Darren Rowse

I’m giving one lucky ProBlogger reader a Christmas present this year – read on to find out how you can get in the running for it… I was just taking a look through my essential books for bloggers post in which I list 70 books that I and a few ...more

The 2006 Weblog Awards are on and there are some of my favorite blogs featured. Thanks to whoever nominated ProBlogger in the Business category (I have some stiff competition) – if you’d like to vote for ProBlogger you can do so here. You can vote once per day.

SEO Roundtable has a nice summary of a session at SES Chicago with Jeremy Schomaker and Jennifer Slegg (notice they both have JS initials – could be something in that!) on the topic of Earning Money From Contextual Ads. There’s not much in it that experienced contextual advertising publishers won’t ...more

Performancing Partners Ad Network (aff) has been around for a couple of months now and I’m seeing more and more publishers with ads being bought on their blogs. However for some (especially smaller blogs) it’s harder to get advertisers signed up and so Performancing are introducing a new type of ...more

Every few days someone asks me when I’m going to do another ‘poll of the week’. The reason I’ve not done any is that the plugin I was using to run them had some security problems and I was waiting for an update. This has recently come through so I’ve ...more

“English cricketer Jim Young, 57, carried on batting after a heart attack at the crease in Buntingford, Hertfordshire. He scored another 12 for his village team despite crushing chest pains. He collapsed to his knees and was taken off but went back after a glass of water and scored four ...more

Mark Styles has posted over at Weblog Tools a post on CAPTCHAs (wikipedia’s page on them here) which makes some good points about why they might not be the best solution for stopping comment spam on a blog. Here’s a few of his main points: Any extra work required to ...more

Clickz reports on the latest stats of online spending this holiday season. Spending online is up 24% (with last month totaling $11.75 billion) on last year and traffic is up 13% (it seems people are buying more per visit this year). Obviously those taking the majority of this income are ...more

Searching for a topic for a new blog? One approach is to look at what people are searching the web for and Yahoo! has helped out today by providing us all with a series of Top Ten Lists of 2006 in different categories. Of course there are only so many ...more