Archive for: December, 2006

Written on December 28th, 2006 at 07:12 pm by Darren Rowse

PayPerPost buys Performancing (or part of it)

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Techcrunch is reporting that PayPerPost is buying Performancing and will make the announcement today sometime.

They say that the reason for the purchase is to give PPP access to Performancing’s 28,000 users.

I will be interested to read the official announcements later today as I’d heard previously that a sale was imminent but that it wouldn’t include […]

Written on December 27th, 2006 at 07:12 pm by Darren Rowse

How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog

Social Media 72 comments

How do you build a ‘Digg Culture’ and get repeatedly on the front page of Digg over time?
In this post I’ll share 10 ways that top bloggers do it.

Last week on a post that Tony wrote about Digg Fraud one of those who left a comment wrote:

“I think it’s been pretty much proven that […]

Written on December 24th, 2006 at 01:12 am by Darren Rowse

Five Things you May Not Know about this little ProBlogger

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Well the five things meme has circulated backwards and forwards through the blogosphere and I thought I’d escaped it as it does seem to be whimpering out - however Chris Garrett posted today that I was the only slack one in his list of tagees not to respond which alerted me to the fact that […]

Written on December 23rd, 2006 at 01:12 am by Darren Rowse

From the ProBlogger Christmas Party

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Well today’s the last working day before Christmas here and while a lot of my friends are out at office parties this work at home single person business guy is kicking back having my own little ProBlogger office party.

I’m toying with the idea of photocopying my bum and/or making a move on the boss - […]

Written on December 22nd, 2006 at 09:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Group Writing Project Winners

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Now that the final submissions are all in for the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project it’s time to announce the prizes from our wonderful and generous sponsors who in total gave $2500 USD in gifts as incentives to participate.

The following 10 winners were selected randomly (using a random number generator) to win the […]

Written on December 22nd, 2006 at 08:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Reviews and Predictions Project - Final Reader Submissions

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The final day of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project has arrived and as with each of the previous times we’ve done it I find myself with a mixture of feelings including being over stimulated (when you read 292 blog posts on such a wide array of topics it tends to leave you slightly […]

Written on December 22nd, 2006 at 12:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Printbaiting - How to Get Your Blog Mentioned in the Papers

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 11 comments

Penelope Trunk has a helpful post on how to get your blog mentioned in Print.

She writes some good tips in each of the following areas:

Don’t pitch yourself, pitch an idea.
Pitch an idea with the print audience in mind.
Tailor the idea to the journalist.
Sign up for Profnet.
Answer questions strategically.
Be available.

It’s a useful list and a lot […]

Written on December 22nd, 2006 at 02:12 am by Darren Rowse

Amazon Associates Move to Monthly Payments for 2007!

Affiliate Programs 10 comments

The Amazon associates program is changing it’s payment system to be every month instead of once a quarter. So instead of getting 4 cheques (or gift certificates) per year you’ll get 12.

The payment terms will be 60 days (ie you get your cheque or certificate 60 days after the month ends) but this aspect of […]

Written on December 21st, 2006 at 10:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Reviews and Predictions Project - Day 3

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Day 3 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project has seen yet another solid round of submissions - 74 in all today (which brings the total so far to 208 - see them all here). While numbers are slightly down on last time I’m excited by the quality of many of the submissions and […]

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