Archive for: January, 2007
Written on January 26th, 2007 at 09:01 pm by Darren Rowse
The 2007 Bloggies – Finalists Announced
Finalists have been announced for the The 2007 Bloggies and ProBlogger has been nominated in the ‘Best Web Development Weblog’ category again.
This year the competition is pretty hot and PB is up against some of my favorite blogs including CopyBlogger (Brian – who I link to every second day). Also nominated is the amazing A [...]
Written on January 26th, 2007 at 08:01 pm by Darren Rowse
How Steven Bradbury Can Make You a Better Blogger
Warning – Tangent Ahead
Today is Australia Day here in Australia (a public holiday). As part of this annual celebration – when we eat a lot of BBQ lamb (BBQ), play backyard cricket and watch the Tennis and Cricket (could the Aussies have demoralized the English any more?) – a hundred or so Aussies are [...]
Written on January 25th, 2007 at 05:01 pm by Darren Rowse
Digg Traffic vs Referral Traffic – Which is Best?
Digital Inspiration has a post on Getting Noticed by A-list bloggers vs Getting on Digg Front Page which makes a few worthwhile observations.
It fits pretty closely to a comment I made last week in an interview with Jeremy when I was asked which social networking site I’d prefer to get traffic from. My response was [...]
Written on January 25th, 2007 at 04:01 pm by Darren Rowse
DEVONthink Pro and Scrivener – Tools for Writers
Over the last few days I’ve been playing around with a couple of writing tools for Mac OSX users that are really excellent.
While they are not blogging tools specifically they do offer writers some useful resources and for larger writing projects I think both would be invaluable (although you probably wouldn’t use both of them).
DEVONthink
The [...]
Written on January 25th, 2007 at 05:01 am by Darren Rowse
V7N Contextual Links – a First Impression Review
Updated – this post has been updated below with links to the responses from V7N Contexual Link Creators.
Today I took a quick look at a new contextual links program that seems to have been launched this week by the name of Contextual Links at V7N. I saw it in my RSS feed earlier in the [...]
Written on January 25th, 2007 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to Think Outside of the Box and Develop Attention Grabbing Content
I’d like to welcome Glen Stansberry from LifeDev (feed) to Problogger. Glen has offered to write a series of posts looking at how to use creativity, productivity and organization to improve your blogging skills.
With the blogosphere ballooning to gigantic proportions, more and more blogs are springing up in every single niche. While it’s great [...]
Written on January 24th, 2007 at 06:01 am by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking 24 January 2007
Akismet have launched a new plugin – version 2.0. It has some great new features which should enhance it’s performance including a search feature (something I’ve been testing the last few days – it’s great), the ability to to discard spam on old posts, a spam counter widget (so you can brag about how much [...]
Written on January 24th, 2007 at 04:01 am by Darren Rowse
booBox To Help Bloggers Sell Stuff
TechCrunch report that booBox (a Brazillian start up) are getting ready to launch a service that will help bloggers and other webmasters monetize their sites.
It’s an interesting concept which is best understood by using their demo of it here.
In short – bloggers add tags to images on their blogs which adds a little icon [...]
Written on January 24th, 2007 at 02:01 am by Darren Rowse
Do Full Feeds Increase Your RSS Subscriber Count?
Bouncing off Leon Ho’s post 0 to 12,000 RSS Subscribers: Ways to Attract More Subscriptions (a good read about how LifeHack.org grew it’s subscriber list)) Steve Rubel wonders out loud if someone should do some study into full feeds and if they are what makes a blog’s feed successful?
He wants someone to do the research [...]
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