Archive for: November, 2006

Written on November 30th, 2006 at 05:11 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Interview at Bloggertalks

ProBlogger Site News 7 comments

For those interested – I did a quick interview over at Bloggertalks today.
In it I talk about Problogger, b5media, talk about my opinion of ‘paid posts’, make a few observations about the mistakes I see bloggers making, talk about niche blogging and talk a little about RSS feeds.
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Written on November 30th, 2006 at 04:11 am by Darren Rowse

Participate in Carnivals – Reader Quick Tip

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 18 comments

This reader ‘quick tip’ is from FMF from Free Money Finance
If I had to pick one tip to give new and aspiring bloggers, it would be this: participate in blog carnivals.

No, it’s not a new tip and it’s not particularly exciting, but it’s certainly effective. In particular, consider these benefits of blog carnivals:

1. They give [...]

Written on November 30th, 2006 at 02:11 am by Darren Rowse

How to Optimize Your Blog for Christmas – The Complete Series

ProBlogger Site News 8 comments

A number of people have asked to see links to the complete series of posts on Fine Tuning Your Blog for Christmas in the one post – so here you have it – all 13 tips side by side. Enjoy:

How to Fine Tune Your Blog for Christmas
How to Position AdSense Ads
How to Design AdSense Ads
How [...]

Written on November 29th, 2006 at 08:11 pm by Darren Rowse

Feedburner Review

Blogging Tools and Services 3 comments

Aaron has posted a good Review of Feedburner over at his blog which might be worth a read for those looking for an RSS feed solution.
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Written on November 29th, 2006 at 12:11 pm by Darren Rowse

Office Chairs Recommendations

ProBlogger Site News 63 comments

A quick reader question:

What sort of chair do you sit at to blog from?

Over the last few months I’ve become increasingly aware that my chair (an office works special) is not working well for me and in the last week the result has been a back that is telling me that its ‘time for a [...]

Written on November 29th, 2006 at 08:11 am by Darren Rowse

Google’s Secret Display Advertising Network

Adsense, Pro Blogging News 11 comments

John Chow has broken the story that Google has a ’secret’ CPM advertising network called the ‘Google Display Advertising Network’ which is an invitation only impression based ad network for high profile advertisers and a select group of publishers.

It apparently lets publishers negotiate their own CPM (cost per thousand impressions) with Google with year long [...]

Written on November 29th, 2006 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

What should you do if your Google Ranking Falls and you lose all your traffic?

Search Engine Optimization 54 comments

One of the most frightening things that can happen to a blogger making their living from blogging is when the traffic to their blogs dries up for one reason or another.

There are numerous reasons why this might happen ranging from being hacked, to having a server outage, to not backing up a blog and losing [...]

Written on November 28th, 2006 at 08:11 pm by Darren Rowse

Adsense Gift – Digital Photo Frame Picture

Adsense 14 comments

Two days ago I posted that Google are sending their top AdSense publishers digital photo frames.

Shawn Hogan has posted a picture of the one they sent him.

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Written on November 28th, 2006 at 08:11 pm by Darren Rowse

Blogging Quick Tips

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 5 comments

A massive thank you to all those readers who submitted reader ‘quick tips’ which I used as guest posts while traveling over the last couple of weeks. Over 50 tips were submitted (in fact more have been submitted in the last few days) – unfortunately I wasn’t able to use all of them (although [...]

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