Darren Rowse

I just noticed on the AdSense What is New Page for August that in addition to the new way of setting up search to show on your own domain that they’ve added an extra option for viewing stats in advance reports. Now instead of just viewing impressions either by ‘ad ...more

David over at Blogging Pro has put together a useful post on CSS Optimization and making your site load faster through smart use of CSS. In the post he tests four CSS optimization tools (CSS Optimizer, Icey’s CSS Compressor, Flumpcakes CSS Optimiser and Clean CSS) on a variety of sites ...more

I regularly find other people republishing my content without permission (and usually without acknowledgment of the source). Here’s some of the real excuses I’ve had recently when I’ve confronted bloggers who do it: “I was just testing a new template with your posts.” (all 100 of them) “I just couldn’t ...more

Today’s the second last round of reader submissions in this week’s ‘Lists’ Group Writing Project. If you want to participate you’ve got until the end of Thursday (wherever you are). I’ll be posting the final submissions and announcing the prizes from our sponsors The Gold Pages Directory, The Umdum.com Web ...more

I had an Instant messaging conversation yesterday that highlighted to me that some bloggers have very little idea when it comes to the topic that they’ve chosen to write about. I won’t go into the details of who it was but the person was writing on a topic that had ...more

Matt from Chewing Pencils has a great post for those aspiring to be Pro Cartoonists’ that I think is completely relevant for those of us who are (or who are trying to become) ProBloggers. It’s titled The Most Important Tip of All (warning – does contain ‘nudity’ – but is ...more

Lately I’ve been pondering a the issue of dates on blogs. While I see the usefulness of dates on posts (they help give context to a post) I wonder if they sometimes do more harm than good. A Confession The reason I say this is that I’ve come to realize ...more

This week’s ‘Lists’ Group Writing Project is going off – below is another 86 submissions (bringing us to a total of 151 so far (with a couple of days to go). Here’s 5 reasons why I’m enjoying it so much: The variety of lists is amazing (where else would you ...more

AdSense have now got an option with their Search feature to allow publishers to have search results shown on a page from their own site instead of them being taken offsite. Full instruction son how to do it at – How do I implement Adsense for search results on my ...more