do exactly what I’m writing about. It’s a WordPress Feed Styler that allows bloggers to add design elements into their feeds – ...more

I recently watched two fellow bloggers work through their news aggregators (one was using Google Reader, the other Bloglines). In both instances the method that they used was to quickly scan content – only briefly stopping to read a sentence or two here and there – and occasionally opening up ...more

A couple of weeks ago when Google made changes to it’s AdSense policies there was a lot of talk about the impact that the changes would have upon using different ad network ads on the same page as AdSense ads. One small change seemed to get lost in the midst ...more

This is the second post in a series on How to make your RSS Feeds POP One technique that many successful bloggers use to stand out from the crowd is to use images in their feeds. This means switching your feeds to full feeds, enabling html and putting up with ...more

RSS has become an increasingly important way of engaging with blog readers over the last couple of years – but in more recent times with its integration into web browsers and operating systems it’s potential power for bloggers to engage readers has increased. However – if you’re anything like me, ...more

Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting more and emails from people askine me for my opinion on AGLOCO (refferral link). To be perfectly honest the first few times I heard about it I didn’t think much. The second few times I thought it was some sort of pyramid ...more