Darren Rowse

Ok budding designers – its time to Design Blogads a new Logo. If you are the winning designer you’ll earn yourself $1000 and if you tell them I told you to do it you’ll win me $300! Go on – get designing!

Movable Type 3.2 is out of Beta and ready for downloading. I’m seriously considering upgrading a few of my older blogs to it to give it a go and compare it to WordPress (which runs all my new blogs). MT 3.2 is a free update if you’re updating from 3.X ...more

I regularly get asked whether dashes or underscores in URLs are better for search engine optimization. ie which of the following is best – www.problogger.net/is-this-better or www.problogger.net/is_this_better ? For the past six or so months I’ve leant towards dashes instead of underscores – but it’s always been a ‘best guess’. ...more

Paul Chaney has a good post on ‘Mavens’ – a term used in Malcolm Gladwell’s book – Get the Latest Price on the The Tipping Point (an absolute must read): ‘The Maven is a person who knows everything about something. Ask them a question about that topic and they’ll give ...more

I might be in a position to be able to get over to the US in October or November and am wondering which conference to get to. So far I know of two that might be worth while and would love to get your opinion on them. Which should I ...more

It’s Day 25 of the 31 Days Project and today we have 7 reader submissions for your reading pleasure: Tony writes Is there value in SEO Firms?, How to find inspiration for your blog posts and Advertising Strategies for Bloggers Abe submitted Driving Traffic through PSAs and Adwords your way ...more

There is a good, 5 question interview over at Search Views with David Zito of Yahoo’s Publisher Network where he talks a little about YPN’s beta test. The last question has be a little curious: ‘5. You were recently quoted in the WSJ as saying that Yahoo will eventually provide ...more

I think Jason Calacanis might have missed his calling as a tele evangelist (or motivational speaker) in this sermo….I mean post on entrepreneurship over at his blog. ‘We’re Gladiators in this business. Real entrepreneurs fear NOTHING. If we get thrown in the ring with 12 opponents who are twice our ...more

Business Week Online is having a Best of the Web Survey – a few blogs are among those nominated but its not the most imaginative list. Perhaps we should head over and submit a few of our favorites for the people’s choice award. I’ve just put in a couple – ...more