Darren Rowse

25th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Blog Farming – Fatten your Blog up to Sell at Market

Another way of earning revenue from your blog is simply to build it up to sell it. There are not too many examples of blogs that have been sold yet but one that recently went on the market and was sold is Ensight. I have recently read The E-Myth Revisited ...more
Other Income Streams
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Blog Post Formats

Amy at Contentious is writing a series on different types of blog posts which might be of interest to some readers. She’s broken blog posts down into 7 formats and is working through each post (only 3 completed so far.) 1. Link-only 2. Link blurb 3. Brief remark 4. List ...more
Writing Content
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Webmaster World – Free Advice for Bloggers on Profitable Blogging

Webmaster World is probably one of the best places that I can suggest you head over to if you’re interested in developing a profitable blog. It is on my regular rounds of surfing for ideas and discussion about how to get the best out of your website. Of particular interest ...more
Adsense
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Search Engines, Directories and RSS Agregators to Submit your Blog to

Most Search Engines, Directories and News Aggregators will not find your blog on their own – well not quickly anyway – many need a little help and have ways of suggesting sites to be added to their databases. Big List of Blog Search Engines is just what it says – ...more
Blog Promotion
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

A beginner’s guide to setting up an online store

I’ve noticed a number of blogger recently who are setting up their own online stores to sell products related to their blog’s topic. Following is an excerpt from a useful article that might help you to begin to think through what such an approach might entail. ‘Online selling is by ...more
Affiliate Programs
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Advertisers Beware: Blog-Fortified “Copy Cops” at Your Doorstep

Media Daily News has a fascinating article on the rise of blogging and the implications for Advertisers. They give some interesting tips to marketers and brand managers on how to stay three steps ahead of us blogging types. ‘Blog and bloggers have made a huge mark in 2004, and this ...more
Blog News
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Nokia pioneers cellphone blogging

Tools like those Nokia and Six Apart are developing for moblogging will be very useful for pro-bloggers in the future. The technology is constantly improving to allow updating your blog from virtually anywhere. ‘E-mails and text messages are passe, if you talk to Nokia’s director of multimedia applications Christian Lindholm. ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Blogging not leading to financial prosperity

This article in the Houston Chronicle is all about how bloggers are NOT getting rich – or anywhere near rich – from blogging. It is an interesting read – but as with so many of these articles (and they are appearing more and more) – they tend to focus upon ...more
Pro Blogging News
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Paid Contextual Advertising Driving Search Towards Personalization

‘The Internet is in the midst of another technological revolution, the effect of which will change the ways we will access information and entertainment. Innovation on many core technologies has changed the online marketing environment and the ways commercial information is offered to us. Paid placement based on keyword targeting ...more
Blog Promotion