Darren Rowse

Qumana Review
Martin over at the Blog Columnist has posted a review of Review of Qumana (v3.0) which those looking for a blog desktop editing solution might be interested in.
Blogging Tools and Services

WordPress Democracy Plugin Warning
Regular Problogger reader, Darren McLaughlin reports that the WP Poll plugin by the name of Democracy has some SEO problem with it as it creates multiple pages with the same content – something Google doesn’t like (it considers it to be duplicate content). Read Darren’s post at WordPress Democracy Plugin: ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

103bees Adds New Search Term Analytics Features
Those of you using the 103bees search term analytics stats package (I reviewed it here) might have noticed a couple of updates in recent times. The latest update is that they now track PPC (pay pre click) stats. So if you’re using a program like Google AdWords to promote your ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Fair Fighting Rules
As a follow up to my post on 10 Steps to Conflict Resolution I thought I’d post this list of ‘Rules for Fighting’ that I dug out of one of my marriage counselling files. Again – it applies to all kinds of relationships and I can’t see why it’s not ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

5 ways to building a better blog
Pronet Advertising has a nice piece on building a better blog and identifies 5 areas that a blog can stand out from the rest in: Content Usability Visibility Uniqueness Readers Read the full detail on each at 5 ways to building a better blog What would you add to the ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Blog Translation Plugin for WordPress
Josh just sent me an email asking if I’d seen the Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro For WordPress. I hadn’t but now that I have I’m intrigued. I’ve talked here numerous times about how I’d love to find ways of translating blogs into different languages so the idea of a plugin ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

AdSense Ad New Content Channels to MTV Premium Video Test
Late in August it was announced that AdSense were doing a limited beta test with some publishers of their Premium Video Content (a partnership with Viacom where video ads were embedded into video clips, trailers etc). The test was a 4 week pilot that ends on 20 September. I’ve just ...more
Adsense

$1800 Prize Pool for Next Week’s Writing Project
This time last week I called for prizes for next week’s ProBlogger Group Writing Project. I was expecting a similar response to last time but was inundated with offers (over 35 now). Some of them were a touch strange (you’re a quirky lot) and some were quite amazing. I’ve chosen ...more
ProBlogger Site News

10 Steps to Conflict Resolution
Yesterday we talked about Relational Communication Skills – essential skills for blogging relationships (ironically the picture I used in the post caused some to question whether I had some poor communication skills going on). Today I want to turn my attention to conflict resolution, another essential skill (closely related to ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips