
AdSense Announce Text Links for Referrals
AdSense have just announced something that a lot of publishers were calling for after the launch of their Referral system – the ability to use text links for referrals. Up to this point they’ve only allowed publisher to use graphic links/buttons to send traffic to them but now text links ...more
Adsense

Digg Deception
There’s lots of buzz around today over Suspicious Digging, Digg Corruption and Digg Fraud. Unfortunately when a site has the combination of loads of traffic and user generated content there will always be people around trying to abuse the system. A lot of the debate is around Digg’s responsibility and ...more
Pro Blogging News

55 Blog Tools… and Counting
The list of Blog Tools that have been submitted by ProBlogger readers continues to grow. I just updated it with another 10 or so tools bringing the list to a total of 55 so far. It’s a little difficult to define what is a ‘tool’ and what is just a ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

The Two Most Important Words in Blogging
Brian’s done it again with a great post at Copyblogger and has written about The Two Most Important Words in effective Blogging. You really should read it because it’s right on the money.
Writing Content

Google Testing ‘Search this Site’ Within Search Results
Cybernet News reports that Google are testing a new feature that will allow it’s users to search specific sites from within search results: ‘The new layout will provide more information to users about a site simply by selecting the expandable arrow. Once the arrow is selected then more information will ...more
Search Engine Optimization

FeedBurner Launch Email Subscription Service
Also from Feedburner today – the announcement of a new service called FeedBurner Email which allows you to provide a way for your readers to subscribe to your blog via email. It’s not a particularly new service (others have offered a variety of options to do it previously) but if ...more
RSS

Feedburner Ad Network – First Impression Review
I’ve just been accepted into the Feedburner Ad Network (FAN) program as a publisher. With my moving to publishing full feeds you’ll now also see an ad at the bottom of each post in my RSS feed. These are CPM ads (ie I get paid per thousand impressions) and not ...more
Advertising

More Speedlinking
I’m still wading through my unread RSS feeds (5000 unread items to go). Here are a few more links to things from the last week or so: Mark Jones posts about how Australian TV channels have discovered citizen journalism and are exploiting it for all it’s worth – proving in ...more
Pro Blogging News

ProBlogger Moves to Publishing Full Feeds
As I mentioned buried away in my last post – I’ve just started a trial of publishing full feeds here at ProBlogger. I’m not going to rehash my reasons for doing so but wanted to announce it in a post of it’s own so that everyone is on the same ...more
ProBlogger Site News