Archive for: July, 2005

Written on July 31st, 2005 at 09:07 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Optimization Webinar

Adsense 5 comments

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

Pro Blogging News 18 comments

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

Business Blogging 2 comments

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

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, ProBlogger Site News 77 comments

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

Blog Promotion 5 comments

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

ProBlogger Site News 2 comments

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

Case Studies 5 comments

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

Adsense 13 comments

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

Writing Content 7 comments

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 [...]

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