Darren Rowse

If you’re an Adsense publisher you might notice a message like the following one on your Reports page after the next time you log in. ‘Learn how to improve the performance of your Google ads with our new optimization tips page! To be considered for personalized optimization tips, email us ...more

I’ve been having some real frustrations with Ecto over the past day or two. I’m unsure if its just the latest version or whether my recent server updates have caused issues – or both. Some of the issues include the inability to upload photos via ecto, posting as drafts rather ...more

One of my favorite bloggers, Toby Bloomberg from diva marketing, has been interviewed over at Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book blog – Naked Conversations: Interview: Toby Bloomberg. Here’s a snippet that got my attention – Toby talking about how blogging has impacted her business: ‘Surprisingly, blogging has done something ...more

Jacob writes an interesting piece on Selling Blogs as someone who has been on the buying end of things in his purchase of CSS Vault: ‘A blog in my opinion is groomed and gets its personality from the author/creator. How can this atmosphere be recreated when the site is no ...more

It seems that Google is Opening Up its Beta of AdSense for RSS Feeds for everyone to participate in: ‘After testing AdSense contextual ad distribution in a handful of RSS feeds over the past few weeks, Google is opening up the beta program to all of its publisher partners. The ...more

Define Blog has a good post on Managing Your Time as a blogger of multiple blogs: ‘If you run several blogs managing your time is highly important. Ideally we would like to take the hours we are awake, divide it by the number of blogs we have and have that ...more

Paul has a good post on things to consider before launching your new blog to better the chances of success for your new blog. Rather than coming up with a topic, doing a quick design and a single post before telling the world about your new blog there are a ...more

JSLogan has a rant about Blog Coaching – The Next Big Rip Off In The Business Blogosphere? – he doesn’t pull any punches and writes passionately about his dislike for the increasing number of blog consultants that promise to revolutionize any and every business with a blog. ‘I don’t disparage ...more

J.Ryan writes an interesting post at guerrilla news network on a strategy USWeb.com is using to promote clients using blogs. In short they are paying bloggers $5 to write nice things about their clients – even suggesting what such posts might include in them. Here’s a taster of a longer ...more