Written on August 31st, 2006 at 03:08 am by Darren Rowse

Speedlinking 31 August 2006

Pro Blogging News 13 comments

eMoms at Home writes Top 10 Blogging Lessons Learned on Traffic, Monetization and Life - it’s got some gems in it.
Chitika have a new feature called ‘Globe Trot’ that lets you see what people in different countries see of your Chitika eMiniMall ads when they view your blog.
Dane shares 6 tips for […]

Written on August 31st, 2006 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Random vs Planned Blogging

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 25 comments

One of the things that I enjoy about blogs is how random they can be.

Within the blogging medium it’s quite acceptable to bring together a collection of seemingly unrelated ideas over the course of a week or more. I guess this comes partly out of the personal blogging scene where it’s not unusually to see […]

Written on August 30th, 2006 at 08:08 pm by Darren Rowse

aStore: Get Link - Amazon.com Associates Central

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Amazon have just emailed those testing their aStore to let them know of three ways to integrate it into their website.

1. Link to your aStore as a stand-alone store (this is what they were offering previously and is as simple as having a link (like this) to your aStore.

2. Embed your aStore using an inline […]

Written on August 30th, 2006 at 02:08 pm by Darren Rowse

How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 32 comments

One of the better posts I’ve seen recently is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the ‘echo chamber’. It’s a post that I’m sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did). Here are his main points (in bold) with a few comments of my own (the non bolded stuff) on […]

Written on August 30th, 2006 at 12:08 pm by Darren Rowse

Microsoft adCenter Start Inviting Advertisers to Join Pilot - Glimmer of Hope for Publishers

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Jennifer has posted that Microsoft have just sent out invitations to selected advertisers for adCenter - their contextual advertising program’s pilot program in the coming months.

She notes that the invitation indicates that ads will be primarily places upon MSN sites but that in using that word there is a chance that they might make it […]

Written on August 30th, 2006 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

How to Apply for a Blog Job

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 42 comments

So you want a blog job……
Well some of you seem to if the amount of traffic and subscribers to the feed at the Job Boards are anything to go by.

I’ve just been chatting to a number of the advertisers who have listed jobs and there have been three resounding pieces of feedback:

They have had a […]

Written on August 29th, 2006 at 05:08 pm by Darren Rowse

Chitika allow Embedding of ShopLinc via iFrames

Chitika eMiniMalls 4 comments

Chitika have posted on their blog that their Shoplincs can now be embedded in iframes on your site (if you’ve been accepted into the program).

You can see their article on how to do it in their knowledge base.
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Written on August 29th, 2006 at 08:08 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Hack Update

ProBlogger Site News 24 comments

For an hour or two in the early hours of this morning (my time) the server that ProBlogger is hosted on was hacked by someone with a political message.

They targeted index pages on a number of sites including ProBlogger, ProBlogger’s Job Boards, Digital Photography Blog and a number of other blogs that I’m associated with.

Thank […]

Written on August 29th, 2006 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Using Stories in Blogging

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 15 comments

Last week I spoke on the topic of Business Blogging at a Melbourne gathering of the Australian Interactive Media Association with Cameron and Ben.

I enjoyed the presentation times but particularly enjoyed a number of the interactions I had afterwards over drinks.

Three of those that I chatted to for a while were Gabrielle, Yamini and Lyn […]