Darren Rowse

There’s lots of discussion at Digital Point forums today on A New Type Of Ads By Goooogle that AdSense seem to be besting on their ads. Previously they’ve had ‘Ads by Gooooooogle’ in text above or below each ad unit – but now they seem to be experimenting with images ...more

BlogKits has launched it’s long awaited Affiliate Marketing Network for bloggers. So I thought I’d ask it’s founder, Jim Kukral, a few questions about it and what he’s learnt along the road in developing it. What is BlogKits? (give us your elevator pitch) Our business model is simple… Help 99% ...more

Some days when I check what was bought via my Amazon Associate’s affiliate program the previous day I just have to laugh. Here’s a random sample of 10 items from yesterday’s sales which I think has to be the oddest collection of sales I’ve every had in a day. Waring ...more

Last week’s post ‘7 reasons why personal blogs rock‘ got a great reaction from readers. One of the recurring pieces of feedback I had from other bloggers was that my style of blogging was quite ‘personal’ even on my ‘non personal’ blogs. One ProBlogger reader commented via email: ‘Sometimes I ...more

Envision have published the result of a survey that they undertook of healthcare bloggers. They cover a lot of ground in the survey but the key findings with regards to advertising on these blogs were: Healthcare bloggers are divided on whether running advertising negatively impacts blogger credibility…. Only 27% have ...more

Are there any Melbourne readers who would like to get together for a few hours one morning in the coming week or two to hang out and do some blogging over breakfast, a coffee and with other bloggers? I’ve often sat here in a cafe blogging and wondered how many ...more

Kevin reflects on 9 keys to networking via blogs for introverts (bouncing off Rob May’s How to Network: For Introverts) something I think I need to read as the king of introverts! Leon asks What is SpeedLinking? and tries to come up with a definition of it, looks at who ...more

The old Full Feeds vs Partial Feeds debate is back with Digital Inspiration posting Do You Publish Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds? It’s actually an interesting post because Amit demonstrates the impact of moving from partial feeds to full feeds upon Digital Inspiration. He noticed a jump in ...more

I’ve had to end the Poll of the Week because of ongoing problems that I was having with it and how it was impacting the design of the rest of the blog. I believe the results are accurate enough (with 732 responses over the two days that it ran) so ...more