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I don’t generally post every announcement that we make over at b5media but this is one that I think fits with the ProBlogger focus of bloggers finding new ways to build commercial blogs. Today we’re announcing four new cobranded blogs with VIP Fan Clubs – the official fan club and ...more

Threads on Digital Point and Webmaster World are reporting that AdSense has sent out a survey to some publishers in the last few hours. Participants are entered in a competition to win them a possible $1000 ‘gift card’. Did anyone get a survey to fill in?

Just a quick update on the latest experiment that I’ve been doing at my Digital Photography School blog. A couple of weeks ago I had a few emails from readers who started to make suggestions about how they’d like to share their photos, work on group projects and meet other ...more

Apologies to readers for the outage of ProBlogger today. I’m not really able to say what the problem was but hopefully we’re back up and running and won’t have another long outage like we had today. After a long frustrating day I think I might go watch Australia take on ...more

While we’re talking about email newsletters – Nielsen Normal Group have done some interesting research (found via an email from Ken – again) that finds that readers of email newsletters have ‘highly emotional reactions to them’ in contrast to the reactions that readers of websites have (where they are more ...more

iZachy has a very interesting post comparing email newsletter services called – Are Your Subscribers Getting Your Newsletters?. In it Ken (a different Ken to the last post) compares services from FeedBlitcz, Squeet, FeedBurner and Zookoda. I’m not completely sure on the accuracy of it all for all readers and ...more

One of the product managers from ebay’s new AdContext contextual ad program, Ken, has just left a comment on my previous post about AdContext. As the comment was pretty long and quite comprehensive I thought I’d promote it to be a post of it’s own. Hopefully it sheds some light ...more

It always amazes me how badly some businesses interact with potential clients. Yesterday I had the ‘pleasure’ of receiving three calls in 10 minutes from a tele-sales company where the callers (3 different ones) started their calls (where they were trying to sell me a mobile phone) with these three ...more

YPN have just released a new section for their publishers called ‘publisher services’. (hat tip to Scott for the email headsup). I’ve included a screen shot of it below but it’s basically a collection of tutorials and tools to help publishers improve three aspects of their site development. Here’s how ...more