Darren Rowse

When I asked readers at for questions for my upcoming interviews with Professional bloggers – Bobby Masteria asked: ‘Ask long time probloggers what have been their fears, hopes and expectations.’ I’ve written about my expectations and fears and now thought I’d turn to hopes. 1. Internet usage is booming. The ...more

Tanya at SEO and Affiliate marketing blog is writting a well thought out series of posts on Search engine Optimization which so far has four steps to it. Step 1 – Picking a domain name Step 2 – Research your niche or theme Step 3 – Building your site template ...more

When I asked readers for questions for my upcoming interviews with Professional bloggers – Bobby Masteria asked: ‘Ask long time probloggers what have been their fears, hopes and expectations.’ I previously answered the expectations part of this question – now I’ll turn to ‘fears’ Fears: I don’t really have too ...more

Jen at JenSense observes that the new referal program from Adsense seems to be set up to pay out using direct deposit. She hypothesizes that perhaps this is an indication that direct deposit payments might be coming. This would be a massive relief to many publishers using the system who ...more

When I asked readers over at ProBlogger what they’d like to ask professional bloggers Hashim asked: ‘Ask them do they choose topics they personally enjoy or just what will make the most money’ Good question – I’ll ask those I interview but will answer for myself here.

After some big problems with their voting system the Business Blogging Awards are back up and running. This time around it seems that the voting is working nicely. You can place a vote for my little site here in the Best Overall Blog category if you so desire – although ...more

I’m going to open up the comments on this post for anyone to say anything they like on the topic of blog design. I spent half an hour or so today looking through the blogs nominated for this year’s Bloggies awards. I was particularly looking through them with an eye ...more

Jeremy has a good post over at InsideBlogging answering the question – ‘what does a Blog Consulting Company do?‘ which is well worth the read if you’re thinking about engaging a blog consultant or if you’re interested in becoming one.

It seems that Google is doing a back link update. I noticed it last night with a rise in my SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) and a corresponding rise in traffic on a couple of my sites. The increased traffic was coming from Google which is usually an indication that ...more