Darren Rowse

Jen has the news that we’ve all been expecting – signs that MSN are getting ready to get into contextual advertising. Jen talks about one of the advantages that MSN has – the ability to target demographics: Because MSN AdCenter will feature options of target ads to particular demographics, including ...more

Scrivs from 9rules network has started another network (although he’s not calling it a network) of blogs called Fine Fools Community. What is it? Scrivs talked a couple of days ago about wanting to mobilize some of his older idle sites by getting others writing on them. He decided to ...more

Bouncing off last week’s poll which identified that most people want to learn how to get more readers to their blog – this week’s poll asks you to identify the way that most of your blog readers currently find your blog/s. I know picking one might be difficult – but ...more

This week’s poll has been asking for readers to suggest what they would like to learn most about blogging here at ProBlogger. The results are in and there are some clear messages emerging. I’ve included screen capture of the results below but the top three areas that you’re asking for ...more

It’s strange how I often get the same question from a number of different readers within a day of each other and then don’t get asked it again for months. The question of the moment seems to be : “What is a good CTR (click through rate) in Adsense?” Let ...more

Megablog, Gizmodo, has decided to allow comments at last. It’s been a pretty long time coming and something that many have complained about – but the time has arrived (they’ve done the same thing on Gawker and Lifehacker blogs also). Interestingly they’ve decided that only invited guests will have commenting ...more

Nice post by Tristan over at TNL.net titled Money in the archives which talks about one of the lovely things about Pro blogging – ie its ability to continue to generate income off posts that are quite old (the archives). This is what many refer to as the principle of ...more

Someone asked me what I want for my ProBlogger Birthday. I said nothing – that was until I saw this: Could this be every blogger’s dream? The reality however is probably a little more like this for many bloggers: Found via Gizmodo

Blogger.com have just gone and made it easy for bloggers using their system to integrate Adsense into their templates by adding new features which allow easy selection and design of ads to blend into their blogs. Bloggers get a more automated choice of size and colors. They offer a variety ...more