Chitika, an advertising service that Darren Rowse seems to like, has added new categories to their service, as well as new ad sizes.
The new categories are:
Photography Accessories
Cellular Accessories
Computer Games
Computer Speakers
Laptop Accessories
Scanner Accessories
CD [...]

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Yeah, I know it is a long title, and don’t worry, it is not something I have written. Over at Webloghits.com they have an article up by the same name going over some really great tips for any WordPress blog user, not just those looking to make some money or increase their online “fame”.
Adding a [...]

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Darren Rowse at Problogger.net talks about a recent post by Chris Smith about being number one for a keyword on Google. In the article he makes mention of the difference between being in first and being in second on Google for a keyword and says the difference in traffic can be as much as 60%!
I [...]

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For those of you out there getting design envy looking at some of the top blogs out there, you might be wondering how much it would cost to get yourself a good design and Chris Pearson has recently written about his pricing structure on Pearsonified, his blog.
In his post entitled “How Much Should a Design [...]

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Seth Godin’s Blog has an ordered list of points, some contradictory, on how to increase traffic to your blog. They range from simple things like using lists, to more advanced things finding well-known peope to do e-mail interviews with and post them on your blog.
My favourite is number 53, which for most people is the [...]

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What a mess Chitika is right now, trying to balance the needs of the advertiser with the needs of the publisher. Jensense goes over the new controversy over at Jensense.com, and quotes the changes from Chitika’s website.
To help filter out so-called “curiosity clicks” that typically do not lead to conversions on the merchants’ side, we [...]

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I’m always reading about how Adsense is the best source of income for a blog. While I love Adsense myself, I don’t believe it necessarily has to be the biggest source of income for a site. My sites’ biggest income comes from directly selling ads to people.
I make almost twice as [...]

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Well, I’ve acquired another big site. Drum roll please……..ForeverGeek.com! That’s right, I’ve purchased another site from good ol’ Paul. I plan on taking good care of it of course. I’ve got a few ideas in mind for improvement.
Where does this leave my financial situation? Well, let’s see…….I’m in [...]

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NOTE: When I started writing this post, I thought it was going to be easy to read, but I think it just became a big jumbled mess of thoughts. Maybe I’m wrong, but you have been warned.
Darren’s post on “How much is an adsense website worth” got me to thinking about how I value [...]

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Tim Yang links to an excellent article on practices in citations of sources using blog posts as examples.
One of the most intellectually dishonest things you can do in blogging is to misrepresent the content of an article you are citing as a reference…you need to know the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary sources, which [...]

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Simple blog guidelines from Blog Brandz.

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Here’s a Legal Guide for Bloggers by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The table of contents are as follows:
Blogger Legal Liability Issues
The Overview of Legal Liability Issues FAQ briefly addresses some common legal issues that affect you as a publisher, especially situations where you may face legal claims or threats based on the information you [...]

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8 TOP Ways To Promote Your RSS XML Feed For MAXIMUM Exposure.

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A guide to using Spurl and FeedWordPress to integrate social bookmarking and blogging.

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This is a good article on tagging if you want to get caught up on what tagging is all about. The article originally appeared in the Toronto Star.

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16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
Get the Traffic You’ve Been Looking For With Blogs and RSS Feeds
Marketing With Blogs - Part 1
Marketing With Blogs - Part 2
Marketing With Blogs - Part 3
Marketing With Blogs - Part 4
RSS-Only Blog?
60+ million blogs worldwide

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Found some blogging tips from Master Yoda by way of The Force

Blog you must for your business.
Truth, passion, authenticity a blogger must have
Comment and trackback spam paths to the Darkside are
Prideful blogging, a dangerous thing it is. A way to the Darkside it is
The Blog-i Masters train you in the way of the Blog, [...]

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There is a lot of discussion around the blogosphere on the topics of full RSS feed vs. partial RSS feed and the placing of ads in syndicated feeds. In a simplified explanation, consumers are saying, “If you don’t deliver full feeds then I won’t subscribe to your feed” and content providers are saying, “If I [...]

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ProBlogger has an interesting article where he references a statistic from a Forrester Research study stating that
As many as 64 percent of marketers are interested in advertising on blogs…another 57 percent are looking to include marketing messages on RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds
Obviously for the majority of us we will never see the type of [...]

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Tim Yang has an informative article listing 15 things you can do with RSS. As Tim states, RSS is more then just reading blogs and news.

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