Darren Rowse

Just a short note to give an update on my up coming schedule as the next few months will include a few opportunities to meet bloggers in different parts of the world. Sydney This Week I’m at AdTech in Sydney Wednesday and Thursday of this week. If you’re there and ...more

Net Business Blog shares 8 Reasons Why the Masses Love Lists Deborah Ng has posted a short interview with me on her About Web Logs page. I was also quoted today in an article in the Christian Science Monitor. Dave Taylor asks Are You Engaged in Risky Business Behaviors? Digital ...more

YPN have today announced policy changes – the main change being that you are now only allowed to place a maximum of three YPN ad units on any single page at a time. This is the same maximum that AdSense allows on a page at any given time (unless you ...more

I’m hearing tonight from a few bloggers that they’ve received an email from AdSense asking them if they’d like to be involved in a new program that they are running called ‘Custom Placement Packs’. This seems to be a program that clusters similar sites together to be sold to advertisers ...more

I get a lot of questions from people just getting into blogging about which blog platform to choose. I have my own preferences and opinions but try to be objective with my answer. I usually point people to my blogging for beginners post on blog platforms for starters – but ...more

Just came across this ad (via Dave) on Craigslist which is somewhat concerning. Does it read like they’re looking for a comment spammer to anyone else? Here’s how the ad reads in case it’s removed: Contract Writing Position for Blogging Campaign We are an advertising agency that is looking for ...more

The AdSense/AdWords Referrals changes that I reported here yesterday are official with an announcement today on the AdSense Blog. Not only can you now earn up o $255 for an AdSense referral – you can also earn a $2000 bonus for referring 25 publishers who earn over $100 within a ...more

I love reading posts where other Pro Bloggers talk about their earnings. It’s really exciting and inspiring to see how others make their living from blogs and is always a great source of ideas. John Chow (you might know him from his AdSense advertising here on ProBlogger where he says ...more

Here’s an update on the previous post about AdSense changing their AdSense/AdWords referral payment system. It’s looking like a promising two tiered system. More reports are coming in now that different AdSense offices around the world are confirming changes in their referrals payments. Here’s the translation of a response from ...more