Darren Rowse

In comments of my previous post linking to Weblogs Inc’s $100,000, one of my readers (Allie) wrote: ‘Darren can you do some comparisons on your blogging approach as a single blogger and what Weblogs Inc is doing? My suspicion is that you�ll be earning less overall but have a lot ...more

BlogLogic announce that they’ve just hired the world’s newest ‘Pro Blogger’ – Kevin Humphrey to be the chief blogger on TurboBlogger a blog about blogging with ‘Blogging news and Reviews’. The press release announcing the news reads: ‘“Kevin will be paid two thirds of advertising revenue generated at Turboblogger.com” says ...more

This is a question that I get asked more than any other. I was brought up not to really talk about money and what you earn so I’m always hesitant to do so – but due to the large interest in the subject I’ve from time to time given some ...more

Jason Calacanis has just revealed that Weblogs Inc has just passed the $100,000 earnings mark from Adsense which is pretty good for the 7 months they’ve been using it. The post is not explicit and doesn’t contain heaps of details but its got enough in it to give readers a ...more

Is anyone interested in writing articles for some of my blogs in return for links back to their own blogs? I can’t pay anyone for posts at this point but if you’ve got time on your hands and would like to submit articles to me on any topics that related ...more

Fellow Australian Trevor Cook has written a great post on the state of ‘new media’ including blogging and podcasting in Australia. He comments that whilst there is incredible growth in the medium of blogging that Australia is really yet to see bloggers rise in prominence as has happened else where. ...more

Deane at Gadgetopia experimented with a new format for her Adsense ads – no borders – and discovered one of the best ways of increasing CTR: ‘If you have Google Adsense on your site, here is the best piece of advice I can give you: don’t put borders around your ...more

Arieanna has a good post on why she loves Firefox as a blogger. As I was reading it – especially this following section on tabbed browsing – I found myself agreeing with her whole heartedly – although for me you just need to substitute the word ‘Firefox’ with ‘Safari’ throughout ...more

A couple of days ago I mentioned the new Google patent that reveals a lot about the ways Google is now indexing sites. The patent is long and if you don’t know the ins and outs of the technical stuff can be a bit overwhelming – so I’ve been checking ...more