Seeing out the Year as Spiderman
31st of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Seeing out the Year as Spiderman

What better way to end the year with a bit of fun by working out what super hero describes me best. Nothing too serious here – but it’d be interesting to see someone aggregate results from a range of bloggers to find out if any super hero dominates! Anyway – ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Blogsmith Blog Platform to launch in early 2007
31st of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blogsmith Blog Platform to launch in early 2007

901am has interesting news today about the blog platform (Blogsmith) behind the Weblogs Inc blog network. David reports that Blogsmith to launch in early 2007 and become available for bloggers to use. I’ve not seen the backend of Blogsmith but it will be interesting to see how it compares to ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
What is Your Blog’s Elevator Pitch?
31st of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What is Your Blog’s Elevator Pitch?

Des from Business and Blogging was asked a couple of weeks ago to describe his blog in 10 words or less. His description was: “How blogs work, or don’t, to support business goals.” I guess mine would be my catch cry – ‘helping bloggers earn money’. I think it’s a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How to Get Multiple Amazon Associates Tracking IDs (channels)
30th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Get Multiple Amazon Associates Tracking IDs (channels)

Have you ever wanted to be able to track your Amazon Associate program’s performance with channels (like you can with AdSense and Chitika)? I’ve heard a number of publishers complaining about this and even a few saying that they have multiple Amazon Associate accounts for this purpose. It seems that ...more
Affiliate Programs
Text Link Ads now available for Blogger Blogs
29th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Text Link Ads now available for Blogger Blogs

For those of you wanting to give Text Link Ads (aff) a go that are not on WordPress – you might be interested to know that they yesterday announced that they are compatible with Blogger Blogs. I hope you enjoy Text Link Ads for Blogger!
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Performancing and PayPerPost Sale Update
29th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Performancing and PayPerPost Sale Update

As a followup to our post yesterday on the PayPerPost buying Performancing story – it seems that I was right in saying that the sale (or intended sale as it’s still yet to be finalized) was only for part of Performancing. Nick explains it in his post Performancing and PayPerPost ...more
Pro Blogging News
Microsoft Under Fire Over Laptop Giveaways to Bloggers
29th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Microsoft Under Fire Over Laptop Giveaways to Bloggers

While i spent the day in the sun at the cricket watching Australia totally decimate England a storm has been brewing in the blogosphere over Microsoft giving away Ferrari Acer laptops loaded with Vista to bloggers to review – and if they want, to keep. Interestingly – I received an ...more
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PayPerPost buys Performancing (or part of it)
28th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

PayPerPost buys Performancing (or part of it)

Techcrunch is reporting that PayPerPost is buying Performancing and will make the announcement today sometime. They say that the reason for the purchase is to give PPP access to Performancing’s 28,000 users. I will be interested to read the official announcements later today as I’d heard previously that a sale ...more
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How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog
27th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog

How do you build a ‘Digg Culture’ and get repeatedly on the front page of Digg over time? In this post I’ll share 10 ways that top bloggers do it. Last week on a post that Tony wrote about Digg Fraud one of those who left a comment wrote: “I ...more
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