Sunday, July 30th, 2006

More “Hidden” AdSense Ads

Sneaky, or rather, creative means of blending AdSense adverts are commonplace. We’ve seen our fair share of them here, with this hidden link unit (or rather, used to be) being one example.
Here’s yet another creative piece of ad placement, courtesy of WorkBoxers:

As usual, whether this sort of placement adheres to Google AdSense’s Terms of Service […]

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Book and Movie for Blogger of One Red Paperclip Fame

If you thought a house was the only reward for Kyle MacDonald’s creative paperclip trading efforts through blogging, think again.
It seems his story has attracted the likes of publishers and producers, with a recent news release confirming that he has landed a book deal with Random House, and a film deal with DreamWorks.
This just […]

Friday, July 28th, 2006

How Long Do You Take To Write One Post?

Yes, just one. How long does it normally take you to research, draft, write, edit, and publish a single blog post on a normal day? While I’ll admit that it’ll vary from blog to blog, and niche to niche, after a while, most people usually end up building a specific posting schedule which they adhere […]

Friday, July 28th, 2006

BlogKits - A Disappointing First Look

BlogKits, one of the two blog-centric Cost Per Action (CPA) ad networks we looked at last week, released a small list of merchants and offers available two days back. Did I mention small?
I’m feeling a bit underwhelmed by the offers that are being showcased at the moment (just six), with a couple of them involving […]

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Getting Comments: The Simplest Approach

We just heard about link baiting. What about comment baiting getting comments? It may not make you blogger-gold, a.k.a. traffic, but it sure will increase your blog’s stickiness, and encourage greater interaction between blogger and reader.
So, what’s the simplest approach to comment baiting getting comments? Well… ask for it. That’s exactly what Easton at BusinessBlogWire […]

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

3 Ways to Increase Search Engine Traffic, and the Importance of Blog Branding

I wasn’t going to blog here today given the amount of bug-squashing I have left to do on the new blogHelper theme and structure, but Nick Wilson’s post on 3 ways to increase search engine traffic at Performancing really jolted me from the menial chore of debugging.
He talks about writing more specific and more linkbait-ish […]

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Technosailor Redesigns + Restructures (and So Will blogHelper)

After two weeks of labour, Aaron Brazell has completed the redesign of Technosailor - with key restructuring (or rather, re-architecturing) having taken place. Two new “views” have been implemented to supplement the current reverse chronological blog “view”. They are the Conversation view where recently commented posts float to the top, and the Best Of view […]

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Weekly Recaps: Pros and Cons

Recaps are posts where the blogger summarises posts that have been published throughout a certain time period - usually a week. We’ve all probably seen at least one of these sort of posts. GigaOm’s using it. Engadget used to. Maybe some of you even use them on a regular basis. I know I do.
The question […]