Archive for: September, 2006
Written on September 28th, 2006 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
Feedvertising - Really Simple RSS Advertising - Text Link Ads
Text Link Ads have just launched a new advertising format called Feedvertising (aff).
Those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed will probably have noticed that some text links have appeared at the bottom of my posts for the past few days - they are the Feedvertising ads that I’ve been beta testing this past […]
Written on September 28th, 2006 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
New Features Coming Soon for aStore
Amazon have emailed participants in the aStore beta test (my review here) with a sneak peak of what will be included in the next version of aStores. Here’s the list:
Build and maintain multiple aStores using a single Associate ID
Specify products to feature on Category and Sub-Category pages
Create multiple instances of individual categories and sub-categories (e.g. […]
Written on September 27th, 2006 at 08:09 pm by Darren Rowse
Blogging for Chickens Update
Non weekend readers might have missed the fact that this weekend I’m celebrating my 2nd birthday here at ProBlogger with a ‘Chicken-a-thon’.
Yes I’m blogging for Chickens in the hope of raising some money for Charity.
You can read about the project here.
So far donations total $240AU ($180US) and we’ve paid for 24 pairs of chickens. Thanks […]
Written on September 27th, 2006 at 09:09 am by Darren Rowse
Developing Focal Points in Blog Posts
One of the principles that I drum into my DPS readers that their photos need to have a point of interest or some sort of focal point that draws viewers into the image and holds their interest. I suggest that before photographers hit the shutter button that they as:
“What is the Focal Point in this […]
Written on September 27th, 2006 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
103bees Adds Long Tail Analysis
103bees has added yet another new and illuminating feature to it’s search engine metrics package.
This time they’re giving publishers a visual representation of the long tail of search engine queries for their blogs. So for ProBlogger you’ll see the graph below (click for a slightly larger version) which shows the last few days search term […]
Written on September 26th, 2006 at 05:09 pm by Darren Rowse
WordPress.com offer VIP Hosting
WordPress have announced that they’re getting into VIP Hosting which allows some pretty major blogs to ‘piggyback’ on the back of their WordPress.com hosting infrastructure. Basically it’s for blogs that don’t want to use Wordpress.com as a platform but who need reliable hosting for their blog. Here’s how they describe it as working:
You create WordPress.com […]
Written on September 26th, 2006 at 03:09 pm by Darren Rowse
Starting An Internet Business Yaro Style
Yaro has written a post titled 8 Pitfalls To Avoid When Starting An Internet Business which contains some worthwhile advice (although i disagree with a couple in part). His points in bold - my comments after in normal type:
Don’t start a business teaching how to make money online - very true. I see blogs start […]
Written on September 26th, 2006 at 01:09 pm by Darren Rowse
Techmeme Experiments with Feed/Content Advertising
Techmeme has launched a new sponsorship section on their site in the last day or so. It’s called ‘Techmeme Sponsor Posts’ and is essentially a spot on their sidebar where three sponsors have the latest posts from their blogs show up with a title and excerpt (taken from their RSS feed).
This is one of the […]
Written on September 26th, 2006 at 10:09 am by Darren Rowse
How Do You Manage Your Blog? - Blog Administration
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a number of people asking me for information on how I manage my time as a blogger and as someone with a number of different aspects of business running side by side.
Here’s an example of one of the questions (from a reader who asked to be anonymous):
“Darren, I’ve […]
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