Darren Rowse

John Chow has broken the story that Google has a ‘secret’ CPM advertising network called the ‘Google Display Advertising Network’ which is an invitation only impression based ad network for high profile advertisers and a select group of publishers. It apparently lets publishers negotiate their own CPM (cost per thousand ...more

One of the most frightening things that can happen to a blogger making their living from blogging is when the traffic to their blogs dries up for one reason or another. There are numerous reasons why this might happen ranging from being hacked, to having a server outage, to not ...more

Two days ago I posted that Google are sending their top AdSense publishers digital photo frames. Shawn Hogan has posted a picture of the one they sent him.

A massive thank you to all those readers who submitted reader ‘quick tips’ which I used as guest posts while traveling over the last couple of weeks. Over 50 tips were submitted (in fact more have been submitted in the last few days) – unfortunately I wasn’t able to use ...more

I’ve previously done a little analysis of the blogs in the Technorati Top 100 in terms of their length of blogging so today when I came across a post by Stuart Brown (via blog herald)who has done similar work (but with some pretty pie charts) I was hooked. Stuart analysises ...more

Marshall Kirkpatrick has just finished up as a writer on the popular TechCrunch blog and today writes a great post on how he looked for and found stories for his blogging using a startpage, feed reader, sms and instant messaging notification and more. It’s a great read as Marshall was ...more

I wasn’t going to mention this resource here because it’s one that I generally only mention on my Digital Photography School and Digital Camera blogs. However this afternoon I had a ProBlogger reader ask me for some online resources on using Photoshop as they were increasingly using images on their ...more

This reader ‘quick tip’ is from Yaro Starak from Blog Traffic School I’ve noticed lately my blog is not growing as rapidly as it did about a year ago. While my posting frequency has dropped a little I don’t think that’s the main reason for the reduction in traffic growth. ...more

H.S. Ayoub from BioHealth Investor submitted the following reader ‘quick tip’. Here’s a quick tip for maximizing your revenue per click from Google Adsense ads on your blog. My blog has been up for only 8 weeks, and already I have found a tactic that has increased my daily earnings ...more