Archive for: July, 2005
Written on July 29th, 2005 at 10:07 am by Darren Rowse
Teens and Technology
There’s an interesting report at Pew Internet on Teens and Technology which is the second this week that highlights the opportunities for tapping into the younger internet using market. Here’s a snippet of their introduction:
‘The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the [...]
Written on July 28th, 2005 at 07:07 pm by Darren Rowse
G’Day World – ProBlogger Podcast
Cameron Reilly (from the Podcast Network) and I have a semi regular breakfast together and today he pulled out the microphone and interviewed me for his G’day World show podcast.
Cameron may just have been desperate for an interview (or maybe he was impressed my deep thoughts on everything from blogging, to emerging church, to my [...]
Written on July 28th, 2005 at 05:07 pm by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger – the Comic
I’ve been immortalized at in cartoon form at Comic Strip Blog. I’m not sure that I’m really in the league of Robert Scoble and Dave Winer or deserve the compliment of the strip – but it’s definitely a first – an a pretty good likeness at that!
See the full cartoon at Comic Strip Blog
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Written on July 28th, 2005 at 09:07 am by Darren Rowse
Google Ranking Factors
I want to give a prize today to one of the most ugly yet useful sites I’ve seen for a while.
I hope I don’t cause any offense by saying that – but the prize goes to Google Ranking Factors.
Don’t let the ugliness factor put you off because if you scratch a little under it’s [...]
Written on July 28th, 2005 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
Chinese Blog to List on NASDAQ
China Economic Net has an article on a Chinese Blogge, Fang Xingdong, who is looking at listing his blogging business on the NASDAQ.
‘One of China’s most well-known bloggers hopes to ride the current boom in personal online journals and transform his blog site into a U.S.-listed Internet giant.
“We are building a blog-based portal and we [...]
Written on July 28th, 2005 at 03:07 am by Darren Rowse
How To Be A Blogging Idol Instead Of An Idle Blogger
Todd Mintz writes a very worthwhile article at How To Be A Blogging Idol Instead Of An Idle Blogger which I think is a must read for bloggers wanting to start out in ProBlogging.
Whilst I don’t completely agree with everything Todd writes (I’ve never entered into a link exchange program or never bought a text [...]
Written on July 27th, 2005 at 11:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Yahoo! Publisher Network Coming Soon?
There’s an interesting post over at SEO RoundTable that speculates that the Yahoo! Publisher Network could be Coming Soon which will definitely bring something of a shake up to Google’s stranglehold on the contextual advertising market through Adsense. They write:
‘Nick at ThreadWatch then wrote a thread, Yahoo Publisher Network to Debut in August? In that [...]
Written on July 27th, 2005 at 08:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Can you have too many inbound links to your blog?
A well known Search Engine Optimization strategy that most serious bloggers keep in mind is that the more links that you have pointing to your blog from other sites the higher your page will be ranked in search engines like google. This is a generally accepted strategy for building the profile of your blog and [...]
Written on July 27th, 2005 at 05:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Google introduces RSS to Personalized Pages – An Opportunity for Bloggers?
Many bloggers have been commenting on Google’s addition of RSS feeds to their personalized home page (see Steve Rubel and John Battelle for starters) but I’m yet to see anyone suggest that adding your own RSS feeds to your personalized Google page could be good for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes.
Longer term readers will remember [...]
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