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One of the first tips I was given when i started to blog that I’ve not talked about for a while here is to consider making the titles of your posts live links (permalinks). These days most blogging software does this automatically for you – however today as I’ve surfed ...more

Topix.net has started crawling blogs. They announced yesterday on their Weblog that they’ve added 15,000 blogs to be crawled. This is significant news on two fronts. Firstly it is yet another way to get your blog exposure. Similarly to being indexed by Google News if you can get into the ...more

We just announced our bigger announcement for the day over at b5media. b5media has just merged with About Weblogs – bringing the network to 50 active blogs. The full details are here. The press release is below if you are interested in reading it.

Just a quick announcement that I’m sure will not shock anyone. As of today ProBlogger.net has formally joined the b5media.com network of blogs (which I am a part owner of). This will mean little in practical terms to this blog except that there will be (and have already been) some ...more

About.com’s Entrepreneurial page has a list of the Top 10 Most Practical Blogs for Entrepreneurs. It’s a pretty decent list of blogs – most of which are on my daily reads list. Here they are: Small Business Trends Just for Small Business WorkHappy.net Duct Tape Marketing Home Office Voice Sacred ...more

I just logged into my Adsense and Adwords accounts and was asked to switch my login identity to a Google identity – (ie my Gmail account login). This enables me to log into a number of Google accounts with the one login – a more integrated system by the looks ...more

If you want to see an innovative and highly successful way of enhancing reader participation on a blog you need to check out what Engadget did with their First annual Halloween Costume. Check out the numbers of entries that they generated in these pages. Here’s the winners – and some ...more

Mark Evans has an interesting review that compares his initial experience with the new AdGenta program in comparison with Adsense. He writes: ‘The results are pretty interesting. AdGenta generated 81 clicks from 83,700 impressions (a 0.3% conversion rate) while AdSense attracted 89 clicks from 26,687 impressions (0.9%). The AdSense traffic ...more

I’ve been pondering the Adsense decision to get into the referral business this morning since hearing the news. There are a number of questions and directions that my mind has taken with it. Bear with me as I think out loud for a few minutes: Who is left to Refer? ...more