- Friedbeef’s tech posts an Interview with AutoPinger founder Vinson Wang. Autopinger is a ping managing service.
- Instigator Blog has a post with 8 Steps to Growing Your Blog Community One Person at a Time. Good solid tips on not taking the readers you already have for granted and growing your blog from that place. They also have a good tip today on 10 things to do when changing a WP Theme.
- Techtites posts on Targeting Chitika Ads with Ultimate Tag Warrier
- Andy Merrett writes a post on his struggle with RSS scrapers – I feel his pain, I find more and more people scraping my blog’s content each week.
- Kevin tells us why linking to and blogging about competitors’ blogs is smart – he writes from a legal blogger perspective but I think the principle applies to most niches.
- B.L. Ochman writes 10 Keys to Writing Blog Posts Other Bloggers Will Link To – basic stuff but it works.
- Ever wondered what your blog looked like in different browsers – here’s a nifty tool for checking – browsershots.org (via ipears)
- Investor Trip has a fairly comprehensive article on how to invest time and money in your blog
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Darren Rowse is the founder and editor of ProBlogger Blog Tips and Digital Photography School. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
[…] Kevin O’Keefe posted a great piece recently called Linking to and blogging about competitors’ blogs is smart. Darren at Problogger has also pointed out Kevin’s thoughts, because Darren knows that other than developing your own compelling original content, linking out to other relevant bloggers is critical to growth. […]
Hi Darren,
Thanks for the link :)
Thanks for the resources, Darren. I find them very helpful and have bookmarked some of them. Keep it up!
Daniel
I just registered for AutoPinger and installed the ping button on my site in the sidebar. Looks like a much easier way to ping than the other resources I was using. Check it out if you get a chance.
I’d like to just honestly ask: do Chitika ads generally do better than adsense on most blogs??
I ask because I keep hearing more about Chitika, especially in reference to blogs, and it sounds like the better-earning blogs are using Chitika and Adsense or just Chitika, and Darren seems to like them as well.
I have a blog that I can get, probably, 3000-7000 unique visitors from every day, but it’s not very targeted traffic, fairly general, and so is the content which means adsense has a hard time being relevant and I end up with bulimia/anorexia ads because I’ve got a video clip of a food commercial on my site.
Thanks for any help,
Andrew
Andrew – tough one to answer. They do better on some blogs and worse on others.
I find on my product related blogs they do best (ie gadget blogs) while on a blog like here at problogger they don’t perform very well.
General traffic probably wont do as well with chitika, but then with adsense it’ll have problems too :-(
Hi,
How can I participate in the Speedlinking program and have my articles posted on it? Please let me know. Thanks.
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Vahid – the links mainly come from my daily surfing via my RSS feeds. Some come from emails that people send me but I only link to a small number when they are relevant to my topic here at ProBlogger.
[…] Kevin 0′Keefe on Competitor’s Blogs (via ProBlogger): In the ministry world a competitor is an interesting concept. Certainly similar organizations compete for giving dollars. This is written from a law blog perspective, but brings out what I would say are great, and valid points. […]
Thanks for that link to my post on blogging about competitors Darren. Your audience is huge so anytime you link to something it’s apt to generate some good discussion. In this case it did.
Stay well.