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Just a quick note to point you to a post that I’ve had published on an Australian Blog – The Punch (I wrote it all except for the title :-)). Seven rules of blogging from a legend of the craft. It probably won’t be completely new to regular readers of ...more

Over the last week I’ve had a couple of record days of getting comments on my own blogs. Here on ProBlogger my ‘win a book’ competition drew in 1512 comments while on DPS asking my readers if they had a photoblog and giving opportunity for them to promote it drew ...more

In the last few minutes Blogger.com has flipped the switch on a new way for Blogger blogs to be monetized from within their system – an integration with Amazon Associates program. Expect an official announcement from Blogger/Google shortly on this new partnership (update: here it is) – but in the ...more

A guest post by bestselling novelist Larry Brooks from Storyfix.com. Sports analogies rock. They certainly can and often do lean toward the cliché, but like even the most trite of clichés, they’ve earned that dubious label because they’re valid. The use of cliché in copywriting, not so good. The use ...more

Thanks to everyone who entered this week’s ‘win a book’ competition here on ProBlogger. It’s been a while since I ran any kind of competition so to have over 1500 entries was a real rush (and quite overwhelming). I’ve just closed off the competition and randomly drawn the winners. They ...more

Google today announced a new feature that impacts bloggers – a new URL shortener that integrates with Feedburner and a new ‘socialize’ feature on Feedburner. This allows bloggers to use Feedburner to send Tweets out automatically via Feedburner. Of course most bloggers already have tweets going out to promote new ...more

“Tell us how you ‘really‘ get traffic to your blog?” After presenting to a group of bloggers at an event recently I was surprised to be asked this question by someone in the audience. I wasn’t surprised that people would want to know about how to get traffic to a ...more

A guest post by Kevin from BeginnerBloggerTips.com (with some comments from me below too). Image by Shawnson. My journey into affiliate marketing. Before I start, I’d like to make two disclaimers: I don’t hate google or AdSense—this article isn’t a rant against either. I recognize that every blog is different—what ...more

UPDATE: This competition is now closed and I have closed comments on this post. Thanks to everyone for entering – it’s been amazing to see so many entries! I’ll notify winners of their win shortly! OK – I have a pile of books that is growing beside my desk (and ...more