How to: Placing Adsense Strategically Between Posts
9th of March 2006 Guest Blogger 0 Comments

How to: Placing Adsense Strategically Between Posts

Greetings, fellow Probloggers (and those who aspire to be probloggers). It’s somewhat surreal to be posting here. Darren’s highlighted who I am pretty well (though I’m not sure where he dug up that photo!), so I’ll simply add that my strength lies in WordPress. I have been an active part ...more
Blog Design
Aaron Brazell – New ProBlogger Columnist
9th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Aaron Brazell – New ProBlogger Columnist

One of the things I’ve enjoyed about ProBlogger in the last 12 months has been that I’ve ‘met’ (virtually of course) a large number of amazing bloggers who know a whole heap more about blogging than I do in a variety of areas. I’ve been experimenting with finding ways to ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Jason Calacanis Talks about the AOL Sale – Podcast
9th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Jason Calacanis Talks about the AOL Sale – Podcast

If you’ve been watching the rise of Weblogs Inc over the last couple of years and want to hear some of the behind the scenes story of the AOL sale then you might want to listen to an interview with Jason Calacanis recounting the story on a techcon TPN podcast. ...more
Blog Networks
Google Pays out $90 million to settle Click Fraud Case
9th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Google Pays out $90 million to settle Click Fraud Case

There’s news on Reuters today on a $90 million pay-out from Google over a click fraud case. While that kind of money isn’t massive in the scheme of things at Google it’s the precedent that is worrying. As the article says – some believe that click fraud is the ‘single ...more
Adsense
AdWords Launches Reader Demographic Targeting
9th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

AdWords Launches Reader Demographic Targeting

Google’s AdWords have just allowed advertisers to start targeting sites with certain demographics as readers. You’ll see below on the screen capture from my AdWords campaign some of the options for targeting that Advertisers now have according to gender, age, income, race etc. This means that Google are now tracking ...more
Adsense
Performancing Metrics – Statistics Package for Bloggers
9th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Performancing Metrics – Statistics Package for Bloggers

Nick Wilson over at Performancing has just announced the coming of a new ‘metrics’ tool which they have been alpha testing over the past few months. I’ve been lucky enough to be one of the alpha testers of it and while I don’t think I’m allowed to say too much ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
endo – News Aggregator for Mac users
9th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

endo – News Aggregator for Mac users

Adriaan Tijsseling, the guy behind the critically acclaimed ecto (the Apple version of the blog publishing tool) has today announced his latest product – a news aggregator for Mac users called endo. I’ve just downloaded it to try it for the 21 day trial period and so far I’m really ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Is Submitting Free Articles a Good Strategy for Blog Growth
9th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Is Submitting Free Articles a Good Strategy for Blog Growth

Yaro has been doing an experiment to see whether writing article to submit to ‘free articles’ directories is a worthwhile way to build your blog (a strategy that quite a few bloggers use) His post is at The Verdict: Is Article Marketing Worth Your Time? The results don’t seem conclusive ...more
Writing Content
12 Tips for Increased AdSense Ad Relevancy
9th of March 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

12 Tips for Increased AdSense Ad Relevancy

Pay per click advertising programs like AdSense, YPN and Chitika do rely heavily upon the positioning and design of their ads when it comes to performance – but another crucial aspect of them is ad relevancy. The principle is simple really – readers come to your blog in search of ...more
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