A Question of Fonts
13th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

A Question of Fonts

Today I had an email from a reader who suggested that the font of my new design might be a little hard to read – especially in large slabs of text. What do you think? I’m taking an informal poll in comments below. I want to make reading this blog ...more
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Contextless ProBlogger Links
12th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Contextless ProBlogger Links

On my daily rounds of my RSS feeds I come across more articles than I can link to without spending most of my day on this blog. So I’ve decided to start doing some contextless link posts which are a collection of ProBlogger Links from around the web that have ...more
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Combatting Comment Spam – Contraception for your Blog
11th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Combatting Comment Spam – Contraception for your Blog

In my ‘Questions for ProBloggers‘ post Rick asks: ‘How do you deal with comment spammers?’ Comment spam is an insidious problem which threatens to kill or at least overwhelm many blog projects. I detest it on many levels, partly because of the content of many spam comments (which go against ...more
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Outward Links – Good for Blogs?
11th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Outward Links – Good for Blogs?

Wayne at Blog Business World writes a good article on the value of outbound links in Search Engine Optimization. As he observes there are both pros and cons in linking to other sites from your blog that are worth considering as you think about SEO. I personally come down on ...more
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Weblogs Inc earns $600 a day from Adsense
11th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Weblogs Inc earns $600 a day from Adsense

Weblogs Inc is said to earn $600 per day from Adsense. PaidContent writes: ‘Weblogs Inc., described as the largest publisher of professional blogs, was offered as an example of how AdSense benfits online publishers. According to the slide, Weblogs is averaging $600 a day in AdSense revenue and made $45,000 ...more
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About.com For Sale
11th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

About.com For Sale

Internet news reports on a NYT announcement that megablog, About.com, is for sale. The asking price is anything between $350-$500 million. Key bidders could include Google, Yahoo, AOL and Ask Jeeves. ‘About.com, the eight-year-old guide to the Web, is up for sale, according to the New York Times, with bids ...more
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When Money Motivates Blogging
10th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

When Money Motivates Blogging

Michael Buffington writes that he’s just started a new blog on the topic of Asbestos. He’s doing so not because he’s interested in it but largely because it pays good money. This type of blogging is becoming more and more popular as people realize the amount of money that Adsense ...more
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Business Blogging Awards – Mid Race Commentary
10th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Business Blogging Awards – Mid Race Commentary

There is a week to go in the Business Blogging awards and Darren at Inside Blogging is encouraging us all to give it a bit more of a push. I thought I’d do so by doing a commentary (horse racing style???). Here we go… Business bloggers are under starters orders ...more
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Tsunami Blogging – What did we learn?
9th of February 2005 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Tsunami Blogging – What did we learn?

I really enjoyed reading Pete Blackshaw’s Marketing Through the Tsunami Lens article today where he examines some of the lessons learned and trends that have emerged as a result of the mass of blogging that happened around the Tsunami tragedy late last year and in the weeks that followed. He ...more
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