Archive for: February, 2008

Written on February 25th, 2008 at 12:02 am by Skellie

Another Chance to Win 1,700 Visitors: Review FreeMoneyFinance.com

Case Studies 51 comments

This week’s community consultation of Free Money Finance boasts a very useful prize for bloggers: 1,700 visitors. Leave a helpful review with some non-intuitive points in your comment and you could win a stampede of 1,700 StumbleUpon users to your favorite post. If your content is good, those 1,700 visitors could grow into a much […]

Written on February 24th, 2008 at 07:02 am by Darren Rowse

A Tortoise’s Guide to Blogging

Featured Posts, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 49 comments

The following post has been written by Kaila Colbin from VortexDNA
Effortless Traffic-Building. 5 Easy Steps to Number 1. Lose Weight in Your Sleep. We’re hardwired to be tempted by shortcuts, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that they don’t work. The good news is that it’s more fun—and more gratifying—to succeed in blogging the […]

Written on February 24th, 2008 at 06:02 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Switches to Guest Blogger Mode

ProBlogger Site News 9 comments

Just a quick update on the guest post situation here on ProBlogger. A couple of days ago on the spur of the moment I invited readers to submit a post for next week (and a couple of weeks in March). Within 22 hours of posting that I had just under 100 people say that they […]

Written on February 24th, 2008 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

TeachingSells offers a $1 Sneak Peek

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 20 comments

One of my favorite resources for teaching people how to make money from building online communities is TeachingSells.
Produced by Brian Clark of CopyBlogger fame this course has so much amazing information packed into it that it is difficult to digest it all. Actually when I say it’s a ‘course’ I should probably describe it as […]

Written on February 23rd, 2008 at 01:02 am by Darren Rowse

Find Creative Commons Licenced Photos from Flickr via Your WP Blog

Blogging Tools and Services 49 comments

This WP plugin looks amazing - it finds Flickr Creative Commons licenced images all from within WP.

“With the Photo Dropper plugin, you can now search millions of Flickr photos and add them to your Wordpress posts with just 1 click, all without leaving your Wordpress dashboard. Attribution links are automatically added underneath the images to […]

Written on February 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense for Video Goes into Beta Testing

Adsense 26 comments

I’m literally running out the door for a week’s vacation but the news broke last night that AdSense for Video has finally come out of it’s initial pilot testing into a wider beta test. You can read about it on the AdSense blog or check out an overview of it with this video.

Keep in […]

Written on February 22nd, 2008 at 05:02 am by Darren Rowse

4 Social Media Marketing Tips for Bloggers

Social Media, Video Posts 90 comments

My good friend Aaron Brazell from Technosailor asked me if I’d record a short video for a presentation he was giving on the topic of Social Media. He asked me to speak about marketing with Social Media sites. I thought I’d publish the video here also.
To summarize - I share 4 simple tips on marketing […]

Written on February 22nd, 2008 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

Blogsavvy up for Sale - an Interesting Opportunity

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 29 comments

Friend and fellow Melbourne Blogger James Farmer has decided to put his blog Blogsavvy on the market. It’s going to be an interesting auction to watch - because it’s a little different to many other blog sales that we’ve seen.
What is different about this auction is that it doesn’t run advertising on it, there’s no […]

Written on February 21st, 2008 at 10:02 am by Darren Rowse

Are You Coming to SXSW? Enter this Competition to Come have a Beer with Me!

ProBlogger Site News 29 comments

Are you coming to SXSW? If so - I’d love to meet you.
Comments are now closed. Winners will be notified by email, by Lara, who is helping to manage the site while we’re in “Guest Blogger Mode”. Thanks to all who entered!
Chitika have been kind enough to sponsor me in coming along this year and […]

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