Archive for: October, 2005
Written on October 25th, 2005 at 03:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Blogger Suggests Combatting Splogs with Click Fraud
I’m a bit surprised by Mitch Ratcliffe’s suggestion on how to get Google to fix the BlogSpot Splogs problem. He recommends click fraud:
‘The solution to the problem it to click gratuitously and never make purchases on the links at blogspot sites and to keep doing so to drive down conversion rates. This likely will be […]
Written on October 25th, 2005 at 03:10 pm by Darren Rowse
How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs
I’ve been reflecting this week about the amazing diversity of opportunities that are opening up for bloggers to earn an income from or through their blogging.
I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to earn an income from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.
The […]
Written on October 25th, 2005 at 01:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Blogging as ‘Normal’?
It’s been a frustrating few days - this morning I got up ready to get back into some serious blogging only to find that my blog’s were no longer online. The problem was with EV1Servers who seem to have come under some sort of data center attack today which caused my server to be out […]
Written on October 24th, 2005 at 11:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Healthy Blogger
I just got a phone call from a ProBlogger reader in the UK who was ringing to see if I was out of hospital.
I was very grateful for the call - it’s nice to know that people care.
However there was one surprise in the call - I haven’t been in hospital.
So just to clear up […]
Written on October 22nd, 2005 at 05:10 pm by Darren Rowse
What happens when a ProBlogger gets sick
I’ve had one of those 24 hours.
Last night I went to bed with sore eyes after a long week of work.
This morning I woke up unable to look at anything brighter than my clock radio without my right eye bursting into tears.
Going outside was painful - watching TV uncomfortable, looking at a computer screen almost […]
Written on October 22nd, 2005 at 11:10 am by Darren Rowse
Customizable background colors for Chitika eMiniMalls
One of the more common complaints that I heard about Chitika’s eMiniMalls is that publishers are unable to change the background color of the ads. This made it very difficult for publishers with any other color background to their blog than white.
In the last couple of ours this changed and Chitika added the ability […]
Written on October 22nd, 2005 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Reflections on the Six Figure Blogging Course
A number of bloggers have asked me to write my reflections on being involved with running the Six Figure Blogging course over the past couple of months. Yesterday Andy and I did the last of six calls and today I’ve been reviewing how I felt it went.
While there are a handful of things that I […]
Written on October 21st, 2005 at 09:10 am by Darren Rowse
Targeting Secondary Keywords on Your Blog
Jamsi has published a worthwhile post over at workboxers on how he used the Overture tool to find a keyword that was less searched for but also less competitive to target his blog on. He explains it a lot better than I do:
‘I noticed that the keyword “Funny vids” (which I had used) was very […]
Written on October 21st, 2005 at 08:10 am by Darren Rowse
Shiny Media launches Propellerhead and Catwalk Queen
UK blogging network Shiny Media has just announced two news blogs - Propellerhead and Catwalk Queen.
Catwalk is a being billed as ‘your own personal online stylist’ and takes a look at how to look like your favorite celebrity. It complements the other fashion blogs that Shiny already has - they’re building quite a reputation in […]
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