Archive for: November, 2006

Written on November 25th, 2006 at 11:11 am by Darren Rowse

How to Improve Your Blog By Partnering Up

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 16 comments

Scot Longyear from Worshipplus sent in this reader ‘quick tip’:
The old adage that two heads are better than one hold true in blogging. Here are a few advantages:

1. More eyes for proofreading. The more looks you can get before you post, the better your content and clarity.

2. Web scanning. We […]

Written on November 25th, 2006 at 02:11 am by Darren Rowse

Writing Seasonal Content for Christmas

Writing Content 6 comments

With the end of the year approaching the web surfing habits of the average web user changes. The way you position yourself now in the weeks leading up to this period can mean you’re ready to capitalize on some of these changes.

I noticed this last year particularly when analyzing how people arrived at my sites […]

Written on November 24th, 2006 at 11:11 am by Darren Rowse

How to Write Your “About Me” Page

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 120 comments

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How do you write an About Me page?

There are four main questions that readers want answered on your About Me page:

who you are…
your expertise and how it addresses…
their problem or goal, and how they can…
contact you

Here is a sample “About […]

Written on November 24th, 2006 at 02:11 am by Darren Rowse

How to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines

Search Engine Optimization 86 comments

So you’re looking to increase the profitability of your blog for the Christmas period (and beyond). You’ve optimized your AdSense, Chitika and Affiliate programs, you’ve even written a little seasonal content…. but there’s one missing element…. Traffic.

Unless you actually have people viewing your blog it is very difficult to actually earn anything from it.

So how […]

Written on November 23rd, 2006 at 07:11 pm by Darren Rowse

How to Drive Traffic to Your Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Programs 6 comments

One key to affiliate programs succeeding is that you have enough traffic that actually sees your affiliate links. There is little point in actually deep linking to products on pages that no one actually visits. So how can you increase the chances of people seeing and potentially clicking your affiliate links?

Cross Linking - a technique […]

Written on November 23rd, 2006 at 11:11 am by Darren Rowse

Put Chikita as your AdSense alternate URL

Adsense, Chitika eMiniMalls 8 comments

This reader ‘quick tip’ was submitted by Antoine Khater from All Day I Dream About Photography

Wouldn’t be nice to have you Chikita emini-mall or ShopCloud$ (aff) showing up as the Alternate URL of Adsense?

Here is a trick I recently learned on how to do it.

Just set up a BLANK page, completely blank no header no […]

Written on November 23rd, 2006 at 07:11 am by Darren Rowse

Reflections On A Week in Toronto

ProBlogger Site News 11 comments

Well all good things must come to an end and as I write this I find myself at Toronto’s international airport awaiting my flight to LA and then home.

Quite a few people have asked me how I’ve found Canada and particularly how I’ve found meeting some of the b5media gang. Instead of a long series […]

Written on November 23rd, 2006 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

Amazon Include Gift Certificates in Referral Program

Affiliate Programs 1 comment

Amazon have just announced that they are now allowing publishers to earn commission when readers that they refer buy a gift certificate in the Amazon store as part of their Associates program. This is only the case up until the end of the year and commissions will be a flat fee of 6%.

To get your […]

Written on November 22nd, 2006 at 06:11 pm by Darren Rowse

Increase AdSense Earnings with Competitive Ad Filter

Adsense 37 comments

Luke Meshios from Webmaster SEO wrote the following reader ‘quick tip’:
Do you ever wonder why it is you get low clicks sometimes? 1 cents - 10 cents?

This is because the Adsense Publishers are offering low amounts. Some times they offer a low amount because they have Adsense on their website too. And they might get […]

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