
AdSense Testing Keyword-based Ad Filtering
Brian at Caydel’s SEO Blog has written a post today revealing that Google AdSense is Beta-Testing Keyword-based Ad Filtering that allows publishers to nominate keywords that they don’t want ads about on their sites – a sort of ‘negative’ keyword targeting. This would help publishers who are getting mis-targeted and ...more
Adsense

6 Tips on Adding a Forum to Your Blog
Interweb World posts a useful list that reflects upon some of the lessons that they learned in the recent re-launch of a forum that didn’t take off the first time but which did really well the second. Their lessons include inviting an audience, promotion, creating content, responding and killing trolls. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Speedlinking – 3 January 2007
LifeHack.org posts Six Improvements to Your Blog. Digital Inspiration has a useful post with a number of HTML tricks for Bloggers to give your blog posts a little style There’s a nice post over at Digital Point from a guy Burta who talks everyone through his journey of growing an ...more
Pro Blogging News

Case Study Update – Digital Photography School
I’ve been using my Digital Photography School as a case study over the past 9 months since it’s launch. I’ve previously talked about it (at launch in a vidcast, then giving a progress report and then talking about some of my goals for it) but it’s been almost six months ...more
Case Studies

Resources for creating a WordPress theme
Rachel’s put together a list of Useful resources for creating a WordPress theme which kicks a new series of posts for those wanting to create WordPress themes.
Blog Design

ProBlogger Comments Competition Winner
Mid December I posted that I’d be giving a special Christmas present to one lucky ProBlogger reader who left a comment here at ProBlogger between then and Christmas. Today I randomly chose the winner who will win a copy of each of the following 10 books that I rated as ...more
ProBlogger Site News

Andy Wibbels Offers Half Price Blog Training Season Pass
A couple of years ago I came across an enthusiastic blogger by the name of Andy Wibbels who was putting together a 4 week course called Easy Bake Weblogs (aff) – a course for those just starting out in blogging to help them work out how to start a blog. ...more
Pro Blogging News

Best of ProBlogger – 2006
2006 was a massive year for me both on a personal level but also on a blogging front. I became a Dad in July, V and I took a couple of interstate trips, I travelled to Canada, I started a new blog and forum at Digital Photography School, b5media went ...more
ProBlogger Site News

Chitika Send Top Publishers iPods
Google sent their top earners digital picture frames, YPN sent sweatshirts and in the last few days Chitika publishers have started getting their gifts – ipod shuffles. Very cool idea and something practical that I’m sure will get a lot of use. I’m not sure what the cutoff point was ...more
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