Written on February 28th, 2005 at 08:02 am by Darren Rowse

How to Keep First Time Readers to your Blog - Part III

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Here are a few more tips for helping to convert those one off readers that stumble onto your blog into loyal readers. Read part 1, part 2 and part 4 also.
Include a link to other relevant posts - your reader has somehow ended up on your blog because the post you’ve written has gotten […]

Written on February 28th, 2005 at 03:02 am by Darren Rowse

Digital Photography Blog welcomes Kodak Sponsorship

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I can finally announce today that the sponsorship deal that I’ve been working on and alluding to here for the past few weeks is official and my Digital Photography Blog is now officially sponsored by Kodak. I cannot reveal the details of the agreement’s financially or conditions wise except to say that over the […]

Written on February 27th, 2005 at 01:02 am by Darren Rowse

How to Keep First Time Readers to your Blog - Part II

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You might also like to read part I, part III and Part IV of this series on helping those first time readers to become loyal ongoing visitors to your site before reading on. Here are a few of the things that I’ve tried over the past few years to help those one off first time […]

Written on February 27th, 2005 at 01:02 am by Darren Rowse

How to Keep First Time Readers to your Blog - Part I

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This is a 4 part series on how to keep first time readers on your blog (or how to make your blog sticky). This series of posts continues at part II, part III and part IV.
Wayne has a good post titled Previous posts still bring visitors which picks up on the importance of your old […]

Written on February 26th, 2005 at 10:02 pm by Darren Rowse

When the blogging stops…

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It looks like a number of my blogging tools are making the most of the weekend to do maintenance. Bloglines hasn’t been accessible for me for a while and Adsense has also been out of action for the last few hours. I’m not sure I’ll make my 25 post target today - maybe I’ll have […]

Written on February 26th, 2005 at 01:02 pm by Darren Rowse

Contextless Problogger Links

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- Internal Blogs And Wikis At The BBC
- Oscar Producer is blogging the Academy Awards
- Podcasting business idea - from NY Times
- Podcast Directory: PodCast Marketing - How Effectively Are You Deploying This Definitive Marketing Solution?
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Written on February 26th, 2005 at 09:02 am by Darren Rowse

$100,000 to Blog on Dukes of Hazzard

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Ok - here’s a dream job for bloggers who love the Dukes of Hazzard who want to get paid ($100,000) for watching (and blogging) about it.

Job responsibilities include:
– watch The Dukes of Hazzard weeknight on CMT
– know the words to The Dukes of Hazzard theme song, Good Ol’ Boys
– write The Dukes of Hazzard Institute […]

Written on February 26th, 2005 at 08:02 am by Darren Rowse

Bloggers blend business with stuff they like

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I didn’t spot this article in the Chicago Tribune til today on blogging and advertising. Its titled Bloggers blend business with stuff they like and has a few interesting tidbits and examples of blogs making an income from their work. One blog featured is The Movie Blog.
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Written on February 25th, 2005 at 05:02 pm by Darren Rowse

Why the Crocodile Hunter needs a Blog

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I was just chatting to Paul on Skype when the conversation wandered to Australia (my home) and the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin (as it tends to when I talk to friends from overseas). Paul suggested the Steve should start a blog. Of course this was the only invitation I needed to shoot over to the […]