Archive for: December, 2004

Written on December 21st, 2004 at 01:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Search Engine Strategies Chicago Recap

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Rebecca Lieb has a worthwhile summary of the recent Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference and expo in Chicago. One of her more interesting paragraphs is a description of some comments by keynote speaker Danny Sullivan:

‘“Personal search is here,” Sullivan observed. Last year’s dream is this year’s reality, with the launch of more personalized engines such […]

Written on December 21st, 2004 at 01:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Professional Bloggers Association Developments

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Paul over at Radiant Marketing Group has been talking about a Professional Bloggers Association (BPA?) for a while now - and today posts that a group of bloggers is ‘going underground’ to polish the concept up. I’m really interested in seeing what comes out of this although am still a little confused as to […]

Written on December 21st, 2004 at 01:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Online Ad Spend Up $45 Million in October

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Clickz reports that October saw another 6.5% increase in online advertising - a second month in a row with such an increase:

‘Internet advertising increased by $45 million in October to reaching a total $741.2 million for the month, according to AdZone’s Internet Advertising Report.

The 6.5 percent gain marked the second consecutive month-over-month increase, and […]

Written on December 21st, 2004 at 12:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Christmas present from Google

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It looks like Adsense have decided to send Christmas presents to some of their bigger earners this year. Its a ‘Mood lighting AM/FM Radio’ like the one pictured here.

‘Turn down the lights. Turn on the mood music. Now, let the light show gently take you on a journey into 7 vibrant hues and passages of […]

Written on December 20th, 2004 at 08:12 pm by Darren Rowse

How To Post Photos to Blogger

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One of the main complaints I hear from Blogger users about their blogging platform is the difficulty that they have in posting pictures to their blog. Photos, diagrams, graphs and other visuals can really lift a blog post so this can be a real limiting factor to using Blogger.

So - when I saw About Weblogs […]

Written on December 20th, 2004 at 01:12 pm by Darren Rowse

Google’s Christmas Present - Ouch

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This is a little of how I’m feeling this morning waking up for the third day with a sick feeling in my stomach.

The feeling is partly physical - I suspect somewhere in the past week of three birthday parties, one work break up party, two Christmas parties and one wedding that I ate something a […]

Written on December 20th, 2004 at 10:12 am by Darren Rowse

Gawker Has Record Traffic in November

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Choire Sicha has a round up of Gawker Media’s Traffic for the month of November - the month saw an increase by 6 million page views from 23 million to 29 million (click to enlarge graph).
‘Gawker had a substantial gain in November, adding more than a million page views to the previous month’s total […]

Written on December 20th, 2004 at 09:12 am by Darren Rowse

On Comment Spammers

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Jeremy at WebproNews has an interesting article written after meeting some comment spammers.

‘One of the comment spammers asked me: “You know why we spam blogs, don’t you?” And I knew the answer. They do it because blogs are easy targets and because, just like e-mail spam, it works….

Then a partial solution is fairly clear. I’ve […]

Written on December 19th, 2004 at 09:12 pm by Darren Rowse

ecto blog: Special christmas discount!

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ecto is offering a spacial Christmas discount on its amazing blogging software. I use ecto for MacOS 10.3 (windows version is also available) and absolutely LOVE it - it totally revolutionized my blogging experience when I stumbled upon it.

‘With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). The advantage over using your weblog’s […]


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