Written on September 9th, 2005 at 10:09 am by Darren Rowse

Gawker Announces the ‘Deadspin’ Sports Blog

Blog Networks 6 comments

Gawker have gone live with their latest new sports blog - Deadspin.

If you want to know the power of having a successful blog network - check out their stats. At the time of writing this - the blog went live about 10 hours ago and has already had 7000 visitors.
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Written on September 9th, 2005 at 10:09 am by Darren Rowse

Understanding Google Updates

Search Engine Optimization 5 comments

Matt Cutts (from Google) has an enlightening post on his blog titled - What’s an update? which quite simply lays out information on the topic of their updating system. I’m sure it’s more complicated than he’s outlined here but the information resonates with my experience of Google’s updating system as a publisher.

‘What is an update? […]

Written on September 9th, 2005 at 07:09 am by Darren Rowse

Preview Call Available for Download

enternetusers Site News 8 comments

Andy and I did the preview call yesterday for the six figure blogging course and it was really fun. It was great to hear some of the voices of some regular readers of enternetusers.net during the Question and Answer time. Thanks for those who called in - especially those who did so from outside the […]

Written on September 8th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Travelator Blogging

Blog News, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 7 comments

Warning - Tangent Ahead
The Travelator is a wonderful invention. There is nothing better than rushing for a flight at an airport and seeing that the long walk to the departure gate is going to be cut down by jumping upon one of these moving sidewalks.

On a recent trip overseas we were lucky enough to find […]

Written on September 8th, 2005 at 09:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Advertising on Blogs - Tips

Advertising 10 comments

Duncan has just posted one of the most useful posts I’ve read anywhere for quite a while in his post Conclusions from tracking ads where he writes 7 great reflections on advertising on blogs which come after 4 weeks of tracking his ads using a couple of ad tracking systems. Here are his headings (each […]

Written on September 8th, 2005 at 09:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Adsense Stats Will Be Down for Maintenance

Adsense 4 comments

The official Adsense blog is advising Adsense publishers that Adsense stats will be down for six hours later tonight (Aussie time). This is the first time (in my memory) that I’ve ever seen Adsense give official warning of such maintenance - usually they just do it and discussion forums go crazy with people worrying and […]

Written on September 8th, 2005 at 11:09 am by Darren Rowse

Technorati Introduces ‘Blog Finder’

Blogging Tools and Services 6 comments

Technorati has launched a new service - Blog Finder - a way of not only finding blog posts on particular topics but also blogs themselves. In effect this is a step towards the Niche Top Blog Lists that I mentioned a week or so back. Of course it won’t be a top blog list of […]

Written on September 8th, 2005 at 09:09 am by Darren Rowse

Six Figure Blogging - Standing Room Only

enternetusers Site News 7 comments

Just a quick note to those logging into the Six Figure Blogging Preview call in 15 minutes.

In the past 24 hours we’ve had an inundation of people signing up for this call - it’s been very popular. There is a small chance that we’ll not be able to fit everyone in on the live call […]

Written on September 8th, 2005 at 08:09 am by Darren Rowse

More AdSense and Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) comparisons

Yahoo Publishing Network, Adsense 1 comment

Here’s another comparison (found at WMW) of Yahoo’s Publishing Network (YPN) and Adsense by someone rotating both on their site (ie every second impression would be getting one or the other ads):

‘I run Adsense and YPN on the homepage of my main site interchangeably to test which is better (equal pageviews at the end of […]