Where to Position Ads in Your RSS Feed
13th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Where to Position Ads in Your RSS Feed

Over the past month since AdSense have released AdSense for Feeds to the wider publishing community I’ve noticed a lot more of the bloggers that I’m tracking each day are including ads in their RSS feed. When they first started appearing I noticed most bloggers had the ads positioned at ...more
RSS
What I Learned by Increasing My Forum Membership by 400 in 24 hours
13th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What I Learned by Increasing My Forum Membership by 400 in 24 hours

Yesterday I challenged myself to grow my Digital Photography forum membership numbers by 500 new members in 24 hours. I only got just over 400 in the end – but learned a few things a long the way about growing forums – some of which can be applied to blogging. ...more
Blog Promotion
Google AdSense Reports to Appear in Google Analytics – [Screenshots]
12th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Google AdSense Reports to Appear in Google Analytics – [Screenshots]

Have you ever wished that you could get more details of how your AdSense performance is going and wondered why Google AdSense and Google Analytics don’t have some way of talking to one another to give you more effective metrics? Well it seems that the time is coming soon where ...more
Adsense
How Do You Define ‘Great Content’?
12th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How Do You Define ‘Great Content’?

Blogging advice articles all seems to include the matra – “create great content”. The theory goes that if you create great content people will come to your blog, link to it, pass it on to friends, bookmark it and your blog will grow. OK – we’ve heard the ‘write great ...more
Reader Questions
Tips on Live Blogging an Event
11th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Tips on Live Blogging an Event

Over the weekend I asked readers how they suggest Live Blogging an Event. The resulting comments were really helpful so I thought I’d collect some of them together into a post on the topic here. Travis Prinzi suggests that you use the opportunity to promote your Twitter or Plurk account ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
The Power of Real Life Interactions as a Blogger
11th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Power of Real Life Interactions as a Blogger

Yesterday I announced on Digital Photography School that I was planning on running a short Photowalk while I was Las Vegas for Blog World Expo (you’re welcome to join in). The post was to gauge if any of my readers would be interested in coming along. To this point over ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
I’m selling a New Macbook Air
10th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

I’m selling a New Macbook Air

If you’re in the market for a Macbook Air – I’m running a little auction at the moment here on ProBlogger to sell one that I recently won. Full details on the process and machine are here.
ProBlogger Site News
Chris Garrett Pre-Launches Authority Blogger – How to Use Blogs to Build Your Authority
10th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Chris Garrett Pre-Launches Authority Blogger – How to Use Blogs to Build Your Authority

Today I’m excited to announce that my co-author of ProBlogger the Book, Chris Garrett, has just pre-launched a new training course for bloggers Authority Blogger. This is not a ‘how to blog’ course – instead it is a course for people wanting to learn how to use a blog as ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How to Polish Posts: Individual Blog Post Design
9th of September 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Polish Posts: Individual Blog Post Design

Much is written about how to ‘design blogs’ (as a whole) but another element of ‘blog design’ that I think is just as important, yet not written about much, is the design of individual blog posts. How blog posts ‘look’ is so important. I’ve seen the power of ‘polishing’ posts ...more
Blog Design