Archive for: June, 2009

Written on June 24th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

How to Prevent and Monitor Invalid Clicks, and keep an AdSense Account in Good Standing [a Statement from AdSense]

Adsense 37 comments

Over the last week or two there’s been an increase amount of chatter on forums and blogs about invalid clicks and AdSense. Some of the talk has contained information that has been a little confusing and perhaps even ill-informed (and some ‘influenced’ by companies with their own agendas) – so I got in touch with [...]

Written on June 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 am by Darren Rowse

Get Your Free Roadmap to Become a Blogger

Blogging Tools and Services 32 comments

If you’re new to blogging and just starting out – do yourself a favor and get your hands on the Roadmap to Become a Blogger – a free report by Gideon Shalwick and Yaro Starak.
The report has been downloaded by over 20,000 bloggers and has helped many get their head around some of the basics [...]

Written on June 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

How to Optimize Ads on a Blog for Higher Profit [VIDEO]

Video Posts 60 comments

“What is the best way to utilize ads on a blog and maximise their potential profit?” – Question from @RyanBarr on Twitter.
This video post looks at 5 factors that help to make an ad be more profitable on your blog – it’s based on an older post here on ProBlogger where I presented an equation [...]

Written on June 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

23% of ProBlogger Readers Have Written Paid Posts [POLL RESULTS]

Reader Questions 36 comments

Have you written a paid review on your blog was the question in our last reader poll here at ProBlogger. 1771 people responded and the result was fairly clear – over three quarters of you have never done a paid review.
  
77% have never done one and a further 7% don’t currently do one which leaves [...]

Written on June 21st, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Do You Do Affiliate Marketing on Your Blog? [POLL]

Affiliate Programs, General, Reader Questions 46 comments

Affiliate Marketing is one income stream that many bloggers experiment with – but how many are attempting to make money in this way?
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Do You Do Affiliate Marketing on Your Blog?

I Regularly Do Affiliate Promotions

I Do Them Occassionally

I’ve Never Done Them

I Used to Do Them But Don’t Any More

I Don’t Know What Affiliate Marketing Is

View Results

Once [...]

Written on June 20th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Simple Changes Doubled My Adsense Revenue

Adsense 95 comments

In this post Todd Fratzel from Home Construction Improvement and Today’s Green Construction shares how he doubled the AdSense revenue on his blog with a few simple changes.
Several simple changes in my Adsense approach and layout have almost doubled my blog’s revenue. The results were so drastic and eye opening that I convinced a friend [...]

Written on June 19th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Dear Google: Please Take Feedburner to the Next Level

RSS 102 comments

Dear Google – I have a suggestion that I submit to you for your consideration.
It pertains to your excellent Feedburner service (particularly the email subscription element of it) which so many hundreds of thousands of bloggers (I’m taking a stab in the dark on that number, it could well be more) use to deliver [...]

Written on June 18th, 2009 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Introduces Font Size Choice for Publishers

Adsense 39 comments

One of the more commonly requested features that I see AdSense publishers making is for the ability to be able to change font size in their ads.
The AdSense blog today announces this change:

“The font size you choose will be applied to the body of the ad, with the title scaled appropriately. In order to fit [...]

Written on June 18th, 2009 at 09:06 am by Darren Rowse

One Blog or Many? [VIDEO]

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 40 comments

Here’s a video answer to a question I was asked on Twitter a few days back on whether it’s good to have more than one blog or just to concentrate on one.
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