Darren Rowse

Anjo is doing some very interesting work on Visually representing blogs. The picture to the left (click to enlarge) is a partial visualization of Scobleizer over a year. Anjo describes what you’re looking at by writing: • Size of a blob is determined by the number of words in the ...more

Marketing Rampage with Blogs has an interesting post that argues RSS Advertising outperforms Email advertising. ‘Pheedo ran the campaign for 6 weeks and from their results, RSS feeds outperformed the best click through rate in email by over 26% as compared to the industry average of 8.7%.’ It is an ...more

ClickZ reports that Online Ad Revenues Up 32 Percent at New York Times Co. its not a blog – but I figure its representative of what is happening in the wider online community. ‘Advertising revenue for The New York Times’ online unit increased 32.2 percent for December 2004 compared with ...more

The Adsense community are in a bit of a tizz at the moment over testing of a ‘new’ ad feature whereby readers get to choose their own advertisements. In actual fact this is not a ‘new’ testing that Adsense are doing at all – I observed it back in October ...more

Big Money Tips today announced that he’s sold one of his flagship blogs – the CSS Vault. ‘When I created the CSS Vault I didn’t even plan on making any money from it let alone sell it. Things just happened to work out the right way in the end. Dumb ...more

Right Wing News has done some estimates on what they think some of the bigger blogs are making from Blogads on a weekly basis. The estimates are rough and they admit they are probably over estimates as Blogads do take 20% in commissions and it doesn’t take into consideration advertisers ...more

Big Money Tips points to an interesting use of Adsense on a site. It is a fine line as to what these guys are doing with their third ad on the page which is very blended into the site and almost invisable at a first glance (there are three ads ...more

Yahoo Buzz Reports that blogging has continued to climb the most search for words rankings: Blogging continues its march on the mainstream. It’s considered essential to consume a steady diet of weblogs to keep up with what’s hot on the Web. Searches on “blogs” and “blogging” are still surging and ...more

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