AdSense Retire their Referrals Program and Launch the Google Affiliate Network
June 30, 2008
Today AdSense announced that they are drawing their ‘Referrals’ program to a close and are relaunching a new Google affiliate network. In actual effect the new affiliate network is not ‘new’ - but a rebranded version of DoubleClick’s Performics Affiliate Network which they acquired in March.
This is news that many of us expected - particularly since Google bought Doub…
Blog Your Way to a New Career
June 30, 2008
Today Chrissy Scivicque from OfficeArrow.com shares her story of building up her blog, selling it and thereupon being hired to keep developing it - many bloggers dream.
There’s no denying it: blogging is now considered a valid way to launch the career of your dreams. The opportunities for bloggers are numerous and they only continue to grow. Take it from me: that blog you’re building may lead …
Google and MacFarlane Cut Web Video Distribution Deal
June 30, 2008
Google and Seth MacFarlane have cut a distribution deal that will send fifty short two-minute episodes of a MacFarlane-created show called Cavalcade screaming around Google’s AdSense network. It’s an interesting use of the AdSense network and one that is likely to garner Google new composition partners whether it is successful.
Silicon Alley Insider notes that Kim Malone Scott from Google A…
The Importance of ‘Pause Points’ On Your Blog
June 30, 2008
Over the last week I’ve run some Crazy Egg heat map tracking on two posts on Digital Photography School (both of which got to the front page of Digg and got a lot of traffic) that both highlight to me a very simple method of increasing the number of pages that humans view when they visit your blog.
Let me illustrate with a screen capture of the heat map from my post - How to Avoid Camera Sha…
How to Let Your Blog Go - Series Wrap Up
June 30, 2008
by the last two weeks I’ve been running a 10 part series here at ProBlogger on 10 ways that you can let your blog go and what you should do about them. The series is now complete with the following 10 methods to let your blog go.
Lack of Posting
Getting Off Topic
Becoming a Self Centered Blogger
Great Content… poor Titles
Letting Comment Spam Take by Your Blog
Excuse Posts
Becoming …
Using bbPress Forums to Community potential Your Wordpress Blog
June 29, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I had an e mail from Terry Ng from Kineda (a great fashion site) telling me about how they’d been using WordPress and bbPress together to create an innovative site. I asked Terry whether she’d tell us what they’ve done and how they’ve done it. Here is her guest post on using bbPress and WordPress together.
Kineda is a blog where young trendsetters c…
How To Use Product Launch Principles When Selling From Your Blog
June 28, 2008
Today Yaro Starak from Entrepreneurs Journey and the Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program has written that post on Selling from your blog.
When I say the words “product launch” do you cringe and think of over-hyped World Wide Web marketing product launches? Or possibly you have never been on the end of a barrage of emails sent out by countless affiliates during a big launch and to you a p…
The towering Tail of Blogging: Why composition is King
June 27, 2008
In that post Eric from Photography Bay examines the towering Tail as it applies to blogging.
Content is king. Yawn . . . right? You know that tired phrase is the gospel of blogging, but did you ever wonder why composition is really king? You spend your duration developing and massaging your posts to create the next bit of killer substance. It’s the post that hits the front page of Digg, …
5 Steps to Optimize Contextual Ads on Your Site
June 27, 2008
Check out this great video released by the Google Australia team;
Although it’s tailored to AdSense publishers, it’s adaptable to any other text based advertising program you run as well.
Orginal post by WhyDoWork
Stretching Yourself Too Thinly - How to Let Your Blog Go #10
June 27, 2008
Today I want to share one last way to let your blog go to round off our 10 part series. It’s something that has at times nearly brought my own blogging to a grinding halt - taking on too many projects and stretching myself too thinly.
There’s a fine line amoung:
1. diversifying your blogging interests so as to have a number of income streams to help ride out the downtimes that most …