Posted on 27 June 2008
A quick congratulations to WidgetBucks ad network for announcing their VC funding today.
I’m looking forward to seeing how the injection of funds helps this already promising ad network to grow in what they offer publishers.
Disclaimer - WidgetBucks is a sponsor of ProBlogger.
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Source:WidgetBucks Secures $10M Funding to Expand Ad Network
Posted on 16 June 2008
One of the keys to building a successful blog is to build something that is ‘interesting’.
But how does one BE interesting?
It’s probably a topic that deserve someone smarter than me to explore but it strikes me that one element of being an interesting blogger (or an interesting person for that matter) is that they are [...]
Source:How to Be an Interesting Blogger
Posted on 16 June 2008
Over at ScribeFire they’ve just published the 3rd part of my offline blog tips series (read part 1 and part 2). This one includes 7 tips from some of my Twitter buddies as well as four more of my own.
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Source:Offline Blog Promotion Tips - Part 3
Posted on 16 June 2008
Perhaps the fastest way to let your blog go is to stop posting to it. It can happen for many reasons whether it be your life getting busy, suffering from a bout of bloggers block or becoming distracted by another project.
Most bloggers go through one or all of these issues at one point or another [...]
Source:Lack of Posting - How to Let Your Blog Go #1
Posted on 16 June 2008
Thomas Edison was one of the most prolific and influential inventors that the world has seen. Inventing world changing technologies such as the light bulb, phonograph and the motion picture camera - Edison is someone whose views on emerging technologies can inform what we do in blogging today.
Following are 11 Thomas Edison quotes and some [...]
Source:What Thomas Edison Can Teach You about Blogging
Posted on 16 June 2008
There are so many free applications and services available for bloggers that many of us get into a mindset of being anti paying for anything. However sometimes you get what you pay for in life and as a blogger wanting to build your blogging into a business there are some things that can be well [...]
Source:5 Tools that I’m Happy to Pay for as a Blogger
Posted on 16 June 2008
The Website Traffic Series will try to cover all the traffic generation strategies available, so some of them might not apply to blogs necessarily. This one, for instance, is geared towards people that have static websites, like a company or business site. Even if you are a blogger, however, you might need to create a static website in the future, or to do consulting for a company that has one, so I think you could still benefit from knowing the different angles of this technique.
Source:Website Traffic Series Part 7: Putting A Blog on Your Static Website
Posted on 16 June 2008
Should we create a bloggers union? This idea was floating on my head, so I decided to share with everyone.
Sometime ago there were already rumors on the Internet that some bloggers on the U.S. wanted to create such a union. Their purpose, however, was completely different from what I have in mind.
Source:The Bloggers Union
Posted on 13 June 2008
Today I’m pleased to announce a giveaway/competition here on ProBlogger where you have the chance to win one of three prizes - a year’s worth of free podcasts for your blog from First Blog Media.
All you have to do to win is answer a question in the comments of this post (see below for the [...]
Source:Win 12 Months of Professional Podcasting for Your Blog [COMPETITION]
Posted on 13 June 2008
If you’ve got a little spare time today and are in the mood for learning about how to blog - you might want to check out Alltop’s Blogging Page. It lists the latest posts of 44 great blogs about blogging. Only thing I’d add to the page is the RSS feed of each blog (so [...]
Source:All You Can Eat Blogging and Social Media Posts