Written on June 30th, 2007 at 08:06 am by Darren Rowse

What do you do with your Blog on the Weekend?

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 109 comments

The weekend is here and I’m looking forward to some fun. You see today is my Son’s first birthday party (his actual birthday is next Friday) and we’re getting together with family and friends to celebrate his first year as well as doing a dedication ceremony (sort of like a Christening). It’s going to be […]

Written on June 30th, 2007 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

More Tips on Getting Unverified Email Subscribers to Confirm their Subscription

Blog Promotion, RSS 20 comments

Yesterday I wrote a tip on increasing subscriber numbers to your blog that focussed upon those doing it via Feedburner’s RSS to Email feature emailing unverified subscribers to remind them to confirm their subscription.

The post generated quite a few questions via comments and email - to the point that I thought I’d write the answers […]

Written on June 29th, 2007 at 11:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Speedlinking - 29 June 2007

Pro Blogging News 2 comments

After a year of blogging Charlene writes some reflections in a post titled Web Site Monetization - A Reality Check
Webconfs has a useful list of SEO basics - arranged with scores next to them ranging from +3 (strategies worth doing) to -3 (things to avoid). Nice list.
DoshDosh shares 15 Feedburner Feedflares for Promoting a Blog

This […]

Written on June 29th, 2007 at 01:06 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense launch Referrals 2.0

Adsense 39 comments

AdSense have today announced that they are expanding the previously closed beta Referrals 2.0 program to be available to all AdSense publishers. This newly expanded Referrals is going to take a while for publishers to get their heads around but the basics of the expansion are that now instead of only being able to recommend […]

Written on June 29th, 2007 at 11:06 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Goes Mobile

ProBlogger Site News 6 comments

If you’re a blackberry user you can now follow ProBlogger via that device as a result of the network to which this blog belongs, b5media, Going Mobile. b5media now has over 200 blogs on a variety of topics - all of which can be read on the go from your blackberry. Other platforms will be […]

Written on June 29th, 2007 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

9 Reasons Why I AM An Amazon Affiliate

Affiliate Programs 43 comments

John Chow today posted a post outlining why he’s not an Amazon Affiliate. It’s a good post in that it gives an insight into his approach to affiliate marketing. The best point John alludes to is that Amazon doesn’t ‘fit’ with his blog. He makes more from other better targeted affiliate programs than Amazon.

However […]

Written on June 29th, 2007 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Two Tips for Increasing RSS Subscriber Numbers

RSS 41 comments

Over the weekend I managed to increase the number of subscribers to my Digital Photography School RSS feed by around 15%. Before Friday it was sitting at around the 20,000 subscriber mark and 3 days later it’s just over 23,000 subscribers.

How did I do it?

I did two things.

1. I Emailed Unverified Email Subscribers
At DPS I […]

Written on June 28th, 2007 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

What Social Networking Sites Do You Use? How Do they Benefit Your Blog?

Social Media 73 comments

I’ve noticed over the last month that the numbers of requests to connect (or become friends) on social networking sites has dramatically increased. Every morning when I go through my inbox I find I’m approving more and more of these requests from Facebook and LinkedIn and even when I head over to MySpace I’m […]

Written on June 28th, 2007 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse

91% of ProBlogger Readers Don’t Fake It

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 32 comments

A few weeks back I asked readers for their opinion on a reader question - Should I Add Fake Comments to My Blog?

125 comments were left and I thought I’d sum it up with a quick graph to help visualize how people answered. I think this speaks for itself:

Note - I changed the question slightly […]