Darren Rowse

Google has continued to integrate blogs into their news site by extending their ‘Alerts’ service (that emails you any time any site in their new index writes on a particular keyword) to cover blogs also. This is very cool (I should say that the ‘idea’ is cool – I’m yet ...more

I’m back from our few days away. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes for our little break. It was a nice time away although we had some pretty below average weather and I’ve come back with the flu unfortunately. I hope you enjoyed the mini-archives series that I ran ...more

One of the simplest and yet most effective tips that I’ve got hidden away in my archives is one reflecting upon Product and Brand Names being the Best Keywords. The study that I linked to that stimulated the post is no longer live but luckily I took a quote from ...more

A friendly public service announcement for those engaging in global communications…. Daylight Savings started here in most parts of Australia over the weekend. I’m told it also ended in many parts of the northern hemisphere. While it signals the start of summer to us Aussies I generally find that over ...more

Another post from 2004 that I regularly point readers to (increasingly so in the last 6 months unfortunately) is: What to do When Someone Steals Your Blog’s Content – Blog Plagiarism Unfortunately the problem of people misusing other people’s content is one that is increasingly common. I find that some ...more

One of the most common misconceptions that I come across with bloggers hoping to make their fortune from blogging is that it is quick and easy. As a result I quite often point PreBloggers to the following post in the hope that it will help give a bit of a ...more

This post is part of a series of posts that I’m writing while on a short vacation that highlights a few posts from this blog’s thousands of posts in the archives. Another series of posts that I wrote back in my early days was titled Generating High Quantities of Content. ...more

One of the first series of posts that I wrote on the topic of blogging was on the topic of Finding Readers for your blog. I originally wrote it way back in 2003 on another blog and transferred it to ProBlogger in 2004. While it’s from my very early days ...more

Over the next few days V and I are taking a few days break down the coast – a long weekend away of sorts – after what has been a rather full on few months. So in my absence I’ve decided to run a little series highlighting some posts from ...more