Chitika add New Categories and Ad Sizes
3rd of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Chitika add New Categories and Ad Sizes

Chitika have announced a number of changes to their eMinimalls over night. Firstly they’ve added 18 new categories (giving you a total of 44 now). The new categories are: Photography Accessories Cellular Accessories Computer Games Computer Speakers Laptop Accessories Scanner Accessories CD and DVD Burners In Dash Receivers Small Appliances ...more
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Comments are Back
3rd of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Comments are Back

Apologies to anyone who tried to comment here at ProBlogger over night. I’m not sure what the issue was but they were broken for a number of hours. All seems to be back up and running now though so if you had something to say on one of the last ...more
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Adding Video to Your Blog
3rd of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Adding Video to Your Blog

I’m a big fan of Mike Rundle’s writing and his latest work at Business Logs is a good example of his common sense approach to blogging. Today he’s written about Coattail Riding Instructions For YouTube and gives 3 “Don’ts” and 3 “Do’s” for adding video to a blog. Here’s his ...more
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Grow Your Blog’s Readership By Targeting Readers
3rd of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Grow Your Blog’s Readership By Targeting Readers

Who is your Primary Blog’s Target reader? I was speaking with a blogger a couple of weeks ago via IM and he asked me the eternal question that we all seem to ask: ‘How do I find more readers for my blog?’ It’s a question I get asked a fair ...more
Blog Promotion
Analyzing Successful Sites SEO
2nd of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Analyzing Successful Sites SEO

Ross Dunn has a good article on Demystifying Your Competitor’s Ranking Success which gives you some hints to analyzing other blogs and websites in your niche – particularly those who rank well in search engines. He uses a hypothetical example as he outlines the areas to analyze. It gives you ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Matt Cutts Google SEO Videos
2nd of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Matt Cutts Google SEO Videos

If you want to learn more about how to rank well in Google and you want it straight from the horse’s Google employee’s mouth you might like like to check out some videos that Matt Cutts has recorded and posted in the last few days. At the time of posting ...more
Search Engine Optimization
The Problem of Default About Pages
2nd of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Problem of Default About Pages

One of the common problems that I find being made on many WordPress Blogs is the default ‘About Page’ being unchanged. You’ve probably seen them as you’ve surfed around – you click on the ‘About’ link in the blog’s template and are taken to a page that says something like ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
AdSense on Google Page Creator
1st of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdSense on Google Page Creator

It’s been coming for a while now but today it was made official – you can now put AdSense on Google Page Creator pages. I got a bad feeling that this could be a spammers paradise!
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Introduction to Desktop Blog Editors
1st of August 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Introduction to Desktop Blog Editors

LifeHacker ran a reader poll last week on what desktop blog editors bloggers are using. The results showed that just over 60% don’t use any. It was a close race after that with Performancing’s Firefox extension winning out with 11.7% and w.bloggar coming in second at 10.2%. Ecto, Qumana (I ...more
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