Darren Rowse

If you want to learn more about how to rank well in Google and you want it straight from the horse’s Google employee’s mouth you might like like to check out some videos that Matt Cutts has recorded and posted in the last few days. At the time of posting ...more

One of the common problems that I find being made on many WordPress Blogs is the default ‘About Page’ being unchanged. You’ve probably seen them as you’ve surfed around – you click on the ‘About’ link in the blog’s template and are taken to a page that says something like ...more

It’s been coming for a while now but today it was made official – you can now put AdSense on Google Page Creator pages. I got a bad feeling that this could be a spammers paradise!

LifeHacker ran a reader poll last week on what desktop blog editors bloggers are using. The results showed that just over 60% don’t use any. It was a close race after that with Performancing’s Firefox extension winning out with 11.7% and w.bloggar coming in second at 10.2%. Ecto, Qumana (I ...more

Welcome to August. I thought I’d take this opportunity to walk back down memory lane to what was happening on this blog a year ago today. August 2005 was a special month at ProBlogger as I launched my first month long series with these words: “Starting Monday I’m going to ...more

One of the things you find when you use a tool like 103bees to check your incoming search engine traffic is that some people find your blog as a result of both them and you misspelling words. I remember early in my blogging that I had one post that was ...more

If you’ve noticed any changes in the traffic coming to your blogs from Yahoo! it could be a result of their New Version of it’s Search Crawler called ‘Slurp’ – (a crawler is the bot that Search Engines send to your site to index it). Slurp is said to be ...more

After three months of participation in FeedBurner’s Ad Network I received my first payment (for April) yesterday. Feedburners ads are the ones you’ll see in my RSS feeds. My first impression review of FAN is still pretty accurate to how I’ve found the system. I’ve added it to three of ...more

The quote that stood out to me in the article on MSNBC that I mentioned a few posts ago was from Andrew Leyden from the Podcast Directory who marvels at his new income source by saying: ‘”I get paid while mowing the lawn. I get paid while cleaning the garage. ...more