Darren Rowse

Last week I surveyed readers on their AdSense earnings for the month of November. I was hoping to run the poll for a full week but due to some problems with the plugin I was using only got around two days of data (732 respondents). The results were quite similar ...more

Perhaps one of the simplest ways of adding a personal touch to your blog is to share a little more of yourself than just your knowledge on your topic. It is probably not appropriate to share every small detail of your offline life (boundaries are important) I find that readers ...more

I’ll admit right up front that I’m not the best at this – in fact on almost every occasion that I’ve attempted to inject humor into blog posts I’ve managed to offend, confuse or mislead one reader or another. Do as I say – not as I do and proceed ...more

I’ve recently been reading The Story Factor by Annette Simmons and am convinced that stories are one of the most powerful ways of engaging and impacting readers. I’ve written previously on using stories in blogging (and will probably again) but am a firm believer in using stories as they: engage ...more

Copyblogger points to an article that indicates that Affiliate Marketing Disclosure may become Mandatory by law. This will be a fascinating one to watch and could have implications for bloggers on many levels. The article states: “The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which ...more

I’m getting ready to run the last ProBlogger Group Writing Project for 2006 but before announcing the topic I’m looking for some amazing Prizes to tempt participants with (if you don’t know what a group writing project is you can see the last one here). If you have a prize ...more

Yesterday we reported that AdSense were testing new ways of showing the ‘Ads by Goooogle’ links on their ad units. Today there’s confirmation that it is indeed a test which is being done on a minimal number of impressions of publishers ads. The following was the response from AdSense to ...more

This is post 3 in the Adding a Personal Touch to Your Blog Series I can hardly believe that I’m encouraging bloggers to be more emotional in their blogging (blogging is a medium that is sometimes accused of being too emotionally based) but I think quite a few entrepreneurial blogs ...more

This is post 2 in the Adding a Personal Touch to Your Blog Series 2. First Person vs Third Person While there is definitely a place for third person writing in blogging – I know that I am much more drawn bloggers who place themselves inside their posts by writing ...more