Last Saturday I joined RiaTalks - Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 Conference in Istanbul. During the day I have seen world class websites developed by young Turkish software engineers. Knowband is one of them. It is absolutely a new milestone at online collaboration and learning. Knowband’s Facebook application will also

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Here's a neat post that started life about site building and the whys and wherefores of doing so. Freedom writers is just a keyword I target on this site, and it has little relevance to anything much. Apart from the fact that I'm a writer and its a cool term to rank for. Freedom writers are as good at writing rambling nonsens

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I gave a short break for my Tips For Improving Your WordPress Skills series right after WordPress 2.5 is launched. It was because 2.5 version was not stable and came with a lot of bugs. I am very happy that as of today WordPress 2.5.1 is launched. According to the news sources this version comes with a lot of bug and security f

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I discovered Rubicon Project while I was surfing on one of my friend’s blog. The project was in beta stage, but the idea was so extraordinary that I could not stop myself applying for it.

A few days later I got a confirmation letter from Rubicon Project that my blog is accepted. I installed the necessary code to my blog, and

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Time to stir things up a bit with this popular Web 2.0 themed blog. Being a jointly owned blog between respected authors and Internet Marketers Monika Mundell and Terry Didcott, it's naturally full of great content. But our individual projects were making it difficult to keep the site up to scratch so we decided to sell it. Bu

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Making extra income online is not a social event. When starting out in the world of making spare change online you need to have thick skin, take criticism and not take things personal. If you goal is to earn extra income approach it like a business and think twice about every post you make, comment you leave or link you secure

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So, just like the title says, "does technology and blogging belong to the young?"  Well, it looks like it does because we're seeing more and more pre-teens and teenagers making more money from online than adults do during a 9-5 job.

On top of that, adults are starting to go to kids for help when it come

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In a Griz-like ramble about niche blogging, I discuss how I manage multiple niche blogs, my content building strategy, how to take advantage of hot topics and some Adsense optimizing tricks I’ve tried. I describe how I use an Excel spreadsheet to organize my blogs. I go over my preferred technique for kicking off and adding con

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There’s a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has nothing to do with bloggers dissing each other on their respective websites. The war is about control of the blogosphere by several great, many good, and tons of terrible blogging platforms. The average newbie now has “too many” options to choose from, and the battle for blo

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Using post excerpts on the main page of your blog can have several advantages.
Probably the most important reason to use post excerpts on your blog is the SEO advantage. This is primarily in avoiding any possible duplicate content penalty. By not using post excerpts, the same content can show on several pages and dilute the ra

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Although Entrecard is a pretty good website for bloggers, it tends almost generate fake traffic. Fake in the sense that people are only their to drop their card and leave.

But here's the thing, a lot of people rely so heavily on Entrecard droppers for their traffic that advertisers do not even bother with them. Bounce r

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I hate it when I have days that I just can't get into working and don't get anything done. Mind you it doesn't help when we have just gone through the longest ever recorded heatwave for an Australian city, thankfully it has just passed and we are having a lovely day today.

I am in a much better mood to start getting some

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I have only recently taken the plunge into the often-murky waters of niche blogging. It was even more recently that I actually started to clue in with regards to what is involved in getting that all important 'organic traffic' that one needs for any hope of success. So I started learning about the challenges of SEO as well

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There are plenty of companies that are willing to find advertisers for you, but of course, for a profit. Well, there's another way of finding advertisers so you can simply cut out the middleman.

Of course, my suggestions require some work, but it's easy steps. In the long run, you'll be saving money by cutting out the

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Most of you guys already know about Twitter, I mean, the last few weeks all I seen were Twitter posts and how you can “increase your traffic with Twitter” or “use the full benefits of Twitter!” But besides getting traffic from Twitter, you'll get noticed by a lot of A-list bloggers and others.

Who knows? Maybe Problogger w

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