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Blog Carnivals are one way for bloggers to get their name out there and make connections with other bloggers. Over at fivecentnickel today nickel has posted Five Questions (and Answers) About Blog Carnivals which some bloggers will find useful. “For newer sites, the biggest reason to participate is exposure. It’s ...more

Eric asks a question that caught my attention today – How Does A Niche Blogger Gain Credibility? He suggest a number of possibilities including: The number of comments Technorati ranking Bloglines ranking Alexa ranking PageRank Quality of the posts I’d agree that the most important of these is the quality ...more

I was a little dubious when I first heard of the Elite Retreat but as I’ve been pondering it for the last 24 hours I’m convinced it is a good idea. What is it? Well in short – it’s an opportunity to spend a couple of days with a group ...more

Dave Taylor posts that AdSense are testing with a select group of publishers a program called ‘Site Authentication’ where they allow publishers to run their ads on password protected sites – something not previously allowed. He publishes part of an email that AdSense sent to testers: ‘”You are one of ...more

Randfish has a useful post over at SEOmoz with 10 Web Tools to Help Generate Blog Content Ideas. In it he lists a variety of tools including Google Groups, Technorati, Craigslist, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Google/Yahoo News, Keyword Tools, Wikipedia, Digg/Reddit and Yahoo! Answers. I’d add to the list Topix.net (which offers ...more

It’s time for another earnings update on AdSense referrals. It’s now been almost a year since they were introduced (I think it was 4 November 2005) and so we’ve all had plenty of opportunity to test them. Referrals are Google’s first venture into CPA (cost per action) advertising and I’m ...more

Brian is at it again with 7 More Sure-Fire Headline Templates That Work over at Copyblogger.

I just received my first ever Performancing Partners (aff) payment (read my first impression review of the ad network here). It wasn’t a massive amount (in the mid ‘three figure’ range) but not bad for a first month. I’m not sure exactly how much of it was from advertisers and ...more

37 Signals has a post on a topic I’ve been pondering a lot lately also – those social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of blog posts that so many blogs have. They write: “Given the Ebola-like spread of these things they must be really effective, right? Not so much. Zero ...more