Darren Rowse

ClickZ reports that traffic continues to be up in online retail outlets which is a good sign for many probloggers who use affiliate programs to send their readers to such stores: ‘In another indication of the growth of advertising and retail opportunities online this holiday season, U.S. visits to shopping ...more

Jason Calacanis reflects upon the end of Weblogs Inc’s first year of blogging in which they had predicted started 100 blogs but in which they will actually start approximately 75. He writes: ‘However, the main reason for us not hitting 100 is that we decided to shift our strategy from ...more

I have recently been using Feedburner’s RSS services and have found them to work quite well. A number of you now read this site via the Feedburner RSS feed (although most still track us on the old one). In the last day or two Feedburner have added a new feature ...more

Those of you running contextual advertising programs will be happy to hear these latest figures – ‘Advertisers will spend $4 billion in 2004 by year-end on search marketing programs, and are expected to spend 39 percent more on such programs in 2005, according to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization ...more

Already I’ve seen three articles with predictions for 2005 – expect a lot more! The best of those relating to Blogging today is from Pete Blackshaw from ClickZ who writes a number of insightful predictions including one on blogs which he says will ‘absorb flak, yet stay on track’: ‘Publishers, ...more

Judging by my inbox this mornig it seems that my post examining whether contextual advertising is viable on a blog both inspired and depressed a few bloggers that had been thinking about running Adsense and Overture on their blogs. In short what I was trying to show in the post ...more

PubSub LinkRanks are a useful tool that help to keep track of how different domains are being linked to by the blogosphere. They define them as: ‘LinkRanks are a measure of how many pages link to each particular site, with more weight given to fresher links and to links from ...more

The Washington Post has a basic article on how to blog. One of their sections is on posting regularly with a quote from Biz Stone: ‘When a blogger adds new material, it’s called a post. And good blogging demands frequent posting. Biz Stone, 30, Blogger senior specialist at Google (www.bizstone.com), ...more

Newsweek has an interesting article this week on the Alpha Bloggers (A list bloggers) – There is nothing too new in it although I was interested in this last paragraph – complete with a typical Doc Searls back hander swipe at a Probloggers. ‘And what do the alpha bloggers get ...more