Giving Content Away
19th of April 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Giving Content Away

Another thing that Cory Doctrow talked about last night that I’ve been pondering ever since is how he releases his novels for free online as well as in hard copy. He spoke how this has worked really well for him and is probably the reason that he’s sold so many ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
The Importance of Landing pages on Blogs
19th of April 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Importance of Landing pages on Blogs

Nice post over at Seth Godin’s on “Landing pages” which coincidentally was something I was working a little on this afternoon on one of my blogs. I’ll let Seth say it because he’s the master of this kind of thing: ‘A landing page is the first page a visitor to ...more
Blog Design
Cory Doctorow Speaks
18th of April 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Cory Doctorow Speaks

Tonight I heard at the last minute about a lecture that Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing was giving here in Melbourne (thanks to a ProBlogger reader for letting me know about it) His topic: ‘Offering a remarkable global perspective on the future, Cory will discuss his view that technologies which ...more
Blog News
SOME Australian AdSense Publishers Get Direct Debit Payments
18th of April 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

SOME Australian AdSense Publishers Get Direct Debit Payments

Last week I posted that AdSense had made available Direct Debit Payments to Australian Publishers – I was so excited about it that I actually posted about it from the road on my holiday after finding it in my inbox (I only checked twice while away). I confirmed it was ...more
Adsense
Speed Linking – While I was gone
18th of April 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speed Linking – While I was gone

While I’ve been away the Pro Blogging scene has been as busy as usual (in fact I’m sure it gets busier when I’m away). I’m slowly working through my RSS feeds but here are some of the stories that broke and posts that interest me from the last couple of ...more
Pro Blogging News
ProBlogger Returns to ‘Normal’
18th of April 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger Returns to ‘Normal’

The two week break is over and I’m back home after what was a wonderful couple of weeks in tropical far north Queensland (north eastern tip of Australia). We spent a week in Port Douglas and just under a week in Palm Cove. While we did catch the end of ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Akismet for Moveable Type
17th of April 2006 Guest Blogger 0 Comments

Akismet for Moveable Type

This post has been submitted by regular contributor – Aaron Brazell Late last year, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, launched a brash new anti-spam product for blogs called Akismet.  Of course, at the time of launch, I took the product to task but quickly changed my tune as I understood ...more
Blog Design
Blogs as a Profile Builder – Blog Case Study
17th of April 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blogs as a Profile Builder – Blog Case Study

The following post was submitted by one of ProBlogger’s Dutch readers, Bertrand, as part of the ProBlogger Case Study Series Hello fellow bloggers, I’m glad Darren gave me the opportunity to tell you my story. Unfortanetly the blogs I maintain are Dutch, so I will describe the background, the way ...more
Case Studies
How to Attract Readers? – Blog Case Study
16th of April 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Attract Readers? – Blog Case Study

The following post was submitted by Carolyn Goodwin as part of the ProBlogger Case Study Series I hadn’t even read a blog until my brother introduced me to English Cut and explained the benefits of blogging for business. I recently began my career as a professional gift consultant for Whirled ...more
Case Studies