Written on September 30th, 2006 at 02:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Email Newsletter Subscribers Click More Ads

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Here’s a quick observation that I’ve made (by no means is this what I consider to be conclusive research - but it’s interesting anecdotal observation).

I run a number of newsletters on my blogs. On two of them I’ve noticed that on the day that my newsletters go out that my AdSense CTR (click through rate) […]

Written on September 30th, 2006 at 12:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Blogging For Chickens - Last Call

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One last post about my Blogging For Chickens Project for the week. The total donated is now up to 80 pairs of chickens donated ($800AU or $600US).

I’ll continue to collect donation for the rest of the weekend but will close it off on Monday morning.

Thanks to all who have made a donation so far - […]

Written on September 30th, 2006 at 04:09 am by Darren Rowse

Speedlinking - 30 September 2006

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A couple of links today for workaholic work-at-home entrepreneurs:

LifeDev writes an insightful post on the Myths About Working From Home
Solostream has a good post on Strategies to Resolve Work/Life Imbalance
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Written on September 30th, 2006 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse

Google Page Rank Update Underway Again

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Thanks to everyone who has sent me email and IM to let me know that Google is updating it’s page rank at the moment. It does seem that there is an update under way from what I can see.

As usual you can check your Future Page Rank here on a post I wrote for a […]

Written on September 30th, 2006 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse

The Challenge for Video Bloggers

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I was really excited to hear about the launch of Robert Scoble’s Video Blog in the past week. It certainly caused a stir around the blogosphere as it got lots of mentions on launch and some pretty positive reviews from viewers.

When I saw some of the segments included in the show I was even more […]

Written on September 29th, 2006 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse

101 Ways to Run Out of Things to Blog About

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The ‘list’ is a popular (and effective) style of blog post that appeals to many bloggers (and their readers). However in chatting to a few bloggers lately using lists can also be something of a trap at times - especially using the ‘mega list’.
nb: by ‘mega list’ I mean those long all encompassing lists - […]

Written on September 28th, 2006 at 02:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Google Opens AdSense Office In Australia

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Yesterday I had an unexpected phone call. It was from Michael from Google.

Now while I do chat to a few Google employees occasionally it’s always at odd hours of the day and usually via email - but this was an afternoon call and via phone. Different….

The accent was American and my immediate thought was that […]

Written on September 28th, 2006 at 05:09 am by Darren Rowse

11 +1 Best Practices for URL Structure

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SEOmoz blog has a helpful post with 11 Best Practices for URLs. They’re mainly written from an SEO perspective although make sense on other levels also.

Describe Your Content
Keep it Short
Static is the Way & the Light
Descriptives are Better than Numbers
Keywords Never Hurt
Subdomains Aren’t the Answer
Fewer Folders
Hyphens Separate Best
Stick with Conventions
Don’t be Case Sensitive
Don’t Append Extraneous […]

Written on September 28th, 2006 at 03:09 am by Darren Rowse

Tabbed Browsing Increase CTR on Ads at Top of Page

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The Scroll Bar Theory
When I first started using AdSense one of the tips that some AdSense experts suggested was to run skyscrapers down the right hand side of your site because this is where readers eye would be drawn to when they went to use the scroll bar.

Of course this strategy became less and less […]