Archive for: January, 2007
Written on January 23rd, 2007 at 08:01 pm by Darren Rowse
The Sydney Weblogger Ad-Tech Meetup - 7 Feb
If you’re in Sydney or will be there for adTech - Sara from the Bargain Queen has mobilized the Sydney Weblogger Meetup Group for a get together at the Arthouse Hotel on 7 February from 7.00pm.
Details of the Meetup are here. I’ve already RSVP’d.
Hope you can make it - should be a fun night!
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Written on January 23rd, 2007 at 11:01 am by Darren Rowse
66 Successful Bloggers and What they can teach you
Bill Belew at The Biz of Knowledge puts together a list of 66 Successful Bloggers and What they can teach you (taken from a book by Ted Demopoulos titled What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting - aff). There’s some great blogs there if you’re looking to improve your blogging!
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Written on January 23rd, 2007 at 09:01 am by Darren Rowse
Uncommon AdSense E-Book - Mini Review
I’ve been wanting to review Eric Giguere’s Uncommon AdSense (aff) e-book for a while now but after reading it then got crazily busy - to the point where I couldn’t do it justice.
Please forgive me - this will be brief - but having read it I thought I should at least give a few reflections.
Eric […]
Written on January 23rd, 2007 at 08:01 am by Darren Rowse
Performancing Closes Partners Advertising Network
Another big announcement over at Performancing’s blog today (seems to be one a week at the moment).
New CEO, Chris Garrett, has announced that they are closing Performancing Partners down.
This comes of server woes, the resignation of Nick Wilson as CEO, the calling off of a sale of Performancing to PayPerPost and the ending of their […]
Written on January 23rd, 2007 at 05:01 am by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger - MyBlogLog
Just under two years ago I signed up for and reviewed a little service called MyBlogLog for the first time. Back then it was a metrics service to track outbound links from a blog - but nothing much more.
Since that time I’ve linked to them and reviewed them a few more times as they’ve added […]
Written on January 23rd, 2007 at 01:01 am by Darren Rowse
Elite Retreat - Take Your Online Business to the Next Level
I mentioned this in passing last week after my interview with Shoemoney - but today we’re officially announcing the next Elite Retreat San Francisco which will run between 19-20 March.
I’ll be one of the leaders/speakers on this 30 seat conference and I’m really excited about it.
Other Speakers are Jeremy Schoemaker (aka Shoemoney and Mr six […]
Written on January 22nd, 2007 at 11:01 am by Darren Rowse
WordPress 2.1 - What You Should Know
Aaron has put together a worthwhile post for WordPress users wanting to upgrade to WP 2.1. It’s called 10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1 which outlines some of the new stuff that it has including auto-saving drafts, new image upload handling, new visual editor interface and merging of links and categories.
I’ve had a […]
Written on January 22nd, 2007 at 02:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to Optimize Images for Google Image Search
Earlier in the month Chris Pearson wrote a post that I missed but which I think deserves a look if you’re interested in directing more traffic to your site via Google - well via Google Image Search.
In it Chris outlines how to optimize images that you might use on your blog to increase the chances […]
Written on January 21st, 2007 at 08:01 pm by Darren Rowse
Lessons from Selling Websites
Ahmed has posted some reflections on the recent sale of three blogging related sites (Blog Catalog (sold for $40k), EatonWeb (sold for 10k) and 2RSS (sold for $7k) which all sold for between 24 and 100 times monthly revenues.
His conclusions:
Blogs are hot (’Buy it Now’ prices were all reached quickly)
People can see quality
Set your BIN […]
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