All Posts Tagged With: "Blogging News"

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Did You Spot I Added Spotback Widgets?

I very quietly added Spotback Widgets to my site yesterday which I read about first on TechCrunch. I didn’t announce it as I wanted to see if anyone noticed. The Spotback Widget service is still in beta, but I think it looks very promising.
The Spotback Widget allows readers to rate and add [...]

24Mar2007 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
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TechCrunch Hires An M&A Specialist As CEO - Why?

Om Malik has just broken the news that Heather Harde, senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media and a Harvard MBA, has been appointed as the new CEO of TechCrunch.
I’m not very familiar with American job titles as everyone seems to be a VP, EVP or SVP, but Heather seems to [...]

18Mar2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Why Do Bloggers Think That ‘Old Media’ Rules Don’t Apply To Them?

Two stories have spread like wildfire around the blogosphere over the last couple of days. The first one was Sony’s decision to remove Kotaku from its favoured sources because Kotaku leaked a rumour after Sony asked them not to, and the second accusing Wired of deliberately trying to make Digg look bad, because it [...]

2Mar2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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March 24th Is Computer Shut-Down Day - Will You Be Taking Part?

On March 24th there will be a global experiment to see how many people can go without a computer for one whole day. At first I thought I wouldn’t be able to participate in Computer Shut Down Day do it as I need to use a computer at work, and even if I’m not [...]

23Feb2007 | Everton | 7 comments | Continued
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Is It Right For Jason Calacanis To Keep Blogging About Weblogs? Yes!!!

Update: All Weblogs stats are in the public domain - see Jason’s comments below (Sorry Jason)
I’ve never been a big reader of Jason Calacanis’ blog before, but I’ve been paying more attention to it since he left AOL. What I’ve noticed that I find surprising is that he still frequently blogs about Weblogs [...]

11Jan2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Pimp My Blog Week 1: Spittoon.biz

Welcome to the start of Pimp My Blog! Kicking off the series we have www.spittoon.biz belonging to Andrew. Andrew said that he would like to get his blog pimped and help with:

Ad placement
Increasing the CTR of his ads
increasing readership

Please have a look at his site before adding any ideas in the forum. [...]

8Jan2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Roundup Of Last Week

Just in case you missed them, here are the top posts from last week:

The Best Of Connected Internet In 2006
Eliminate WordPress Comment Spam Without A Plugin!
Update: 10 Useful Firefox Extensions That Don’t Get Glamorised
New Site Features
Submit Your Site Now For Free SEO And Revenue Generation Advice!
What Do You Use For Your AlternateUrl?
Videos Of Amazing New [...]

7Jan2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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10 Ways To Increase Google Adsense CTRs And CPMs

I’ve been limbering up for the start of the weekly ‘Pimp My Blog‘ series which starts on Monday (click here to submit your site), and trying to remember all the tricks and tweaks I’ve used over the last 18 months. Here are ten ways in which you can improve your adsense CPMs and CTRs.

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7Jan2007 | Everton | 10 comments | Continued
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What Do You Use For Your AlternateURL?

I’ve been using www.alternateurl.com as my alternateURL for Google adsense for about a week or so and I want to bin them. I’ve spotted some of the ads and frankly they look awful, which probably explains why despite serving 12K ad impressions I haven’t had one click yet, giving me a zero CTR.
I have [...]

6Jan2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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New Site Features

Having a stable server for the last few days has allowed me to finish the site design work I wanted to do over Christmas. I’m quite happy with the results and I think the template is subtly cleaner and more efficient, and the navigation links have been improved considerably, and I’ve already seen the [...]

6Jan2007 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued
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