All Posts Tagged With: "Problogging"
Ditching BlogTopSites
Although I’d only recently re-joined BlogTopSites I’ve just decided to leave. Although I tended to pretty much consistently get placed in the top 5 Internet ‘blogs’, I’ve started to question the value of being listed in a directory that contains so many sites that aren’t blogs.
In the past it was nice being associated with [...]
I’ve Finally Got A BlogAds Invite - Thanks Thilak!
After pleading with numerous bloggers, I’ve finally got a blogads invite thanks to Thilak who’s going to hook me up. I really hope that blogads delivers.
I’ve tried so many other advertising networks to supplement my Google Adsense income over the last couple of months. Out of all the ones I’ve tried Text-link-ads has [...]
How Much Do You Need To Earn To Become A Problogger?
I considered today for the first time how much I would need to earn from blogging to consider becoming a full-time blogger, and to quit my day job. I calculated this morning that since I started taking this site and my other experimental project seriously about 3 months ago by posting regularly and adding [...]
12Jan2007 | Everton | 3 comments | ContinuedSubmit Your Site Now For Free SEO And Revenue Generation Advice!
I’ve been blogging for 18 months now, and my part of my day job is related to site and search optimisation, so I think I know a fair bit about optimising sites.
Starting on Monday, I will be selecting one site each week where advice will be given on increasing advertising revenue and traffic. All [...]
Feed Overload - I’ve Read 11,130 Posts From 114 Feeds Over The Last 30 Days
I just spotted in Scoble’s feed a post on a new feature within Google Reader that gives stats on a user’s usage. Here are my key RSS stats:
From your 114 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 11,130 items, starred 21 items, and shared 1 [...]
Guy Blocks Digg Due to Hate Comments
Kevin Burton of Tailrank spotted an interesting ‘Digg’ story a few days ago. Some poor guy made it onto Digg, but didn’t like the comments that were being left, so he blocked Digg and put up a nice error page in it’s place:
403 Go Away!
The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill [...]
Guide To Meta Tag Search Engine Optimisation
A current thread in the forum made me kick myself this evening for forgetting one of the basic principles of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), using Meta Tags, and I’ve just spent 30 minutes getting my Meta Tags optimised for SEO. Below are the steps I took to Optimise my Meta Tags For Search Engines.
The Wordpress [...]
The Dos And Don’ts For Driving Traffic To A New Website
I’ve had a lot of conversations over the last couple of weeks mainly via email on how to increase website traffic, which is one of the reasons I started the Connected Internet Forum this week as I wanted to try and capture these conversations and include more people in the discussions.
In my view there are [...]
Google Clears Up Images Near Adsense Ads
It’s taken Google longer than I expected to clear up whether it is ok to place images next to Adsense ads to increase clickthrough rates. Yesterday, Google very clearly said that they don’t approve of this tactic. Even adding spaces or vertical lines to separate images and Google Ads, will be regarded [...]
20Dec2006 | Everton | 8 comments | ContinuedHelp With WordPress Timestamps
I just made a post on Scoble’s site to try and work out when the current Digg outage following the Digg upgrade started. It made me realise that WordPress.com timestamps are all displayed in the blog owners local timezone.
I hope that’s not the case on WordPress hosted blogs, as it will make it hard [...]

