Blogging Fears – Death
I’d like to continue my Blogging Fears series by talking for a moment about Death. OK – ‘death’ is probably not a topic you were expecting me to cover in at ProBlogger (I hope this is not too morbid) but the past week I’ve actually been wondering what would happen ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Welcome to the wide world of the podosphere
Podcasting and Blogging got a little attention in the Age today with an article titled Welcome to the wide world of the podosphere featuring comments from fellow Australian Bloggers and Podcasters Cameron Reilly and Duncan Riley.
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What To Do When Your Blog Drops in Google’s Rankings
Search Engine Journal has a good post on What To Do When Your Established Site Drops in Rankings and gives this advice: ‘All I can say is that many have suggested the same advice in the WebmasterWorld thread. Brett Tabke, the founder of WebmasterWorld, suggested to do “NOTHING”. He said, ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Weblogs Inc Seeks More Bloggers
Looking for a blogging job (part time)? Weblogs Inc are looking for more bloggers – particularly on the topic of Digital Cameras and Software Downloads. Thanks to the many readers who have let me know about this knowing I blog about Digital Cameras. I’ve actually already emailed them expressing my ...more
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Trash Princesses Embrace New Media
Paris Hilton is podcasting and Pamela Anderson has a blog. This can only end in a scandal.
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MSN Spaces and Advertising
I find it interesting to see that MSN Spaces is now adding advertising to their blogger’s blogs. In a way if makes sense – they have 4.5 million users, even if it was just the users themselves who saw the ads thats significant exposure – let alone all the readers. ...more
Advertising
The advantages of Different Types of Traffic
WorkBoxers writes a great post comparing Search Engine Traffic to Daily Visitors, Which Is Better? I agree with Scrivs again on this one – its a ‘both’ thing – both types of readers have their value to your blog. You can successfully target either one exclusively or even both depending ...more
Blog Promotion
Pay Per Click Advertising Costs Increase by 9% in March
This article is good news for those of us who are publishers for pay per click advertising programs like Google’s Adsense with advertisers paying 9% more for keywords than they were earlier in the year. ‘PRICES FOR PAID SEARCH LISTINGS rebounded in March, rising 9 percent to an average of ...more
Advertising
Blogger Supports Comment Spammers?
Duncan from the Blog Herald is on a Comment Spammer Hunt with two of his late posts – (here and here). Go Duncan Go! Following the links in his posts I found a post at SEOBook (http://www.seobook.com/archives/000776.shtml) which left me feeling disturbed. Aaron writes it with qualifications that comment spam ...more
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