Archive for: September, 2005
Written on September 28th, 2005 at 01:09 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika eMiniMalls Review
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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?”
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
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 […]


