How to Assemble the Biggest List of ‘How To’ Blog Posts Ever – Reader Submissions Part III
21st of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Assemble the Biggest List of ‘How To’ Blog Posts Ever – Reader Submissions Part III

I’m getting lots of great feedback today (as well as 80 more entries) in the How to… group writing project. Check out this comment from one participant who got 60,000 visitors to his post as a result of the project (which started a Diggalanche)! The reason I started these projects ...more
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AdSense Get Groovy and Thank MTV Ad Testers with Lava Lamps
21st of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdSense Get Groovy and Thank MTV Ad Testers with Lava Lamps

Publishers participating in the AdSense MTV premium video pilot should keep an eye on their mail boxes over the next few days as they are likely to have a package arrive containing… wait for it…. a Lava lamp. Yep – publishers who were part of the program (like shoemoney (pictured ...more
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Bloggers in Wikipedia – I’m a Wikipedia Reject
21st of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Bloggers in Wikipedia – I’m a Wikipedia Reject

Steve pointed yesterday to a page on Wikipedia that listed 200 American bloggers. I found it interesting that Wikipedia allowed these pages to remain up – not because they’re bad pages but because I’ve seen numerous bloggers complain about other bloggers pages being deleted. I don’t know what the rules ...more
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Speedlinking 21 September 2006
21st of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speedlinking 21 September 2006

Chris has a good post exploring the topic of whether you should use Sitemaps or not Get 10 Free MiniCards with your Flickr pictures on them from moo.com (get in quick because there’s only 10,000 free packs). Neil shares some thoughts on using digg and Netscape to get traffic Lorelle ...more
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20 Linkbaiting Techniques
21st of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

20 Linkbaiting Techniques

As I’ve mentioned numerous times already in this series on linkbaiting – ‘linkbait’ is a term that is used to describe a variety of practices that have the purpose of generating links to your site. It is impossible to come up with a definitive list of what these practices are ...more
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88 More ‘How To’ Articles – Group Writing Project Submission Part 2
20th of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

88 More ‘How To’ Articles – Group Writing Project Submission Part 2

It’s day 2 of this week’s group writing project and below you’ll find another 88 submissions (a total of 151 so far in the full list). Thanks again to this week’s sponsors (New Homes, Webmaster-Talk.com forums, Google Tutor and OwnMySeat.com) of the gifts that will be awarded to 5 random ...more
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Opening Paragraphs that Hook Your Readers
20th of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Opening Paragraphs that Hook Your Readers

Great post (as usual) by Brian over at Copyblogger titled 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang. While we all agree that the title is the most important element of a blog post in terms of getting it attention – it’s the opening paragraph that hooks ...more
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Motivations for Linkbaiting – Why Links are Good for Your Blog
20th of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Motivations for Linkbaiting – Why Links are Good for Your Blog

This post is a continuation in this week’s series on linkbaiting. Previously we’ve talked about ‘what is linkbaiting’ and have asked ‘Is Linkbaiting good or bad?’ and today I’d like us to turn our attention to some of the reasons people do it. While it’s worth remembering that linkbaiting is ...more
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63 ‘How to’ Posts to Add Spice to Your Day – Group Writing Project Day 1
19th of September 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

63 ‘How to’ Posts to Add Spice to Your Day – Group Writing Project Day 1

udpate: This project is now closed. See all 343 submissions to it here. Today is Day 1 of our latest ProBlogger Group Writing Project and like last time the response has been very cool. The project topic was announced around 24 hours ago and I’ve accepted 63 submissions already (I ...more
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