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Welcome to August. I thought I’d take this opportunity to walk back down memory lane to what was happening on this blog a year ago today. August 2005 was a special month at ProBlogger as I launched my first month long series with these words: “Starting Monday I’m going to ...more

One of the things you find when you use a tool like 103bees to check your incoming search engine traffic is that some people find your blog as a result of both them and you misspelling words. I remember early in my blogging that I had one post that was ...more

If you’ve noticed any changes in the traffic coming to your blogs from Yahoo! it could be a result of their New Version of it’s Search Crawler called ‘Slurp’ – (a crawler is the bot that Search Engines send to your site to index it). Slurp is said to be ...more

After three months of participation in FeedBurner’s Ad Network I received my first payment (for April) yesterday. Feedburners ads are the ones you’ll see in my RSS feeds. My first impression review of FAN is still pretty accurate to how I’ve found the system. I’ve added it to three of ...more

The quote that stood out to me in the article on MSNBC that I mentioned a few posts ago was from Andrew Leyden from the Podcast Directory who marvels at his new income source by saying: ‘”I get paid while mowing the lawn. I get paid while cleaning the garage. ...more

Is anyone else using the Akismet comment spam filter getting hit big time by spam today? I’m not sure if it’s down, whether someone’s found a way past it or whether I’m just getting a massive attack and the normal small % of spam is getting through – but for ...more

I think most people are aware that the BlogHer conference is currently under way in San Jose. From what I’ve read about it – it’s going really well and there are some wonderful bloggers in attendance. However not everyone is in a financial or life situational position to be able ...more

MSNBC has a ‘nice’ (I call it nice because it’s a fairly shallow, but warm and fuzzy one) article on Publishers making money from contextual advertising and gives some examples of a variety of sites making decent money, one click at a time. I’m always amazed by the diversity of ...more

As we wrap up this short series of posts on product blogging, let’s take a look at a strategy for those who may not have a product of their own to sell. We’ve looked at selling information and niche e-commerce, and you can obviously use those strategies with products that ...more