
ShoppingAds and AuctionAds Merge and Combine CPC and CPA ads
Overnight I had an email from the team at MediaWhiz who have just announced that they have merged two of their ad networks together (AuctionAds and ShoppingAds) under the one name of ShoppingAds. What I like about the new look ShoppingAds is that it combines both CPA (cost per action) ...more
Advertising

IZEA Launches RealRank – Will You Opt In?
IZEA today have launched what it’s been promising for a while – IZEARanks.com where it measures ‘RealRank’ of blogs (their announcement is here). What is RealRank? – “a blog ranking system that uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Interview with Entrecard’s Graham Langdon
Entrecard is a blogging service that has quickly emerged (or exploded) onto the scene over the last couple of months. Entrecard widgets are popping up on thousands of blogs around the blogosphere – including here at ProBlogger since they became a ProBlogger sponsor. I get a lot of questions about ...more
Pro Blogger Interviews

Build Your Blog With Forum Traffic
Skellie is a regular writer for ProBlogger. You can subscribe to her feed or visit her blog, Skelliewag.org, for more posts like this one. One of the most satisfying aspects of blogging is finding uncommon and underrated ways to build your blog’s traffic. One traffic building strategy I’ve always found ...more
Blog Promotion

Elite Retreat San Francisco
I rarely promote conferences that I’m not attending – but in the case of Elite Retreat I make an exception because it’s a concept that I believe in strongly and it’s something that I’ve been a part of previously. Last year I was a speaker on their last San Francisco ...more
Pro Blogging News

AdSense Change Rules – Stupidity Stupidity Stupidity
The AdSense blog has just announced changes to the AdSense referral program which I’m pretty disappointed in. In fact they anger me and leave me disillusioned with AdSense. There are two changes: 1. Changes to Payment System The ‘experimental’ payment system for publishers promoting AdSense is being changed back to ...more
Adsense

Don’t Just Have a Blog – Learn to Think Like a Blogger
Last week I was chatting to a new blogger and he asked me “how do you manage to keep coming up with post ideas for my blogs?” It’s a question I get a fair bit – and one I’ve struggled to answer… until recently. It sounds odd that I don’t ...more
Featured Posts

Having an Elevator Pitch Isn’t Enough – How PostSecret Improved in 2007
I mentioned earlier in the week that there was one more response to come in from bloggers responding to my 1 Question interview on how they improved their blog in 2007. Today I’m happy to present it – a response from Frank Warren – the blogger behind the wildly successful ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
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How I Redesigned My Blog [by Ben Yoskovitz]
One blogger that I read regularly and have come to respect over the last few years is Benjamin Yoskovitz from Instigator Blog. Yesterday Ben and I were chatting on skype and he mentioned that today he was launching a new design on his blog. I liked what I saw of ...more
Blog Design