Written on July 31st, 2006 at 09:07 am by Darren Rowse

Keyword Misspelling Tool

Blogging Tools and Services 18 comments

One of the things you find when you use a tool like 103bees to check your incoming search engine traffic is that some people find your blog as a result of both them and you misspelling words.

I remember early in my blogging that I had one post that was getting quite a few visitors every […]

Written on July 31st, 2006 at 03:07 am by Darren Rowse

Yahoo! Launches New Crawler

Search Engine Optimization 11 comments

If you’ve noticed any changes in the traffic coming to your blogs from Yahoo! it could be a result of their New Version of it’s Search Crawler called ‘Slurp’ - (a crawler is the bot that Search Engines send to your site to index it).

Slurp is said to be faster and more efficient and will […]

Written on July 30th, 2006 at 01:07 am by Darren Rowse

Feedburner Ad Network - Three Months In

RSS 18 comments

After three months of participation in FeedBurner’s Ad Network I received my first payment (for April) yesterday.

Feedburners ads are the ones you’ll see in my RSS feeds. My first impression review of FAN is still pretty accurate to how I’ve found the system.

I’ve added it to three of my blogs (the ones with the biggest […]

Written on July 30th, 2006 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

I Get Paid to Sleep

Pro Blogging News 27 comments

The quote that stood out to me in the article on MSNBC that I mentioned a few posts ago was from Andrew Leyden from the Podcast Directory who marvels at his new income source by saying:

‘”I get paid while mowing the lawn. I get paid while cleaning the garage. I get paid driving my wife […]

Written on July 29th, 2006 at 01:07 pm by Darren Rowse

Comment Spam - Is Akismet OK?

Blogging Tools and Services 38 comments

Is anyone else using the Akismet comment spam filter getting hit big time by spam today?

I’m not sure if it’s down, whether someone’s found a way past it or whether I’m just getting a massive attack and the normal small % of spam is getting through - but for the last couple of hours I’ve […]

Written on July 29th, 2006 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse

BlogHer in Spirit

Pro Blogging News 5 comments

I think most people are aware that the BlogHer conference is currently under way in San Jose. From what I’ve read about it - it’s going really well and there are some wonderful bloggers in attendance.

However not everyone is in a financial or life situational position to be able to attend and while there’s plenty […]

Written on July 29th, 2006 at 09:07 am by Darren Rowse

Earning Fortunes - One Click at a Time

Pro Blogging News 9 comments

MSNBC has a ‘nice’ (I call it nice because it’s a fairly shallow, but warm and fuzzy one) article on Publishers making money from contextual advertising and gives some examples of a variety of sites making decent money, one click at a time. I’m always amazed by the diversity of sites out there that make […]

Written on July 29th, 2006 at 04:07 am by Brian Clark

You Don’t Need a Product of Your Own to Have a Successful Product Blog

General 6 comments

As we wrap up this short series of posts on product blogging, let’s take a look at a strategy for those who may not have a product of their own to sell. We’ve looked at selling information and niche e-commerce, and you can obviously use those strategies with products that you sell on behalf […]

Written on July 29th, 2006 at 04:07 am by Darren Rowse

If I had to Start My Blog Again - Final Reader Submissions

Pro Blogging News 5 comments

This week’s group writing project is now officially closed with 80 submissions (see the complete list here). Thanks to all who participated.

Now the ‘judging’ of submissions begins. Head to the full list from this week and do a little surfing of what people have written. While there is no official ‘winner’ or ‘judging’ I encourage […]