Darren Rowse

Well my wonderful readers – its Valentines day here in Australia today and I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you of my undying love for you all (ok – it might not be love – but I do appreciate your support and hope you’ve enjoyed our time together ...more

Inside Google wonders if Yahoo is preparing to build a Technorrati-like RSS search engine after having visits from a new crawler which is indexing RSS feeds called ‘Yahoo-NewsCrawler Test’. Read more at Yahoo Developing Blog Search Engine

Some more weekend ProBlogging links without context: – Adsense Blogger Movie – Using Adsense with Blogger (movie – 16.7MB) – Six Apart May Be Acquisition Target – The Secret To High Traffic – Real Benefits of Blogs – FeedDemon v 1.5 RSS Reader Reviewed – Adsense inline – WordPress Plug ...more

Today I had an email from a reader who suggested that the font of my new design might be a little hard to read – especially in large slabs of text. What do you think? I’m taking an informal poll in comments below. I want to make reading this blog ...more

On my daily rounds of my RSS feeds I come across more articles than I can link to without spending most of my day on this blog. So I’ve decided to start doing some contextless link posts which are a collection of ProBlogger Links from around the web that have ...more

In my ‘Questions for ProBloggers‘ post Rick asks: ‘How do you deal with comment spammers?’ Comment spam is an insidious problem which threatens to kill or at least overwhelm many blog projects. I detest it on many levels, partly because of the content of many spam comments (which go against ...more

Wayne at Blog Business World writes a good article on the value of outbound links in Search Engine Optimization. As he observes there are both pros and cons in linking to other sites from your blog that are worth considering as you think about SEO. I personally come down on ...more

Weblogs Inc is said to earn $600 per day from Adsense. PaidContent writes: ‘Weblogs Inc., described as the largest publisher of professional blogs, was offered as an example of how AdSense benfits online publishers. According to the slide, Weblogs is averaging $600 a day in AdSense revenue and made $45,000 ...more

Internet news reports on a NYT announcement that megablog, About.com, is for sale. The asking price is anything between $350-$500 million. Key bidders could include Google, Yahoo, AOL and Ask Jeeves. ‘About.com, the eight-year-old guide to the Web, is up for sale, according to the New York Times, with bids ...more