
Techmeme Experiments with Feed/Content Advertising
Techmeme has launched a new sponsorship section on their site in the last day or so. It’s called ‘Techmeme Sponsor Posts’ and is essentially a spot on their sidebar where three sponsors have the latest posts from their blogs show up with a title and excerpt (taken from their RSS ...more
Pro Blogging News

How Do You Manage Your Blog? – Blog Administration
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a number of people asking me for information on how I manage my time as a blogger and as someone with a number of different aspects of business running side by side. Here’s an example of one of the questions (from a reader ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Which Font is Best for Blogging?
Before and After Magazine have a great PDF download on choosing the right typeface (via LifeClever). It’s actually a topic I’ve been asked about twice today so it is a timely find. I’m no expert on design but my approach to choosing fonts is two fold: 1. Take on board ...more
Blog Design

Full Stops (Periods) in Titles
Here’s a quick tip for composing the titles of your posts. Avoid putting full stops (periods) at the end of your titles. Most bloggers naturally avoid using them in titles (without giving much thought to it). However from time to time I see them. Why shouldn’t you use full stops ...more
Writing Content

How Much Is a Blog Post Worth? A Formula?
Interesting post over at Steve Pavlina’s which takes up the question that I wrote about last week – How Much Is a Blog Post Worth? In the post Steve decides that posts on his blog are worth $2400 calculated over a 10 year life span. He calculates this by taking ...more
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AdSense add Channel Name to Code
I was just making a new ad unit for one of my blogs and have noticed that when generating code for an ad unit in a channel that the channel code is no longer just a number but the name of the channel and the date you created it as ...more
Adsense

How to Make Bloggers Angry in 10 (+1) Steps
Denise writes 10 Things That Make Bloggers Angry when pitching them – as someone who gets pitched a lot of ideas I’d recommend it as essential reading for marketers wanting to interact with bloggers. In the same vein of #1 (Not spelling the blogger’s name right) I’d add an 11th ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

11 Lies of Professional Blogging Resources
Over the past couple of months I’ve come across a number of ebooks on the topic of making money from blogs. I bought them with the hope of finding some quality products to recommend and in the hope of discovering some new techniques to try out. My reaction after reading ...more
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Blogging For Chickens – Will You Join Me?
Can Blogging Make a Difference in this World? I think so – that’s why this week I’m going to be blogging for Chickens! Today when I logged onto my computer a Calendar notification popped up at me telling me that it’s ProBlogger’s 2nd birthday. Time flies when you’re having fun. ...more
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