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Earlier in the month Chris Pearson wrote a post that I missed but which I think deserves a look if you’re interested in directing more traffic to your site via Google – well via Google Image Search. In it Chris outlines how to optimize images that you might use on ...more

Ahmed has posted some reflections on the recent sale of three blogging related sites (Blog Catalog (sold for $40k), EatonWeb (sold for 10k) and 2RSS (sold for $7k) which all sold for between 24 and 100 times monthly revenues. His conclusions: Blogs are hot (‘Buy it Now’ prices were all ...more

Are you looking to build the number of incoming links to your site? Brian has post together a useful post with 5 link building strategies that work which you might like to check out. He takes a look at these five strategies (headings are his – comments are mine): 1. ...more

Jensense has confirmed that it is now possible to run contextual ads on pages alongside AdSense ads. This was previously outlawed in both their policies and TOS which meant that numerous other ad systems were not allowed to be used on the same page as AdSense.. So what Contextual ad ...more

Gina Trapani is putting together a series of posts that needs I’m putting in the ‘special’ and ‘file for future use’ categories. It’s called Turn Your Blog Into a Book and so far she’s written part 1 and part 2 (I’m not sure if there will be more). The first ...more

Arieanna is has been pondering around the question of what her niche is. She ends up deciding that it’s about ‘community’. She decides that the description of ‘community activist’ probably describes her best. Probably a good description for many bloggers. WordPress 2.1 is available for download as a release candidate. ...more

I’ve seen a lot of people quoting the recent Nielsen//NetRatings study which shows how newspaper blogs have seen 210% increases in traffic in the last year. While I think it’s an interesting thing I also do wonder whether it’s as big a deal as some are reporting it to be ...more

In your quest for creating excellent content, you may have come across the following dilemma: I would love to create something important for my blog, but how do I, as a “mere” blogger contribute to that conversation at large? If I don’t create something de novo, will it be worth ...more

Over at the YPN blog Rand (a guest poster) writes a useful post on Leveraging Linkbait. Nice to see some exploration of the topic on an official Yahoo blog. For more on linkbait you might also like to read my mini-series on the topic: Introduction to Linkbaiting Motivations for Linkbaiting ...more