Darren Rowse

Will Pate has an interesting post which includes A New Model for Paid Blogging where he suggests that companies who are paying bloggers to blog for them use an incentive system to work out how much to pay bloggers for their posts. ‘Assign points for increases in hits to the ...more

I often get asked how I can update my blogs so often – its time to go public. I use AutoBlogger. Learn more about it from this trailer.

Google are willing to pay Blogger’s using their Blogger blog system $50 to drop by Google HQ in California to let them watch you blog later in May or early in June. Get the details at Blogger User Testing

Those of you who use WordPress to run your blog (like me) and who are waiting to be accepted into the Adsense for RSS feeds program might have a bit of a wait. The word is that at this stage they are only accepting Blogger and MoveableType/TypePad blogs according to ...more

This is not really ProBlogging news but I couldn’t pass it up. Singaporean students are being encouraged to blog in the inaugural inter-school blogging championships. I wish they had this type of competition back when I was at school! ‘Nine junior colleges and 43 secondary schools will slug it out ...more

In my recent post on Blogging in Formation – Lessons from a Goose I promised to write some posts on how to build blogging relationships. This will be the first of numerous posts on the topic. Before I get straight into strategies about how to make contact with and build ...more

Computer Toaster has a helpful article on selecting a Niche Market for Ecommerce (update: the link is now dead so I’ve deleted it) which whilst not written for bloggers has some useful tips on how you might go through such a process of choosing a niche for your next blog. ...more

Jacob asks Should New Blogs Have Ads? He has decided not to put ads on his new blogs for two main reasons: Not much money – it takes time to build readership and in the mean time it doesn’t really earn much Bring in the Audience – ads can put ...more

Adrian at Be A Design Group has a good post on Search Engine Optimization Secrets which is a good, non hyped, well thought through and easy to read post full of good common sense Search Engine Optimization goodness. He gives five tips (and writes a bit on each): Don’t Fake ...more