A Blogger’s Guide to Branding with Social Media
11th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

A Blogger’s Guide to Branding with Social Media

This is a guest post from Steven Snell. Steven writes about social media marketing at Traffikd. As the number of blogs online continues to grow rapidly every day, the need for effective branding is also constantly increasing. Branding allows you to stand out from others in your niche and show ...more
Social Media
SparkplugU – Training for Work at Home Workers
10th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

SparkplugU – Training for Work at Home Workers

Wendy at SparkPlugging (formally e-Moms At Home) is today launching a new learning area called SparkPlugU. Drawing on the expert writers that write for the Sparkplugging blog network they have put together a variety of short courses on different aspects of working at home such as business and productivity. Courses ...more
Pro Blogging News
Australians Getting Raw Deal iPhone 3G Plans
10th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Australians Getting Raw Deal iPhone 3G Plans

I don’t usually go off topic here at ProBlogger but just having seen the Telstra Plans for the iPhone 3G (a device I was excited to be able to use in my blogging) I’m incredibly frustrated. If you’re sick of iPhone blog posts today – feel free to skip this ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post
10th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post

In this post Dustin M. Wax explores what it takes to write an effective blog post. Learn more about Dustin at the conclusion of this post. Image by B Tal. You sweat blood all night, hunched over your keyboard, typing away at your blog’s next masterpiece. Finally, you click “Publish”, ...more
Writing Content
How to Grow Search Engine Traffic to Your Blog
10th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Grow Search Engine Traffic to Your Blog

I was chatting with a blogger yesterday about search engine traffic. They asked me how much traffic I got to my blogs from Search Engines each day and when I told them that it was between 6000-8000 unique visitors a day (to Digital Photography School) their reaction was: ‘Can you ...more
Search Engine Optimization
The Beauty of Imperfection
9th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Beauty of Imperfection

Today Chris Brogan shares with us one of the secrets of his blogging. I’m not sure what it is about Darren’s blog that makes me confess my blogging secrets. I did it once before when I discussed how I promote my blog using Twitter, and here I am back to ...more
Writing Content
10 Ways to Optimize a Popular Post on Your Blog
9th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

10 Ways to Optimize a Popular Post on Your Blog

Over at the ProBlogger Room on FriendFeed Keith asks a good question that has stimulated a whole stream of thought for me. He asks: “If you have a blog post that clearly outperforms all other posts (more than double the traffic in my case) do you capitalize on it by ...more
Featured Posts
Google Affiliate Network Launches New Interface
8th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Google Affiliate Network Launches New Interface

Today the recently announced Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick) launched a new interface to publishers. You can access it at Connect Commerce. The look and feel of the site is very ‘Googlesque’ and at a first look it all seems fairly straight forward to use. Ultimately the interface is secondary ...more
Affiliate Programs
6 Types of Business Entities to Consider for Your Blogging Business
8th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

6 Types of Business Entities to Consider for Your Blogging Business

This guest post is part of a two part series (see part 1 here) written by Kelly Phillips Erb, a tax attorney who blogs for b5media at taxgirl.com. You can find out more about Kelly here. For more information about tax and blogging, check out her handy list of prior ...more
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