Darren Rowse

I like a pretty picture so when I saw Websites as graphs – an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet I just had to have a play with it. Here’s ProBlogger as a graph: blue: for links (the A tag) red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green: for the DIV ...more

I’ve known a few bloggers to get cease and desist letters from lawyers from time to time but today I saw a first – a preemptive one to Boing Boing around the anticipation that BB will stream FIFA World Cup matches. Now there’s a great way to engage the blogging ...more

Seth writes 54 ways to get traffic to your blog. What do you agree or disagree with? What would you add?

David at Blogging Pro has a piece on why b5media has decided to buy an Akismet license. In short – with 125 active blogs the load of comment spam is massive and we were finding that other tools were just not killing enough of it. Here at ProBlogger I’ve been ...more

The AdSense team today announced AdSense Calendar (learn how to subscribe here)which interests me on two fronts. Firstly it will be handy to follow as an AdSense publisher. The information on the calendar will include ‘monthly payment schedule, a record of AdSense blog posts, future system maintenance periods, and upcoming ...more

Just a quick note to let readers know that we’ll be doing some WP updating this afternoon (we’re finally going to WP 2) and as a result there might be a little down time and a bit of quirky behavior. Let us know if you have any issues – thanks ...more

Mark Cuban posts on Why I think ClickFraud is far greater than imagined. The whole click fraud thing continues to nag at me as a publisher who is attempting to make an honest living. I know as the current state of play stands that things are good for honest folk ...more

Stuart has posted about receiving his first AdSense payment at Your Money 2 Keep which reminds me a lot of my early days in this game. The thing I like about Stuart’s attitude is that despite the fact that in month 1 he only earned $1.51 he’s stuck at it. ...more

Following on from my last two posts on blog polls…. There are a number of poll providers who have systems available for blogs. I personally use the Democracy plugin for WordPress (AJAX based) these days and don’t have any problems with it. Other poll systems that you might like to ...more