
How To Find News For Your Blog
In your quest to find interesting things to blog about, you may want to consider blogging about The News. Sure, there are loads of ways to create great content — interviews, tips, opinion pieces, research and so on, but blogging about news items can be particularly useful. Why News is ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

The Rules Behind Creating a Great Blog
So in your quest to dominate your corner of the blogosphere, you might be wonder about higher order questions. How does one blog? What are the “rules” behind creating a great blog? Is there anything universal that connects the very stuff behind the truly great blogs irrespective of their content? ...more
General

5 Prerequisites For Blogging Success
In the time that I have been blogging, I have noticed that there are a few things that “successful” blogs have in common. And I am defining “success” in every way — monetary terms, absolute traffic, but more importantly, in robust and continued growth. With 2007 here and many New ...more
Business Blogging

Introducing Tony Hung – Guest Blogger
As you read this I’ll be driving down the freeway toward one of my states lovely beaches for a short vacation. In my absence I’m pleased to introduce to you my guest blogger for the week – Tony Hung. I first came across Tony on his blog Deep Jive Interests ...more
ProBlogger Site News

Does AdSense Suck for Bloggers?
Nik Cubrilovic picks up on Guy Kawasaki’s posting his revenue and concludes that ‘AdSense for bloggers sucks, the click-through rates are too low, the advertising is not relevant enough and readers of blogs are more accustomed to blocking-out the ads – all this results in a very low CPM rate.’ ...more
Adsense

The Kenny Rogers Guide to Getting People to Read Your Whole Posts
I never thought I’d quote Kenny Rogers on this blog but here’s something he said to a contestant on American Idol this series: “the first word that comes out of your mouth helps people to decide whether to listen to the next word, which in turn helps them work out ...more
Writing Content

Speedlinking 7 January 2007
Tubetorial does it again with another helpful video tutorial – Back Up Your Blog or Risk Losing It All Yaro asks is Professional Blogging a Sustainable Business Model? – I think so, but not for everyone. The Diva Marketing Blog has a fun (and useful) posts – 22 Blogging Tips. ...more
Pro Blogging News

How to Find Your Reader’s Questions and Improve Your Blog
103 bees has added a very useful tool to their search terms analysis system. Previously they enabled users to track what keywords people were using to arrive at your blog but now they’ve added questions analysis. They’ve worked out a way to tell if a search term is a question ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Australian Financial Review on Microsoft Laptop Saga
The Australian Financial Review has a short piece on me and the computer that Microsoft sent me this week. The article also features a comment from Trevor Cook. AFR’s website is a little bizarre so I’m not sure how long the article will be up and I can’t copy and ...more
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