Darren Rowse

It’s time for another earnings update on AdSense referrals. It’s now been almost a year since they were introduced (I think it was 4 November 2005) and so we’ve all had plenty of opportunity to test them. Referrals are Google’s first venture into CPA (cost per action) advertising and I’m ...more

Brian is at it again with 7 More Sure-Fire Headline Templates That Work over at Copyblogger.

I just received my first ever Performancing Partners (aff) payment (read my first impression review of the ad network here). It wasn’t a massive amount (in the mid ‘three figure’ range) but not bad for a first month. I’m not sure exactly how much of it was from advertisers and ...more

37 Signals has a post on a topic I’ve been pondering a lot lately also – those social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of blog posts that so many blogs have. They write: “Given the Ebola-like spread of these things they must be really effective, right? Not so much. Zero ...more

Compete – SnapShot is a tool that I’m sure some bloggers will find useful in their analysis of how their blog compares with others. Yes I know – it’s not cool to analyze your own stats too much but most of us do it from time to time on sites ...more

Mark Boulton is running a helpful series on Five Simple Steps to Designing With Colour which those of us who are ‘design-challenged’ might find helpful. He’s written two posts so far at here and here. Mark is also putting together a book called Five Simple Steps – Designing for the ...more

Voting is open for the $5000 Blogging Scholarship. There are some good bloggers in the list but after a bit of consideration I went with Paul Stamatiou (who I’m a regular reader of and admire as a blogger). It is a bit of a difficult one actually as there is ...more

A few weeks back I wrote a post titled 10 techniques to get more comments on your blog which got a bit of attention around the web after doing well on Digg. As usual – the comments that a post gets when it is featured highly on Digg were mixed ...more

One of the more recent additions to my RSS feed is more minimal – a blog about… minimalism. One of the latest posts on it relates to blogging – five ways to make your blog more readable. focus your content reduce the amount of text on your page stick with ...more