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The following reader quick tip was submitted by Ann Handley from Marketing Profs: Daily Fix. One of the questions I often field comes from business owners who are thinking of launching a blog but are wondering, “What can I write about…?” A recent post by Poynter contributor Vince Maher does ...more

Once you’ve chosen an affiliate product or program to promote on your blog you cannot just slap a link to it into your sidebar and forget about it. The task then is in thinking about how you’ll drive readers to it. Similarly to contextual advertising – positioning of your links ...more

John Chow has posted details of a new AdSense beta which allows publishers to highlight certain ad units to advertisers and tell them what position the ads are in. John writes: “To use Google Ad Placement, you create and implement a custom channel just as you would before – tracking ...more

Just a short note to let readers know to expect a little downtime on ProBlogger later today or two as we’ll be moving it over onto b5media’s servers. Hopefully this will lead a few of the glitches that the blog’s been suffering the last couple of months being ironed out. ...more

This reader Quick Tip was submitted by Moshe Morris from SEM Basics. Oftentimes links from sites with the .edu and .gov extention can be particularly helpful when trying to rank well in the search engines. Here, then, is a quick and easy way to find some (potentially) high quality .edu ...more

A couple of days back Technorati released a new widget that counts the number of links pointing at any given blog post. It’s called the Link Count Widget. So at the end of a post you’ll get a little link and logo like this: This is useful in that it ...more

This reader Quick Tip was submitted by Moshe Morris from SEM Basics. Ultimately speaking, what determines if a keyword is difficult or hard to ran in the major search engiens is the quality of your competition. You can compete against every site in the internet, but if none of them ...more

This reader Quick Tip was submitted by Moshe Morris from SEM Basics. Moshe has submitted 3 tips to this series – I’ll run the next two later today as they are all SEO related. In SEO it is extremely helpful to know how many sites you are actually competing against ...more

Another task that is worth doing in order to prepare your blogs for the end of the year is fine tuning your affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are quite a different way of monetizing your blog than advertising and while there are some similar principles that come into play when optimizing ...more