Written on June 30th, 2006 at 10:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Speedlinking - 30 June 2006

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If you’re in the UK and have a business blog (or know of any) Mark White would like to hear from you as he’s creating a resource to put the Spotlight on UK Business Blogs.
Performancing are looking for Beta testing partners in their new Ad Network
WeblogHits has posted a post titled 7 easy steps to […]

Written on June 30th, 2006 at 09:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Google Page Rank Update Rolling Out

Search Engine Optimization 48 comments

It looks like Google is rolling out a page rank update if the discussions in forums are anything to go by.

Here are a couple of the discussion threads:

Google pagerank is Updating - DP
New Page Rank Showing - WMW

What is Page Rank and what does it mean (if anything?) Check out this post I wrote as […]

Written on June 30th, 2006 at 04:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Some European Countries Considering applying VAT to Online Earnings

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Jen posts some concerning news for European bloggers trying to make money online. The short of it is that some European countries are considering making publishers pay VAT (similar to sales tax) on AdSense and other online earnings and that this could see them paying up to 83% of their earnings in tax. That would […]

Written on June 30th, 2006 at 11:06 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense add Referral Program Channels

Adsense 4 comments

AdSense publishers who use referrals heavily will be happy to know that AdSense have added the ability to track referral results with channels. This has been a long time coming and something that I’ve heard quite a few complaints about.

URL channels don’t work so you’ll have to set up custom channels instead. This means going […]

Written on June 30th, 2006 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Mistakes

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 5 comments

Brian at Copyblogger has a nice post over at his blog titled Do You Make These Mistakes With Your Blog? in which he unpacks some common mistakes of bloggers and gives some ‘prescriptions’. His mistakes (he writes more under each):

5. Do you write for search engines instead of people?
4. Are you doing what everyone else […]

Written on June 30th, 2006 at 12:06 am by

The Ethics of Profile Peddling

Blog Promotion 21 comments

Profile Peddling. I don’t know that it’s really a word but I don’t really honestly know what else to call it. It is the practice of opening up accounts at supporting services such as Flickr or MySpace in order to funnel traffic to a blog or website. It’s been a common practice of […]

Written on June 29th, 2006 at 03:06 pm by Darren Rowse

The Impact of AdSense Ad Positioning

Adsense 16 comments

Seth Godin has written a post on SquidBlog about their experiment at Squidoo with moving AdSense ads from the right hand column to a more central position. As you’d expect, and as we’ve talked about here at ProBlogger many times, the click throughs went up significantly (it tripled).

But that’s not the only benefit that Seth […]

Written on June 29th, 2006 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

Using Digg to Improve Your Content

Social Media, Writing Content 14 comments

I’ve seen (and written) a lot of posts about how to get posts picked up by social bookmarking sites and what to do when it happens, but one of the things that has struck me recently is that another opportunity often presents itself when a site like Digg links links to a post you’ve […]

Written on June 29th, 2006 at 09:06 am by Darren Rowse

The Biggest Lie About Blogging

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Anne Handley has been asking experienced bloggers a simple question - What’s the Biggest Lie About Blogging? - the response has been most interesting and well worth the read.

I love Jeremy’s list at the end - 40 lies in all. Here’s a few of his:

1. Blogging’s just a fad.
2. Always maintain a hostile relationship with […]