Darren Rowse

If you run WordPress and are thinking of adding forums to your site you might be interested to hear that bbPress 0.72 has been launched in the last day or two. I’m yet to play with it but you can see it in action here and it seems to have ...more

Did you notice any changes in the incoming traffic that Yahoo! sent you this week? If so, it’s because they did an index update according to their Yahoo! Search blog. It doesn’t look like a major update from what I can see but I’ve heard from two bloggers who reported ...more

A question that I’m increasingly being asked about is whether I agree with sponsored posts as a way to make money online from blogging. Sponsored posts are nothing new – bloggers have been doing it for years – writing posts in exchange for payments. What is new is the organized ...more

Chitika have today Launched a forum for its publishers called Sphere. I’ve been using it for the last few days and its been a good way to chat with Chitika developers and other publishers. It is another forum to have to keep an eye on (I don’t really need yet ...more

AdSense have added the ability to use multiple custom channels on the one ad unit. I have to admit that when I first read it when I got up this morning that it made my head hurt a little but I can see it being a useful option for some ...more

Warning: this post contains a little language that some might find a little offensive. If you’d rather not read it you might like to do something else (like join the conversation in this recent comment thread which is fast approaching my most commented upon post). Ok – those of you ...more

Bloggers using Amazon’s aStore will have received an email today announcing some updates which include (the below is a direct quote from the email): For those of you linking from your website to your aStore rather than embedding it, we have added the capability to put a link back to ...more

Text Link Ads have created a new toy for bloggers to play with called the Blog Juice Calculator (aff) which gives your blog a ranking on how much ‘blog juice’ it has in comparison to other blogs in your niche. They measure your blog juice by looking at Bloglines subscribers ...more

The Amazon Associate Program emailed their publishers today to let them know that they are officially launching their ‘Product Previews’ service to all Amazon publishers. This has previously only been a beta test with a select group of publishers. The ‘Product Previews’ allow you to promote Amazon products and give ...more