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Just a short note to let readers know that I’m taking off for a week’s break as of today (we’re going up North to a beach) and that ProBlogger will be in the capable hands of a number of Guest Posters in the coming days. I’ve just uploaded them all ...more

Time for a little reader discussion. This one is inspired by a question from Frederico from Tutorialstream.com who is considering starting a new blog and asks: I was wondering if you think that starting with a standard/free/low quality template and after some time (when I have some kind of readership) ...more

I came across the following video this morning at InsideGoogle. It’s of a presentation that Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) gave at Google recently. It actually goes for 51 minutes (but there’s not a lot visual about it so you can listen to it while doing something else) and ...more

During the week I announced that I’d put together a range of ProBlogger T-Shirts for those readers wanting a little blogger apparel. Shortly after that post Gavin from Australele emailed to offer to help me put together a more integrated Printfection shop. Gavin showed me a range of printfection shop ...more

Just a quick link up to Shoemoney who had a post from earlier in the week that I thought was right on the money. He wrote his Blogging Advice To Connect With Your Readers and made three simple but spot on points: Don’t try to be something you are not ...more

Do you struggle to get comments on your posts? This morning I was chatting to a group of b5media bloggers in our weekly internal chat about a strategy that I occasionally use to get more comments on particular posts. This tip will only work on blogs that have had people ...more

Thanks to everyone who voted ProBlogger the Best Blog about Blogging in the 2007 Blogger’s Choice Awards. Congrats to BloggingBasics101 and Lorelle for coming in 2nd and 3rd. Apparently there was an awards ceremony of sorts a few nights back in Vegas where it was all announced and I get ...more

Over the last couple of months there’s been a lot written about new ad network – WidgetBucks. As with any new player in this market there has a lot of varied opinions shared about them with some publishers reporting quite amazing conversion and others finding the system frustrating as the ...more

Yesterday it was revealed that AdSense were making the clickable portions of their Ad Units Smaller. Today we’re seeing these changes rolling out on different publishers sites. It seems that this means different things for different ad unit sizes. For example 468×60 and 234×60 ad units still seem clickable on ...more