A Question about Comments and Permission
23rd of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

A Question about Comments and Permission

Amy (a ProBlogger reader) sent me a question this morning that I thought might make an interesting discussion question: “A writer for a newspaper would like to quote some of the comments my readers have left on my blog. As the blogger, I’m not sure what’s appropriate–to give her my ...more
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Text Link Ads Link Value Calculator
23rd of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Text Link Ads Link Value Calculator

Over the past few months I’ve been testing Text Link Ads (aff) on most of my blogs as a secondary way of adding income streams by selling text links. I’ve found TLA to be a very useful service – particularly because it’s something that once you’ve set up is incredibly ...more
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Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers – Group Writing Project
23rd of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers – Group Writing Project

This is a slightly long winded announcement post inviting you to participate in a ProBlogger.net project. For details of how to participate read on: Today I set myself the task of writing a list article titled ‘X Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers‘ (the ‘X’ was going to be a number ...more
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The Benefits of Highlighting Popular Posts on Your Blog
22nd of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Benefits of Highlighting Popular Posts on Your Blog

Stephan Spencer writes a useful SEO Tip on highlighting Popular Posts and kindly uses ProBlogger’s top menus as an example of one way of doing it. I have to admit that my reasoning for using the boxes at the top of my blog was twofold. I first saw the idea ...more
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YPN add Payment Features
21st of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

YPN add Payment Features

Jen reports that YPN have launched direct deposit, tax withholding and faster payment turnaround for publishers in their beta test. update: More official word on this at YPN’s blog.
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PPCalc – PayPal Fee Calculator – Calculate Your PayPal Fees
21st of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

PPCalc – PayPal Fee Calculator – Calculate Your PayPal Fees

If you use Paypal and have ever wanted to calculate how much you’ll be paying in fees for different situations then you might be interested in PPCalc a PayPal Fee Calculator. It also has a ‘reverse fee calculator’ which will tell you how much to ask for if you want ...more
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AdSense ‘Change to ads about’ Ads Reappearing
21st of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdSense ‘Change to ads about’ Ads Reappearing

I’ve just started seeing the following ads on ProBlogger.net today in my AdSense ads. They look pretty normal except for the last line or two ‘Change to ads about:’ with alternate ad categories under them. When you click one of the links under that it reloads the page and you ...more
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4% of ProBlogger Readers are Six Figure Bloggers
20th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

4% of ProBlogger Readers are Six Figure Bloggers

Early results after 24 hours on this week’s poll show that 12% of ProBlogger readers are earning over $1000 per month from blogging and 4% are earning over $10,000 (making them six figure bloggers if they average that over a year). At the other end of the spectrum 25% don’t ...more
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Poll of the Week – How Much Money do you Make from Blogging?
20th of May 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Poll of the Week – How Much Money do you Make from Blogging?

I was interviewed during the week by an Australian journalist who was fascinated by the idea that people were making money from blogs. As with most interviews that I do the old ‘how much can bloggers earn?’ question came out fairly early in the piece (it’s an oldie but a ...more
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