Darren Rowse

There are more reports today from Adsense publishers who are seeing combination ads with both ‘adlink’ ads and normal ‘text ads’ in the same adblock. Quick Online tips talks about it here and Blog Logic here. Here are a couple of screen captures as examples of what people are noticing.

BlogPulse has developed clickable trend graphs that let you track what is being talked about in the blogosphere. It would be handy for tracking a topic you’re blogging on. For example covering the story of the transition of Popes the following graph shows when the key moments were.

Trevor Cook has an interesting post reflecting upon one of the most highly posts on his blog – a post about ‘Gmail Not Working’. ‘it leaves me wondering whether one of the best ways of boosting traffic is to write lots of stuff about products, good and bad.’ In a ...more

AdMoolah wonders if Google might be getting ready to release an official Adsense blog. They write: ‘I recently discovered (via the JenSense Blog) that Google has a blog for AdWords advertisers at adwords.blogspot.com. It made me wonder why they didn’t have a blog for AdSense publishers. So, I tried typing ...more

There are reports in the past 24 hours that icons are beginning to appear in Adsense ads. The Hybrid Car Forums are one example as can be seen from the following screen capture of their ads. It looks like this might be a new feature they are testing. I suspect ...more

Please don’t expect anything too profound here today – I seem to have caught a stomach bud – it was a long night to say the least. I don’t know why but whenever I am sick I dream very vividly of ‘blogging going wrong’. Glad to log on this morning ...more

Gary has started another ‘challenge blog’ where he’s recording his journey to a Six Figure Income in 12 months (he’s inviting others to join him). It’s a similar concept to Nadav’s 12 weeks $100 a day challenge (a challenge that it looks like most of those who’ve joined up will ...more

Ever wonder what a problogger does while on holidays? Arieanna is posting about her and Ianiv’s holiday with her posts Mmmm Blog-zza and Can we say laptop? I’m tempted to say that its sad – but truth be known it reminds me a lot of my last holiday to New ...more

Traffic levels at ProBlogger is much lower most weekends and a number of readers feedback that they often feel a little out of the loop when they come back to the office on a Monday to find I’ve been posting ‘as normal’. This RSS feed can seem a little overwhelming ...more