Darren Rowse

This reader ‘quick tip’ was submitted by Antoine Khater from All Day I Dream About Photography Wouldn’t be nice to have you Chikita emini-mall or ShopCloud$ (aff) showing up as the Alternate URL of Adsense? Here is a trick I recently learned on how to do it. Just set up ...more

Well all good things must come to an end and as I write this I find myself at Toronto’s international airport awaiting my flight to LA and then home. Quite a few people have asked me how I’ve found Canada and particularly how I’ve found meeting some of the b5media ...more

Amazon have just announced that they are now allowing publishers to earn commission when readers that they refer buy a gift certificate in the Amazon store as part of their Associates program. This is only the case up until the end of the year and commissions will be a flat ...more

Luke Meshios from Webmaster SEO wrote the following reader ‘quick tip’: Do you ever wonder why it is you get low clicks sometimes? 1 cents – 10 cents? This is because the Adsense Publishers are offering low amounts. Some times they offer a low amount because they have Adsense on ...more

The following reader quick tip was submitted by Ann Handley from Marketing Profs: Daily Fix. One of the questions I often field comes from business owners who are thinking of launching a blog but are wondering, “What can I write about…?” A recent post by Poynter contributor Vince Maher does ...more

Once you’ve chosen an affiliate product or program to promote on your blog you cannot just slap a link to it into your sidebar and forget about it. The task then is in thinking about how you’ll drive readers to it. Similarly to contextual advertising – positioning of your links ...more

John Chow has posted details of a new AdSense beta which allows publishers to highlight certain ad units to advertisers and tell them what position the ads are in. John writes: “To use Google Ad Placement, you create and implement a custom channel just as you would before – tracking ...more

Just a short note to let readers know to expect a little downtime on ProBlogger later today or two as we’ll be moving it over onto b5media’s servers. Hopefully this will lead a few of the glitches that the blog’s been suffering the last couple of months being ironed out. ...more

This reader Quick Tip was submitted by Moshe Morris from SEM Basics. Oftentimes links from sites with the .edu and .gov extention can be particularly helpful when trying to rank well in the search engines. Here, then, is a quick and easy way to find some (potentially) high quality .edu ...more