Archive for: February, 2007
Written on February 28th, 2007 at 12:02 pm by Darren Rowse
SXSW BlogNetworkCamp
If you’re going to SXSW in a couple of weeks and want to get together with some other bloggers to talk blog networks you might be interested in the BlogNetworkCamp meetup that b5media is hosting.
Topics under discussion:
Better ways to pay bloggers
Infrastructure requirements of a growing blog network
How to sell ads in today’s online ad environment
Challenges [...]
Written on February 28th, 2007 at 07:02 am by Darren Rowse
How to Find a Guest Blogger for your Blog
Aditya makes a good point, bouncing off my post yesterday on guest bloggers.
The main point made is that it can be easier to find a guest blogger when you have an established or popular blog.
They write:
“Some good points – but it certainly is much easier to get a guest blogger when you have a very [...]
Written on February 28th, 2007 at 01:02 am by Darren Rowse
The Rise of the Multi Blogger Blog – Outsourcing Content Creation
There’s something in the air today – everyone seems to be talking about outsourcing your blogging (or elements of it).
Daniel is writing about it from a perspective of outsourcing some of your non core blogging activities (like design, blog maintenance, marketing and even content creation) and Yaro is talking about his journey of outsourcing his [...]
Written on February 27th, 2007 at 08:02 pm by Darren Rowse
What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed?
In my recent call for questions from readers Barry asked:
“What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed?”
It’s a good question and one worthy of some discussion as an ‘Open Mic’ discussion. Perhaps the result will be that we’ll all learn a thing or two NOT to do in our blogging.
So what makes you unsubscribe [...]
Written on February 27th, 2007 at 04:02 am by Darren Rowse
Why Guest Bloggers are Great for a Blog
Matt Coddington has written a guest post over at John Chow’s blog on the topic of guest blogging and makes the point that it’s something that is really a win win win situation.
The blogger who does the guest spot wins because it exposes them to a new readership and (as Matt does) if you link [...]
Written on February 27th, 2007 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse
WordPress Plugins for Monetizing Your Blog
If you’re a WordPress bloggers and you want to monetize it Lorelle has put together an essential read for you in her post which outlines Monetizing WordPress Plugins.
Lorelle’s put together a whole list of WP plugins which can be used in making money from your blog under the following titles:
Adding Adsense Ads to Your WordPress [...]
Written on February 26th, 2007 at 11:02 am by Darren Rowse
What A Bad Museum Exhibit Can Teach You About Blogging
This post has been submitted by Glen Stansberry.
It’s funny what we can learn in our everyday lives that can help us improve our blogging.
I recently went to Kansas City to see the historic Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, and came away with a feeling that the presentation wasn’t quite put together as well as it could [...]
Written on February 25th, 2007 at 12:02 pm by Darren Rowse
AdSense Testing Another New ‘Related’ Ad Format
Update – Thanks to Amit and siong1987 – this is just the latest version of Google’s Related Links.
Speaking of Google testing new types of AdSense ads – Dave from DaveDevelopment just emailed me to show me a new type of ad that he’s seen Google experimenting with. Here’s how it looks (click to enlarge):
It’s [...]
Written on February 25th, 2007 at 11:02 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense testing Italicized Ads
Over the last week I’ve had quite a few readers emailing me about Google AdSense ads that they are seeing with the headings of the ad in italics.
Initially the ads mainly seemed to be appearing on big websites and I thought they were something premium publishers were testing but in the last couple of days [...]
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