Darren Rowse

A couple of days back Technorati released a new widget that counts the number of links pointing at any given blog post. It’s called the Link Count Widget. So at the end of a post you’ll get a little link and logo like this: This is useful in that it ...more

This reader Quick Tip was submitted by Moshe Morris from SEM Basics. Ultimately speaking, what determines if a keyword is difficult or hard to ran in the major search engiens is the quality of your competition. You can compete against every site in the internet, but if none of them ...more

This reader Quick Tip was submitted by Moshe Morris from SEM Basics. Moshe has submitted 3 tips to this series – I’ll run the next two later today as they are all SEO related. In SEO it is extremely helpful to know how many sites you are actually competing against ...more

Another task that is worth doing in order to prepare your blogs for the end of the year is fine tuning your affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are quite a different way of monetizing your blog than advertising and while there are some similar principles that come into play when optimizing ...more

I can’t believe how fast this last week has gone. I’m only here in Toronto for another two days (and then have another day sitting on a plane). After a very long week of b5 meetings with Jeremy and Mark, VCs and other Toronto based web start ups we took ...more

Brian Lee from Genius Types sent in the following reader ‘quick tip’. Blog what you are passionate about. Even if your area of interest is not in Google’s top 100 searches, you will ultimately be more successful when you write from your heart. A blog is the platform of choice ...more

This Reader ‘Quick Tip’ was sent in by Michael Moore from Price of Diamonds. The bottom line is that we all want more people to visit our blog. One successful way I have found that attracts people to mine is by doing a series of articles labelled parts 1,2 and ...more

In my last post I wrote a series of tips on how to use Chitika’s eMiniMalls and RPU ads. Today I want to turn my attention to their Shoplinc product (aff). I’ve had reasonable (and increasing) success with Shoplinc since it launched a few months back. Once you have people ...more

Someone recently asked me what the most popular post was on ProBlogger. There have been quite a few that have done well but one that got (and continues to get) a lot of attention is 18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging. Today Valeria Maltoni left a pretty comprehensive comment on ...more