AdSenseAd Clarify Policy on Images Near Ads
19th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdSenseAd Clarify Policy on Images Near Ads

The AdSense team have finally come out and publicly written about their policy on images near their ads. This is long overdue as it has been almost a year since I’ve had publishers asking me about the topic and have seen publisher experiment with the practice of putting ads above, ...more
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ProBlogger Group Writing Project – Reviews and Predictions
18th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger Group Writing Project – Reviews and Predictions

It’s time for another ProBlogger Group Writing Project – and this time we’ve got 10 prizes worth between $2000 to $2500 USD! PLEASE READ ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTING. Particularly pay attention to the instruction to submit NEW posts not previously written ones. Old posts (written before today) won’t ...more
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I’ve been Bruced!
18th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

I’ve been Bruced!

Poet Robert Bruce recently put together a poetic video for everyone’s favorite Copy Writing Blogger and I have to say I was a little jealous – to my knowledge no one’s ever written a poem or made a video for me before. But I lived in hope! :-) Today Robert ...more
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How to Cut Through the Clutter of an OVERLY BLOGGED STORY and Get Noticed
18th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Cut Through the Clutter of an OVERLY BLOGGED STORY and Get Noticed

Aaron just IM’d me to let me know that my post on TIME being linkbaiter of the year has climbed up to #3 on Techmeme (actually it got to #2). The irony is that my in jest (attempted humor) accusation that TIME have pulled off the most successful linkbaiting of ...more
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What are People Searching for Online This Christmas
18th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What are People Searching for Online This Christmas

Epiar Market Research Blog has put together an interesting list that tracks what ‘Christmas’ things people are searching for online this year. Here are the first 8 items on the list. They are estimated searches as measured across all search engines. See the full list at Christmas Wishes Expressed in ...more
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TIME Wins Linkbaiter of the Year Award
17th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

TIME Wins Linkbaiter of the Year Award

Time Magazine have pulled off the Link Bait of the year with their Person of the Year Award. They’ve named ‘You’ (and me) as the winner of the award. By ‘You’ they give the award to anyone involved in user generated content – that’s social media, blogging, video sharing etc ...more
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Snap Preview – Tell me What You Think
17th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Snap Preview – Tell me What You Think

There are a number of tools that I’ve been meaning to test on my blogs over the past few months and so this weekend I’ve decided to get a few of them up and running. The first one that you’ll notice I’m testing at ProBlogger is Snap. I’ve added it ...more
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Partners Network CPA Ads Go Live
16th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Partners Network CPA Ads Go Live

Performancing have officially started running their CPA Network Ads on publishers blogs. Nick writes: “Right now they are very broad in topic, as this is simply a test (but a test with the aim of making you money..), but presuming all goes to plan, we’ll roll out more creatives and ...more
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Finding a Conversational Voice in Your Blogging
16th of December 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Finding a Conversational Voice in Your Blogging

This is my final post in the ‘adding a personal touch to your blog‘ series: This one is more of a personal preference than anything so take it or leave it – but I attempt to make my writing style as conversational as possible. I try to write in a ...more
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