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Written on March 19th, 2007 at 01:03 pm by Lorelle VanFossen
Blog Translations: The Next Web Frontier
By Lorelle VanFossen
Weblog Tools Collection is doing it. So is the Blog Herald. Are you doing it?
These and other blogs are hiring translators to translate their blog into different languages. Blog Herald began with Japanese, based upon a study released by Technorati stating that Japanese is the most used language on the blogosphere. Weblog Tools [...]
Written on February 2nd, 2007 at 03:02 pm by Tony Hung
The Biggest Question Any Blogger Must Answer
So in your quest for blogging awesomeness, you may have had a chance to reflect on things and ask yourself a few questions.
What can I do to grow my blog?
Should I try that next marketing trick?
What will my next post be about?
How does Darren produce as much as he does?
But there’s one question that you [...]
Written on January 12th, 2007 at 05:01 pm by Tony Hung
A Few Last Lessons On Blogging
The blogosphere’s a tough place. And to create a blog that survives and thrives under absolutely Darwinian conditions isn’t easy. Since this business week is coming to a close, I’d like to share a few universal lessons that I’ve learned over the past six months that have allowed me to enjoy a few [...]
Written on January 9th, 2007 at 05:01 pm by Tony Hung
The Rules Behind Creating a Great Blog
So in your quest to dominate your corner of the blogosphere, you might be wonder about higher order questions. How does one blog? What are the “rules” behind creating a great blog? Is there anything universal that connects the very stuff behind the truly great blogs irrespective of their content? What does a great science [...]
Written on January 8th, 2007 at 05:01 pm by Tony Hung
5 Prerequisites For Blogging Success
In the time that I have been blogging, I have noticed that there are a few things that “successful” blogs have in common. And I am defining “success” in every way — monetary terms, absolute traffic, but more importantly, in robust and continued growth. With 2007 here and many New Years Resolutions on [...]
Written on December 15th, 2006 at 04:12 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense Earnings for November 2006
Last week I surveyed readers on their AdSense earnings for the month of November. I was hoping to run the poll for a full week but due to some problems with the plugin I was using only got around two days of data (732 respondents).
The results were quite similar to last years version of this [...]
Written on December 1st, 2006 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Use Reader’s Previous Amazon Purchases to Drive Future Sales
This reader ‘quick tip’ is from David from Strobist (one of my favorite digital photography blogs that focusses upon the sub-niche of ‘lighting’.
I have gotten so much from your blog that I wanted to pass along a tip that might help your readers.
My primary income streams on Strobist have evolved from the initial typical Adsense [...]
Written on October 25th, 2006 at 08:10 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika ShopCloud$
Chitika have announced a new product today – ShopCloud$
You can see an example of it below – but basically it is a tag cloud that highlights ‘hot products’ as well as a search box with an AJAX option that suggests products as people add letters into the search field.
When readers click on one of the [...]
Written on October 5th, 2006 at 04:10 am by Darren Rowse
Google Gadgets Available for Webpages
Google today announced Google Gadgets are now available for webpage owners.
Previously they were only available for Google Desktop or Homepage but now publishers can add them. In a sense they are widgets which will sit in your side bar and they range from Google Maps, to the Current Moon Phase, to games, translation and time [...]
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