Blog Building Blocks Series
In the emerging fiasco that is the incompatibilities between Bloglines and Feedburner for some blogger’s feeds I hadn’t noticed that Aaron from Technosailor has started a useful series of posts titled Blog Building Blocks which is going through some of the basics of making your blog look good using HTML ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
ProBlogger Chat Session – Next Thursday Morning
The response to yesterday’s question about whether people would be interested in a ProBlogger Chat session via Campfire was positive so I think we’ll give it a go next week. I need to tie down a time but I think I’ll make it early on a Thursday morning (maybe around ...more
ProBlogger Site News
How to Start a Blog Partnership
If I had to write a list of ’10 things I love about blogging’ (now there’s a post) – high on the list would be that blogging has opened up some great relationships for me. While this largely happens on a blogger to reader level – in the last year ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Google Introduces Web Page Creator
Google have just launched it’s Page Creator – a free system that lets anyone with a Google ID to create a webpage quickly with a WYSIWYG technology. Users get 100 megabytes of storage space to make their page. Here’s a screen cap of the sign in page (click to enlarge): ...more
Pro Blogging News
How Are Bloggers Different To Journalists? Have your say:
On Sunday I’m on an informal panel that has the brief to discuss the following question, which I thought I might as well open up here for some discussion. Here’s the session brief: In the US right now some of the most influential technology writers are not journalists, they’re bloggers. ...more
Pro Blogging News
The latest Full vs Partial Feed Debate
Lots of debate today over the good old ‘full feed vs partial feed’ question. Robert Scoble responds to a post by Duncan Riley who accuses Steve Rubel of ‘not getting it’. Kent Newsome say’s that Steve ‘Does Get it’ and Nick Wilson agrees with Robert. Every other blogger and his ...more
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Can a Blogger Live off Donations?
Jason Kottke reflects on the year that he asked his readers to support him through donations in a post titled Oh, what a year. His three week fund drive earned $39,900 from 1450 donations. Is he going to do it again? ‘I’m not going to be asking for contributions again. ...more
Pro Blogging News
How Much Money Can a Blog Earn?
“If my blog has ((insert daily number of impressions or page views of your blog here)) how much should it be earning?” This is one of the more common questions I get asked by bloggers just starting out with making money from their blogs. On one level it’s a valid ...more
Blogging for Dollars
AdSense Referrals Extends Referrals Time Limit to 180 Days
A month ago we reported that Adsense had silently changed the rules with their referral program making it so that anyone you refer to the program had to earn $100 in their first 90 days in the program for you to get your $100 commission. Tom from Blogging Tom has ...more
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