Written on March 27th, 2006 at 01:03 am by Darren Rowse

Tell Your Story and Highlight your Blog at ProBlogger

ProBlogger Site News 10 comments

One of the pieces of feedback that I’ve had on ProBlogger when I asked for questions for me to cover in my blogging for beginners series a while back was that people wanted a few more case studies and stories of bloggers who were making money online.

The other thing I heard back from some bloggers […]

Written on March 27th, 2006 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse

ecto for Windows 2.0 Beta

Blogging Tools and Services 4 comments

Blogging tool, ecto, has just released it’s 2.0 beta version at ecto for Windows 2.0 Beta. New features in this version include:

WYSIWYG editing.
Upload caching and setting presets.
Automatic download and installation of .Net Framework during ecto’s installation.
Many small UI improvement.

I […]

Written on March 26th, 2006 at 09:03 am by Darren Rowse

Interview with YPN Manager

Yahoo Publishing Network 13 comments

Sugarrae has posted an Interview with Josh Siegel of Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN).

Rae starts off by asking a good question about ad relevancy - a topic that I’ve heard quite a few YPN publishers complaining about (in fact I’ve done it myself after running YPN here at ProBlogger for a month or so and seeing […]

Written on March 25th, 2006 at 10:03 pm by Darren Rowse

YPN tweaks system

Yahoo Publishing Network 4 comments

I just logged into b5’s YPN account and noticed a few changes (this must be why I’ve been locked out of it today).

The first change is their new ‘messages’ feature (pictured below) which outlines the latest changes at YPN.

Click on the ’subjects’ of one of the messages and you get a nice little popup message […]

Written on March 25th, 2006 at 05:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Free Studio Designed WordPress Theme

Blog Design 19 comments

One of my favorite blog design houses, The Blog Studio, have released a second free theme for WordPress 1.5 and 2.0. It’s called Liquid Summer and you can see it in action here. It’s a three column design and has a nice feel about it (even though that green is a little hard on […]

Written on March 25th, 2006 at 11:03 am by Darren Rowse

WorldBlogCenter Scam Update

Pro Blogging News 23 comments

Just a short update on the Pixel Ad Site Scam that I wrote about yesterday. On the page in question there have been a few changes. Some logos have been removed including Engadget’s, Boing Boing’s and Gizmodo’s. They’ve also added a note to that says ‘pre-approved - awaiting response’ to what pops up when you […]

Written on March 25th, 2006 at 04:03 am by Darren Rowse

Rules Of Smart And Successful Web-development

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 6 comments

Vitaly Friedman (a German web designer) posted a mega list a few days back on 20 Rules Of Smart And Successful Web-development. Most of it is just good common sense that translates well into or from any language. Here’s how it starts:

‘1. Respect your visitors. Don’t try to force your visitors to read the content […]

Written on March 25th, 2006 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse

Growing Your Business with Google - Preview Call

Pro Blogging News, Search Engine Optimization 4 comments

Yesterday I came across an interesting course called Growing Your Business with Google (aff link) that I’m really impressed with.

It’s by two guys - Dave Taylor (pictured) and Steven Van Yoder. I know Dave’s work pretty well and respect him as a blogger after both reading his stuff and listening to him on various podcasts […]

Written on March 24th, 2006 at 04:03 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Blog Case Study

Adsense 17 comments

Scott D. Feldstein has written a post titled Blog Ads By The Numbers which talks about his experience with AdSense on his blog.

His conclusion is to remove it (in case he does move them here’s a screen cap of how he had them - click to enlarge).

I left a quick comment off the top of […]