Archive for: December, 2006

Written on December 19th, 2006 at 05:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Speedlinking - 19 December 2006

Pro Blogging News 4 comments

An Australian Blogging Conference looks like it will be held in Brisbane in March of next year according to Peter Black who is organizing it - via Des Walsh
Josh Dorkin put together a useful post on copyright and what to do when someone steals your content
Search Engine Journal has a post looking at Google’s definition […]

Written on December 19th, 2006 at 08:12 am by Darren Rowse

What to Buy Me for Christmas

ProBlogger Site News 10 comments

Yesterday I went to my PO Box and was surprised to find four Christmas Cards and two Christmas Gifts from ProBlogger readers.

Interestingly this is the third day in a row when I’ve had such surprises in my mail box - something different for me as last year I think the only Blogging Christmas mail was […]

Written on December 19th, 2006 at 08:12 am by Darren Rowse

AdSenseAd Clarify Policy on Images Near Ads

Adsense 30 comments

The AdSense team have finally come out and publicly written about their policy on images near their ads. This is long overdue as it has been almost a year since I’ve had publishers asking me about the topic and have seen publisher experiment with the practice of putting ads above, below or beside ads.

In short […]

Written on December 18th, 2006 at 09:12 pm by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Group Writing Project - Reviews and Predictions

ProBlogger Site News 177 comments

It’s time for another ProBlogger Group Writing Project - and this time we’ve got 10 prizes worth between $2000 to $2500 USD!

PLEASE READ ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTING. Particularly pay attention to the instruction to submit NEW posts not previously written ones. Old posts (written before today) won’t be accepted and will not be […]

Written on December 18th, 2006 at 07:12 pm by Darren Rowse

I’ve been Bruced!

ProBlogger Site News 8 comments

Poet Robert Bruce recently put together a poetic video for everyone’s favorite Copy Writing Blogger and I have to say I was a little jealous - to my knowledge no one’s ever written a poem or made a video for me before.

But I lived in hope! :-)

Today Robert emailed me with a very kind message […]

Written on December 18th, 2006 at 10:12 am by Darren Rowse

How to Cut Through the Clutter of an OVERLY BLOGGED STORY and Get Noticed

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 12 comments

Aaron just IM’d me to let me know that my post on TIME being linkbaiter of the year has climbed up to #3 on Techmeme (actually it got to #2).

The irony is that my in jest (attempted humor) accusation that TIME have pulled off the most successful linkbaiting of the year has in term become […]

Written on December 18th, 2006 at 01:12 am by Darren Rowse

What are People Searching for Online This Christmas

Pro Blogging News 7 comments

Epiar Market Research Blog has put together an interesting list that tracks what ‘Christmas’ things people are searching for online this year. Here are the first 8 items on the list. They are estimated searches as measured across all search engines.

See the full list at Christmas Wishes Expressed in Internet Search
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Written on December 17th, 2006 at 06:12 pm by Darren Rowse

TIME Wins Linkbaiter of the Year Award

Pro Blogging News 39 comments

Time Magazine have pulled off the Link Bait of the year with their Person of the Year Award. They’ve named ‘You’ (and me) as the winner of the award.

By ‘You’ they give the award to anyone involved in user generated content - that’s social media, blogging, video sharing etc etc etc.

“And for seizing the […]

Written on December 17th, 2006 at 10:12 am by Darren Rowse

Snap Preview - Tell me What You Think

Blogging Tools and Services 70 comments

There are a number of tools that I’ve been meaning to test on my blogs over the past few months and so this weekend I’ve decided to get a few of them up and running.

The first one that you’ll notice I’m testing at ProBlogger is Snap. I’ve added it to my blogging tools page.

Put your […]

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