Darren Rowse

Chrispian H. Burks is proposing a new Indie Blog Network and wants your opinions and feedback. Duncan has registered Weblogs Empire as a domain and is blogging about his new network’s developments. 9 Rules Network has been busily adding blogs to their network this week – with a total of ...more

I’ve had a selection of my posts here at ProBlogger being posted at WebProNews for the last month or so. Overall this has been a pretty positive experience – I’ve found a number of new readers through it and have found that it has built a little credibility and profile. ...more

If at first you don’t succeed – try try again… In my regular reading of Adsense discussion forums I often read stories of people being declined acceptance into the program. Whilst Google do accept most applications to join they do have a number of rules that mean some sites won’t ...more

Interesting feature by Reuters today into Blogs and advertising with some hopeful news for entrepreneurial bloggers who are good/lucky/workaholic/well-connected enough to generate large levels of traffic: Buczaczer expects a handful of blogs will develop an audience large enough to secure more substantial ad dollars this year. A wave of companies ...more

Henry has just posted an interesting post over at BlogAds about some of the changes they’ve been working on in BlogAds 3.0 (beta). For starters they are refining their application process and introducing the idea of ‘sponsor bloggers’ who bring new bloggers into the program and help them get going ...more

Getting your blog ranked highly in Search Engines can be a complicated task – so can sifting through all the theories being espoused by SEO ‘experts’. Everyone has their theory. As a result I like it when people put together simple well thought out lists that even a non technical ...more

Jensense announces that Adwords advertisers can now negative filter publisher sites – meaning that advertisers can now block an ad appearing on your blog by simply adding its URL to their campaign filter (in a similar way to publishers having the ability to block certain advertisers – seems only fair ...more

Just spotted this news (perhaps its old and I missed it previously) that AOL are opening up their blogging tool to their Instant Messaging users. Not only this but they’ll be able to to submit posts to their blogs via instant messaging when logged in to the screen name associated ...more

The official Google Blog has moved to a new blogspot address – googleblog.blogspot.com – it now features a blogroll – I can think of at least one blog they should add.