Clickbank Login Problems
Some Clickbank affiliates (including me) have been having problems logging into their admin area over the past day or two. On reporting difficulties logging in publishers get the following message from Clickbank: “Due to an attempted denial-of-service attack that started Sunday, we have been filtering suspect traffic. It is possible ...more
Affiliate Programs
Gizmodo Starts Using Amazon Affiliate Program
Perhaps I’m a little slow on the update here and they’ve been doing it a while but today I noticed for the first time that Gizmodo have started linking to products in Amazon with their affiliate ID (see screen cap left) – obviously trying out the Amazon Associates Program. I’d ...more
Affiliate Programs
What’s a Blog Post Worth?
Wired News has a mini interview with Harold Davis from Googleplex (which doesn’t seem to have any content on it today for some reason) which has some good basic information on making a living from blogging. Interestingly he puts a dollar value on a per page basis(over a year) to ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Test 3Bubbles on their Blog
The 3bubbles real time chat/comments for blogs that I mentioned a few days ago are up and running for us to play with on the 3bubbles blog (why they launched with a templated design is anybodies guess). Just go to the little Live Chat link at the end of posts ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Jason Calacanis Gives Advice
John Evans over at Syntagma has just posted a short Interview with Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc (well done John – Jason is a hard man to tie down for an interview of any length – I gave up a year ago :-) ). John asked Jason ‘what’s the single ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Blogs to Riches – New York Magazine
The New York Magazine has posted a pretty long article titled Blogs to Riches – The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom. The title is pretty descriptive of what the article sets out to do. I found the section on Peter Rojas of Engadget mildly interesting as a story ...more
Pro Blogging News
23 Questions for Prospective Bloggers – Is a Blog Right for You?
Before launching further into the Blogging for Beginners series I would like to take a step back from some of the practicalities of setting up a new blog and ask potential bloggers a question… Is a Blog the Right type of Web Site for you? While I’m a big fan ...more
Start a Blog
Political Blogs and AdSense
Tom Watson has an interesting post titled Blogging Snow Job where he talks of his decision to pull out of AdSense and BlogAds – stating that ‘advertising does not work for the average blogger, even the above-average blogger.’ It’s an interesting post and one worth reading. I don’t know Tom ...more
Adsense
What is a Blog?
So what is a Blog anyway? It’s a good question to ask at the beginning of a Blogging for Beginners Series as it is a question I am asked every week. There are a number of ways I could answer this question ranging from the broad to the highly technical. ...more
Pro Blogging News