Good interview over at BlogHerald with Duncan Riley who today finishes up as a blogger at TechCrunch.
The ground covered in the interview is great listening - from how he landed the TechCrunch job, to what it’s like to dealing with the email on such a position, to dealing with trolls in the TC comments, [...] [..] Read complete article
Last week I asked readers about their biggest sources of traffic to their blogs.
The results reveal a fairly striking winner - Google.
The comparison between Google and ‘Other Search Engines’ was fairly amazing - but what did interest me was the number of bloggers reporting Social Media sites as their number 1 source of traffic (15%). [...] [..] Read complete article
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Do you ever find blogging a little mind numbing as a blogger?
Do you ever look at other people’s blogs and feel a little bored?
Most bloggers who have been blogging for a sustained period of time go through patches where either they feel [...] [..] Read complete article
It looks like the integration of AdSense ads into Feeburner feeds is a step closer with reports surfacing that AdSense ads have been seen on RSS feeds that look like this.
This ad was seen on the feed of Inhabitat (found via Digital Inspiration). The images are served as image maps not JavaScript.
Here’s hoping that this [...] [..] Read complete article
Do you have a product or service aimed at bloggers that you’d like to be put in front of hundreds of thousands of bloggers?
The premium sponsorship package here at ProBlogger has just become vacant and our ad sales team would love to chat with you about the opportunities that are available. The package includes multiple [...] [..] Read complete article
I get asked a lot of questions about blogging but every now and again I like to run a poll to help me prioritize your needs. So this week’s ProBlogger poll is all about refining and ordering your needs.
I’ve taken the 9 most common topics that I’m asked about and have listed them in a [...] [..] Read complete article
Today Lea Woodward asks whether Bloggers are putting their health at risk and a number of ProBlogger readers add their pearls of wisdom on the topic.
Darren posted a timely response a few weeks ago to the NY Times article that talked about bloggers blogging until they drop.
Despite the fact that some readers felt the subject [...] [..] Read complete article
In this guest post Steven Snell (who writes about social media at Traffikd) examines the topic of generating readership for your blog through social media.
Image by shoothead
If you spend much time on social media websites, I’m sure you’ve noticed that you tend to see many of the same websites and blogs on the front page [...] [..] Read complete article
Almost a year ago I started experimenting with a new technique (new for me at least) of creating ‘Best Seller Lists’ as a technique to drive more sales at Amazon’s Affiliate Program.
The concept was simple:
Analyze the things that customers have bought previously from your affiliate links to Amazon (they give you this information in their [...] [..] Read complete article
This week we’ve been looking at how to reach our potential by overcoming Blogger Inferiority Complex - a condition that cripples many bloggers.
Yesterday I suggested two steps to overcome this problem:
1. Identify What You Have - don’t focus one what you don’t have but instead focus upon what is at your fingertips that can be [...] [..] Read complete article
Good interview over at BlogHerald with Duncan Riley who today finishes up as a blogger at TechCrunch.
The ground covered in the interview is great listening - from how he landed the TechCrunch job, to what it’s like to dealing with the email on such a position, to dealing with trolls in the TC comments, [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 06-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips Read 0 times. More hits in
Last week I asked readers about their biggest sources of traffic to their blogs.
The results reveal a fairly striking winner - Google.
The comparison between Google and ‘Other Search Engines’ was fairly amazing - but what did interest me was the number of bloggers reporting Social Media sites as their number 1 source of traffic (15%). [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 05-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Blog Promotion Read 1 times. More hits in
Post Post Post… yawn… Post Post Post… sigh… Post Post Post… eyes glazing over…
Do you ever find blogging a little mind numbing as a blogger?
Do you ever look at other people’s blogs and feel a little bored?
Most bloggers who have been blogging for a sustained period of time go through patches where either they feel [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 05-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Writing Content Read 0 times. More hits in
It looks like the integration of AdSense ads into Feeburner feeds is a step closer with reports surfacing that AdSense ads have been seen on RSS feeds that look like this.
This ad was seen on the feed of Inhabitat (found via Digital Inspiration). The images are served as image maps not JavaScript.
Here’s hoping that this [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 05-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in AdsenseRSS Read 0 times. More hits in
Do you have a product or service aimed at bloggers that you’d like to be put in front of hundreds of thousands of bloggers?
The premium sponsorship package here at ProBlogger has just become vacant and our ad sales team would love to chat with you about the opportunities that are available. The package includes multiple [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 05-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in ProBlogger Site News Read 0 times. More hits in
I get asked a lot of questions about blogging but every now and again I like to run a poll to help me prioritize your needs. So this week’s ProBlogger poll is all about refining and ordering your needs.
I’ve taken the 9 most common topics that I’m asked about and have listed them in a [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 04-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Reader Questions Read 0 times. More hits in
Today Lea Woodward asks whether Bloggers are putting their health at risk and a number of ProBlogger readers add their pearls of wisdom on the topic.
Darren posted a timely response a few weeks ago to the NY Times article that talked about bloggers blogging until they drop.
Despite the fact that some readers felt the subject [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 04-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips Read 0 times. More hits in
In this guest post Steven Snell (who writes about social media at Traffikd) examines the topic of generating readership for your blog through social media.
Image by shoothead
If you spend much time on social media websites, I’m sure you’ve noticed that you tend to see many of the same websites and blogs on the front page [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 03-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Blog PromotionSocial Media Read 1 times. More hits in
Almost a year ago I started experimenting with a new technique (new for me at least) of creating ‘Best Seller Lists’ as a technique to drive more sales at Amazon’s Affiliate Program.
The concept was simple:
Analyze the things that customers have bought previously from your affiliate links to Amazon (they give you this information in their [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 02-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Affiliate Programs Read 0 times. More hits in
This week we’ve been looking at how to reach our potential by overcoming Blogger Inferiority Complex - a condition that cripples many bloggers.
Yesterday I suggested two steps to overcome this problem:
1. Identify What You Have - don’t focus one what you don’t have but instead focus upon what is at your fingertips that can be [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 02-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips Read 0 times. More hits in
Ryan Travis from Chitika was kind enough to respond to some of the concerns mentioned in my previous post (and it’s comments) about their CPM ads:
“We have seen that there are a LOT of times and situations where a publisher’s ads simply will not get clicked on. In these situations, it makes the most [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 02-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Chitika eMiniMalls Read 1 times. More hits in
Just a short note to let readers know that in the last 24 hours many bloggers who link to ProBlogger were the target of a spammer who used the ProBlogger name to attempt to get you to do a link exchange with his forum.
I want to make it clear that I have no affiliation with [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 01-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Search Engine Optimization Read 1 times. More hits in
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It looks like the integration of AdSense ads into Feeburner feeds is a step closer with reports surfacing that AdSense ads have been seen on RSS feeds that look like this.
This ad was seen on the feed of Inhabitat (found via Digital Inspiration). The images are served as image maps not JavaScript.
Here’s hoping that this [...] [..] 
Today Lea Woodward asks whether Bloggers are putting their health at risk and a number of ProBlogger readers add their pearls of wisdom on the topic.
Darren posted a timely response a few weeks ago to the NY Times article that talked about bloggers blogging until they drop.
Despite the fact that some readers felt the subject [...] [..] 
This week we’ve been looking at how to reach our potential by overcoming Blogger Inferiority Complex - a condition that cripples many bloggers.
Yesterday I suggested two steps to overcome this problem:
1. Identify What You Have - don’t focus one what you don’t have but instead focus upon what is at your fingertips that can be [...] [..] 
