Archive for: January, 2005
Written on January 31st, 2005 at 10:01 pm by Darren Rowse
New Gawker Media Blogs Launch
Gawker Media today are releasing two new blogs (currently password protected but about to go live). They are Gridskipper, a travel related blog, and Lifehacker, a blog about software downloading and time saving.
Both of these new blogs already have corporate sponsorship (Sony for Lifehacker and Cheaptickets for Gridskipper).
MediaDailyNews writes: ‘Lifehacker will include software download recommendations [...]
Written on January 31st, 2005 at 01:01 pm by Darren Rowse
Making chunks of change from Blogging
There is a good basic article over at Emerging Technology – Discover Magazine about how people are making money from their blogs. Its a good summary of the emerging trend of bloggers to monetize their blogs and largely focuses upon the Adsense method and whilst most ProBloggers won’t learn much from it it will probably [...]
Written on January 31st, 2005 at 12:01 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Research a Profitable Blog Topic
A while back when I asked you what you’d like to ask professional bloggers in my upcoming interview series MM asked:
‘I want to know what kind of research they did before they jumpstart a new blog. How do they gauge the “marketability” or earning potential of a new topic?’
I’ll ask the question when I start [...]
Written on January 31st, 2005 at 09:01 am by Darren Rowse
Search Engine Optimization for Blogger Blogs
Wayne has been posing hard til it hurts over at Search Engine Journal where he’s just written a series of excellent Seach Engine Optimization (SEO) posts on optimizing your Blogger Blog. It is a series in four parts (so far):
- Search Engine Optimization and Blogger Blogs Part One
- SEO & Blogger Part 2 – [...]
Written on January 30th, 2005 at 05:01 pm by Darren Rowse
Third Party Blogging – Charge Out Rates
Today I received another email from a company wanting to know how much I would charge to write a blog for them. It seems to be a semi regular (and increasing request that I get). I’m very interested in developing and maintaining blogs for others but am at a bit of a loss as [...]
Written on January 30th, 2005 at 05:01 pm by Darren Rowse
Make Money off Your Blog
Washington Post has an article today about making money off a blog. Their tips are pretty predictable and basic and centre around Adsense, Blog ads, Affiliates, Donations and Merchandising. Nothing too new there but interesting to see another article about blogging (pro blogging at that) in a bigger news outlet. They write:
‘You pound on [...]
Written on January 29th, 2005 at 06:01 pm by Darren Rowse
Tell me what you want, what you really really want
ProBlogger is entering into a time of change. I’m approaching my 500th post on the blog after a few months of writing and the time has come to up the anti and take things to the next level in terms of design, content and focus.
As part of this I am very interested in hearing [...]
Written on January 29th, 2005 at 06:01 pm by Darren Rowse
The Entrepreneurial Blog Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman over at GlennLog has just posted a link to an audio (and visuals of his powerpoint) at Business Blogging Summit which currently really enjoying listening to. His main headings were.
Obsess
Exhaust
Report
Choose
Expand
Earn
Populate
Perform
Let me just mention a few points he makes within these topics that resonate with my experience in Entrepreneurial Blogging over the past 18 [...]
Written on January 29th, 2005 at 03:01 pm by Darren Rowse
The Benefits of having a country Top Level Domain
Lee Johnson has a good article pointing out some of the Benefits of having a country Top Level Domain ie a .uk, or .au domain name:
‘Most of the large search engines will give you a higher search ranking for a site that has the tld of the searchers country. For example, if someone from the [...]
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