Darren Rowse

This post builds on yesterday’s post on the Curious Blogger. Is curiosity a personality trait or can it be learned? I suspect that personality type does come into being curious. Some people seem to be naturally wired in a way where they’re doing the above things – however I also ...more

Matt Cutts (Google Engineer) has a useful post on Google PageRank which answers some of the frequently asked questions about PR and PR updates which comes on the heals of the latest PR update. Here are a few key comments to the questions I get asked a lot: “PageRank is ...more

I’ve had emails from 5 different Chitika (aff) publishers this morning all asking me if Chitika have made some sort of change to their system because yesterday’s (1 October) earnings were significantly up. Publishers are reporting 20-40% jumps in earnings for the first day of October. The increase seems to ...more

Have you ever wondered what ads are showing in your AdSense, Chitika and YPN units around the world in different locations? These advertising systems are all geographically targeted advertising systems (Chitika less so but they do to some extent). The ads you see in your part of the world can ...more

Curiosity might kill cats but it can bring life to a blog. One of the characteristics that I’ve observed many successful bloggers having is ‘curiosity’. Wikipedia defines curiosity as: “any natural inquisitive behaviour, evident by observation in many animal species, and is the emotional aspect of living beings that engenders ...more

Do you post out of what you know or do you blog intuitively? On the recommendation of Brian I’ve started reading Ogilvy on Advertising (aff) over the last couple of weeks. It’s a fairly dated book in some respects but it’s fascinating to see how many of the principles have ...more

Here’s a quick observation that I’ve made (by no means is this what I consider to be conclusive research – but it’s interesting anecdotal observation). I run a number of newsletters on my blogs. On two of them I’ve noticed that on the day that my newsletters go out that ...more

One last post about my Blogging For Chickens Project for the week. The total donated is now up to 80 pairs of chickens donated ($800AU or $600US). I’ll continue to collect donation for the rest of the weekend but will close it off on Monday morning. Thanks to all who ...more

A couple of links today for workaholic work-at-home entrepreneurs: LifeDev writes an insightful post on the Myths About Working From Home Solostream has a good post on Strategies to Resolve Work/Life Imbalance