Google’s Christmas Present – Ouch
20th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Google’s Christmas Present – Ouch

This is a little of how I’m feeling this morning waking up for the third day with a sick feeling in my stomach. The feeling is partly physical – I suspect somewhere in the past week of three birthday parties, one work break up party, two Christmas parties and one ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Gawker Has Record Traffic in November
20th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Gawker Has Record Traffic in November

Choire Sicha has a round up of Gawker Media’s Traffic for the month of November – the month saw an increase by 6 million page views from 23 million to 29 million (click to enlarge graph). ‘Gawker had a substantial gain in November, adding more than a million page views ...more
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On Comment Spammers
20th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

On Comment Spammers

Jeremy at WebproNews has an interesting article written after meeting some comment spammers. ‘One of the comment spammers asked me: “You know why we spam blogs, don’t you?” And I knew the answer. They do it because blogs are easy targets and because, just like e-mail spam, it works…. Then ...more
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ecto blog: Special christmas discount!
19th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ecto blog: Special christmas discount!

ecto is offering a spacial Christmas discount on its amazing blogging software. I use ecto for MacOS 10.3 (windows version is also available) and absolutely LOVE it – it totally revolutionized my blogging experience when I stumbled upon it. ‘With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
RSS and Blog Advertising Network – CrispAds
19th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

RSS and Blog Advertising Network – CrispAds

Just stumbled upon another Advertising program that has been designed specifically for RSS and Blogs called CrispAds. They promote it to bloggers as follows: – Place ads in your blog articles when you want – Ads also appear in your RSS or ATOM feed! – 95% of advertiser click-thru revenues ...more
Advertising
Google’s Update Chaos Continues
18th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Google’s Update Chaos Continues

Google’s update seems to still be in full swing with chaos being reported on many sites. Check out this thread at Webmaster World to see the impact that some are reporting to their SERP results in Google and the resulting traffic effects. Preliminary results are seeing people reporting both good ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Media Buyer/Seller Wanted
17th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Media Buyer/Seller Wanted

I’m interested in chatting to anyone with a background in media buying/selling who would be willing to explore representing one or more of the blogs that I have an interest in. Whilst I have a background in Marketing I do not have the time to give adequate attention to seeking ...more
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Pro Blogger of the Year
17th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Pro Blogger of the Year

It is that time of the year where bloggers everywhere are giving awards so I thought I’d ask the question – who is the ‘Pro Blogger’ of the Year? This may not be an official award but I’m interested in people’s opinions and thoughts. What blogger (not blog) would you ...more
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Google Page Rank and Backlinks Update – Coming Soon
17th of December 2004 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Google Page Rank and Backlinks Update – Coming Soon

Are you waiting for the next page rank update from Google to move up their results page and bring you a flood of new traffic? (aren’t we all?) Well a little well places birdie told me last night that Google are getting close to an update – in fact a ...more
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