Darren Rowse

Rachel’s done a fascinating little comparison between 5 blog platforms using the new Google Trends tool. The following graph plots the amount of people searching for each platform in Google since 2004. See if you can work out which platform is which before you head over to Rachel’s blog to ...more

Here’s a few interesting links that I found on my travels through RSS-land this morning: Steve is blogging at new blog Why My Blog Stinks about different aspects of blogging that you should do if you don’t want your blog to succeed. It’s kind of a reverse psychology ProBlogger which ...more

April’s earnings totals are coming in this week and I thought I’d give a bit of an update as to what the month looked like in terms of earnings for my personal blogs (note the points of clarification below). I’ve ranked the main income sources that I’m involved with from ...more

The YPN blog has posted a few ad placement tips based upon eye tracking studies that find that website users view pages in the following pattern: They recommend a leaderboard ad above the fold between content and the top navigation bar. Secondly they suggest using vertical skyscrapers to the right ...more

Does anyone have any suggestions about services to manage the sale of e-products. I’ve had a number of people recommend Ultimate Affiliate Manager which I’m toying with the idea of trying out but I’m interested to see what others have used. Ultimately I’m in the market for a product that ...more

One of the new tools released by Google yesterday was Google Trends which opens up their Zeitgeist service to enable users to graph the search trends for different keywords since January 2004. I’m sure this will be a tool used by bloggers quite a bit as it will enable to ...more

Welcome to readers of The Age (and Sydney Morning Herald aparently) who may have found themselves here after today’s LiveWire interview (no online version this time – but I’ve taken a photo of it to the left, click to enlarge and read if you’re interested). update: there is an online ...more

In the last two days I’ve been fortunate enough to have Lifehacker link to two posts (here and here) on my Digital Photography School blog. The results have been two wonderful days of traffic with not only links from Lifehacker but quite a few secondary links from other sites that ...more

One of the distinctions that I’ve made previously about blogging for money is that there are Direct Methods and Indirect Methods for doing so. Direct methods are where blogger makes money FROM their blog and Indirect methods are where a blogger makes money BECAUSE of their blog. ProBlogger.net tends to ...more