Written on December 31st, 2007 at 05:12 am by Skellie

Wife Advice — Community Consulting Summary

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Our fourth Community Consultation wraps up today with an overview of the ProBlogger community’s feedback for Wife Advice.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to provide feedback, even amongst the kind of chaos only the end of December can bring!
New to community consulting? You’ll want to read Darren’s launch post as well as Wife […]

Written on December 31st, 2007 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse

Lessons for Bloggers From The ‘Death of 2007′

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The following guest post was submitted by Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian from Money.Power.Wisdom.

And so another year draws to an end. The ‘death of 2007′ sparks off a line of thinking that will add value to your 2008. It’s about burying the dead past - after learning every lesson possible from it, and using each one to make […]

Written on December 30th, 2007 at 04:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Improve Your Blog with Networking

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In Answer to My question - ‘What did You Do On Your Blog in 2007 that Improved it the most’ - David Peralty from xfep.com answered:

The answer to your question boils down to one word: networking.

With everything else I have done in my blogging, networking is really the only thing that has really given my […]

Written on December 30th, 2007 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Apply Wrong Exchange Rate to November Earnings

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If you’re an AdSense publisher who gets paid in your own local currency it might be worth checking your payment reports today because I’ve heard from two different publishers who are reporting that the exchange rate application is wrong. I just checked mine and it’s out also.

It seems that they’ve converted money the wrong way […]

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

Increase Your Direct Ad Sales Revenue with a Clear Advertising Page

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In This post Jeremy Schoemaker from Shoemoney answers - ‘What did You Do On Your Blog in 2007 that Improved it the most’

I did several improvements to my blog but by far the one that improved it the most was implemented a VERY clear advertising page which decreased our email back and fourth to hardly […]

Written on December 29th, 2007 at 05:12 am by Darren Rowse

Using Linkify to Make Linking to Others Easier

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In this post Matt Cutts from MattCutts.com (and Google) shares what he did in 2007 that improved his blog the most.

The shortest, easiest thing I started doing was using linkify.

You just highlight some text and click the bookmarklet to open Google’s search results. Pick the result you wanted and click “create link” and the hyperlink […]

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

Going Full Time as a Blogger

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In this post David Hobby from Strobist answers my question - ‘What did you do on your blog in 2007 that improved it the most?’

The one thing that I did for Strobist.com that allowed it to improve the most in 2007 was to focus my full-time attention on it. I had been splitting my time […]

Written on December 28th, 2007 at 03:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Improve Your Blog by Showing Up

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Today Seth Godin (top blogger and author of many books including The Dip) tells us (in his usual succinct style) what he did in 2007 to improve his blog the most.

I showed up.

Underrated, but important.

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Written on December 28th, 2007 at 05:12 am by Darren Rowse

Blogging is Like….

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Earlier in the week I posted Blogging is Like Watching Grass Grow - a video post about the early days of blogging. I’ve had some nice feedback from it and this morning on a whim decided to do a search on Google to find out what other people thought ‘Blogging is Like’.

The variety of posts […]