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I can’t believe how fast this last week has gone. I’m only here in Toronto for another two days (and then have another day sitting on a plane). After a very long week of b5 meetings with Jeremy and Mark, VCs and other Toronto based web start ups we took ...more

Brian Lee from Genius Types sent in the following reader ‘quick tip’. Blog what you are passionate about. Even if your area of interest is not in Google’s top 100 searches, you will ultimately be more successful when you write from your heart. A blog is the platform of choice ...more

This Reader ‘Quick Tip’ was sent in by Michael Moore from Price of Diamonds. The bottom line is that we all want more people to visit our blog. One successful way I have found that attracts people to mine is by doing a series of articles labelled parts 1,2 and ...more

In my last post I wrote a series of tips on how to use Chitika’s eMiniMalls and RPU ads. Today I want to turn my attention to their Shoplinc product (aff). I’ve had reasonable (and increasing) success with Shoplinc since it launched a few months back. Once you have people ...more

Someone recently asked me what the most popular post was on ProBlogger. There have been quite a few that have done well but one that got (and continues to get) a lot of attention is 18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging. Today Valeria Maltoni left a pretty comprehensive comment on ...more

The following reader quick tip was submitted by Jon Symons from Step by Step Blog: Tired of trying to get the kml flashembed plugin to work and not wanting the standard, pop up window anymore, I decided to figure out a low-tech way to embed Camtasia style screencast videos into ...more

This post is a continuation of my previous post on optimizing Chitika Ads in which I spoke largely about ad targetting. Positioning Ads Good positioning of Chitika ads is similar to that of AdSense in that in general they work well above the fold (with some exceptions – see below) ...more

The following quick tips was submitted by Jarkko Aho from loghomescabin.com. Be the first to comment on new posts. Just make the post meaningful and everybody who comes to read those comments will see your take on the matter. People appreciate information that you provide and will visit your site.

TechCrunch is reporting that MyBlogLog (a social media site for bloggers) has sold to Yahoo! for $10m. This is a pretty impressive sale as MyBlogLog has transitioned from being a blog metrics package to a social media one in a relatively short time. Congrats to the MyBlogLog team. Update – ...more