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Topix Launches Revenue Sharing Publisher Platform
Topix have launched their publisher platform which enables publishers to sign up to allow Topix to let them use their content in their system on a revenue share basis.
To join you need to have a full feed from your blog and the content needs to be your own. There is no mention so far of what the revenue share split is between Topix and the publisher concerned (I find it bizarre that they don’t state what this is on their information page - you have to email them for more details - you also have to email them to apply to join which seems a tad primative for a site this size). More details on the technical requirements of what your feed needs to give them here.
Keep in mind that in sharing your full feed to be republished with a site like Topix has some definite pluses and minuses:
The Pluses:
• Topix is a highly trafficked site and the exposure it has the potential to give you as a write is quite large if you make it to their front page. This means greater exposure of your blog’s brand and more potential readers.
• Topix have their content redistributed through their own RSS feeds to sites like AOL, MyYahoo, Earthlink etc. This means more potential exposure.
• When they publish your story they do so with a link back to your blog (some examples of how they do it can be seen here and here). Note - it seems that the link goes back to the front page of the source and not the actual story.
• The potential income from having popular stories on Topix could be significant. Of course this depends upon what the split is.
The Minuses:
• Topix is a highly ranked site in search engines. Allowing your content to be reproduced on it means you run the risk of your content being ranked more highly by Google (and the other SE’s) on the Topix site than on your own blog. This doesn’t happen with just a few of your posts but every one as they republish everything you write.
• Keep in mind that your content is then often re-syndicated to other major sites also which means your own blog’s content has even more competition than just Topix. It also makes me wonder about duplicate content penalties with Google. ie if every post in your content is appearing on 5 or 6 major sites in identical form as well as your own blog does this mean you risk looking like a splog?
• I also don’t see anywhere anything about your content being monetised if it is picked up by one of the sites that syndicates Topix content. ie if AOL picks it up you wouldn’t get any share of the revenue on that page.
As I weigh up the pluses and minuses I personally won’t be entering into it. It might be worthwhile for some bloggers who just want to get their name and content out there but for bloggers whose primary goal is to monetise their blog via advertising and affiliate programs I’m not sure whether this is the best way to go.
For bloggers who already get indexed by the Topix blog section, there is no need to fear that you’ll be automatically included in this new system as these are two distinct parts of Topix. The blog section does not host your full content but rather links directly back to your blog posts.
Written on May 5th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 10:05 am by Darren Rowse
Xu Jing Lei heads to the top of the Technorati 100
Technorati have just announced a that they’ve got a new most highly ranked blog on their Top 100 - a blog by Xu Jing Lei which has previously been left out of the list but which has a mass of inbound links.
Written on May 5th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 09:05 am by Darren Rowse
Changing Media Landscape in Australia - Seminar
Those readers in Melbourne or Sydney might be interested in a seminar called ‘Changing Media Landscape’ that Slattery IT is putting on later this month.
The topic:
“How is the Australian media landscape evolving? The race is on for consumers and workable business models! This seminar brings together an impressive collection of representatives to discuss the opportunities and challenges the media industry is facing. Speakers will also share their views on the impact of changes to cross-media ownership, uniform defamation laws, blogging, user-generated content and the ongoing developments in copyright law. The possible future structure of the media industry, the likelihood of sector consolidation and the potential winners and losers will be discussed.”
The details:
Date & Venue:
SYDNEY - Tuesday 23rd May, 2006
MELBOURNE - Wednesday 24th May, 2006
Time: 5.00pm-7.00pm
Cost: $30 Watch Subscriber; $50 Non-Watch Subscriber (inc. GST)
Sydney Speakers: Rohan Lund, Director, Digital Media, Seven Network & Interim CEO, Yahoo!7; Mark Strong, New Media Manager, Network Ten; Ian Vaile, Head of Content, ABC New Media
Melbourne Speakers: Andrew Kenyon, Centre for Media & Communications Law, Melbourne University; Mark Strong, New Media Manager, Network Ten; Eric Beecher, Co-Founder, Private Media Partners; Oliver Barrett, Partner, Minter Ellison; Mike van Niekerk, Managing Editor, Fairfax Online’
I’ll be at the Melbourne one unless something out of my control happens and I kind of wish I could be at the Sydney one too as the speakers look good there too.
Written on May 5th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 08:05 am by Darren Rowse
New AdSense referrals for Google Pack and Picasa
AdSense have continued to release new items on their ‘referral’s program today with two new things for their publishers to earn commissions on. You can now refer to:
- Google Pack - when users install it from your referral you get $2
- Picasa - when users download it from your referral you get $1
Picasa is available in multiple languages but Google Pack is only in US English at this point (I don’t see an option for it here in Australia).
I know I’ll be trying out the Picasa one on my photo blogs:
Source: Inside AdSense
PS: Looks like Google ARE getting into the affiliate marketing game after-all - this makes their referral options 5.
Written on May 5th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
Blogathon Help Needed - Ask me a Question
I’ve spent a little time today working on some preparations for my blogathon and as part of the last two times I’ve done it I’ve asked blog readers for questions for me to answer during the 24 hour blogging frenzy.
So - I’m going to open this post up for questions of a two types (keep in mind that I’ll be posting 100 times over the 24 hours which is once every 14.4 minutes so don’t make them too big):
- Blogging Questions
- Personal Questions (within reason)
My posts over the day range from the fun to the serious to the bizarre (especially at the end of the 24 hours) to the useful etc etc - so your questions can be anything (have some fun with it if you like). If I use your question you get a free link.
