Archive for: July, 2005
Written on July 31st, 2005 at 09:07 pm by Darren Rowse
AdSense Optimization Webinar
If you’re a user of Google’s Adsense you might be interested in another webinar that they are hosting that looks at AdSense Optimization. They describe the webinar as follows:
‘An hour-long seminar on AdSense implementation techniques that can boost revenue. The program will cover ways publishers can use ad formats, colors, and positioning – as well [...]
Written on July 31st, 2005 at 03:07 am by Darren Rowse
On Blog Depression
The Nonist has a public service pamphlet on blog depression that I suspect a few visitors of ProBlogger might need to read:
‘there is a growing epidemic in the cyberworld. a scourge which causes more suffering with each passing day. as blogging has exploded and, under the stewardship of the veterans, the form has matured more [...]
Written on July 30th, 2005 at 04:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Bloggers For Hire
Jim Turner has just let me know about a new blog he and others have started titled Bloggers For Hire – where it seems they are looking to provide companies interested in setting up corporate blogs with bloggers and bloggers interested in blogging for a living with companies. It looks like early days so far [...]
Written on July 30th, 2005 at 12:07 pm by Darren Rowse
31 days to building a Better Blog
update: see a summary of all of the post in the ‘31 Days’ series here.
August is going to be a frenzy of Blog Tips here at ProBlogger.net.
Starting Monday I’m going to turn up the ‘Blog Tips’ volume to 11 and am going to attempt to vomit onto you everything I know about how to make [...]
Written on July 30th, 2005 at 09:07 am by Darren Rowse
Promoting your blog with Advertising
Duncan over at Blog Herald has a good guide to Promoting your blog with advertising where he looks at Google’s Adwords, the BlogAds system, smaller advertising firms and direct advertising on other blogs.
I’ve used Adwords twice and like the idea of it but had pretty average results. Apart from that I’ve never advertised any of [...]
Written on July 29th, 2005 at 05:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Last Chance for T-Shirt Design Entries
Just a quick note to remind those who are thinking of submitting a T-Shirt design to the competition I’m running that you are about to run out of time as entries close on 31 July – details of prizes and guidelines are here. I’ve had more submissions than what has been added here so I’m [...]
Written on July 29th, 2005 at 02:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Alaska Blog
Taughnee Stone writes that she’s starting a new Pro Blog – the Alaska Blog and writes an interesting post about the first four days blogging and the response that she’s had so far. At the bottom of her post are some good reflections of what she’s learned from the experience so far.
1. It’s important [...]
Written on July 29th, 2005 at 12:07 pm by Darren Rowse
AdSense Plugin for WordPress Blogs
Digital Point’s forums has an interesting post announcing an Adsense plugin for WordPress with the following features.
* Define unlimited AdSense ad styles for use in your WordPress blog posts.
* Use multiple, different AdSense blocks within a single post.
* Enable/disable individual ad blocks with two clicks.
* Enable/disable where ads are shown (home page, post pages, archives, [...]
Written on July 29th, 2005 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse
The Best Blog Content
Just stumbled upon an article at awesomeblogs.com which looks at Why Blogs Have Become the Search Engine Optimization Equalizer. It’s one of those mass produced ‘free articles’ that I warn bloggers from using too much – but it does make a useful observation about some of the top sites on the internet:
‘The big sites on [...]


