Darren Rowse

You might have noticed over the past few weeks that in some forums and between some e-book writers that there is debate over whether AdSense is everything it’s cracked up to be. Some are saying that it’s dead, others are saying it’s dead if you use it for Arbitrage and ...more

Google today announced that you can now ping their blog search service to let them know when you’ve updated. You can manually ping it here or do it automatically if you’re a WP user by adding http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to your ‘update services’ (under options/writing). They will continue to watch other ping ...more

If you’re a YPN publisher but are worried about having too much non US traffic (they don’t let YPN be used on sites with too many non US readers) then you might find a tip written by Erik helpful on Saving Your Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) Account from being BANNED. ...more

Here’s some good news for Chitika publishers who have referred other publishers to the system – they’ve extended the referral program to 15 months instead of 12! This means that those who started referring people from the first month that it was possible to do so (around 12 months ago) ...more

Just a short post to point to some exciting news for me and the blog network that I’ve been a part of building over the past 12 months – b5media. Today we closed a deal with two Canadian VC companies (Brightspark and JL Albright) for a round of financing. You ...more

I just spotted the ad below running over at TechCrunch. It’s an AdSense ad (image ad) that is obviously being targeted to the blog it appears on as it quotes it’s blogger. I’ve seen a few people taking out similar ads like this over the past few months and suspect ...more

Google today announced Google Gadgets are now available for webpage owners. Previously they were only available for Google Desktop or Homepage but now publishers can add them. In a sense they are widgets which will sit in your side bar and they range from Google Maps, to the Current Moon ...more

Ever thought of adding a shop to your blog? I know some of you have as you’ve asked me how to do it. There are a few options emerging for bloggers. We’ve seen Chitika launch Shoplinc and Amazon launch aStores – but both don’t really give you a heap of ...more

Just a short note to let people know that the Blogging for Chickens project is officially over. Thanks to all who have made donations. The total raised was $1100 (AU) (around $830US) – that is 110 pairs of chickens going to families living in poverty. Having travelled through and lived ...more