Search Engine Friendly URLs
I just stumbled upon this useful article on Search Engine Friendly URLs which is filled with wonderful tips on choosing the right URLs for your website. It isn’t written specifically for blogs but the information is useful to keep in mind when setting up the way in which your blog ...more
Search Engine Optimization
NY Times Buys into Blogging
The New York Times now own the largest blog network in the world. They have just agreed to pay $410 million for About.com from Primedia Inc. in an all cash deal. Primedia bought About.com in October of 2000 for $690 million in stock but had trouble in capitalizing upon the ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Adsense in Newsletters are Coming – Eventually
Jensense has some good news for bloggers who also use newsletters to keep in touch with their readers – sources within Google say that Google is looking to extend its offering of newsletter ads to smaller publishers as well as the larger ones that it currently is testing the program ...more
Adsense
Why Adsense Doesn’t Work…For Everyone
Jim at BlogKits has a good article on why Google Adsense Doesn’t Work for all Bloggers. His argument is sound and his figures are good. He does a case study whereby he comes to the conclusion that a blog with 200 visitors per day with 1000 page views would earn ...more
Adsense
Last In Text Link Auction
Paul has an interesting article on Harvesting his High Page Rank. He has a travel site with a page rank of 5 that he sells text links on. However he has a novel approach to how to determine which link is first in the list – he auctions the top ...more
Advertising
Surfing the Wave after a Scoop
I love days like today. You get out of bed after a nice night’s sleep and the sun is shining, the birds are singing and you have a gem of a scoop waiting for you in your inbox from a reader of your blog giving you the story of the ...more
Pro Blogging News
WordPress 1.5 – Latest Stable Release
World Press users might like to upgrade to the latest stable release of WP 1.5.
Blogging Tools and Services
2005 Business Blogging Awards Results
Congratulations to Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless who have unofficially taken out the Best Overall Business Blog at the 2005 Business Blogging Awards (they are still tabulating the votes but the result is pretty clear). Thank you to all who have voted for ProBlogger your votes ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Is Google Adsense Making Me Rich?
Jim at BlogKits asks if anyone would like to share their success or failures using Google Adsense to generate revenue for their blog? He writes – ‘I’m curious as to whether or not you have made it work, and to what level? Making just enough to make it worth it?’ ...more
Adsense