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Earlier in the month I ran a competition here on ProBlogger in conjunction with World Vision Australia and their blog Learn About Poverty. The competition was for Australian bloggers to give World Vision advice on their online strategy going forward. We had 29 entries and having read through them all ...more

Here’s a cool little blogging tool to help spread news of your blog posts from readers to their networks of friends via email, social networks, instant messaging and their blogs – it’s called TellaFriend. IN essence it’s a little widget that you embed above or below your posts that readers ...more

Are your readers doing what you want them to do? – In this post blogger and author Jonathan Fields explores this question and gives some tips on how to get readers to take the actions you want them to take on your blog. Ask a roomful of bloggers why they ...more

AppLoop is a great little tool that is currently in beta that will take any RSS feed and turn it into an iPhone Application. iPhone Application Generator Demo from AppLoop on Vimeo. All you need to do to set it up is to add your feed, a logo and name ...more

Today in response to an article that Andrew Sullivan published that was titled ‘Why I Blog‘ I asked my Twitter followers and Facebook friends to tell me why they blog. The responses were so good that felt it was a pity to just see them myself and not share them. ...more

Getting other blogs to link to your blog posts is not easy to do – particularly when you are starting out. Taking a ‘write quality content and they will link up’ approach can work once you have a readership (although even then it’s not that easy) but what if your ...more

Over the last few weeks we’ve (b5media) been experimenting with AdSense for RSS on our blogs (including ProBlogger). I’d previously had them on my photography blog but not here on ProBlogger. Since activating them I’ve had around 1 email a day from readers telling me that they are seeing ‘strange’ ...more

This short post on using forums to drive traffic to blogs was submitted by an anonymous ProBlogger reader. My blog is visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors a month and other peoples forums are the number 1 source of this traffic. Darren has asked me if I’d share how ...more

Here’s a question for discussion this weekend: Do you use your real name when leaving comments on a blog or do you use ‘keywords’? I was moderating comments last night here on ProBlogger and noticed almost a 60/40 split between these approaches (with 60% using ‘real’ names). My personal preference ...more