Darren Rowse

For all you Windows users – can I suggest you check out the new version of ecto for Windows 1.5. I won’t rave on about ecto again because I have many times before – but I would highly recommend it. If its anywhere near as good as the Mac version ...more

There is a good basic post on How to Write Compelling Blog Posts over at Marketing Profs. Nothing particularly new about it but a good place to start if you’re new to blogging and want to have a primer on how to write more effectively. Here is a taster. ‘Writing ...more

Sorry for the last couple of days lighter posting – its the weekend and our focus for the last couple of days has been pretty much upon buying this little house that you see pictured. Yesterday was the auction and thanks a pretty good deposit from the past six or ...more

I’m still following the stats that MyBlogLog.com after signing up for it last night. I actually decided to send them an email to ask a few questions and thought I’d share their answers here as they are not addressed on their General Questions page. Eric from MyBlogLog emailed back the ...more

I just signed up with the free service at MyBlogLog (affiliate link) which tracks where people go when they leave your blog. Well it tracks them to a point (its not quite stalking) in that it tracks which links your readers click that take them out of your blog. They ...more

InsideBlogging are looking for a wacky blogger. If you think you fit the bill you should head over and express your interest in the blog that they say has a ‘Fark / CollegeHumour kind of humour’. Update: Jeremy posts more information on this at his blog and says the applicants ...more

Google seems to be doing a back link update at present. I’ve noticed significant changes in some of my blogs back links so far. Traffic changes and SERPs often follow such updates. Update: Others are seeing it too Update II : Sorry for my lack of explanation here – I’ve ...more

In a previous post in this series I asked the questions: ‘can you have too many adsense ads on a post?’ and ‘when does more actually = less with adsense?’ There are probably two main ways of answering these questions. The first one is from the point of view of ...more

Just spotted two worthwhile posts on a couple of my favourite blogs: – Articles Build Blog Readership – ‘As you place a number of articles on several websites, you will accomplish more than one goal. You will obviously receive a few more visitors to your blog, as a result of ...more