Archive for: November, 2007
Written on November 30th, 2007 at 10:11 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense Ad Click Zones - Gmail and Other Large Sites Get a Better Deal
Are AdSense truly interested in cutting down mistaken clicks on ads? If so - why do some of the biggest sites on the web (including one of their own) still have most of their ad units clickable while the average publisher does not?
I just had an email from WebbyThoughts who alerted me to a an […]
Written on November 30th, 2007 at 05:11 am by Darren Rowse
How Much Money Do Bloggers Earn Blogging?
Earlier in the month I asked readers to share their blog earnings for the month of October. As usual this poll was a popular one with 3054 responses. I’ve run this survey previously so will compare the results between this and last time I ran it below.
Of this number 857 said that they did not […]
Written on November 30th, 2007 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger Community Consulting 2.0
Would you like your blog to be constructively critiqued by hundreds of ProBloggers (and aspiring ProBloggers)? Read on to find out how you could be the next recipient of a ProBlogger Community Consultation.
Last month I ran a little experiment here on ProBlogger - ProBlogger Community Blog Consulting. The idea was to see what would happen […]
Written on November 29th, 2007 at 09:11 pm by Darren Rowse
More on Amazon ‘Buy Now’ Buttons
Roman from Phone Area emailed me after seeing my recent post on adding Amazon ‘buy now’ buttons to posts with a similar suggestion that extends the principle:
“I’ve used this method for a couple months and took it a step further to get more impressions and revenue:
I don’t link directly to a product page but I […]
Written on November 29th, 2007 at 11:11 am by Darren Rowse
Add a Buy Now Button to Your Affiliate Links and Increase Conversions
Self Made Minds had a short but brilliant post last week that I think is Gold for those using Amazon’s affiliate program to make money from their blog (in fact it can be adapted to any affiliate program).
Al writes that he hacked together a little ‘Buy Now’ in the style of Amazon’s buy buttons (pictured […]
Written on November 29th, 2007 at 05:11 am by Darren Rowse
Two Important Reasons to Subscribe to Your Own RSS Feeds
Do You Subscribe to Your Own RSS Feeds?
Some might think that subscribing to yourself is nothing more than an exercise in vanity - but I believe it’s good blogging practice and something that can improve your blog.
This morning I was wading through the thousands of unread items in Google Reader and noticed that one blog […]
Written on November 29th, 2007 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
How Does Your Comment Policy Affect Your Readership?
This guest post was submitted by Elise Bauer, Publisher of Simply Recipes and Editor-in-Chief of Learning Movable Type
Read blogs long enough and one thing will begin to stand out is the varying tenor and quality of comments on different blogs. When I first started publishing my own blogs and reading others several years ago […]
Written on November 28th, 2007 at 01:11 pm by Darren Rowse
User Generated Content and the Threat to Journalism
A few weeks back I asked readers for their opinion on a topic that I’d been asked to write a short column on for the Australian Marketing Magazine (no online version of the article that I can find).
The question was - ‘Will the growing popularity of digital user-generated content pose a threat to the traditional […]
Written on November 28th, 2007 at 05:11 am by Darren Rowse
How to Get Your Domain Indexed by Google After Being Banned
Those looking to buy a new domain for a blog might find a post by Chris Webb titled Banned From Google - How I Finally Got Listed useful.
In it Chris describes his struggle to get listed in Google and the discovery of how his domain was previously used by a Spammer which got the domain […]

