Archive for: July, 2008
Written on July 31st, 2008 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse
12 Hours To Go to Win a Flip in the BlogMastermind Competition (plus a new bonus)
36 hours ago I announced the re-launch of Yaro’s BlogMastermind Blog Mentoring program.
As part of my promotion of it I offered any ProBlogger reader who signs up the chance to win one of six prizes.
First prize is a Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder (worth $179) and 5 runners up will win a copy of the […]
Written on July 30th, 2008 at 11:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Add These Plurk Users as Your Friends
Today the Social Media Love-In here at ProBlogger continues with a list of 145 bloggers who use Plurk.
So far we’ve presented you with bloggers who use Digg, some that use StumbleUpon and a lot of them who use Twitter. Today’s list is smaller than the others but I think it is just as worthwhile as […]
Written on July 30th, 2008 at 09:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Win a Full Conference Pass at Blog World Expo!
One of my biggest regrets of 2007 was not being able to attend Blog World Expo.
The reports that came out of BWE from thousands of bloggers were quite amazing. Rich networking, great teaching, showcases of services and tools for bloggers and much much more.
This year Blog World Expo is on again (20-21 September) in Las […]
Written on July 30th, 2008 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
Blog Hosting Recommendations - Who Hosts Yours?
“Can you give me advice on which host to go with to host my blog?”
It’s a question that I’m asked a lot - but one that I can’t offer a lot of personal advice on as my blogs have been successfully hosted on b5media’s servers for a couple of years now. We use LogicWorks at […]
Written on July 29th, 2008 at 11:07 pm by Darren Rowse
BlogMastermind Launches With a Bonus for ProBlogger Readers
As this post goes live the doors at the BlogMastermind blog mentoring program are opening again for the first time in many months.
Signup for the six month package and I’ll give you a bonus one hour consulting/coaching session with me. Read on below for more details.
When he first launched BlogMastermind I was really impressed by […]
Written on July 29th, 2008 at 04:07 am by Darren Rowse
Performancing Ad Network
In the last week a new ad network has launched - PerformancingAds.
Bloggers who have been around for a while will know that this isn’t the first time Performancing have ventured into the ad network space - they previously launched a network back in 2006 but closed it down last year during a period where they […]
Written on July 29th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
Conversations On Relational Blogging Continue
A week ago today I published a post asking ‘has Blogging has lost its relational focus?‘
It was a post that generated some great conversation in comments and one that sparked other bloggers to pick up on the thread and write about it on their own blogs. Today I thought I’d point out some of the […]
Written on July 28th, 2008 at 07:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Call for Prizes - Group Writing Project Coming Soon
It has been a while since I’ve run a group writing project here at ProBlogger so I thought it might be time to another one (if you’re new to ProBlogger and don’t know what a group writing project is I’ll describe it below).
While I’m getting things ready I’m looking for prizes from up to 3 […]
Written on July 28th, 2008 at 03:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Surprise Surprise - Google Knol Ranks Well in Google!
Last week Google announced their ‘Knol’ service and I (among others) questioned whether it would have a significant impact upon smaller publishers ability to rank well in Google’s search results.
Initial results show that Knol articles are already ranking very well (here and here for example) - and with as little as a link or two […]


