Comments on: ProBlogger’s Baby Photos leaked to the internet

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» Problogger Baby picture leak : Post Your Baby Pic — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:18:53 +0000

[...] Here’s Mini-Rowse baby picture himself from probller blog [...]

By: Centrerion Canadian Politics

Centrerion Canadian Politics — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:23:48 +0000

Problogger junior… I see the first post already: “Making money in your spare time: Huggies to Silk.”

I wish you and your wife a safe birth and a healthy baby.

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:53:43 +0000

One billion Zimbabwean dollars and an all-expenses paid holiday in Bulawayo.

By: apiwat

apiwat — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:07:23 +0000

Hope the bidding goes well, but since most bloggers are broke you probably won’t get much

By: pcunix

pcunix — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:09:55 +0000

eBay has taught us that people make frivolus bids that they have no intention of honoring. It is obvious that these stratospheric offers would never actually be contracted.

Legitimate bidders like me are disgusted by such nonsense. I will make a real bid for the rights: One Zillion Romulan Standard Zirconian Dollars.

I doubt anyone else can even approach my figure. If you are interested, have your people call my people and we’ll put it in ink.

By: James Thoenes

James Thoenes — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:13:19 +0000

He looks a lot like his father :)

By: Meg

Meg — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:01:08 +0000

Darren, thanks so much for this link! This is a new blog and the traffic it generated was a huge rush!

I was thinking about your suggestion that you might sell the first real baby photo to the highest bidder for online viewing.

Because we can also assume that you will link to the buyer’s photo, this could be an interesting experiment on what a link from a PR 7 site may be worth.

In our case, we received lots of visitors due to your post, but the big underlying bonus will be the fact that you linked to us – and you are a PR7 site. This will likely make the search engines sit up and notice us right away and to start to index us! It may even give us a PR rating very early in the game.

If people don’t know much about Google page rank, basically it’s based on a logarithmic scale (just like earthquakes), so a PR 7 site link is way more valuable than a PR 6 link.

There are only a handful of blogs that rank a PR 7 and ProBlogger is one of them. So the question is, what may a link from ProBlogger be worth for the person who bids highest for exclusive rights to the first photo of his baby?

Could it be the fastest and most inexpensive way to get a new site to start showing up big time in the search engines?

A very interesting experiment I think!

By: L

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:07:19 +0000

$51.01

I say keep blogging, this line of work is fickle. You need to support your family. Just wait, your wife will at some point assume you being at home means you are “free” to take care of baby. Bah.

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:37:51 +0000

Hope the bidding goes well, but since most bloggers are broke you probably won’t get much.

By: David Krug

David Krug — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:45:03 +0000

I’m always losing auctions over pennies.

By: EDK

EDK — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:58:19 +0000

Every well wish for a thriving baby, mother, dad etal. Small thanks for a great and helpful site!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:00:43 +0000

Ha ha ha ha, too cute! Hope all goes well with the REAL baby, if it’s anything like mine, you’d better sleep NOW because you never will again ;).

By: "Pink Eyed" Jim

"Pink Eyed" Jim — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:50:06 +0000

To the other Bald guy, you me and Darren should start a Bald Bloggers’ Coalition. ;-)

Good luck with the bundle of joy, Darren.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:34:07 +0000

lol cute geeky baby

By: Razib Ahmed

Razib Ahmed — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:42:15 +0000

Best wishes to you and your wife. Hopefully, everything goes fine with you. Try to give more time and support to your wife these days instead blogging so frequently. Who is taking care of her? Well, in South Asian culture, the female relatives especially mother and mother in laws support a lot during these days. I wish western people had the same style too.

By: Darren McLaughlin

Darren McLaughlin — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:14:39 +0000

That’s a good looking baby there! Worth every penny you paid for those pics too.

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:34:27 +0000

OK, $51, right across Syntagma Media, and a special feature for the sprog on Celebrity at Work. Brad and Angie eat your hearts out!

By: Kenny Allman

Kenny Allman — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:08:21 +0000

Congratulations Darren,

You must be beaming these days.

-Kenny

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:37:42 +0000

I’m surprised that he hasn’t got his own laptop yet – and where’s the link to his blog??? Can I suggest the following domain name PreBlogger.com??

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:08:14 +0000

He’s got more hair that Dad :)