Darren Rowse
Generating High Quantities of Content for your Blog
One of the previous series of posts that I wrote in the early days of ProBlogger (before all 4 of you started reading) was a series on generating high quantities of content for you blog. I wrote it after reading article after article of people writing about how you need ...more
Writing Content
The Blog Cycle
Anil Dash posts an interesing post on The Blog Cycle that sub-communities within the larger blogging population go through. Its an interesting post and one that I see the ‘entrepreneurial blogging’ community going through at the momemnt. The stages of the cycle that he identifies are: What is blogging? Our ...more
Pro Blogging News
Bottom Up vs Top Down Corporate Blogging
Steve Rubel makes some interesting observations on Corporate blogging – he writes about two approaches – top down and bottom up blogging. ‘Bottom-up blogging can either start organically or with an edict or blessing of the corporation. Famous bottom-up blogging corporations include Microsoft and Sun. Basically, this is blogging at ...more
Pro Blogging News
Introduce Yourself
I thought it might be fun while I’m away for you to talk amongst yourselves for a bit. Why? Well I know many of you reasonably well because we chat on IM or have emailed – but I think a lot of you would quite like one another and could ...more
Pro Blogging News
Writing Blog Content – Keep it Simple
The average person only comprehends 60% of what they read. How much do you comprehend?. To ensure your reader ‘gets’ what you’re saying you need to make it clear by using some of the following techniques. – Use simple language. Avoid technical jargon. – Don’t introduce too many ideas in ...more
Writing Content
ProBlogger Easter Break Vacation
Well its Easter (or it will be tomorrow) and at this time of year a group of friends that I am close with always go away for the long weekend for a time of great food, fantastic wine, to take in some our wonderful state’s coastline and a whole heap ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Google Search Box Ads
One of my wonderful readers, Danger, just emailed this question – ‘I was just looking through my adsense reports and it occurred to me that I’m not using the google search box on my site to serve ads. I’m debating whether to employ it and I kinda wonder if a ...more
Adsense
Adsense Earnings Poll Update
The Poll we’re asking in the sidebar this week asks how much bloggers earned from Adsense last month. At the time of writing this 295 readers have voted (thanks everyone!) I’m going to let it run until the end of March at which point I’ll give you a full tally ...more
Adsense
Random Blog Tip – Contact Options
Related to my previous post about About pages I’d also like to make mention of another personal preference that I have – the inclusion of the ability for readers to contact you privately. There are many ways of doing this – but I’m surprised by just how many blogs give ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips