
Speedlinking 10 October 2006
If you have an email newsletter you might like to read Stephan’s post where he asks ‘are you email response rates dropping?‘ and gives some tips on how to improve them. Shel explains his blog comment policy – he calls it the Living Room policy. Do you have a comments ...more
Pro Blogging News

10 Ways to Improve Your Blogging through Practice
When I was 13 my life was fairly simple and largely revolved around one thing – Tennis. I was fortunate enough to live next door to two tennis courts and so most evenings after school involved hitting balls with friends, family or even practising with myself hitting against the blue ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Chickens Project Receipt
Just a quick note for those who participated in the ‘blogging for chickens‘ project to let you know that I have made the donation on your behalf today. The a screen shot of the web-receipt is posted below. The total donated via PayPal was $1030AU (a further 7 chickens were ...more
ProBlogger Site News

Which Bloggers Would You Love to Meet?
Phil has a post that got me chuckling a little. It’s called Get global – literally and it bounces off b5’s VC funding that we announced earlier in the week and mentions the way we as a founders team of four (Jeremy, Duncan, Shai and myself) are yet to meet. ...more
Pro Blogging News

Speedlinking 7 October 2006
Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani writes a great post on her analysis of Bloglines as compared to the newly improved Google Reader. Has anyone else switched like Gina? Andy Wibbels (my co Six Figure Blogging presenter) is starting his latest course – Keyword Essentials (aff). He’s done a free preview call which ...more
Pro Blogging News

Is AdSense Dead?
You might have noticed over the past few weeks that in some forums and between some e-book writers that there is debate over whether AdSense is everything it’s cracked up to be. Some are saying that it’s dead, others are saying it’s dead if you use it for Arbitrage and ...more
Adsense

Google Blog Search Offers Pinging to Get Your Blog Indexed
Google today announced that you can now ping their blog search service to let them know when you’ve updated. You can manually ping it here or do it automatically if you’re a WP user by adding http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to your ‘update services’ (under options/writing). They will continue to watch other ping ...more
Search Engine Optimization

How to Target US Traffic for YPN Ads
If you’re a YPN publisher but are worried about having too much non US traffic (they don’t let YPN be used on sites with too many non US readers) then you might find a tip written by Erik helpful on Saving Your Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) Account from being BANNED. ...more
Adsense

Chitika extends referral program to 15 months
Here’s some good news for Chitika publishers who have referred other publishers to the system – they’ve extended the referral program to 15 months instead of 12! This means that those who started referring people from the first month that it was possible to do so (around 12 months ago) ...more
Chitika eMiniMalls