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MarketingSherpa has a great article on Viral Advertising which could be of interest to bloggers both in thinking about promoting their own blogs but also in providing adspace ON their blogs. ‘Viral advertising is the red hot tactic of 2005 … but the lack of practical how-to information on the ...more

Dave Morgan over at Clickz has a great piece on RSS Advertising which he says is Coming Fast. He cites the experience of one of the testers (A VC) of the Overture experiment at Feedburner of contextual ads in RSS feeds which is quite positive for those of you wondering ...more

T.L. Pakii has a great piece on How To Get Blog RSS Subscribers which is useful for anyone wanting to expand their RSS readership (an ever increasingly important way of finding readers for many bloggers). One of his main points is that you should work on Educating your Demographic which ...more

CNET has a comparative review of the TypePad and Blogger blog platforms. I think they made the right decision with their ratings. ‘We looked at the two top blogging services. Best known, and free, is Google Blogger. But you get what you pay for: Blogger is a basic blogging service ...more

Regular readers will notice I’ve added two small banner ads at the top of this blog – one for AllPosters and the other for LinkShare. I do this for two reasons which I will share with you: 1. I have used both of these programs to help monetize a number ...more

Jeremy writes a post on Working @ Home that got me thinking about my own home office set up and some of the advantages and disadvantages of choosing to do so. An opportunity came up for me to move out of home into an office with three other micro business ...more

Steve Rubel has a great post asking why Google is Syndication Shy – something I’ve often wondered. In comparison to Yahoo! and MSN they seem somewhat behind the eight-ball. Steve writes: ‘Google views syndication drastically differently than its competitors. On the Web Google is all about driving people away from ...more

Just a quick reminder that I’m doing an interview with Andy in a couple of hours time that you’re welcome to listen in on live. Details are at Easy Bake Weblogs; Exclusive Interview: Darren Rowse from Pro Blogger. Drop in and say hi – it could be fun. Update – ...more

Gawker Media today went live with their latest venture – Sploid – a ‘news site with a tabloid mentality.’ There isn’t much content on Sploid – photos and headlines are pretty much everything – with links to the articles in question. This isn’t the smartest SEO strategy for most bloggers ...more