Darren Rowse

Google’s Adsense has just added a newly designed FAQ/Support page to their site with more advice and tips for the program. They’ve also added a ‘invite a friend’ option to the program. Unfortunately there is no incentive to make such an invitation for publishers. Already forums dedicated to Adsense are ...more

How many links to your blog do you need to climb up Google’s page ranking? A recent study titled Relationship Between the PageRank and the Number of Backlinks – Articles about link building and PageRank examines that question and draws some interesting conclusions: ‘- With a few exceptions, whatever the ...more

WebProNews has a good article on Tips for Maximizing Contextual Advertising Revenues – the first of these 8 tips is: ‘1. Determine overall fit with your site. The first rule of thumb of contextual advertising is that it is not for everyone. Some sites do extremely well with it, earning ...more

How To Plan Your Week Making Money At Home is an interesting article with some practical tips on how to have a money making week at home on the internet… ‘Is it really possible to earn a 6 figure income on the internet? The answer to that is yes, but ...more

ClickZ reports – ‘Internet ad spend topped $2.4 billion last quarter, according to the quarterly “Internet Ad Revenue Report” conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on behalf of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The third quarter estimates mark the eighth consecutive quarterly increase for the industry and the fourth record-setting quarter. Q3 ...more

Cube Management’s Pay Per Click (PPC) Blog will be an interesting one to follow if you are thinking about promoting your blog in this way. As the name suggests its following all Pay Per Click news from around the web. ‘Pay-Per-Click is a powerful tool that companies can use to ...more

IT Conversations have a good recording of Malcolm Gladwell talking about ‘Human Nature’ which is well worth the read. It doesn’t directly apply to bloggers but Malcolm’s stuff has always been influential in the way I approach my blogging. ‘Malcolm explores why we can’t trust people’s opinions — because we ...more

‘Mention “audit” to David Barlin, vice president of marketing for I/Pro, a company that verifies audience data for about 500 small and medium-sized websites, and he practically gushes. “They’re exciting,” he said, not at all defensively. “Really.” That’s because he and the company he works for see a potential gold ...more

Minkmedia is the latest network of Blogs to launch. This one is based in the UK and describes itself as: ‘Mink Media is a nanonpublisher. We publishe a series of weblogs (five so far) aimed at a British audience. A weblog is a topical website, new stuff appears at the ...more