Archive for: March, 2007

Written on March 19th, 2007 at 06:03 am by Darren Rowse

How Many Categories Does Your Blog Have?

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 100 comments

Time for a little discussion question that emerged out of a conversation that I had with a new blogger recently.

How many categories does your blog have?

I’d also be interested to hear how people determined what categories to use and whether you can have too many categories (I was reading a blog the other day that […]

Written on March 19th, 2007 at 01:03 am by Darren Rowse

How a Trackback after a Comment Can Start a Relationship

Blog Promotion 39 comments

The following post has been contributed by Liz Strauss from Successful Blog.
I was working today, answering comments and writing a post, when in came a trackback from a blog I didn’t know.
It immediately got my attention.
I went over to see who was talking. Of course, I knew the name of the blogger. He […]

Written on March 18th, 2007 at 01:03 am by Darren Rowse

Posting Blog Posts in Multiple Places - Good or Bad?

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 30 comments

Anon Guy asks - ‘Probably a stupid question, but I was wondering about how cross-posting can affect the original site. I have a small political blog and was recently asked to cross-post some story I did on Myspace and politics. I went ahead and cut-and-pasted the story over at a wikia.com site and, much to […]

Written on March 17th, 2007 at 06:03 pm by Darren Rowse

WordPress Plugins Directory

Blogging Tools and Services 17 comments

WordPress have added a Plugins Directory which will be a welcome relief to many WP users.

This is a great development from WP - one of the reasons it is so powerful as a blog platform is the large number of developers adding features to it via plugins - now we can find them!
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Written on March 17th, 2007 at 07:03 am by Darren Rowse

How Many Blogs do You Blog On?

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 96 comments

A quick reader question:

how many blogs do you actively blog on?

I’m not asking about how many inactive blogs you own - but how many do you contribute to with a post of your own at least once a week?

PS: I’ve previously asked a similar question - how many blogs do you ‘own’? which found most […]

Written on March 17th, 2007 at 02:03 am by Darren Rowse

Screencasts Add Great Content, New Revenue Streams

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 23 comments

The following post on Screencasting as a way to add great content and revenue streams to your blog was submitted by Mike Schinkel.
One way to add huge value to your blog is to incorporate screencasts for “how-to” instruction sites “tours” or software products and other blogs and websites.
Take a page from a professional’s playbook
[…]

Written on March 16th, 2007 at 01:03 am by Darren Rowse

5 Tips for Improving AdSense Referrals Earnings

Adsense, Affiliate Programs 35 comments

Yesterday I asked Do AdSense Referrals converted well for me? Today I’d like to turn our attention to some tips on how to make the referral program convert better.

How do you get more readers to click through and sign up to referrals?
Here are five tips that I’ve used:

1. Give a Recommendation
One of the differences between […]

Written on March 15th, 2007 at 08:03 am by Darren Rowse

Wendy Wins

Pro Blogging News 13 comments

Congratulations to Wendy Piersall who won the snap competition to attend the Elite Retreat. She’s excited - and so am I. I get to meet another ProBlogger reader (and she gets to meet an eMoms reader).

By the Way: While I’m traveling in the US Wendy will be one of ProBlogger’s guest bloggers. I suspect after […]

Written on March 15th, 2007 at 01:03 am by Darren Rowse

Do AdSense Referrals Work?

Adsense, Affiliate Programs 36 comments

Today’s reader question is - ‘I would like to know your views on Google referral ads. Do you make money out of them, or is it something to run away from?’ - submitted by gabo_uy.

Google AdSense Referrals are the CPA ads (cost per action) from the popular AdSense service. At the time of writing this […]

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