Darren Rowse

Yesterday I was approached by Rich at WebProNews with the request that they be allowed to republish some of my content on their site. I was initially quite flattered by the offer as they feature some of my favorite bloggers including Steve Rubel, Wayne Hurlbert, Robert Scoble, Jeremy D. Zawodny, ...more

If you’re having trouble logging into Bloglines tonight you’re not the only one. It looks like they are having some sort of database problems. Others reporting difficulties include: miss-information.net Sir Humphrey’s just another morning here Sabre 2/3rd Tiger v3 to name just a few. Unfortunately this is becoming more of ...more

If you’ve signed up for the ProBlogger’s Email Newsletter in the past 36 hours you’re not alone. I’m really happy to say that there are already over 60 of you who’ve taken a step deeper into ProBlogger in this way. Scanning the list I see quite a few regular contributors ...more

Jason Calacanis writes that by optimizing their Adsense ads Weblogs inc have just raised their daily Adsense earnings to $1400 per day (it was just $1000 per day a week or two back). He asks Adsense experts for advice on how to take it up a notch (he wants to ...more

Duncan wrote a helpful post on How to place Google Adsense ads next to your text – like he says in his post – one of the best positions I’ve found for Adsense ads is within or as near as possible to your content. Whether you use this approach will ...more

One of ProBlogger’s readers – Charles – asks the following question: ‘do you know anything about what drives the sometimes wild variation in day to day click values…’ (see longer version of the question). It is a good question and something that I know many people ask so I’ll answer ...more

I just got home from a graduation ceremony – my graduation ceremony – I finally finished my Bachelor of Theology and have a piece of paper to prove it. During the ceremony to keep myself awake I started to wonder what a course in Blogging would look like – a ...more

What do you think about the idea of Google licensing people to act as Adsense consultants? They would train up independent consultants in the program, give them the skills and knowledge needed to help others optimize their ads. Then they give them some sort of accreditation or license that them ...more

The hottest post on ProBlogger at the moment is Adsense Developing Fully Customizable Ads Blocks? due to it being picked up by a number of reputable blogs, forums and websites around the web. It is an illustration of what a ‘scoop’ (of sorts) can do for your ability to find ...more