This week’s poll focuses upon social bookmarking sites. Bloggers have a fascination with these sites - some because of the lure of avalanches of traffic, others because they find them to be sources of inspiration for posts and others because of the social interaction. But which social bookmarking site do you like the most? What is Your Favorite […]
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14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers
A number of blogging friends have recently made the switch from using PCs to using Macs as their primary blogging machines. Each time that one of them makes the move I tend to get an email or call a day or two later asking for advice on different applications to help with their blogging. Lately I’ve […]
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Dean s Permalink Migration Plugin Revisited
WordPress has a nifty inbuilt feature that can be customized for preference and SEO. This feature is called the permalink structure. To navigate to the WordPress permalink update feature you will have to login in to your admin section and then click on Options as seen below. As you can see I circled the Permalink […]
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Google Will No Longer Pay for Adsense Referral Units
In an email I got today, it seems that Google will stop paying for your Google Adsense referrals. They are also going to remove all Adsense referral units from the program by end of January. They didn’t quite explain why, as per the email below: Hello, We are writing to share some important information with […]
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Google Adsense Scroll Buttons A Possible New Feature?
I’ve noticed that Google has been testing with a scroll button of some sort in an attempt to display more Google Adsense ads within the same ad block. How this works is that by clicking on the arrow buttons you can actually see more ads in the same blog without leaving the page. Right […]
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How to Run a Successful Competition on Your Blog
Yesterday I shared some of the costs and beefits of running a competition on your blog. I ended that post by asking: “So how does one run a competition on their blog that brings more benefits than it costs?” In this post I want to walk you through everything I know (and I mean everything) about running […]
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Blogging On Expo - a Virtual Blog Conference
Just a short post to point to an online blog conference that is happening today - Blog On Expo. It is running over 3 days with some pretty good names as ’speakers’. I’m featured with an interview on Day 1 (here). See the rest of the first day’s sessions here. Share This
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Get Rid Of Theme Breaks In Comments Section
This is a very common problem of today in WordPress. Whenever someone posts a long link in your blog’s comment section, your theme usually gets breaked and that URL is all long over the place. This problem can even affect your SEO and the first impression to your site visitor. But you can tackle this […]
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Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab
This guest post was submitted by Patrick who blogs at Piggy Bank Pie Writing Services. I started 2008 with a post that went viral on StumbleUpon and BloggingZoom. Even Skellie and Caroline Middlebrook took the story back to their respective blogs. For those interested, the post in question was How I Received 850 Visitors Without Using […]
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The Costs and Benefits of Running a Competition on Your Blog
‘How do I run a successful competition on my blog?’ Competitions on blogs have become increasingly common in 2007 with an increased number of high profile blogs running them. As a result many smaller to medium sized blogs are considering them also. The problem is that a competition can actually hurt your blog if you don’t do […]
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Dear AdSense, You Heard My Pleas - Another Open Letter to AdSense
Earlier in the week AdSense confirmed that they would no longer accept publishers into their AdSense referral system (the program where they earn commissions by recommending AdSense) that lived outside of North America, Latin America or Japan. I (and other bloggers) wrote expressing our disappointment and pointing out problems with this post. Today AdSense have announced […]
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The Day Feedburner Stats Went Crazy
Lots of bloggers are jumping around with excitement today at the rise of the Feedburner counters. ProBlogger leapt from around 39,000 subscribers a few days back to 41,000 yesterday and 100,000 today. Alas - it’s a bug and it seems that a lot of bloggers are seeing their stats are up. There is some discussion on […]
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Jon Leger s Search Engine Myths Exposed Review
As if we didn’t already have enough SEO advice to drive us nuts, Jonathan Leger released Search Engine Myths Exposed with a bang and tells you everything you’ve learned so far is dead wrong. Another SEO guy bashing all other SEO guys to prove a point and sell his product or consulting service. If that’s what […]
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Track Your Blog Stats For Free
Many of us who are serious about making a living on the Internet are concerned about traffic and where it comes from. But not only do we need to understand who sends us traffic, we also need to know what our readers do while they are whiling away on our site. Therefore we need measures […]
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How to Create Social Media s Favorite Type of Blog Post
In my time as a blogger I’ve been lucky enough to have two posts I’ve written hit the front page of Digg. The first one was a resource list of 110+ resources for creative minds. The most amazing thing about the experience was that the post itself required only one ingredient to create: time. Any one […]
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Do You Know Your Blog Readers?
Of course you know who reads your blog - it’s: 22 people in Google Reader, 32 people using Firefox Live Bookmarks, 90 people on Technorati, and another 30 get it delivered on Feedburner email…. I’ll ask the question again… Do you know WHO reads your blog? The answer is probably no, unless they comment regularly. I discussed this recently on […]
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EWP Keyword Generator Tool for Better Keyword Research
In Wordpress Adsense System I mention a great deal about keyword research and why it’s important if your building blogs to be monetized with Google Adsense. However, the recent removal of the free Overture / Yahoo Keyword Research tool made it difficult for everyone to avoid paying for expensive software just to get […]
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Openads announce free hosted ad server
Openads yesterday made a fairly significant announcement that I’m sure will interest many bloggers who are looking for a tool to manage the ads on their blog Actually they announced two things - the first is that they got some serious funding and the second that they’re launching a new free hosted ad server. So instead of […]
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WP Ready Contact Form Plugin
Mike Cherim’s WP Ready Contact Form Plugin is in my eyes the best contact form Plugin I have come across so far. In the past I have been using several others which were functional, but didn’t please design values. And since I’m no coder it wasn’t possible for me to adjust them accordingly. The […]
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10 Remarkable (and Free) Wordpress Themes
The following post on great free WordPress Templates was written by Reese Spykerman from Design by Reese. A search for free Wordpress themes yields thousands of results, some dull or cluttered, some utilitarian, and many inspiring and beautiful. Numerous other well-designed Wordpress themes are available to you, but these are 10 that stand out to me […]
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Help a Blogger in Need
Regular ProBlogger readers might be familiar with the comments of RT Cunningham. Richar is a regular around many blogs in this niche and blogs at Untiwisted Vortex. Unfortunately his wife has been quite unwell and he’s facing something of an uphill battle at the moment to get through the next few months. Richard’s readers got on […]
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Welcome to Readers of the Wall Street Journal
Welcome to readers of Wall Street Journal who may have found themselves here after today’s article in there. If this is your first time to ProBlogger.net then let me give you a quick tour of my online home. Firstly, my name’s Darren Rowse and as the article in the WSJ suggests - I’m a full time blogger. […]
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Dear AdSense, You Broke My Heart - An Open Letter to AdSense
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 their response. As a result I’ve […]
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3 Plugins That Improve Your Blog Comments
A blog with great content but no comments on them is nothing but a loss. But you can ofcourse modify your WordPress’ blog Comment Section with these plugins and make it look more attractive and get more comments. MyAvatar MyAvatar plugin shows the commentator’s MyBlogLog avatar behind the comment. This really makes people have a […]
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Aweber - a First Impression Review
Building a newsletter list has been a central part of my blogging business over the last few years. While my blogs are the primary tool that I use to communicate with readers - I find that having a newsletter list helps me to reach new audiences and drive people to my blogs (I’ve written about […]
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Do You Tailor Your Affiliate Program Messages?
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had 109 emails through the contact form on my two main blogs that all start with exactly the same words: “I represent a company that specializes in a new form of Internet advertising that guarantees that you will get a 100% conversion rate on 100% of your website traffic….” The […]
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Summary of New Changes to AdSense Referrals Programs
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 earn commission if those you refer […]
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