Archive for: September, 2005

Written on September 28th, 2005 at 01:09 am by Darren Rowse

Chitika eMiniMalls Review

Advertising, Chitika eMiniMalls 129 comments

If you read this review of Chitika eMiniMalls and sign up – you might also be interested in my Chitika eMiniMall Tips Page and my post revealing how much Chitika eMiniMalls earn me.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been a part of a beta testing program of a new ad format for Chitika’s eMiniMalls.

They are [...]

Written on September 27th, 2005 at 03:09 pm by Darren Rowse

PubSub Top 1000 Sites with Feeds

Pro Blogging News 3 comments

PubSub have published a list of the top 1000 most influential sites on the web that publish feeds. The list is based upon links to these sites over the past 30 days. It includes not only blogs but newspapers and other sites of various types. It’s an interesting list to keep an eye on as [...]

Written on September 27th, 2005 at 02:09 pm by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Readers Fly High in Style

ProBlogger Site News 7 comments

Tim Flight emailed me this morning to show me a picture of him and Jeremy Wright on an outing on the weekend where they went flying together.

Take a closer look at the picture and you’ll note that Tim (on the left) is not only flying high – but he’s flying with real style while wearing [...]

Written on September 27th, 2005 at 12:09 pm by Darren Rowse

MSN Preparing for Contextual Advertising

Advertising 3 comments

Jen has the news that we’ve all been expecting – signs that MSN are getting ready to get into contextual advertising. Jen talks about one of the advantages that MSN has – the ability to target demographics:

Because MSN AdCenter will feature options of target ads to particular demographics, including age and gender, this could allow [...]

Written on September 27th, 2005 at 12:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Fine Fools Community – Foolish or Smart?

Blog Networks 12 comments

Scrivs from 9rules network has started another network (although he’s not calling it a network) of blogs called Fine Fools Community.

What is it?

Scrivs talked a couple of days ago about wanting to mobilize some of his older idle sites by getting others writing on them. He decided to give his authors 100% of whatever their [...]

Written on September 27th, 2005 at 12:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Poll of the Week – Where does your Traffic Come From?

Blog Promotion 32 comments

Bouncing off last week’s poll which identified that most people want to learn how to get more readers to their blog – this week’s poll asks you to identify the way that most of your blog readers currently find your blog/s.
I know picking one might be difficult – but I’ve chosen to make this [...]

Written on September 27th, 2005 at 12:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Poll Results – Bloggers Want to Know How to Build Readership

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This week’s poll has been asking for readers to suggest what they would like to learn most about blogging here at ProBlogger. The results are in and there are some clear messages emerging.

I’ve included screen capture of the results below but the top three areas that you’re asking for more information on are:

Building Blog Readership
Adsense [...]

Written on September 26th, 2005 at 03:09 pm by Darren Rowse

“What is a Good CTR in Adsense?”

Adsense 70 comments

It’s strange how I often get the same question from a number of different readers within a day of each other and then don’t get asked it again for months. The question of the moment seems to be :
“What is a good CTR (click through rate) in Adsense?”
Let me attempt an answer.
I should [...]

Written on September 24th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Gawker Adds Comments to Three Blogs

Blog Networks 27 comments

Megablog, Gizmodo, has decided to allow comments at last. It’s been a pretty long time coming and something that many have complained about – but the time has arrived (they’ve done the same thing on Gawker and Lifehacker blogs also).

Interestingly they’ve decided that only invited guests will have commenting privileges at this point – something [...]

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