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Job boards have been listing some great jobs for bloggers of late. Here’s 10 of the latest from the last 7 days:
What excites me is that there’s such a variety of jobs being advertised not only in terms of topics/themes but also in terms of advertisers (with a few mainstream advertisers in the last month) and roles (I’m especially noticing more advertising for editors, managers and community managers).
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Over the last few weeks while I’ve been traveling you may have noticed a new sponsor on ProBlogger in the headline banner position. Where as previously we’d kept this position for internal advertising this month we’ve launched a premium sponsorship package which was quickly snapped up by new sponsor
Firepow.
Firepow is a new (well actually it’s soon to be released) software developed by a fellow Aussie Hansen that aims to help you make your blogging and niche site marketing a more profitable experience.
Firepow will be launched on 30 April and Andrew is currently building a prelaunch notification list so that you can be informed of it’s developments over the coming weeks.
I’m yet to use Firepow but have had Andrew walk me through some of it’s features and aims and from what I can see it is designed to help bloggers with three main challenges:
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How Can Twitter be used to promote a blog? In this guest post Chris Brogan sheds some light on the topic.
Twitter is a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, it’s a virtual water cooler. For others, it’s a great way to get answers to questions.
Since I started using Twitter, I have more than doubled my blog traffic over the last several months, and I can tell you how.
Some people just dump their blog posts into Twitter automatically, with a simple “New Blog Post: Money is Better Than Dirt” and away you go. I’ve found a way of using Twitter to encourage participation on
my website, and it’s better than easy; it’s tasteful.
Ask a Question
Instead of telling your Twitter audience that you’ve published a new post, ask them their opinion on the core topic you’ve covered. “Do you think banner ads are dead?” followed by a link to your site is much more appealing than posting to Twitter, “Banner Ads Are Not Dead.” Asking a question engages your Twitter followers and solicits
their experience.
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The following guest post was submitted by Easton Ellsworth from Visionary Blogging.
What is the greatest blogging skill?
It’s not the ability to produce excellent blog content.
It’s not the ability to build a strong blog community.
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No where is a cool Plugin for blog masters who allow other others to write on their blogs. It is called
Author Exposed and is fairly new. Launched this month as far as I can see.
This is how the
Plugin looks like in action:
The way it works is that the
author name is still displayed as a link below the post title. But now instead of clicking out onto the authors site that is linked to the profile with the_author() tag, it will pop up this box as seen above.
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If you are looking for photo’s for your blog to bring your stories to life and want to ensure that you have the rights to use them, you might be interested in exploring the new free service offered by
PicApp.You can register for an account and then search their data base. The photos are displayed in a flash media file and can be embedded on any web page, just like you do with video’s for example from
YouTube.
According to a
report at Gigaom, PicApp has advertising embedded in the photos and has a revenue share with the photos agencies.
It’s not going to be relevant for some of us who take the approach that we don’t have advertising on our business blogs and I know there are many people who prefer not to have flash on their websites or blogs.
However if you are looking for photographs that you can use on your blog if covering a news event it is a site worth exploring.
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Thinking about quitting your blog? Dee Stewart examines some way to give it a new lease of life.
Thinking about cutting the plug on your blog?
I almost did last year after I found myself busy with other projects, my Adsense and Chitika checks were waining and especially after I noticed that many of my blog friends had shut down their blogs or were barely using them. At first I wondered was I kissing a dinosaur? Should I stop blogging and move onto something better?
But for some odd reason my blog would not
go gentle into that goodnight.
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It’s time for another version of link love here on
Easy WordPress. Since the last post about
blogger comment recognition was received with so much gratitude I figured it wouldn’t hurt to do it again. Consider it a little Easter bunny present.
Commenter’s are every blogs life and blood and without them we would simply dry up. One of our most active commenter’s here is
Life is Colourful. Unfortunately I have no idea on whether
LiC is a he or a she so I will have to revert to address the person as
LiC.
LiC blogs about Life, Technology, Reviews, SEO, the Internet and making 2 cents per minute. I love this, since most people brag about how they make $100/minute. At least
LiC doesn’t throw around big income statements to mislead people. But when you read the post
February 2008 Proved to Be One Significant Month of Earnings you will soon find out that LiC actually earns a lot more than 2 cents/minute.
If you
head over to the LiC blog, there is some sound information to be found and an active commenting community.
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Last week I ran a series with
five tactics for promoting a blog that I’d use if I were starting out again in blogging. To finish it off I
asked readers to submit their own blog promotion tips of things that I didn’t include. The comments left were great and I wanted to highlight a few that particularly caught my attention (comments in italics are mine):
1. Frugal Dad writes - “Here are some lessons learned with Frugal Dad:
- Spent too much time trying to get attention from “big name” bloggers (link exchanges, etc.). Should have partnered with small-medium size blogs in my niche, or related niche earlier on.
- Invested too much time commenting, making attempts to network, etc. Should have been writing more, and focusing on good content.
- I completely ignored the power of social networking sites for the first 60 days, and it cost me in slow readership growth the first couple months.
- Spent too much time fooling around with advertising links, banners and Adsense before I had the traffic to justify it. I put the cart before the horse.”
From Darren - I agree with Frugal Dad that sometimes it’s better to aim a little ‘lower’ when networking and interact with other bloggers on a similar level than the so called ‘A-list’ who are constantly bombarded with attempts at networking. I also think that getting the balance between promotional activities and writing good content is key. Spend too much time doing non writing activities and your blog will suffer. A holistic approach to blogging is key.
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Conferences can be a prime space for bloggers to recruit new readers. Last week at SXSWi it was fascinating to watch hundreds of bloggers attempt to standout from the crowd, network and develop fruitful relationships with others there. In this video I point out 5 of the better strategies that I saw:
