Written on May 26th, 2006 at 04:05 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Video Ads Launched

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AdWords have officially started allowing their US, Canadian and Japanese advertisers create video ads.

This should mean that we start seeing the first of them in the coming days as they are approved by the AdWords team.

Let us know if and where you spot them in action and what you think of them.
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Written on May 26th, 2006 at 12:05 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense adds International Referral Buttons

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The AdSense blog has announce that they have now added international referral buttons to their referrals area.

This allows non English blogs to start using referrals in their own languages (I can count 23 or so languages currently supported).

There are definitely not as many button options available for non English speaking publishers as there are […]

Written on May 26th, 2006 at 10:05 am by Darren Rowse

Highly Effective Bloggers Project - More Submissions

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The Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers Group Writing Project is coming to an end. Today’s the cut off date so if want to contribute something you’ve only got til the end of the day (I’ll accept entries as long as they were sent on a Friday 26 May - wherever you are).

Today we have 19 […]

Written on May 26th, 2006 at 02:05 am by Darren Rowse

How to Find Traffic for a New Blog

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Yaro’s put together a good post on How To Launch A Brand New Blog that will be of use to PreBloggers wanting to think through their first day or two of blogging. Here’s part of his great advice:

“One of the problems new bloggers of today face is the hype generated by established successful blogs. You […]

Written on May 26th, 2006 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

Engadget Runs ‘Post-Like’ BMW Ads

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I just saw an ad that I haven’t seen before over at Engadget. It’s placed between the end of individual posts and the ‘recent posts’ section.

The ad is labeled twice as ‘Advertisement’ but is also very well blended with the rest of the site with it’s heading in the same color and format as other […]

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

CSS tips

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If you are a blogger who wants to learn how to use CSS (cascading Style Sheets) to modify the look and feel of your blog and you are after some tips you might want to check out the latest post over at Business Logs where Mike gives his 5 CSS tips.

Organize Your CSS
Avoid Default Styles
Use […]

Written on May 25th, 2006 at 01:05 pm by Darren Rowse

AdBrite beta testing Mobile, In Video and Banner ads

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AdBrite announced that they are accepting beta users for three new formats of ads. It was announced last week but escaped my attention for some reason.

Mobile Ads - an Ad system for mobile content sites (WAP)
Banner Ads - fairly standard banner ad options by the looks of things
In Video Ads - the ability to show […]

Written on May 25th, 2006 at 10:05 am by Darren Rowse

Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers - More Reader Submissions

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The reader submissions for the Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers Group Writing Project have continued to come in over night - 13 more to add to yesterdays 16. Once again I’ve posted them all to the central page with yesterday’s submissions.

I’m really excited by the quality of some of what’s been submitted so far. Collectively […]

Written on May 25th, 2006 at 09:05 am by Darren Rowse

Podcast interviews ProBlogger at Practical Blogging

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Robyn Tippins has just posted a short podcast interview with me talking about blogging, now I got into it, how I transitioned into doing it for a living, how PR and marketing people should pitch bloggers, things I’d do differently and a few tips on blogging and monetization etc. Listen to it at Robyn’s blog […]