Archive for: February, 2007

Written on February 21st, 2007 at 01:02 am by Darren Rowse

How to Run a Blog Competition to Find New Readers and Make Your Blog Sticky

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 28 comments

One technique that an increasing number of bloggers have been using over the last year to create a buzz on their blogs is to use competitions.
In this post I’ll share 9 tips for running a successful competition on your blog - but first why would you want to run one?

Two benefits of Running Competitions on […]

Written on February 20th, 2007 at 03:02 pm by Darren Rowse

MyBlogLog Release Anti-Spam Plan

Blogging Tools and Services 13 comments

Eric from MyBlogLog has written a post on their blog explaining some of the problems that they’ve been facing on the spam front over the last little while and outlining some of the things that they’ve done (and are going to do) about it. I won’t rehash it all here -but for the fill post […]

Written on February 20th, 2007 at 08:02 am by Darren Rowse

Are .com and .net domains best?

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 82 comments

Today I got a reader question that I thought might make an interesting discussion topic.

I am starting a new blog, and the hardest part so far has been naming it. The domain I like is only available in the .ca format. What is your opinion on using anything other than a .com or a .net? […]

Written on February 20th, 2007 at 03:02 am by Darren Rowse

MyBlogLog - Is it Adding Value?

Blogging Tools and Services 70 comments

ProBlogger’s MyBlogLog community has continued to grow in number over the last couple of weeks since I added it to my sidebar however the last few days have given me numerous reasons to wonder if I continue with it.

Community Message Spam - I am increasingly spending time deleting spammy comments left on the community from […]

Written on February 20th, 2007 at 01:02 am by Darren Rowse

10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum…. or Blog

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 34 comments

I love learning things from people in other arenas and applying them to blogging so today when I saw SEOrefugee has a post titled 10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum I immediately wondered whether the 10 mistakes might also apply to blogging. Lets see:

1. Excessive Ads
I’d completely agree. While different blogs can get away […]

Written on February 19th, 2007 at 08:02 pm by Darren Rowse

SOBCon 07 - 12 May

Pro Blogging News 9 comments

Two days ago I had a nice little surprise when I opened my inbox. I got a sneak peak at a blogging conference that is running for the first time later this year. Interestingly enough its being run by and featuring a group of bloggers that I know well and respect (although they’re all obviously […]

Written on February 19th, 2007 at 12:02 pm by Darren Rowse

Monetize Your Blog through Text Messages - TextMarks

Blogging Tools and Services, Other Income Streams 29 comments

An interesting new monetization strategy for bloggers is emerging today - letting readers subscribe to your blog via Text Messages.

TextMarks has launched this new service which allows bloggers to either charge $4.99 or $9.99 per month to their readers to get these instantaneous alerts.

It’s currently only available to US cell phone users on Cingular, Verizon, […]

Written on February 19th, 2007 at 06:02 am by Darren Rowse

Anothr - RSS Bot for Skype

Blogging Tools and Services 20 comments

Over the last day or two I’ve been testing a tool that bloggers wanting to stay right on top of the news breaking in their niche might find very useful. It’s called Anothr and it’s an RSS bot for Skype users.

How does it work? - its pretty simple really. You add Anothr as a buddy […]

Written on February 18th, 2007 at 07:02 pm by Darren Rowse

Introducing Mrs. Wordpress

Pro Blogging News 20 comments

Time for a little weekend diversion….
Anyone who has started a WordPress blog will probably be familiar with Mr WordPress. He’s the guy who makes your first comment by default so that you know what a comment is.

Very considerate of him really.

His comment looks like this:

Today I discovered Mr WordPress has a secret….

He has a wife […]

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