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SEOmoz blog has a helpful post with 11 Best Practices for URLs. They’re mainly written from an SEO perspective although make sense on other levels also. Describe Your Content Keep it Short Static is the Way & the Light Descriptives are Better than Numbers Keywords Never Hurt Subdomains Aren’t the ...more

The Scroll Bar Theory When I first started using AdSense one of the tips that some AdSense experts suggested was to run skyscrapers down the right hand side of your site because this is where readers eye would be drawn to when they went to use the scroll bar. Of ...more

Text Link Ads have just launched a new advertising format called Feedvertising (aff). Those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed will probably have noticed that some text links have appeared at the bottom of my posts for the past few days – they are the Feedvertising ads that ...more

Amazon have emailed participants in the aStore beta test (my review here) with a sneak peak of what will be included in the next version of aStores. Here’s the list: Build and maintain multiple aStores using a single Associate ID Specify products to feature on Category and Sub-Category pages Create ...more

Non weekend readers might have missed the fact that this weekend I’m celebrating my 2nd birthday here at ProBlogger with a ‘Chicken-a-thon’. Yes I’m blogging for Chickens in the hope of raising some money for Charity. You can read about the project here. So far donations total $240AU ($180US) and ...more

One of the principles that I drum into my DPS readers that their photos need to have a point of interest or some sort of focal point that draws viewers into the image and holds their interest. I suggest that before photographers hit the shutter button that they as: “What ...more

103bees has added yet another new and illuminating feature to it’s search engine metrics package. This time they’re giving publishers a visual representation of the long tail of search engine queries for their blogs. So for ProBlogger you’ll see the graph below (click for a slightly larger version) which shows ...more

WordPress have announced that they’re getting into VIP Hosting which allows some pretty major blogs to ‘piggyback’ on the back of their WordPress.com hosting infrastructure. Basically it’s for blogs that don’t want to use WordPress.com as a platform but who need reliable hosting for their blog. Here’s how they describe ...more

Yaro has written a post titled 8 Pitfalls To Avoid When Starting An Internet Business which contains some worthwhile advice (although i disagree with a couple in part). His points in bold – my comments after in normal type: Don’t start a business teaching how to make money online – ...more