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For our first product blog review, let’s take a look at SEO Book, a blog by SEO expert Aaron Wall that ultimately revolves around the sale of a continually-updated book on search engine optimization techniques that bring more traffic to websites. Like any successful product blog, it all starts with ...more

One of the most effective ways to make money with a blog — and a method that is gaining steam — is product blogging. Essentially, your blog is built around selling one or more products, either directly from you or via affiliate programs and joint ventures with others. There’s many ...more

How to control what gets indexed by Google and when? That is the question. Most of the time, we want Google to snarf up as many pages as possible. In my own experience, I can think of a few times when indexing was not something I wanted and I had ...more

If you go by the story from SEOMoz, there’s too much fraud in the advertising arena and the only format that makes sense for advertisers is flat-rate models such as Text Link Ads (aff). The post writer, Michael Martinez, cites a staggering fact that 14% of clicks in the click-through ...more

Yesterday I got a new toy – an iSight webcam.What follows is a little video I made with it describing ‘a day in the life of me’. It’s nothing to serious and not the best quality video I’ve ever made (it was a little dark in the room) – but ...more

One of the product managers from ebay’s new AdContext contextual ad program, Ken, has just left a comment on my previous post about AdContext. As the comment was pretty long and quite comprehensive I thought I’d promote it to be a post of it’s own. Hopefully it sheds some light ...more

This post was contributed by Aaron Brazell, a regular ProBlogger contributor. Update: A new version of the plugin has been uploaded. I accidentally published this early and had to pull it back because it wasn’t ready-for-live yet. RSS subscribers, you got a sneak peek early but I wasn’t ready. Now ...more

Amy (a ProBlogger reader) sent me a question this morning that I thought might make an interesting discussion question: “A writer for a newspaper would like to quote some of the comments my readers have left on my blog. As the blogger, I’m not sure what’s appropriate–to give her my ...more

Last week’s experiment with Vidcasting brought a lot of positive feedback so I’ve decided to make it a regular thing. This week I’m testing blip.tv (still in beta) to host my video. Let me know what you think in comments. In this week’s vidcast (6 minutes and 23 seconds) I ...more