How To Get RSS Subscribers for your Blog
7th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How To Get RSS Subscribers for your Blog

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
RSS
TypePad and Blogger Compared
7th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

TypePad and Blogger Compared

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
Blogging Tools and Services
Introducing AllPosters and LinkShare
7th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Introducing AllPosters and LinkShare

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
Affiliate Programs
Working at Home
7th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Working at Home

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
Pro Blogging News
Why Google is Syndication Shy
7th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Why Google is Syndication Shy

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
RSS
Interviewing ProBlogger
7th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Interviewing ProBlogger

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
ProBlogger Site News
Gawker Launches Sploid
7th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Gawker Launches Sploid

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
Case Studies
Blogging Fears – Getting Hacked
7th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blogging Fears – Getting Hacked

What is your Worst Blogging Fear? This might make me sound a little paranoid – but occasionally I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat thinking about the things that could go wrong with my little blogging business. In many ways what we do can ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Adbrite Ad Packages
6th of April 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Adbrite Ad Packages

A blogging friend just pointed me at a new strategy that the AdBrite advertising network seem to be employing – selling packages of ads that will appear on multiple sites. Some of the packages are packages of their higher performing sites in the network and others are theme related on ...more
Advertising