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Using Humor on Your Blog to Bring About Change

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Image by CarfA month ago today I got the news that AdSense was making changes to their referrals program that would (in my opinion) be unfair to publishers living outside of some parts of the world. My reaction to this news was one of anger and disappointment - my post that day reflected this with [...]

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Copywriting Maven’s Landing Page Makeover Clinic #11: RealEstateClientReferrals.com

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I know I wrote that I was closing this landing page series with #10, but due to email issues and because I don’t like to louse up my generally good karma, I’ve added just one more to the series before we close it for good. Cool?Sherice Jacob and Real Estate Client Referrals, like other real [...]

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ProBlogger T-Shirt Hits Italy

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Davide “Tagliaerbe” Pozii from Italy just emailed me to let me know that he’s got his ProBlogger T-Shirt. He sent a picture too. Anyone else out there with a picture to share? I know there’s more Tshirts in circulation and would love to see people modeling them!Share This

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Speedlinking - Celebrity, Awards and Top Lists

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It’s that silly time of the year where lots of awards, ‘best of’ articles and ‘top 10…’ lists start appearing on blogs (and MSM sites).This morning I got an email about making the Forbes - Web Celeb 25 list. I scraped in at number 25 (warning - that page scrolls through different profiles) - watch [...]

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Valuing a Blog

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Duff McDonald of Portfolio.com writes a piece on the Valuation of Drudge Report and tries to come up with a valuation based upon three methods (eyeballs, ad value and ‘ask his mother what it’s worth’).Somewhere between it all they value it at between $10M-$20M.Share This

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Using Your Own Picture in Your Blogging

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Do you have a headshot handy that you could send to a media organization quickly?Today I got an email from a rather large media publication requesting a picture of me for an article that they might include me in (they were being a little cagey and wouldn’t actually say if I was ‘in’ or not [...]

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3 Writing Lessons I Learned in Dog Obedience School

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If an alien were to look down from outer space and analyze the hierarchy of animals on the earth, who would be at the top: humans or dogs?Think about it.We bathe and groom them. We rub and scratch them. We supply them with food and water. In return, all they do is [...]

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What to do When Your Blog Plateaus

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In this post Chris Garrett gives advice on what to do when your blog plateaus.As you have no doubt read on Problogger before, the goal for most bloggers is exponential growth. Not all blogs reach this point though. For many of us it is quite difficult enough to find steady growth. What if that growth [...]

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AdSense Introduct a Validation Period for Referrals Program - a Sign of Conversion Fraud?

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AdSense have made a change to their referral program by putting a validation periods on publishers when they display non Google products. In this period publishers earn a lower conversion commission while AdSense works out if your conversions are ‘valid’. Once the validation period ends you then will earn the maximum commissions on the [...]

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How Old Are ProBlogger Readers? Poll Results

submitted by blogmarketing 312 days ago (via feeds.feedburner.com)

Last week I asked readers a simple demographic question - ‘how old are you?’My reason for asking wasn’t because I’m gathering data for advertisers (although I’m sure they’d be interested) but to test a theory that I’d been hearing a number of commentators say recently - that blogging is just something that ‘young people’ do.In [...]

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