CSS tips
25th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

CSS tips

If you are a blogger who wants to learn how to use CSS (cascading Style Sheets) to modify the look and feel of your blog and you are after some tips you might want to check out the latest post over at Business Logs where Mike gives his 5 CSS ...more
Blog Design
AdBrite beta testing Mobile, In Video and Banner ads
25th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdBrite beta testing Mobile, In Video and Banner ads

AdBrite announced that they are accepting beta users for three new formats of ads. It was announced last week but escaped my attention for some reason. Mobile Ads – an Ad system for mobile content sites (WAP) Banner Ads – fairly standard banner ad options by the looks of things ...more
Advertising
Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers – More Reader Submissions
25th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers – More Reader Submissions

The reader submissions for the Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers Group Writing Project have continued to come in over night – 13 more to add to yesterdays 16. Once again I’ve posted them all to the central page with yesterday’s submissions. I’m really excited by the quality of some of ...more
Pro Blogging News
Podcast interviews ProBlogger at Practical Blogging
25th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Podcast interviews ProBlogger at Practical Blogging

Robyn Tippins has just posted a short podcast interview with me talking about blogging, now I got into it, how I transitioned into doing it for a living, how PR and marketing people should pitch bloggers, things I’d do differently and a few tips on blogging and monetization etc. Listen ...more
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Feedburner Updates Free Stats Package
25th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Feedburner Updates Free Stats Package

Feedburner has announced a couple of updates to what they are offering in their free stats package including ‘Live Hits’ (the ability to see the last 25 hits via your feed (how long the 25 hits were over and what agent they used to read your feed) and ‘Yesterdays News’ ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How to Recruit Bloggers
25th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Recruit Bloggers

Chris has written a really useful post at Performancing on Recruiting Blogging Partners to write on your blogs. His tips are well thought out and very practical from someone who has some experience. I particularly like this: “I have found the best place to look for long-haul bloggers are blogs. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Alternablog: Videocast
24th of May 2006 Guest Blogger 0 Comments

Alternablog: Videocast

This post has been submitted by regular contributor – Aaron Brazell The past few weeks, I’ve been running a mini-series about different kinds of blogging. The first entry in the series was about moblogging and the use of mobile technology to update and post to a blog. Last week, we ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
AdSense changes default Ads to Borderless Ads
24th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdSense changes default Ads to Borderless Ads

AdSense have emailed publishers today telling them that they’ve changed their default ad design to be a borderless ones. Their email reads: “We’re writing to let you know about a coming change to the appearance of your Google ads. Your ads currently display the default Google color palette, Seaside (formerly ...more
Adsense
Idol Blogger Crashes Server and Teaches us a Lesson about Hosting
24th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Idol Blogger Crashes Server and Teaches us a Lesson about Hosting

I just came across a story that makes me quite angry but also has an important lesson in it for bloggers on shared servers. It concerns the story of idolbloglive.com – a blog about Amercian Idol. As you’d expect with a blog on the topic of American Idol it’s a ...more
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