Darren Rowse

A few weeks ago I was testing a mind mapping tool and thought it would be fun to map out my work life. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to lay it all out and see how many projects I was currently involved with.(not familiar with mind maps ...more

Adsense has added a new case study to it’s collection with a new one focussing upon Weblogs Inc. Of particular interest is their success with ‘link units’ – something they claim increased earnings by as much as 50%. I have to say my experience of them has not been quite ...more

A Guide to Getting increasing your income from Chitika’s eMiniMall Advertising program. Since my initial Chitika eMinimalls review and revelation of earnings from Chitika’s eMiniMalls my inbox has been full of questions on how to use eMiniMalls effectively. As a result I thought I’d write a guide to using Chitika ...more

Tim has a very useful post for those of you who are rotating Adsense and YPN ads on your site (ie having each ad program show up on every second impression. He was having some problems with getting PSA ads on YPN and found that part of the problem was ...more

Bloglines have added a new ‘hotkeys’ feature which allows users to scroll forwards and backwards through posts in their system from post to post or folder to folder with a keystroke. A word of warning however – don’t click ‘s’ or ‘f’ unless you really do want to go to ...more

After a lot of hints the team at Qumana have launched the AdGenta advertising system for bloggers. They describe the system as: ‘a post-centric advertising system. Post-centric ads appear wherever your post does: your blog, your feed, and search results. Each ad is based on what you think it should ...more

This week I’ve had at least 20 emails from bloggers asking if I (or others) have noticed any changes in Adsense performance. These types of emails are not unusual for me – I get a number of them every week. Usually about 60% of these emails report per Adsense performance ...more

I’m feeling some good vibrations at the moment having just spent the last hour reading email, chatting to a couple of bloggers on IM and taking a look around a few of the private discussion forums that I frequent. Why? Today has been one of those days when the feedback ...more

Jeremy Wright has just published the start of the first chapter of his new book – Blog Marketing (affiliate link). The chapter is called Blogging Basics.