Darren Rowse

eMoms at Home writes Top 10 Blogging Lessons Learned on Traffic, Monetization and Life – it’s got some gems in it. Chitika have a new feature called ‘Globe Trot’ that lets you see what people in different countries see of your Chitika eMiniMall ads when they view your blog. Dane ...more

One of the things that I enjoy about blogs is how random they can be. Within the blogging medium it’s quite acceptable to bring together a collection of seemingly unrelated ideas over the course of a week or more. I guess this comes partly out of the personal blogging scene ...more

Amazon have just emailed those testing their aStore to let them know of three ways to integrate it into their website. 1. Link to your aStore as a stand-alone store (this is what they were offering previously and is as simple as having a link (like this) to your aStore. ...more

Jennifer has posted that Microsoft have just sent out invitations to selected advertisers for adCenter – their contextual advertising program’s pilot program in the coming months. She notes that the invitation indicates that ads will be primarily places upon MSN sites but that in using that word there is a ...more

Heads Up!There is a phishing scam hitting many job boards that is hard for us to detect. We're doing our best to moderate and spot them, but the scam starts once you contact them and usually involves a request for a Skype interview, to download a zip file with their ...more

Chitika have posted on their blog that their Shoplincs can now be embedded in iframes on your site (if you’ve been accepted into the program). You can see their article on how to do it in their knowledge base.

For an hour or two in the early hours of this morning (my time) the server that ProBlogger is hosted on was hacked by someone with a political message. They targeted index pages on a number of sites including ProBlogger, ProBlogger’s Job Boards, Digital Photography Blog and a number of ...more

Last week I spoke on the topic of Business Blogging at a Melbourne gathering of the Australian Interactive Media Association with Cameron and Ben. I enjoyed the presentation times but particularly enjoyed a number of the interactions I had afterwards over drinks. Three of those that I chatted to for ...more

Akismet users might have noticed an increase in comment spam getting through the system over the past 24 hours. It seems that they had some downtime as a result of an update that allowed quite a bit of spam to get through. It seems to have settled now but for ...more