
How Simple Posts Can Find Your Blog Readers
One of the semi regular tasks that I set myself is to analyze the questions that readers are asking to find my blogs. I use a simple method that I’ve outlined previously that utilizes 103bees metrics. Today it struck me afresh just how many of the visitors coming into my ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Do You Read Paid Review Posts?
It’s been months since programs like PayPerPost and ReviewMe launched – offering bloggers money to review products, sites and services. In that time there’s been a lot of controversy around the ethics of paid reviews and whether disclosure should be compulsory or not. I don’t really want to get into ...more
Pro Blogging News

10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com
An increasing number of bloggers are landing deals with publishers and writing books and one of the crucial aspects of a book’s success can be how it goes at Amazon. Chris Webb has put together a list of 10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com which ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Skype Prime – Online Consultants Tool
Skype today announced a new beta version of their Windows offering (v3.1.0.134 beta). It’s main new feature is Skype Prime (beta) – something that will appeal to many entrepreneurial bloggers. “In short, it enables paid Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. You can charge other people for calling you either a ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Gawker Introduces Job Boards
Another blog to go the job board route is the Gawker blog Lifehacker who today announced theirs. It runs in conjunction with Gizmodo’s (also announced this week). Quite a few bloggers have gone this route and looking at the number of jobs being advertised on them it seems that they’ve ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Auction Ads – eBay Auction Ads
ShoeMoney and MediaWhiz (the owners of Text Link Ads) have today launched a new ad service – Auction Ads (aff). I’ve been lucky enough to dig around the back end of Auction Ads this last few days and it’s a professionally designed ad service that I think will suit some ...more
Advertising

Post Frequency – How Many Blog Posts are Too Many?
Last week I published the results of an informal survey that asked for Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Blogs. There’s been a lot of discussion about the results – particularly the almost contrasting most common reasons: Too many posts Infrequent Posting The above responses are fairly general and unquantifiable – ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Speedlinking – 6 March 2007
Lorelle’s put together another WP plugin round up – this time it’s WP Plugins for Multiple Blogger Blogs A little fun here at dfinitive with blogger look-a-likes – check out who Julian thinks I look like (I’ve been told that before – although not usually when I’m wearing that outfit). ...more
Pro Blogging News

Blogs Charging for Content – Can it Work?
Scott at Blog Herald asks Could Blogging Adopt A Paid Content Business Model? and points out a number of blogs (including ProBlogger) that could conceivably charge readers for content. It’s an interesting topic and one that has popped up as a discussion point a couple of times a year since ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips