This post on mimicry as a blogging strategy is by Aseem Kishore from Online-Tech-Tips.com. First, to set the tone for the rest of this post, I would like to start with a definition of mimicry from AccessExcellence.org that I want the reader to keep in mind as they read on: ...more

In the last ProBlogger reader poll I asked readers about their social bookmarking habits – more specifically to tell us about their favorite social bookmarking site. Just under 1300 readers have voted to this point and the results look like this: StumbleUpon wins quite convincingly with 31% of all responses ...more

My last post love letter to AdSense shared some of the latest news to come out of AdSense regarding their referrals program – but there are more changes announced. Let me share them here: All publishers may now participate in AdSense referrals regardless of their own location. Now you’ll only ...more

AdSense have sent publishers using the AdSense referral program who live outside of the US, Canada and Japan an email confirming that the program will be retired as of 31 January (published below). The email came from a ‘noreply’ email address – so publishers have no way of feeding back ...more

The AdSense blog has just announced changes to the AdSense referral program which I’m pretty disappointed in. In fact they anger me and leave me disillusioned with AdSense. There are two changes: 1. Changes to Payment System The ‘experimental’ payment system for publishers promoting AdSense is being changed back to ...more

Update: I’ve brainstormed 180 Blog Ideas for you! Yesterday we covered how to use mind mapping to come up with topics to post about. As I was writing that post I was reminded of a very similar process that I went through when planning my last new blog – Digital ...more

Yesterday I published a list of reasons why AdSense is an advertising network worth considering if you want to make money blogging. Today, in the interest of balance and fairness, I wanted to share the flipside and point out a few reasons why AdSense might not be best for your ...more

If you’re in or near Melbourne you’ll want to block out 17 November from 12.00pm until 7pm (and perhaps a little longer for a drink or two) because the first ever Melbourne WordCamp is on! Venue: WordCamp Melbourne will be held in the ‘Pavillion’ at the Watermark Bar, Victoria Harbour ...more

Click To Play play_blip_movie_411612(); One question that I’ve been asked regularly since launching of the redesign of ProBlogger is ‘why don’t you use AdSense any more?’ AdSense has been used by bloggers almost religiously to monetize their blogs over the last few years. It’s for good reason too – many ...more