Blog Auction In Progress – Unmatched Style
22nd of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Auction In Progress – Unmatched Style

Another blog is up for auction at SitePoint Forums – this time the blog is Unmatched Style and the bids are at $12,500 so far. It’s a blog with $500 – $900 monthly revenue and 850,000 monthly page views. I’ll be interested to see how high the bidding goes. found ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Technorati Introduce Favorites and Plays Favorites?
22nd of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Technorati Introduce Favorites and Plays Favorites?

David Sifry announces a new feature at technorati – Technorati Favorites which allows people to keep track of their favorite blogs on one page. You can add up to 50 blogs and then follow them via a single RSS stream. This sounds like a very useful tool – BUT… Of ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Speed Linking – 22 Feb 2006
22nd of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speed Linking – 22 Feb 2006

Steve Rubel presents The Four P’s of Blog Marketing: Passionate, Purposeful, Present and Positional. ClickZ reports that Digital Ads are expected to hit $23 billiion by 2010 – gulp fiftyfoureleven.com writes So Your Content Has Been Copied, Now What? Jeremy Wright talks about how MySpace IS the new Blogosphere
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Bleeding Edge and the Search for a Blog Business Model
22nd of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Bleeding Edge and the Search for a Blog Business Model

There’s been an interesting progression of thoughts over at Aussie Charles Writght’s blog (Bleeding Edge) over the last week or so as they’ve searched for a business model for their blogging (originally spotted via Squash who has some thoughts on it too). Here’s the progression of posts on the topic ...more
Case Studies
ProBlogger in Coolum
22nd of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger in Coolum

Just a note to any fellow Aussies in Queensland (the Coolum area). I’ll be there from Sunday through to Tuesday for a conference and I’m sure I could find a little spare time for a beer/coffee/stroll on the beach. I’m not sure of the conference (that links to last year’s ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Adrenaline Blogging
22nd of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Adrenaline Blogging

Today has been a massive day of blogging for me. While I tend to have full days with moments to relax – today was full steam ahead. I woke up to find that Lifehacker had picked up the Blogging for Beginners series which was bringing in considerable traffic and quite ...more
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ProBlogger Campfire anyone?
22nd of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger Campfire anyone?

Gizmodo have invited their readers to a chat room using the BaseCamp Campfire service. Maybe we should do a ProBlogger chat from time to time. I’d advertise the time in advance and we could give it a go, toast some virtual marsmellows, have a sing along, smoke some cigars and ...more
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Introduction to Making Money from Blogs
21st of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Introduction to Making Money from Blogs

Blogging has undergone something of a revolution in the last 2 years on many fronts. The number of people blogging has exploded, the number of tools and services available for bloggers has risen (and their quality has been raised incredibly) and the profile of blogging in wider culture has increased ...more
Blogging for Dollars
More on Writing Content for your Blog
21st of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

More on Writing Content for your Blog

Much more could be written about writing effective blog posts – but rather than keep this series going for a month or two I’ll break my ‘granular post’ advice and make a few brief miscellaneous comments on writing content to help fill out the topic (with links for most to ...more
Writing Content