Darren Rowse

Blogging might be a little lighter here for the next few days as i concentrate on the Pope Watch Blog. As you’d expect traffic levels have been pretty high with them reaching 1500 visitors per hour at its peak. The interesting (and frustrating thing) is that despite its being running ...more

Eoghann over at Blog World has an interesting post titled Blog Strategy where he talks readers through his Pro Blogging strategy. Eoghann writes 5 blogs on varying topics and each with their own strengths and weaknesses. He’s really just thinking out loud but its an interesting glimpse into his thinking. ...more

Arieanna and Ianiv of Blogaholics fame have just launched a new blog – blogginghelp. ‘Blogginghelp can help you create dialogue with your stakeholders in an easy, powerful way. We can help you decide on what type of blog you need, how to position it, and give you some great tips ...more

Paul at Work Boxers asks Is PR Still Relevant? ‘However, it definitely isn’t as important as it used to be, since so many people have learned to game the system. PR is good for long term success in the search engines, but is not something that can be measured very ...more

Yahoo are doing something that I’m not sure has been done before today – they’re telling us that they are about to do an index update on their blog. This is a great move that I wish Google would take note of and follow. It would take a lot of ...more

Duncan over at The Blog Herald has a great post on Making your blog sticky which is a second post (first one is here) on what he’s doing at his great blog to make readers stick around after surfing in for the first time to one of his individual archive ...more

If you’re into Search Engine Optimization you might be interested in checking out this article and the comments at this Threadwatch post titled Google’s War on SEO. It refers to a recent patent by Google that could shed some light on where they’re going with their algorithm. It is pretty ...more

Better Communication Results has a post on Sponsored blogging and podcasting which gets picked up over at Corporate Engagement that examines the question of the ethics of sponsored blogging. I’ve never had a sponsored post on any of my blogs but have often wondered about them. Do you have any ...more

The latest news on the WordPress Spamming Saga is that Google has reindexed their site to give it a page rank of 0 out of 10 – effectively removing it from their index at least in the short term. It seems that Yahoo has done likewise. Along side this WordPress ...more