• Scott Karp writes a fascinating post on how Drudge Report (a site that links out a lot) has a higher reader engagement level than other sites who link out less.
• Shoemoney shares how to get advertisers or sponsors for your website.
• The Amazon Associates Program has introduced Amazon Video On Demand as a product to promote. You can earn 10% of the cost of movies and TV shows that people download.
• Ducan Riley shares some thoughts on how to find your niche and knowing your blogging goals.
• WordPress 2.6.2 is out and it closes an exploit in previous versions.
• Jonathan Bailey shares where he gets post ideas.
• Jim shares some of the process that he went through in his thinking before he went ‘Pro’ as a blogger.

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

Speedlinking – 17 September 2008

1. Screen Casts Rock – Here’s Who’s Rocking Them Now – RRW showcases great Screen Casters
2. 7 Tips for New Twitter Users – From Shel (don’t forget my Twitter tips for Beginners)
3. Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items? – Merlin Mann shares why he added a footer in his feeds to combat scrapers
4. Spam Blogs Republish Your RSS Feeds? Use this to your Advantage – on a similar theme to Merlin’s post – Amit Agarwal shares how to make sure you get some Google Juice if someone scrapes your feed
5. AdSense Click Tracking Data in Google Analytics Is Coming Soon – Amit also picks up this story which will be music to many AdSense publishers ears!
6. On Domain Names, Size and Quality DOES Matter! – Daniel releases some research that he’s done into domain names.
7. Blogger Sued for $20 Million for Calling Company a Scammer – Watch what you post!
8. Examining The Internet’s Top Blogs: What We Can Learn From their Success - SEOMoz does some great research into different aspects of 100 top blogs – even though they did say that I don’t own my own blog or register it as Australian :-)
9. 5 Easy ways to Start a Productive Day – ever have those days where you get nothing done? Here’s some hints on how to start them better.
10. No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tool for Capturing Ideas Anywhere – LifeDev has written a post here that many bloggers will find useful. I’m enjoying Evernote these days.
11. Vote for my Proposed Panel at SXSW here – it’s on Responsible Blogger/Public Relations Interaction

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

11 SpeedLinks for Professional Bloggers and Web Workers