Conversion Blogging Video

July 22, 2008

Yaro Starak from the popular Blog Mastermind mentoring program has today released a video that looks at a processing of making money from blogs that he calls Conversion Blogging. Yaro’s been using it to build by $10,000 a month from his blog.
Yaro is an expert at building an audience and using e mail newsletters to market to them. The video gives a lot of food for thought (it’s 32 minu…

The ability of Making Readers Famous

July 22, 2008


The last 24 hours on ProBlogger have seen a lot of action around our social media love-in project that is currently running. Not only has there been a lot of action in the comments on that post but it’s driven up traffic and increased the numbers of emails that readers are sending.
Just now I scanned through today’s emails and here’s some of the comments (I’ll keep them an…

Social Media Love-In: Phase 2 Coming Soon

July 22, 2008

Wow - when I posted an invitation that dawn for ProBlogger readers to promote their social media profiles on this post I didn’t know what would happen - but I suspected it would be fun.
It’s been nearly 9 hours since the post went live and by 280 readers have participated and I’m getting emails and tweets from citizens saying that they have had more humans follow/befriend them to…

AdSense Announce Changes to Ad Ecosystem.

July 21, 2008

Today AdSense publishers (or at least some of them) received the following e mail outlining some recent ‘changes and improvements’ to the Google ad system.

These changes largely revolve around new features that they’ve added to AdWords to let advertisers target websites differently (more control).

One of the big changes is the introduction of ‘Ad Planner’ (curren…

Welcome to the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In

July 21, 2008

Image by Mandala
Today I want to try something a little different and want to invite you to share your social media profiles with us.

Are you active on social media sites?
Do you want to find more friends and followers?
Do you want to find other bloggers to follow and network with?

whether so - you’re not alone and I want to give you an opportunity to do just that.

Today I want to do …

Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them?

July 21, 2008


Last week in my post exploring how to produce blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts.

My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore that a little further:

When you put a moment on a post you signal to your reader when the post was written. that is useful to readers wanting to manufa…

Blogger Gives Up Medicine to Go Full day as a Blogger

July 21, 2008

I always love hearing stories of bloggers who are able to go full instance with their blogging so earlier today when I read in the NYT about the author of one of my favorite blogs (Mac Rumors) has traded in a career in Medicine for blogging it got my attention.

“Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts more than 4.4 million society and 40 million page views a month, according to Quantcast, m…

Has Blogging Lost Its Relational Focus?

July 20, 2008

Today I want to talk a little about bloggers working together - to talk about the importance of it and to reflect upon whether the blogosphere has become a less relational place.

“After years of being in an offline business I’ve recently decided to start an online business that will include a blog. However as I research the topic I notice something about bloggers and how they relate…

iPhone Applications for Bloggers

July 19, 2008

I know quite a few ProBlogger readers are enjoying the iPhone App store - so I thought I’d ask the question:
What iPhone Applications are most useful for bloggers?
In addition to that - what iPhone apps would you like to see developed for bloggers?

Orginal post by Darren Rowse

The Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge Method, Or, Blogging Is Flirting

July 19, 2008

Oh blogger, are you a flirt? You should be. Sara Ost from EcoSalon explains more.
Successful blogging takes epic diligence. As a blog grows and brings in new readers, we all want to maintain what we’ve already built. No easy task! that sort of strategy calls for an effective tactic. And that tactic, my friends, is flirting. Though we can shout it anything, My Super Official Blog Maintenance &amp…

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