Darren Rowse

Tonight I’ve been pondering the new AdSense video ads that have been offered in the past week to advertisers. As I think about them my mind goes back to a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a vidcaster about the challenge that he had with monetizing his videos. ...more

Just a quick update to let everyone know that the ‘Habits’ Group Writing Project is definitely over. We had 80 submissions (see them all here) and I won’t be accepting any more – you can still write on the topic but I won’t be adding them to the list. Thanks ...more

Eric has a helpful post on ensuring you don’t get banned from AdSense and advises publishers to take the initiative with AdSense if anything abnormal is happening on their blog that might impact their account: ‘It’s your job as an AdSense publisher to keep your nose clean. Keeping your nose ...more

I’ve ended last week’s poll of the week and have put up a new one. This one is to test a theory that I’m working on. I’m not going to tell you what it is until later in the week once I see some of the results coming in. The ...more

The Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers Group Writing Project is over. I’m almost overwhelmed by the last minute entries today as I look at my inbox where there are 32 new submissions (taking us to a total of 80). It looks like ProBlogger readers like to leave things to the ...more

The AdSense team must have had a lot of questions sent to them about the new video ads that are appearing this week because their blog has a post titled Video ads: Your questions answered which – as the title suggestions tackles some of the many questions I’ve heard about ...more

Six Apart have announced that the beta test for Movable Type 3.3 will begin next week and run for 3 weeks. There’s no mention of features in the new version but if you want to participate you can find out how at Coming soon: Movable Type 3.3 (beta). As someone ...more

AdWords have officially started allowing their US, Canadian and Japanese advertisers create video ads. This should mean that we start seeing the first of them in the coming days as they are approved by the AdWords team. Let us know if and where you spot them in action and what ...more

The AdSense blog has announce that they have now added international referral buttons to their referrals area. This allows non English blogs to start using referrals in their own languages (I can count 23 or so languages currently supported). There are definitely not as many button options available for non ...more