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Pronet Advertising has a nice piece on building a better blog and identifies 5 areas that a blog can stand out from the rest in: Content Usability Visibility Uniqueness Readers Read the full detail on each at 5 ways to building a better blog What would you add to the ...more

Josh just sent me an email asking if I’d seen the Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro For WordPress. I hadn’t but now that I have I’m intrigued. I’ve talked here numerous times about how I’d love to find ways of translating blogs into different languages so the idea of a plugin ...more

Late in August it was announced that AdSense were doing a limited beta test with some publishers of their Premium Video Content (a partnership with Viacom where video ads were embedded into video clips, trailers etc). The test was a 4 week pilot that ends on 20 September. I’ve just ...more

This time last week I called for prizes for next week’s ProBlogger Group Writing Project. I was expecting a similar response to last time but was inundated with offers (over 35 now). Some of them were a touch strange (you’re a quirky lot) and some were quite amazing. I’ve chosen ...more

Yesterday we talked about Relational Communication Skills – essential skills for blogging relationships (ironically the picture I used in the post caused some to question whether I had some poor communication skills going on). Today I want to turn my attention to conflict resolution, another essential skill (closely related to ...more

Tangent Time – “To have a successful marriage you only really need two skills – communication skills and conflict resolution skills.” This is the advice was drummed into me as a trainee celebrant learning to do pre-marriage counselling. It is a fairly idealistic sort of statement and I’m sure could ...more

BlogHelper has put together a couple of useful posts on what to do when spring cleaning your blog. Read at total of 10 things to consider doing at Blog Spring Cleaning: 5 Baby Steps and 5 more things to do when spring cleaning your blog.

Yesterday I raised the topic of exclusive blogging (and blogging cliques) – it was a post identifying a problem. Today I want to suggest 9 ways to make your blog more inclusive. 1. Be Aware of the Language You Use – every niche has it’s language that it’s experts know, ...more

A number of readers have emailed in the last 24 hours to let me know that MyBlogLog (I previously reviewed it in it’s early days here), stats package that lets you track outbound links has added the ability to track AdSense clicks. When you log into your stats page now ...more