Darren Rowse

Earlier in the year I ran a blogging experiment by the name of Blogger Idol on one of my other blogs. It was a fun way of connect bloggers together to all write on a common theme each week. Over 150 bloggers signed up for weekly emails with a suggested ...more

Weblogs Inc have launched yet another blog this time focusing upon health care. It is the Cancer Blog. it is an interesting move by the team at Weblogs Inc to move in this direction. Leading the charge as the editor of the blog is a medical resident, Leonardo Faoro – ...more

If you’re using Adsense to bring an income stream to your blog about alcohol, tobacco, weapons or prescription drugs then it might be time to find a new advertising method because in part of the latest update on Google they have moved to ban such topics. They have also re ...more

Adsense forums are buzzing this morning over a new feature added to the Adsense program in the last few hours that allows publishers to track their statistics without adding code to pages. You simply add the URL of the site, directory, category and they will provide statistics for that part ...more

SEO Chat has an interesting article on Keyword Selection which may be helpful for some bloggers wanting to generate quality income around targeted keywords: ‘Is your website getting a lot of traffic, but not a lot of sales? Maybe you need to take a look at the keywords you’re using. ...more

It looks like there will be yet another Aussie Blogging conference in Australia next year – this time in Sydney between 20 – 21 May. As with the Melbourne conference that we mentioned a few days ago, there are not many details yet but the fact that there are two ...more

Business Week Online has an interesting article on The Business Of Blogging. It is pretty basic with the usual quotes from the usual probloggers – but its another example of how blogging for dollars is becoming more main stream. ‘Now advertisers are realizing there is a market emerging in the ...more

Weblogs Inc have just announce their latest blog Luxist – a blog that promotes itself as obsessively covering luxury products. They write about everthing from clothes, to gadgets, to jewelry through to cars. Their income stream will be much the same as other Weblogs Inc blogs and includes Adsense and ...more

Dan Harper asked in the comments of my post on No Money in Blogging? for more comment on the ‘growth factor’ of blogging. He asks: ‘How long would a new blogger see slow growth for? What do you think that factors are here, any advice on speeding the growth up?’ ...more