Archive for: October, 2005

Written on October 28th, 2005 at 07:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Email Newsletters for Bloggers

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 4 comments

Wayne at Blog Business World has a helpful post on email newsletters today. One of his tips is to consider collecting subscribers to your newsletter not only on your site but also from offline sources:

‘Most e-mail newsletter subscriber efforts make the mistake of being entirely online in their marketing focus. Many more good quality […]

Written on October 28th, 2005 at 02:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Solo Tees

Other Income Streams 15 comments

Dane and Tim have started a new venture called Solo Tees which is an online T-Shirt shop with T-Shirts for Entrepreneurs.
They have started off with a number of designs and are open to suggestions for more. Perhaps some of the old ProBlogger T-Shirt suggestions might work for them.

I still like some of the suggestions there:

“Click […]

Written on October 27th, 2005 at 01:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Opinion on Pajamas Media

Pro Blogging News 17 comments

I’ve had quite a few people ask me what I think of the Pajamas Media launch that is approaching.

I don’t really have any comments to make at this stage except to say that it looks like an interesting concept and am looking forward to seeing how it goes. Wired has a feature on it today […]

Written on October 27th, 2005 at 11:10 am by Darren Rowse

Comment Spammers Sink to a New Low

Pro Blogging News 25 comments

I just saw something that made my stomach turn. A ‘comment’ left on this blog that read:

Help save the people in katrina! Donate
money to the red cross! :)
-Jakob

The link then went to viagra (no follow tags used).

That has to be one of the lowest examples of comment spam that I’ve come across.
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Written on October 27th, 2005 at 11:10 am by Darren Rowse

She Knows Best Offers Personalized Help

Case Studies 7 comments

One of the most amusing but innovative things that I’ve seen on a blog in a while is what Arieanna is doing over at She Knows Best where she’s basically doing makeovers of guys.

Arieanna writes:

‘It doesn’t matter how inane your fashion dilemma, or how little you know about fashion. She Knows Best can help. And […]

Written on October 27th, 2005 at 08:10 am by Darren Rowse

Chitika News and Tips

Chitika eMiniMalls 16 comments

Chitika have updated their blog with some interesting tidbits:

- they’ll be releasing referrer buttons shortly
- they’ve pointed to a page that has a range of the types of products that they have stocks of ads for here

Also on Chitika eminimalls news - Alex has been writing some interesting Chitika eMiniMalls tips on his unofficial Chitika […]

Written on October 26th, 2005 at 09:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Google Update Underway - Jagger 2 Update

Search Engine Optimization 11 comments

Matt Cutts reports that another Google update (Jagger 2) is underway.

All the hardcore SEO types are speculating on what it all means over here. Seems to me this one won’t show any changes to your page rank - its all about your SERPs (search engine results pages) rankings.
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Written on October 26th, 2005 at 12:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Adsense Dumb Pricing

Adsense 27 comments

Jen has just posted information about Adsense that will be of interest to publishers using it across multiple sites. The crux of it being that Google’s ’smart pricing’ can actually not only impact one of your sites but all of them. In short - if you have just one poorly converting site in your […]

Written on October 26th, 2005 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse

Chitika eMiniMall Audit Complete

Chitika eMiniMalls 11 comments

Chitika have completed their audit for their eMiniMalls (aff) month of September. I’ve just checked my figures and am happy to see that the audit has only decreased my earnings for the month by less than 10% (less than last month).

This should mean that those who earned over the minimum of $10 for September will […]

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