How many RSS Readers does your Blog have? [POLL]
2nd of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How many RSS Readers does your Blog have? [POLL]

How many RSS readers does your blog have? (your biggest blog – if you have more than one) This is the question for this week’s reader poll currently running in the sidebar. It’s a question that some won’t be able to answer (so I’ve included an ‘I don’t know’ option ...more
Reader Questions
Optimizing Blog Growth: Curing the Fears of Being an Amateur Blogger
2nd of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Optimizing Blog Growth: Curing the Fears of Being an Amateur Blogger

The following post on Optimizing Blog growth has been submitted by Aaron Wall from SEOBook. Many of my friends who are would be bloggers are afraid to start blogging because they are afraid of being wrong or writing something that might make them look foolish. They want to make sure ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Zookoda – I Don’t Recommend them Anymore
1st of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Zookoda – I Don’t Recommend them Anymore

This is just a short note to withdraw a recommendation that I made a year or two ago about the Zookoda email service. When they first came out Zookoda was a dream come true for me – a free service that enabled bloggers to built a newsletter subscriber base, convert ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
WidgetBucks to Serve CPM Ads to Non North American Traffic
1st of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

WidgetBucks to Serve CPM Ads to Non North American Traffic

WidgetBucks have announced that they will begin to serve CPM based ads to traffic that isn’t from the US or Canada (starting early in December). This comes in the wake of them previously stopping international traffic from seeing their ads – something that caused many publishers to stop using them. ...more
Advertising
Getting Your Blog Ready for Christmas
1st of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Getting Your Blog Ready for Christmas

With December starting tomorrow I thought it might be worth pointing back to a series of posts that I wrote at this time last year on How to Optimize Your Blog for Christmas. Keep in mind that positioning yourself for seasonal traffic (and believe me that the next month there ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
AdSense Ad Click Zones – Gmail and Other Large Sites Get a Better Deal
30th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdSense Ad Click Zones – Gmail and Other Large Sites Get a Better Deal

Are AdSense truly interested in cutting down mistaken clicks on ads? If so – why do some of the biggest sites on the web (including one of their own) still have most of their ad units clickable while the average publisher does not? I just had an email from WebbyThoughts ...more
Adsense
How Much Money Do Bloggers Earn Blogging?
30th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How Much Money Do Bloggers Earn Blogging?

Earlier in the month I asked readers to share their blog earnings for the month of October. As usual this poll was a popular one with 3054 responses. I’ve run this survey previously so will compare the results between this and last time I ran it below. Of this number ...more
Blogging for Dollars
ProBlogger Community Consulting 2.0
30th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger Community Consulting 2.0

Would you like your blog to be constructively critiqued by hundreds of ProBloggers (and aspiring ProBloggers)? Read on to find out how you could be the next recipient of a ProBlogger Community Consultation. Last month I ran a little experiment here on ProBlogger – ProBlogger Community Blog Consulting. The idea ...more
Case Studies
More on Amazon ‘Buy Now’ Buttons
29th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

More on Amazon ‘Buy Now’ Buttons

Roman from Phone Area emailed me after seeing my recent post on adding Amazon ‘buy now’ buttons to posts with a similar suggestion that extends the principle: “I’ve used this method for a couple months and took it a step further to get more impressions and revenue: I don’t link ...more
Affiliate Programs