
Landing Pages for TypePad Blogs
Since writing my post on The Importance of Landing pages last week I’ve had a number of bloggers email asking for advice on how to make them – especially from bloggers not using WordPress (which has a ‘page’ function). Those bloggers using TypePad who want to work with Landing Pages ...more
Blog Design

How to Grow Your Blog’s Readership
Guy Kawasaki has a useful post 10 lessons he’s learnt in How to Evangelize a Blog over his first 120 days of blogging. Here’s his list with a few of my own comments (his is the ‘bold’ (and he has more to say under each) mine is the rest): 1. ...more
Blog Promotion

AdSense adds More Custom Reports?
Another AdSense change (or at least I think it is) is that they seem to have added to the number of allowable ‘custom reports’. I’ve not seen any announcement of this but today I have the option to add new reports and the last time I checked (a week or ...more
Adsense

AdSense add Site Flavoured Search
Also announced by AdSense today on their What’s New page is a new search feature – Site-Flavoured Search which allows you to ‘provide search that is tailored to your site’s topics and themes’. The AdSense team go on to explain that you won’t notice any visible changes to your search ...more
Adsense

AdSense Expand Rectangle Image Ad Options
AdSense have expanded the number of ad formats that you can now have image ads in by allowing the Square (250 X 250) and Large Rectangle (336 X 280) formats to now have image ads in addition to the text ads that they were limited to previously. They’re yet to ...more
Adsense

Yutter · RSS/Blog Subscription Service
The last couple of months have seen a load of new blog tools on the market to help bloggers send out their RSS feed via email and today I heard about another one – Yutter · RSS/Blog Subscription Service. Their site doesn’t give you a load of information without signing ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Send Your Readers Deeper Into Your Blog
Liz over at Successful Blog has started up a new page on her blog for New Bloggers. It’s a useful collection of her posts on topics relevant for newbies. It’s also a good example of creating a page that draws first time readers deeper into your blog. It can be ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

The Changing Web
Steve writes a good post reflecting upon the transient nature of the web. I’m constantly amazed by how fast things in our world are changing – particularly in the space I spend so much time ‘the web’. Just three and a half years ago all I ever did online was ...more
Pro Blogging News

Yahoo! Publisher Network Blog
Another older piece of news that I missed while away last week: YPN have launched a blog for their YPN publishers. Give publishers – you folks – a voice in the evolution of the Yahoo! Publisher Network and its products. Build a place where you can come and learn about ...more
Yahoo Publishing Network