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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

Chitika have done something that I put on my wishlist to them almost 12 months ago and have made the link to Chitika in their multi product eMiniMalls an affiliate link (announcement – aff). So now when another publisher sees your ads and clicks the link to see what ad ...more

BlogHer have taken another step in the development of their BlogHerAds ad network by going live and opening things up for others to apply to. To this point the beta test was only available for 30 or so parenting bloggers but now it’s open to anyone to apply to join. ...more