Darren Rowse

Here’s a fun little tool – Visual PageRank which gives you a quick visualization of every link on any given page. So on a section of a site like my header you get this visual representation of page ranks of the links there: I’m not sure that it’s really that ...more

Paolo Amoroso sent me an email this week asking: Why do you emphasize blog design? After all, many users follow blogs via news readers. Is it known what fraction of users use a news reader as opposed to regularly accessing blog sites? Good question Paolo. There are a number of ...more

Still wading through my inbox. Here are a few more links from the last week (more to come). YPN have been running a series of posts on Optimizing for Relevancy to help getting more relevant ads. Part II was released this week. Abe at Blog has a post on Adding ...more

Chris asks Is 2007 the year for Blog Communities in the wake of a number of blogs adding forums to their blogs in recent times. I’m not sure it’s the year of ‘blog communities’ as such – but I definitely think it’s the year that we’ll increasingly see blogs merging ...more

Are any readers heading to adTech in Sydney in February? I’ll be arriving the morning of 7th and flying out on the evening of the 8th but would be keen to meet any others who are there. I know Des Walsh is going to be there and from what he ...more

I should also publicly thank Tony Hung for his wonderful guest posting here at ProBlogger over the last week. Tony produced some great quality posts last week that were widely linked to around the blogosphere and which obviously generated a lot of conversation (so far his 5 posts have had ...more

I’m back from my week off and now the massive task of clearing my inbox and sorting through the many thousands of unread items in my news reader begins. In doing so I’m going to do a few speedlinking posts over the next 24 hours to catch up on some ...more

As you read this I’ll be driving down the freeway toward one of my states lovely beaches for a short vacation. In my absence I’m pleased to introduce to you my guest blogger for the week – Tony Hung. I first came across Tony on his blog Deep Jive Interests ...more

Nik Cubrilovic picks up on Guy Kawasaki’s posting his revenue and concludes that ‘AdSense for bloggers sucks, the click-through rates are too low, the advertising is not relevant enough and readers of blogs are more accustomed to blocking-out the ads – all this results in a very low CPM rate.’ ...more