Darren Rowse

Tris has an interesting post asking should bloggers get personal on their business blogs? We could extend the question to commercial/entrepreneurial blogs also. ‘The problem is, I think, that blogs started off as very personal efforts. We knew about peoples’ struggles. We knew about their lives. Then as business blogging ...more

It looks like someone doesn’t like Jason Calacanis – I just spotted this Adsense ad in Google when I did a search for his name. You’ve got to wonder what gets into people’s minds to pay for ads like these to appear.

Stephan Spencer has posted of his experience of the Earnings from Search and Contextual Ads session at SES today. I have to say as I read it that I’m very jealous of him as this would be one session I would love to have been at – partly for the ...more

ProBloggers and RSS addicts everywhere are jumping up and down in their boxer shorts because Google News has finally added RSS feeds to its service! Wooohooo! I’ve just spent the last 30 minutes adding a series of feeds to my Bloglines account and am looking forward to seeing how it ...more

Time for a couple more tips for the Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs Series: Themed sites – One of the growing theories of SEO that I’ve been reading about recently is that you are more likely to rank well if you have a substantial amount of pages on a ...more

We’re up to day 9 in the 31 Day Project and there has been an influx of reader submissions. I’m not sure what brought them all on but I’m happy about it because there are some great posts among them. THIS is why I started the 31 Day Project – ...more

I’m pleased to announce the five finalists for the ProBlogger T-Shirt competition. You can see them all close up at the ProBlogger shop. Apologies for the delay but with 60 submissions, a few hiccups with cafepress and with needing to get the entries all up to a printable quality it ...more

Having looked at Offsite Search Engine Optimization Techniques I’ll now turn my attention to examining some of the factors you might like to keep in mind as you develop your blog – (or Onsite techniques). There are many of these and it might take a few days to get through ...more

Rick E. Bruner has pointed to a fascinating report into Blog Reader Behaviour (pdf) that has some very promising findings for those of us exploring blogging in the commercial sphere. The key findings of this study by ComScore are: 50 million U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the first ...more