Archive for: April, 2009
Written on April 24th, 2009 at 11:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog [Day 19 31DBBB]
This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook
Your task today is another writing oriented challenge and is all about expressing an opinion.
There are many factors that set great bloggers apart from the rest but one that I’ve seen continually cropping up over the last few years of interacting [...]
Written on April 24th, 2009 at 02:04 am by Darren Rowse
Get Your Free Membership Site Masterplan Report
Regular readers of ProBlogger will be familiar with Yaro Starak. He’s been a guest blogger here and I’ve linked up to his work many times. Many hundreds (it could be thousands by now actually) of you have also have also been a part of Blog Mastermind (a fantastic course for bloggers) and Become a Blogger [...]
Written on April 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Create a Sneeze Page for Your Blog [Day 18 - 31DBBB]
Today’s task is to create a Sneeze Page for your blog.
What is a Sneeze Page?
The term ’sneeze page’ is one that I came up with for the 2007 version of the 31 Days to Build a Better blog and is a concept that I’ve been using as a key strategy in my blogs for quite [...]
Written on April 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense Developing ‘Category Filtering’ Feature
AdSense today announced at Adspace and on their blog that they’re developing a much requested feature for publishes – category filtering.
“Category filtering will give publishers the ability to block ads that fall into specific categories such as dating, religion, and politics. Regardless of how ads are targeted, they’ll be filtered if they’re within one of [...]
Written on April 23rd, 2009 at 07:04 am by Darren Rowse
More Full Time Bloggers than Computer Programers? – Thoughts on Making Money Blogging
I’ve had a lot of people email and tweet me today asking for my opinion on a Wall Street Journal article – America’s Newest Profession: Blogging.
In it the journalist writes about how there are almost more people in America making their living from blogging than as lawyers and that bloggers outnumber computer programmers and firefighters.
I’ll [...]
Written on April 22nd, 2009 at 09:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Watch a First Time Reader Use Your Blog [DAY 17 31DBBB]
This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook
New readers to your blog are making decisions within seconds of arriving at your blog that will determine how (and if) they’ll use your blog.
In the same way that first impressions can be vital in real life interactions – online they [...]
Written on April 22nd, 2009 at 05:04 am by Darren Rowse
Seven Essential Applications For Bloggers Using Windows
Looking for some cool blog tools and applications to help you be a more productive? Today Shankar Ganesh from Killer Tech Tips shares 7 to check out if you’re a Windows based blogger.
If you’re a blogger, you’ll be using a variety of applications that aid you in your daily chores. Most of them will be [...]
Written on April 21st, 2009 at 08:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Solve a Problem – 7 Ways to Identify Reader Problems [Day 16 - 31DBBB]
Today’s task in the 31 Days to build a better blog project is a ‘writing’ oriented task and it is all about solving problems.
Your task is to write a post that solves a problem that your readers (or potential readers) have.
This is a task that most successful bloggers build into every single day of their [...]
Written on April 21st, 2009 at 09:04 am by Darren Rowse
Join me at Social Media Success Summit 2009
I wanted to take a few minutes today to let you know about an event that I’m excited to be participating in that is fast approaching.
The event is the Social Media Success Summit 2009.
The event is a live online event (although you have access to recordings if you can’t make the live components) and it [...]
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