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)

ProBlogger Site News 19 comments

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

Social Media 23 comments

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!

ProBlogger Site News 65 comments

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?

Blogging Tools and Services 264 comments

“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

Featured Posts, ProBlogger Site News 45 comments

As this post goes live the doors at the BlogMastermind blog mentoring program are opening again for the first time in many months.

When he first launched BlogMastermind I was really impressed by what Yaro had put together. He didn’t just rely upon the fact that he earns a six figure income from blogging to draw […]

Written on July 29th, 2008 at 04:07 am by Darren Rowse

Performancing Ad Network

Advertising 29 comments

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

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 23 comments

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

ProBlogger Site News 37 comments

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!

Search Engine Optimization 42 comments

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 […]

Close
E-mail It