Written on February 27th, 2006 at 07:02 am by Darren Rowse

Using Free BlogAds to Promote Affiliate Products

Affiliate Programs 11 comments

Here’s a tip that I shared with ProBlogger Newsletter subscribers a couple of weeks back (slightly adapted).
Those of you who use BlogAds.com ads on your blogs will probably notice that the service allows you to offer free ads using a promotional code.

This enables you to offer free ads to advertisers or to run some […]

Written on February 27th, 2006 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

Tag, You’re It! Leveraging Tagging For Your Blog

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 56 comments

The following post was submitted by for the Blogging for Beginners Series by Aaron Brazell. Aaron is a major contributer over at b5 (he is a major player in keeping our servers in order) and writes on numerous blogs including Emerging Earth and Technosailor.com. I asked Aaron to write an introduction to Tagging. Here’s what […]

Written on February 26th, 2006 at 12:02 pm by Darren Rowse

One Dimensional Blogging

Writing Content 14 comments

I’ve been watching a number of blogs recently that seem to have become a little obsessed with one of two things - Memes and attempting to get to the top of social bookmarking site’s like digg.com and del.icio.us.

Now I’ve got nothing against a good meme from time to time and have been known to write […]

Written on February 26th, 2006 at 09:02 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger has left the Building

ProBlogger Site News 0 comments

Just a short note to let you know that as this goes live on the blog I’ll be on a flight to sunny (or rainy as I’m told it is this week) Queensland (the most north eastern state of Australia). I’ll be away until late Tuesday night on a conference called ‘Kickstart 06′ (a conference […]

Written on February 26th, 2006 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

Introduction to Trackbacks

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 88 comments

The following post has been submitted by Andy Wibbels - a guy who is a good friend and associate. He and I run Six Figure Blogging together (something I enjoy because I think our skill sets complement each other very well - ie he knows what he’s talking about technically and I have no idea). […]

Written on February 25th, 2006 at 08:02 pm by Darren Rowse

Google testing video AdSense ads

Adsense 24 comments

GoogleRumors have just noticed a video version of AdSense over at The Superficial (screen capture below).

AdSense have mentioned different formats were coming but this is the first version I’ve ever seen that is video also. It’ll be interesting to see if they catch on with advertisers and how publishers find them.

Do you think you’d want […]

Written on February 25th, 2006 at 01:02 pm by Darren Rowse

Taking things for Granted

Blogging Tools and Services 7 comments

This week has illustrated to me that there are many aspects of my blogging workflow and tools that I take for granted.

Firstly I’ve been taking my broadband internet connection at home for granted. You see this week we’ve actually been house sitting a friend’s house while ours gets painted. We move back today. Our friends […]

Written on February 25th, 2006 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

Kick Your RSS: Jumping on the Syndication Bandwagon

RSS 17 comments

The following post was submitted by for the Blogging for Beginners Series by Aaron Brazell. Aaron is a major contributer over at b5 (he is a major player in keeping our servers in order) and writes on numerous blogs including Emerging Earth and Technosailor.com. I asked Aaron to write an introduction to RSS. Here’s what […]

Written on February 24th, 2006 at 12:02 pm by Darren Rowse

Duncan’s Blog Herald Reflections

Pro Blogging News 1 comment

Duncan is wrapping things up over at Blog Herald before it’s transferred to it’s new owner on the weekend. As part of his last few days he’s written an interesting post on 3 years of The Blog Herald: the good, the bad and the ugly. The post gives a real insight into some of the […]