Darren Rowse

Paris Hilton is podcasting and Pamela Anderson has a blog. This can only end in a scandal.

I find it interesting to see that MSN Spaces is now adding advertising to their blogger’s blogs. In a way if makes sense – they have 4.5 million users, even if it was just the users themselves who saw the ads thats significant exposure – let alone all the readers. ...more

WorkBoxers writes a great post comparing Search Engine Traffic to Daily Visitors, Which Is Better? I agree with Scrivs again on this one – its a ‘both’ thing – both types of readers have their value to your blog. You can successfully target either one exclusively or even both depending ...more

This article is good news for those of us who are publishers for pay per click advertising programs like Google’s Adsense with advertisers paying 9% more for keywords than they were earlier in the year. ‘PRICES FOR PAID SEARCH LISTINGS rebounded in March, rising 9 percent to an average of ...more

Duncan from the Blog Herald is on a Comment Spammer Hunt with two of his late posts – (here and here). Go Duncan Go! Following the links in his posts I found a post at SEOBook (http://www.seobook.com/archives/000776.shtml) which left me feeling disturbed. Aaron writes it with qualifications that comment spam ...more

I love days like today when it comes to blogging – where a lot of hard work, planning and a bit of luck comes together for a satisfying day’s work. The past 24 hours have been quite satisfying on many levels: Last night I spoke at a seminar with a ...more

Another good post over at Jason’s Blog particularly this bit: ‘The older I get the more I realize that business is about three very basic things: 1. Hustle 2. Passion 3. Resiliency You have those things it really doesn’t matter what the idea is… you can change your ideas all ...more

A number of people have asked me in the past 24 hours whether I feel threatened when a new blog starts up with the same topic as one of mine. It is an interesting question and one that I usually answer in a number of ways. Firstly I admit that ...more

Jason Calacanis is talking Adsense earnigns again. I’m a bit surprised that a publisher like Jason is revealing his Adsense CTR and CPM figures so explicitly post. Not because I’m offended by it or anything (I actually find its pretty interesting) but because its against Google’s rules. (‘m not going ...more