Interview with Professional Blogger – Paul Scrivens
22nd of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Interview with Professional Blogger – Paul Scrivens

I still remember the day when a friend told me to head over to the 9rules network of blogs to check out the design and style of blogging that was going on there. I surfed in and immediately found myself drooling over a clean and nicely laid out design and ...more
Pro Blogger Interviews
Random Blog Tip – Write Content
22nd of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Random Blog Tip – Write Content

The title above might seem like a no brainer but I’ve had a few bloggers send me their blogs to review recently that could actually learn a thing or two by taking this simple advice. Search Engines like text. They also like outbound links – but more than that they ...more
Writing Content
Ethics and Blogging: Attribution where due
21st of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Ethics and Blogging: Attribution where due

Duncan has started what looks to be a very worthwhile series of posts over at the Blog Herald on Ethics and Blogging – something that we all need to be continually challenged on. His first post is on giving Attribution where due or crediting your sources – something i ranked ...more
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Write in a Granular style – One Topic Per Post
21st of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Write in a Granular style – One Topic Per Post

Robert has a good simple tip on how to make your posts easier to pass around for your readers and suggests you write in a granular style. To put it most simply. ‘Make one post contain one idea, or set of links.’ I agree with Robert although can think of ...more
Writing Content
Getting Better Adsense Ads – Stopping ads for Blogging Services
21st of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Getting Better Adsense Ads – Stopping ads for Blogging Services

One of the most common problems that bloggers using Adsense have is that they constantly find that they are served with ads for blogging products and services. Whilst this might not be a big problem for a blogger writing on the topic of blogging (I don’t mind too much here ...more
Adsense
Yahoo buys Flickr – Confirmed
21st of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Yahoo buys Flickr – Confirmed

FlickrBlog confirms the rumors that everyone has been talking about recently – Yahoo! has bought Flickr: ‘Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the ...more
Blog News
Comparing Blogger to WordPress
20th of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Comparing Blogger to WordPress

Balay ni Bambit has a great comparative analysis of Blogger vs WordPress for those of your who are still at the stage of choosing a back end client for your blogging. She ends up coming down on the side of WordPress (as I think most serious bloggers would – I ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
What does Google display under your page title?
20th of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What does Google display under your page title?

Antone over at SEO SEO Secrets of the PageRank Masters has finally updated his blog with a post on determining what Google displays under your page title in search results which a few people have asked me about recently. I hope it helps. ‘So how do you control what text ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Five Reasons Businesses should Blog
20th of March 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Five Reasons Businesses should Blog

Robert Moskowitz writes an article with Five Reasons to Blog which would be most worth any business thinking about starting a blog looking over. Here are his headings – he writes more on each one. Blog to put a human face on the company Blog to obtain free market research ...more
Business Blogging