‘Must Have’ Sidebar Features
BlogSEO has posted an interesting list titled 10 Must-Have Things That Should be on Your Blog’s Side Bar which I’m certain will cause some debate among ProBlogger readers. As I look down the list there are some I strongly agree with and others which I have a personal aversion to. ...more
Blog Design
Official AdSense Blog Gives Blogger Optimization Tips
The official AdSense Blog has just posted a post which for the first time gives tips for Bloggers wanting to optimize their AdSense earnings. They’ve previously done these with general websites and forums but today is the first time I’ve seen them officially give attention to the humble blogger. They’ve ...more
Adsense
Using a Blog Editorial Calendar to Plan Content
If you’re the type of blogger who needs (or likes) a bit of structure and planning in your blogging activities you might like to check out the Editorial Calendar that Andy has put together to help you map a rhythm for your blog. I will say that this sort of ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
SnapShirts Are a Success With Bloggers
A few days ago mentioned SnapShirts a company that can put a word cloud from your blog on a T-Shirt. I’ve since made up a ProBlogger one if you’re interested but the thing that interests me the most is a recent update on their blog which illustrates the power of ...more
Pro Blogging News
Why I don’t use Free Articles on my Blogs
A common question that finds itself into my inbox from readers is with regards to the practice of using ‘Free Articles’ to put on your blog. I quite often talk about how building the quantity of content on your blog is one strategy for building traffic over time but the ...more
Writing Content
Should ProBlogger Add Forums? Poll of the Week
I’ve been considering adding a discussion forum area to ProBlogger.net since I started this blog and have recently been lobbied increasingly by readers to consider doing so more and more (update: I’m not talking about replacing the blog – but adding forums as another way to discuss the topic – ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Length of Blogging – Poll Results
Last week’s Poll asked readers to share how long they’ve been blogging for and the results are now in. The spread was actually quite wide with good percentages of the total vote of 910 participants polling in each area. The largest group were in the ‘under 3 months’ segment with ...more
Pro Blogging News
Google Toolbar
Google latest Toolbar Beta has been released. I’m sure someone out there is excited but as a Mac user I’m more excited by the fact that I got a beetroot stain out of my shorts this afternoon. HoHum.
Pro Blogging News
Technorati Problems – Update
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about My Technorati Problems and had quite a large response from it. Unfortunately the response came only from readers of this blog and not from Technorati themselves. Of course as they don’t seem to be indexing this blog I can understand this as ...more
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