Written on July 24th, 2008 at 05:07 am by Darren Rowse

Follow These Twitter Users - They’re Just Like You

Social Media 61 comments

ProBlogger reader - I’d like to introduce you to some new friends - around 700 of them (and counting).
Over the weekend, on a whim, I started the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In as a way of linking you as readers of this blog together via social media. In that post I invited you to submit your […]

Written on July 24th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

A Secret to Sustain Yourself as a Blogger

General 92 comments

Today I want to talk about an issue may seem more suited to a ’self help’ blog than a blog about blogging - but it’s something that I think is pretty important you want to be a successful blogger. It’s something that is so important that it can make or break you.

Image by *nathan
However - […]

Written on July 23rd, 2008 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse

Conversion Blogging Video

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 21 comments

Yaro Starak from the popular Blog Mastermind mentoring program has today released a video that looks at a processing of making money from blogs that he calls Conversion Blogging. Yaro’s been using it to make over $10,000 a month from his blog.
Yaro is an expert at building an audience and using email newsletters to market […]

Written on July 23rd, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

The Power of Making Readers Famous

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 38 comments

The last 24 hours on ProBlogger have seen a lot of action around our social media love-in project that is currently running. Not only has there been a lot of action in the comments on that post but it’s driven up traffic and increased the numbers of emails that readers are sending.
Just now I scanned […]

Written on July 22nd, 2008 at 02:07 pm by Darren Rowse

Social Media Love-In: Phase 2 Coming Soon

Social Media 70 comments

Wow - when I posted an invitation this morning for ProBlogger readers to promote their social media profiles on this post I didn’t know what would happen - but I suspected it would be fun.
It’s been almost 9 hours since the post went live and over 280 readers have participated and I’m getting emails and […]

Written on July 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Announce Changes to Ad Ecosystem.

Adsense 13 comments

Today AdSense publishers (or at least some of them) received the following email outlining some recent ‘changes and improvements’ to the Google ad system.

These changes largely revolve around new features that they’ve added to AdWords to let advertisers target websites differently (more control).

One of the big changes is the introduction of ‘Ad Planner’ (currently in […]

Written on July 22nd, 2008 at 05:07 am by Darren Rowse

Welcome to the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In

Social Media 671 comments

Image by Mandala
Update: This will close after 24 hours - read more about why here.
Today I want to try something a little different and want to invite you to share your social media profiles with us (please read the ‘rules’ below before participating).

Are you active on social media sites?
Do you want to find more friends […]

Written on July 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them?

Blog Design 61 comments

Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts.

My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further:

When you put a date […]

Written on July 21st, 2008 at 08:07 pm by Darren Rowse

Blogger Gives Up Medicine to Go Full Time as a Blogger

Pro Blogging News 47 comments

I always love hearing stories of bloggers who are able to go full time with their blogging so earlier today when I read in the NYT about the author of one of my favorite blogs (Mac Rumors) has traded in a career in Medicine for blogging it got my attention.

“Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts […]