LifeTipper Wins ProBlogger URL competitioin
24th of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

LifeTipper Wins ProBlogger URL competitioin

Those of you who have been waiting for me to announce the winner in my ‘help me choose a domain name competition‘ (catchy title I know) will be happy to know that I’ve selected a winner and it can now reveal it. The winning entry was from Liam Daly who ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Keywords in URLs and AdSense
24th of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Keywords in URLs and AdSense

Interesting post over at ipears (love the name) on The importance of a good ‘post slug’ where Jan reflects upon the impact that changing URLs of individual posts from number extensions to content related keyword extensions had on AdSense ads. ‘I left all titles as is, but started renaming all ...more
Adsense
Yahoo Answers to add YPN to Allow Users to Earn Income
24th of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Yahoo Answers to add YPN to Allow Users to Earn Income

Very interesting news today out of the YPN camp that Yahoo Answers have a feature ‘coming soon’ that will allow those contributing to it to add their YPN ID in order to earn money off the ads on pages that they contribute to. Jen has the scoop on this writing: ...more
Yahoo Publishing Network
ProBlogger in Chicago – Would you Come?
24th of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger in Chicago – Would you Come?

One of the strange things about blogging is that it leads you into an amazing variety of relationships that you would never have dreamed of finding yourself in before. Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I think about the people that I’ve ‘met’ and have daily contact with as ...more
Pro Blogging News
From Corporate America  to Professional Blogging – Becoming a Hired Blogger
24th of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

From Corporate America to Professional Blogging – Becoming a Hired Blogger

Last week Jackie Willey (from Discover Walking and Amore Travel) left a comment on one of my posts as follows: ‘I own and market two blogs. As a result of my writing for these two blogs I was hired to write for two other blogs. In one case I bartered ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Title Tags and SEO
23rd of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Title Tags and SEO

Wayne over at Blog Business World has put together a good post on Title Tags and SEO which contains good advice if you’re looking to climb search engine rankings. I’ve written on the same topic at The Importance of Title Tags in Search Engine Optimization.
Search Engine Optimization
Voting Open at 2006 Bloggies Awards – ProBlogger Nominated
23rd of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Voting Open at 2006 Bloggies Awards – ProBlogger Nominated

Voting for this year’s Bloggies Annual Weblog Awards is open. Check out the best web development weblog section for some great blogs – including a little one called ProBlogger. Of course 50% of you detest blog awards so you’re excused from voting ;-)
Pro Blogging News
Blogonomics Blog Cruise
23rd of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blogonomics Blog Cruise

The last few years have seen quite a few blog conferences but here’s one with a twist – Blogonomics – the world’s first floating blog conference! I’ve been hearing about this one for a little while now and it’s just gone public – they’re actually running a Blog Cruise which ...more
Business Blogging
Money Blog Network Launches
23rd of January 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Money Blog Network Launches

Top Personal Finance Bloggers Unite to Launch MoneyBlogNetwork I’ve just received the following press release announcing that 5 personal finance blogs have just banded together in a new blog network – the MoneyBlogNetwork. The five blogs forming the new network are: * JLP of AllThingsFinancial * Jim of Blueprint for ...more
Blog Networks