
AdSense Launch Ad Review Center – Review Ads Targeted at Your Blog
AdSense has just announced a fairly significant new feature that will help publishers to monitor what ads are being targeted on their blogs to see if they are relevant and appropriate for that site. I complained in a number of recent posts that I didn’t really have any idea what ...more
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Google Release Zeitgeist 2007 Report
One of the things that I enjoy about this time of year is that the search engines release reports on what the most searched for words were during the past 12 months. Google just released their Google Zeitgeist 2007 Report (Yahoo did their one last week). At Google the fastest ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Discover Hundreds of Post Ideas for Your Blog with Mind Mapping
Yesterday I wrote a post on keeping the momentum going on your blog by building on previous posts. Today I want to extend that post (you knew I would) with a practical exercise that any blogger with a blog can do. It’s something that can take as little as 10 ...more
Writing Content

How to Keep Momentum Going By Building on Previous Posts
You slave over the writing of a great new post for your blog, you’ve researched, hypothesized, edited, spell checked, polished and made it look all pretty…. You Hit Publish…. What happens now? Are you done? Do you move on and push the post idea from your mind – searching for ...more
Writing Content

How Dial Up Made Me a More Productive Blogger
This week I’ve been without a permanent broadband connection – but I’ve become a more productive blogger. While I wait for my ISP to transfer my broadband connection from our old home to our new one I’ve been relying upon a mobile broadband connection (with limited monthly bandwidth) and dialup ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

AdSense Testing New ‘Slider’ Ads
I’ve just had emails from a number of readers who are reporting seeing a new type of AdSense ad appearing on their blogs – ads with little arrow buttons on them which rotate ads. Here’s how they look (buttons circled): When you click the button the ad ‘slides’ up and ...more
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Speedlinking – 12 December 2007
A few quick links: Brian at Copyblogger asks Are You Someone’s User-Generated Content? and extends my recent post on blogging vs social media. AdSense have announced a few changes to their Manage Ads feature and hint at more to come. Stephen writes a post on making money online by leveraging ...more
Pro Blogging News

Why AdSense Might NOT be Best for Your Blog
Yesterday I published a list of reasons why AdSense is an advertising network worth considering if you want to make money blogging. Today, in the interest of balance and fairness, I wanted to share the flipside and point out a few reasons why AdSense might not be best for your ...more
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Why You SHOULD use AdSense on Your Blog
In this post I’ll explore some of the reasons why bloggers should consider using AdSense as a way to make money from blogging. I recently released a video post which explained some of my reasoning for stopping to use AdSense as a means to make money from ProBlogger. The post ...more
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