Darren Rowse

Seeking Alpha has the scoop on a new type of income stream that Google are approaching some publishers to test that is on a Cost Per Action (CPA) basis – ie you get paid when someone clicks your ads and then takes some sort of action (ie buys a product, ...more

Thanks to Jeremy for letting me know about this excellent post on Optimizing WordPress for SEO. It’s amazing what a few simple tweaks will do to your search engine ranking. Once you’ve read it you might also be interested in my own post on SEO for blogs.

Do you advertise your blog? I’ve noticed quite a few bloggers experimenting with advertising on AdWords, Adbrite (aff), BlogAds and Text Link Ads (aff) over the last few months. Perhaps it’s a symptom of the massive increases in numbers of blogs out there competing for readers – or perhaps it’s ...more

Chitika have just announced a new ad format – the Multi-Product Unit. Basically they are the same as single product units in operation except that they highlight 4 products at once. One is more dominant than others but if you scroll over the other products you’ll see them highlighted live ...more

One of the side effects of staring at blogs with ads on them all day is that I generally don’t see them any more. But yesterday I spotted some AdSense ads on a number of sites that definately got my attention. There’s a screen capture of one of the ads ...more

Ever wonder how much traffic the top keyword position on Google can bring in on a keyword? Chris Smith sheds a little light on the topic and gives an example of one site he was working on that had a very popular term (which he calls ‘term X’ that fell ...more

A few weeks ago I started getting emails from readers telling me about a new way of making money from blogs that they’d come across by the name of Scoopt Words. I’ll be honest and say that the emails came at a busy time for me and I didn’t give ...more

Gilad has produced a WP plugin that resolves the non-www/www/index.php issues with WP and that redirects them all to one consistent location. Peter Forret has been tracking down blog spammers and found one in Austria (via the newly designed BlogHerald) WP’s Theme Viewer has relaunched with a new design – ...more

David at Blogging Pro has a useful post for those wanting to switch to WordPress but who are daunted by the process. His post is My WordPress Install Process. Similarly Rachel has a screencast of her install process – which was so simple that even I could do it! Of ...more