Written on September 30th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Why are Some Blog Networks So Successful?

Blog Networks 21 comments

Scrivs has waded into the ‘How much should blog networks pay their bloggers?’ conversation by refocussing the question (as he is in the habit of doing):

‘So really should we be asking how writers in these networks should be getting paid? I don’t think so because you can find people to write for you in almost […]

Written on September 30th, 2005 at 10:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Search Engine Ranking Factors

Search Engine Optimization 12 comments

Steve Rubel points to a useful resource over at seomoz on Search Engine Ranking Factors which is one of the better descriptions of how Search Engines rank pages that I’ve seen recently. It lists 93 factors to keep in mind. Sounds like a lot to remember - so luckily they’ve arranged them into different levels […]

Written on September 30th, 2005 at 02:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Engadget Labs is Coming (and ProBlogger Labs is here!)

Blog Networks 22 comments

I’ve long fantasized about having a blog HQ where I could blog from - with space for designers, writers, reviewers and for me to sit back in a spa sipping champagne watching it all - so when Niall Kennedy reported that Weblogs Inc is launching Engadget Labs I got really jealous.

‘Editors Peter Rojas and Ryan […]

Written on September 30th, 2005 at 02:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Blogging Stories - How Blogs Change Lives

Chitika eMiniMalls, Pro Blogging News 31 comments

I just spoke to a reader of ProBlogger on the phone who left a comment on the Chitika Mini-Malls Review that totally knocked me off my feet.

Rachel (not her real name - she is wanting to protect her niche and not go public) has been reading ProBlogger for the past few months and has slowly […]

Written on September 30th, 2005 at 09:09 am by Darren Rowse

Google Electronic Funds Tranfer System Comes out of Beta

Adsense 14 comments

Adsense has come out of beta with their Electronic Funds Transfer payment system. It is still only available to those in the lucky 16 countries but at least some of you out there are going to have a nice seamless payment system from now on. Enjoy.

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Written on September 29th, 2005 at 03:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Fastclick Review

Advertising 3 comments

Duncan at Blog Herald has a good review of the adverising system Fastclick over at Blog Herald. It’s a good up to date review which leaves my old one for dead.

I find Fastclick useful on my high traffic sites (the Olympic games was great for it with some massive traffic) but on smaller ones its […]

Written on September 29th, 2005 at 02:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Adsense testing ‘Advertise on This Site’ Feature

Adsense 19 comments

Google Adsense are testing a new Adsense feature called ‘Advertise on this site’ which you can see in action on some pages at ask the builder. I’ve included this screen capture and have highlighted the link that sends advertisers to this page where they are told about the site and then invited to sign up […]

Written on September 29th, 2005 at 03:09 am by Darren Rowse

Jason on Blog Networks Revenue Share

Blog Networks 21 comments

Martin has an interesting post on Blog Networks with some comments about B5media especially. Interesting in the comments section are some reflections by Jason Calacanis from WeblogsInc who comments on the idea of revenue sharing as opposed to paying bloggers outright.

While WIN have gone for the paying of bloggers outright after their bloggers reacted against […]

Written on September 28th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse

The blogging toolkit

Blogging Tools and Services 11 comments

Phil at Geeky Info (one of my favorite blogs of late) has an interesting post titled the blogging toolkit where he asks readers to come up with a list of software tools that they use in their blogging workflow:

‘So, I started thinking about the software tools that I use for blogging. I thought I would […]