Blog Hosting - Which Hosts Top Blogs Use
20 Aug 2008 8:14pm GMT Who is Hosting This has put together a great little study into the blog hosts of the top 100 bloggers (according to Technorati). On top of the list is Media Temple, Datagram, BlogSpot and Six Apart. Yes you heard it, 8 of the top 100 blogs use Blogspot and 4 use Six Apart to host their blogs. [...]
AdWord Keyword Tool How to Use it to Hone Post Titles and Choose Blog Topics
20 Aug 2008 2:01pm GMT Today I want to point out a useful tool for bloggers wanting to do a little research into topics to blog about (or even what topic to choose for your next overall new blog). The tool is a free one from Google - their AdWords Keyword Tool. This tool is one that Google offer their advertisers [...]
The Buzz about Yahoo Buzz
20 Aug 2008 1:06am GMT I opened my inbox this morning to find quite a bit of mail on the one topic - Yahoo Buzz which today opened up its doors to the public and started allowing other sites outside of it’s initial closed test to submit stories to it. Yahoo Buzz is a social bookmarking/voting site (quite similar to [...]
Applying for a Blogger Job? Treat it Seriously
19 Aug 2008 9:08pm GMT Today I received an email from one of the advertisers on the ProBlogger Job Boards. They reflected back to me that they’d had a lot of ‘low quality’ job applications and made some suggestions for those looking to apply for a blogger job. I’ll include their suggestions below. Let me say that I get a variety of [...]
How to Craft Post Titles that Draw Readers Into Your Blog
19 Aug 2008 2:04pm GMT Titles change the destiny of your posts. Those few words at the beginning of your blog post can be the difference between the post being read and spread like a virus through the web like a wild fire and it languishing in your archives, barely noticed. This month we’ve been talking about how to ‘craft’ blog posts [...]