I doubt I’ll be able to answer all of them but this is one way you can help me make the day successful and raise some money for a good cause.
Of course if you ask a question I won’t charge you a donation for an answer but do hope you’ll be willing to contribute something on the day (no pressure!).
Leave your questions in comments below (or shoot me an email via my contact form if you’d prefer).
Update: Wow - lots of questions here! Thanks everyone.
I’ve probably got enough ‘blogging’ type questions now (the blogathon usually is much more diverse in terms of topics covered) so if you have any other questions about ‘me’ I’d be happy to take those too.
Written on May 4th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 11:05 am by Darren Rowse
TypePad update Comment Spam Protection
TypePad Hacks reports that TypePad have updated their comment spam protection to allow bloggers to ban specific words and URLS. This is an update of the previous version of this feature which had problems because if you entered words that were part of other words it was a little over zealous and blocked both (ie ‘Banning the word “the” would also ban “theater,” “theremin,” and so on’).
Written on May 4th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 10:05 am by Darren Rowse
How to Make Money From Your Blog
Steve Pavlina has written another of his comprehensive articles (7000+ words) on the topic of making money from a blog. It’s filled with loads of advice from his own experience of his last 19 months of blogging in which he’s built his own blog’s income to a level of $200 per day from a variety of streams.
Thanks to the numerous people who sent me this link including Andy.
Written on May 4th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 09:05 am by Darren Rowse
The Work at Home Entrepreneur
Dominic Foster has written a post on Benefits of Working From Home which, as the title suggests, outlines some of the upsides of working at home:
- Choose your own hours
- Get to see more of your family
- Save money
- Maintain sanity
- Save time
He explains each and makes good sense - I’d write a similar list of benefits that I’ve enjoyed over the last couple of years.
I’d add a few things to it including incredible:
- flexibility - as I’m writing this I can see the delivery guy for our new washing machine arriving - if I were not working at home there’d be no one here to take deliveries, let tradesmen in to do work etc.
- productivity - IF you’re a disciplined type of person (and don’t get distracted by the XBox) productivity levels are potentially quite high. I find I get an incredibly amount of work done simply because I don’t have the distractions of meetings, workmates, etc. I also work more hours (and enjoy doing so) as I can just pop into the office in the evenings or weekends without having to catch a train or drive anywhere.
Of course there are a few downsides to working at home also that include:
- Loneliness - while I have a constant stream of ‘virtual companionship’ via IM and email I’ve often lamented the fact that I don’t have someone to chat to over the water cooler about the footy or someone at the next desk to work on a project with. While I’m an introvert and enjoy my alone time a definite downside of working at home can be isolation.
- Blurring of Home/Work - I actually think that this is a partial strength and partial weakness of working at home. On the upside it does mean that you CAN (if you’re disciplined) get more work hours in a day. This might sound bad but as someone who really enjoys my work it is actually a plus for me. On the flip side there is obviously a downside and while Dominic rightly says you get to see more of your family (if they’re home during the day) it can mean negotiating boundaries and avoiding the temptation to always be working.
- Distractions - every workplace has it’s distractions and the home is full of them. They can come in the form of family (I suspect I’m about to learn about this one with V stopping work in 3 weeks and Mini-Rowse moving in a few weeks later), electronics (TV, gadgets, video games etc), books, gardening, bed…. the list goes on. Having said this I constantly surprise myself by how focussed I am on my work. If you’d asked me 5 years ago whether I’d be able to do it I’d have said no way - but for me if anything perhaps I should work MORE on being distracted than less as if anything I work too much.
I’d love to hear the experiences of other work at home bloggers and entrepreneurs. What are the benefits and costs that you see of working at home? What strategies do you use to get the most out of it?
A Question for Work at Home Parents
I’m particularly interested to hear from Work-at-Home parents. As I move towards this myself I’m really looking forward to it but am also a little anxious about how it will go as I not only become the sole breadwinner (once the maternity leave runs out) but also have the added distractions of wife and baby at home. Anyone got any tips for me?
Written on May 4th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 03:05 am by Darren Rowse
$10,000 per Day - Interview
A couple of months ago I wrote a post titled Do Ugly Blogs Convert Better? which was based upon the revelation that a Canadian dating site by the name of ‘Plenty of Fish‘ was reportedly earning more than $10,000 a day via AdSense and affiliate programs.
$10,000 a day - that’s $3.65 million per year….
Richard Giles and Duncan Riley have interviewed the creator of Plenty of Fish, Marcus Frind on a fascinating podcast here.
Despite growing many times over in the last year he’s still a one man band competing with companies with big money and loads of employees. Quite an inspiring story.
Written on May 4th, surf Active Apparel website 1cecilia392 zone.at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
Skypecasts Coming
TechCrunch has news of a new service that Skype will offer - Skypecasts which will be a free service that allows ‘live, moderated Skype conversations of up to 100 people. The host may controls mute, eject and “microphone pass”. Skypecasts may be prescheduled and promoted via html snippets’.
I can see lots of possibilities for bloggers with a service like that. For starters it could be very useful for us at b5 to get all our bloggers on the one call for communication and community building but it could also be an interesting way to do live podcastlike gatherings. It’d also be a worthwhile service for people doing online courses if they could make it password protected in some way so that only paying listeners could access the call.
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