Written on April 27th, 2006 at 03:04 am by Darren Rowse

Lessons from a Celebrity Blogger

Case Studies 18 comments

The following blog case study was submitted by Derek - a celebrity blogger. In it he reflects upon 7 lessons he’s learned in building his blog from 50 to 1500 uniques per day since March.

Derek Hail - stealing celebrity dignity and fame was launched on March 13th of 2006. The first two weeks the Derek […]

Written on April 27th, 2006 at 12:04 am by Darren Rowse

The Cost of Comment Spam

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 61 comments

It seems that bloggers everywhere are giving up the fight against comment spam - Or it least it seems that way to me.

I’m not going to start naming names but this week as I’ve read a number of fairly high profile and active blogs I’ve noticed that there is ALOT of comment spam in many […]

Written on April 27th, 2006 at 12:04 am by Darren Rowse

Celebrating 34

ProBlogger Site News 30 comments

Today I turn 34. It’ll be a pretty low key day with most of the celebrations happening on the weekend (not too big a deal this year but we’ll have a good night Saturday night).

So lets talk presents….
Ok - I’m kidding, i don’t need anything but there is something I do WANT from you my […]

Written on April 26th, 2006 at 11:04 am by Darren Rowse

Google bans Mango Sauce from AdSense

Adsense 19 comments

There’s a fascinating story over at Mango Sauce today that recounts it’s blogger’s (David) interactions with one representative at AdSense who has banned Mango Sauce from AdSense over what it says are violations of the program. The AdSense team member says that MS has content for mature audiences which violates the program. The post is […]

Written on April 26th, 2006 at 09:04 am by Darren Rowse

Pheedo’s RSS Ads System Launches

Advertising, RSS 7 comments

Speaking of RSS ads, Pheedo has been testing their ad service for the past couple of months and are launching this week according to Mark at Weblog Tools Collection. Mark writes that it’s a system for WordPress ads but I can’t see on Pheedo anywhere saying it is exclusively a WP offering.
I also can’t see […]

Written on April 26th, 2006 at 08:04 am by Darren Rowse

FeedBurner Ad Network Add Automated Advertiser Signup

Advertising, RSS 2 comments

FeedBurner have just announced a new automated feature for advertisers to sign up to their Ad Network. Instead of having to go through a manual process you can now do it in a much more streamlined fashion. The process is to:

Select a channel that matches your target
Create an ad
Set a budget
Create an account
The ad is […]

Written on April 26th, 2006 at 08:04 am by Darren Rowse

BBC Continues to Explore New Media

Blog News 7 comments

The Guardian reports that the BBC is redeveloping their online presence to be much more new media focused:

‘The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.’

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Written on April 26th, 2006 at 12:04 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Credibility and Blog Design

Blog Design 15 comments

This post is part of a series of posts on building blog credibility

I know that there is a variety of opinions on the value of blog design within ProBlogger’s readership so this might generate some interesting discussion but in my opinion blog design does matter. It is not the only or even best way to […]

Written on April 25th, 2006 at 04:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Rambling Blogging

Writing Content 10 comments

Aaron Wall writes a good post titled Rambling too Much = Bad Blogging.

I agree that rambling isn’t good blogging practice, but I wouldn’t say that all long posts are. To me it comes down to weighing up the individual factors that a blogger and their blog face and finding your own ideal post length.

Aaron sums […]