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With the way technology is evolving these days, it is no surprise that people are worried about online fraud, identity theft, and the misuse of their personal information. They need to be assured that sensitive data will be protected when using technology, and this applies to web surfing as well.
One of the easiest ways to fix this problem is the creating a Privacy Policy. After all, most major websites have privacy policies, so why shouldn’t blogs? This is especially true when many readers will give you their e-mail address and other personal information to interact with the website, whether it be by posting a comment or signing up for an online newsletter or e-mail RSS feed.
Creating a privacy policy isn’t too difficult. The document should be unique to your blog, but there are a number of issues that all privacy policies should include:
1. Explicit that you won’t sell or give away any user’s e-mail addresses. This is self-explanatory, people don’t want their e-mail addresses to spread across the web, so don’t release e-mail addresses.
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A quick announcement today, we’re switching our advertising over to a new system via the recently launched
BuySellAds.com. Previously I’d been running a little ad network between four of our sites -
FlashDen,
FreelanceSwitch,
FaveUp and PSDTUTS - but now thanks to this new service, it’s all fully automated.
BuySellAds is still in Beta but is a very promising service and I know Todd who’s running the site and he’s a great guy. So if you’ve ever wanted to purchase an advert here, you can now do so via our
Ad Sales page on BuySell. The price of an advert … $1500 p/month
I figure since the site is mostly about the Plus membership now, I’d only a few, but really expensive ad spots and if they sell, then that’s great. And if not, then no real harm done. In any case we have lotsa traffic here, so even at that rate it’s only a $0.50 CPM rate which is pretty darn low!
Also of course you can buy ads on
FreelanceSwitch for $750, and on
FaveUp for $300.
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In February I posted a
first impression review of the
Shopzilla Publisher Program.
This CPC (cost per click) ad unit is similar to those used successfully by many with the Chitika program. There’s one live in action at the bottom of this post.
I’ve been getting some good feedback from quite a few ProBlogger readers who have tried the program and am consistently getting good results with them so I approached Shopzilla’s Senior Vice President of Operations and Business Development, David Weinrot, for an interview about the program. He kindly agreed. Here’s our chat about
Shopzilla.
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On the first part of this series we talked about how you can generate traffic to your website by getting it featured on
Web Design and CSS galleries. On the second part we talked about
Blog Carnivals. Today we will cover another basic yet effective strategy: leaving comments on other blogs.
The concept: Blogs are conversations. Most of them, in fact, allow any user to post a comment at the end of every article. Usually you just need to write down your name and email (kept private) and publish your comment.
Most blogging platforms also allow you to insert your website URL, which will then be used to hyperlink your name to your website.
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It is always interesting to see the redesign of famous blogs, and this time it is
Engadget’s turn. The old design was really cramped and narrow, so it was about time.
The new design is more minimalistic, with a simple header featuring navigation links, a big column for the content, and a sidebar with ads and links to featured articles.
I like minimalistic concepts, but the opinions regarding this new design are divide. If you check the comments (over 130 of them) you will see that many people did not like it. Some were even calling April Fools….
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Over the weekend I decided to get serious about my email situation. I’d been sitting on an inbox with close to 10,000 items in it for months and was feeling more and more stressed by the day.
I
posted on Twitter that I needed to do something about it and then decided to take action. Within 24 hours I had an inbox with no items in it (well momentarily) and have been able to maintain that ever since (OK, so it’s only three days, but it’s been a very busy three days).
A number of people asked me to give an update on what I did - here’s a very quick summary (by the way - thanks to the many Twitter followers who offered advice):
I moved all my email activity to Gmail
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Just under a week ago AdSense rolled out their new
Sliding/Scrolling feature on Text Ads. The response from ProBlogger readers was mixed to say the least and included:
“They’re interesting. I like that the arrows are pretty small, yet visible to those who are paying attention to the ads.”
Stephanie
“What a waste - do they really think that people looking at Adsense will take the time find a couple of tiny arrows to look at more ads?” -
Blogthority
“I’m not a big fan of bells and whistles, so it annoys me a little bit to see more moving parts on a website. On the other hand, if it offers more-relevant ads and gets more clicking for the bloggers, then I’m all for it!” -
Jeff
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The whole time of being online with my Freelance Writing blog (which nears one year next month by the way), I have been on a shared hosting account. Little did I know that this could potentially get me into some deep trouble.
For starters, did you know that being on a shared host could get your Adsense account banned? Yes, it’s true. A friend of mine shared his hosting account with a spammer and got shut down by Google. No remorse. They simply don’t care.
How would you feel if that happened to you? What if the main portion of your income relied on Adsense. This is a heavy pill to swallow and certainly not what I would want to happen to me either.
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BIZ GROWTH PODCAST #002 : APRIL 9, 2008
MARKETING TO BABY BOOMERS PART 2 - ENGAGING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
In this second edition of the
Biz Growth Podcast we continue our conversation with Marilynn Mobley, SVP with Edelman PR and the author of the terrific blog
Baby Boomer Insights.
We continue our conversation about marketing to baby boomers, but this time explore how baby boomers engage with social media and what that means if you want to connect with baby boomers through social media platforms.
If you missed part 1 of Marketing To Baby Boomers on the
Biz Growth Podcast, you can
access it here.
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