Making Money Blogging Without an Ad in Sight
One of the distinctions that I’ve made previously about blogging for money is that there are Direct Methods and Indirect Methods for doing so. Direct methods are where blogger makes money FROM their blog and Indirect methods are where a blogger makes money BECAUSE of their blog. ProBlogger.net tends to ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Alternablog: Mobile Blogging
This post has been submitted by regular contributor – Aaron Brazell For the most part, when people talk about blogging they are talking about a very conventional style of communication which describes what most of us are used to – a top-down, linear mostly text medium. While this is the ...more
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Some ProBlogger News
Source via Steve Update: Ok, it’s been 45 minutes since posting this and it’s getting a little out of hand as I’ve had quite a few emails of congratulations, bloggers asking for interviews and a reporter (a Fairfax one oddly enough) call me to do a story already. If you ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Link Lust
Which 3 Blogs or Websites would you most love a link from? Why? I’d be interested to see a list of lusted after links to see what blogs are mentioned repeatedly. Share you top 3 in comments or write a post about it and leave a link to the post ...more
Pro Blogging News
8 Reasons Why New Media is Growing
“Why is New Media becoming popular?” After being introduced to a friend of a friend as a ‘full time blogger’ the other night at a pub I was asked the above question by the friend of a friend. He accepted that ‘New Media’ is popular – but was at a ...more
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Plagiarism and Blogging
The Boston Globe has a piece today on plagiarism and blogs which points to a blog that I’ve been reading for some time now via RSS – Plagiarism Today. ”’A-list bloggers don’t see much copy-and-paste plagiarism because their popularity insulates them,” said Plagiarism Today’s Bailey. ”Unknown bloggers aren’t plagiarized much ...more
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Rebuilding Movable Type
Mike’s post at Business Logs announcing their latest design project (a redesign of A Socialite’s Life) has an interesting commentary comparing Movable Type and WordPress – specifically with the dynamic nature of WP and the need to ‘rebuild’ MT. ‘I now realize why larger weblogs are switching to WordPress — ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Yahoo’s Advertising Overhaul Officially announced
Loren has posted details of the email that Yahoo sent it’s advertisers which has details of the overhaul they’re doing on their advertising program. Looks like they’re definitely doing some worthwhile updates including geo-targetting, quicker ad activation, budgeting/planning tools etc. To be honest I had thought Yahoo already had all ...more
Yahoo Publishing Network
Digital Photography School Progress Report
It’s been just over a couple of weeks now since I launched my last blogging experiment (Digital Photography School) and as I said in my vidcast last week I want to periodically report on how it’s going and what I’ve been working on as I go along. It’s early days ...more
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