Archive for: 2005
Written on December 26th, 2005 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse
10 Things You Should Know about WordPress 2.0
Aaron Brazell is from Baltimore, Maryland and leverages his influence as a blogger at various blogs to develop his (sometimes) convoluted opinions. He writes about Web 2.0 topics at Emerging Earth and keeps a personal and political blog at Technosailor.com
If you’ve been seriously blogging for any bit of time at all, you’ve heard of [...]
Written on December 25th, 2005 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse Quits Blogging
I’ve had enough of blogging and I’m quitting… for a couple of weeks.
Sorry – I couldn’t resist a little link whoring of my own.
Yes it’s time for me to say farewell and to wish you all a Happy Christmas (substitute with the Holiday of the Season of your choice).
It’s Christmas Day here in Australia already [...]
Written on December 24th, 2005 at 09:12 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Make the Most of the Start of Year Quiet Patch on your Blog
The increased traffic and earnings that many Bloggers have had over the past few weeks in the lead up to Christmas yesterday and today has begun to slow for many bloggers. I’ve had a few emails and Instant Messaging conversations with concerned publishers asking if the slow down is ‘normal’.
While I won’t answer for every [...]
Written on December 24th, 2005 at 06:12 pm by Darren Rowse
Best AdSense Resources of 2005 Poll
Eric is running another award/poll – this time it’s the Best AdSense Resources of 2005 Poll. The great thing about this poll is that you can make suggestions to other AdSense resources along the way.
There’s not nearly enough votes in all categories so head over and have your say.
Thanks to the nominations for ProBlogger and [...]
Written on December 24th, 2005 at 05:12 pm by Darren Rowse
WordPress 2.0 Nears Official Launch
WordPress 2.0 is almost ready to go live after it’s successful beta testing. The official release is set for December 26 (put back a couple of days to ensure there’s enough support due to the holidays).
I’ve had a play with the beta and it’s looking good. Look out for a post here at ProBlogger.net on [...]
Written on December 24th, 2005 at 04:12 pm by Darren Rowse
2006 Trend Predictions in Social Commerce
Interesting post over at Micro Persuasion on the topic of 2006 Trends to Watch Part II: Social Commerce where he makes the following prediction:
‘Watch for sites like Amazon, Froogle and Yahoo to develop turnkey stores that can be integrated into blogs. This will take affiliate programs to the next level. It’s also possible that some [...]
Written on December 24th, 2005 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Do you Blog for any Blog Networks? – Poll of the Week
This week’s poll of the week (it could actually run for two weeks while I’m away) asks:
‘Do you Blog for any Blog Networks?’
I’ve just left two options for answers, yes and no.
I’ll leave a definition of ‘Blog Networks’ up to you to define for yourself. I’m not interested in a debate on the issue of [...]
Written on December 24th, 2005 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Earnings Poll Results
With the holidays fast approaching I thought I’d end this week’s poll of the week a couple of days early.
The question this week asked how much readers earned from Chitika’s eMiniMalls. in October after auditing.
The results (shown graphically below) illustrate very clearly that Chitika has a way to go when it comes to getting bloggers [...]
Written on December 23rd, 2005 at 08:12 am by Darren Rowse
A Story about the Importance of Checking your Blog’s Stats
Robert Blum emailed me this morning to let me know of a post he’d just written titled Four Weeks Of Blogging where he took the idea of my 18 Lessons I Learnt Blogging and did his own version after 4 weeks of blogging. While Robert might not have been blogging seriously for long some of [...]
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