Archive for: January, 2006

Written on January 31st, 2006 at 06:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Official AdSense Blog Gives Blogger Optimization Tips

Adsense 29 comments

The official AdSense Blog has just posted a post which for the first time gives tips for Bloggers wanting to optimize their AdSense earnings. They’ve previously done these with general websites and forums but today is the first time I’ve seen them officially give attention to the humble blogger. They’ve even put up some ‘pretty’ […]

Written on January 31st, 2006 at 10:01 am by Darren Rowse

Using a Blog Editorial Calendar to Plan Content

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 8 comments

If you’re the type of blogger who needs (or likes) a bit of structure and planning in your blogging activities you might like to check out the Editorial Calendar that Andy has put together to help you map a rhythm for your blog.

I will say that this sort of strategy is not for everyone but […]

Written on January 31st, 2006 at 08:01 am by Darren Rowse

SnapShirts Are a Success With Bloggers

Pro Blogging News 4 comments

A few days ago mentioned SnapShirts a company that can put a word cloud from your blog on a T-Shirt. I’ve since made up a ProBlogger one if you’re interested but the thing that interests me the most is a recent update on their blog which illustrates the power of a few key links from […]

Written on January 31st, 2006 at 05:01 am by Darren Rowse

Why I don’t use Free Articles on my Blogs

Writing Content 23 comments

A common question that finds itself into my inbox from readers is with regards to the practice of using ‘Free Articles’ to put on your blog. I quite often talk about how building the quantity of content on your blog is one strategy for building traffic over time but the temptation for those unable to […]

Written on January 31st, 2006 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse

Should ProBlogger Add Forums? Poll of the Week

ProBlogger Site News 73 comments

I’ve been considering adding a discussion forum area to ProBlogger.net since I started this blog and have recently been lobbied increasingly by readers to consider doing so more and more (update: I’m not talking about replacing the blog - but adding forums as another way to discuss the topic - this blog would continue to […]

Written on January 31st, 2006 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse

Length of Blogging - Poll Results

Pro Blogging News 8 comments

Last week’s Poll asked readers to share how long they’ve been blogging for and the results are now in.

The spread was actually quite wide with good percentages of the total vote of 910 participants polling in each area. The largest group were in the ‘under 3 months’ segment with the second biggest group being those […]

Written on January 30th, 2006 at 11:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Google Toolbar

Pro Blogging News 7 comments

Google latest Toolbar Beta has been released. I’m sure someone out there is excited but as a Mac user I’m more excited by the fact that I got a beetroot stain out of my shorts this afternoon. HoHum.
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Written on January 30th, 2006 at 11:01 am by Darren Rowse

Technorati Problems - Update

Blogging Tools and Services 38 comments

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about My Technorati Problems and had quite a large response from it. Unfortunately the response came only from readers of this blog and not from Technorati themselves. Of course as they don’t seem to be indexing this blog I can understand this as my post will not have […]

Written on January 30th, 2006 at 10:01 am by Darren Rowse

Flipping the Funnel - Another Seth Godin ebook

Pro Blogging News 2 comments

Seth Godin has just released another free ebook - this time called Flipping the Funnel. In fact there are three versions of it, a standard one, one for not for profits and another for politicians.

In short (and I’ve only scanned it so far) it’s about using web 2.0 sites like del.icio.us, flickr and Squidoo to […]

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