Darren Rowse

There is always debate about how to design your AdSense ads. Over the last few years there has been a real shift in thinking of what type of ads work best: Grab Attention – When I first started using AdSense there was a school of thought going around that the ...more

AdSense remains one of the main tools that Blogger use to earn money from blogging (although as I’ve written previously numerous other ways are emerging as alternatives and secondary methods). However despite it’s popularity, many bloggers are using it in a ways that mean it is not earning them as ...more

Zen Bliss submitted the following reader quick tip (in fact this email from Zen Bliss inspired me to do this ‘reader quick tip series’): Hi Darren. I read your site regularly – it’s a great resource for tips. Here’s one of my own, along the lines of getting more traffic ...more

“What are you doing for Christmas?” I was a little shocked to be asked that question last week by a friend. It’s usually a question that gets asked in the last week or two leading up to 25 December as plans are made with family and friends for the day’s ...more

The bags are packed, my new email set up seems to be working, the laptop, laptop spare battery, ipod and digicam are all charged, passport and tickets have been checked 20 times, ipod is full of tunes and video clips for the 21 hours flying time ahead and blogs have ...more

This month ProBlogger welcomes four new partners through the Performancing Partners Ad network. Thanks to these partners I’m able to dedicate more time into the running of ProBlogger. As a special thank you ProBlogger’s Partners I’d like to introduce each of them to you 5 Star Affiliate Programs Monetize Your ...more

A problem that I’m increasingly hearing bloggers voice is that they are finding other blogs (or splogs) blatantly ripping off their content in ways that violate their copyright (scraping, no attribution, republishing feeds and putting ads on them etc). Lisensa is an interesting new service for bloggers calling itself a ...more

Yesterday, on a whim, I asked readers to submit their blogging ‘quick tips’ hoping to get a few quality short guest posts for the next couple of weeks here at ProBlogger while I’m traveling. I did expect quite a few submissions – however the response has exceeded my expectations. As ...more

I’m always interested in how people manage their virtual offices as someone who has multiple partnerships with people all around the world. Running a business with people you’ve not met (or rarely physically get together with) is definitely a challenge but the the large range of Web 2.0 type services ...more