ProBlogger Taglines
Thanks for all those who submitted ideas for a new tagline for this blog. As a number of your advised – the ‘Helping Bloggers Earn Money’ line is probably worth keeping – it sums the site up in so many ways and to change it would be to go against ...more
ProBlogger Site News
ProBlogger has left the Building
Monday is a public holiday here in Australia (and New Zealand) – its ANZAC day where we remember the troops that have died over the years from our countries in war. Its a pretty massive holiday here in Australia – getting bigger every year. I’m headed down the coast with ...more
General
Does Professional Blogging = Non Interactive Blogging?
I’m always fascinated by the approach that different bloggers take when it comes to interacting with their readers and other blogs. I’m not going to name names but this week I’ve had a number of email correspondences with editors/owners of three medium to large blogs (bigger than any of mine) ...more
Pro Blogging News
Google is Updating Page Rank – Future Page Rank Tool
The word on the street from those who watch such things is that Google are currently doing a Page Rank update. These things tend to take a day or two to sort themselves out but there are a few tools that can help you work out what your page rank ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Guess the Blog Topic – Topic Revealed
The challenge was to Guess the Topic of the Blog simply by viewing the last month’s statistics. The guesses began honing in on the right answer almost immediately with two bloggers actually suggesting the right topic within hours of the competition starting. Congratulations to Jamie and PFBlog who both hit ...more
Case Studies
Blog Networks and How they Split the Cash
Fascinating article over at oir.org on how editorial lines are blurring as bloggers’ salaries are tied to traffic. I’m not sure how I missed it when it first came out – but I’m glad Duncan mentioned it. The article looks at a number of models that blog networks and multiple ...more
Pro Blogging News
Business Week Starts Blogging
Welcome to Blogging Business Week. Steve Rubel points to their new blog and and articlethey’re running on Blogs which certainly puts blogging in a favorable light.
Pro Blogging News
Adbrite and Feedster Announce Partnership over Blog Ads
It looks like Adbrite (an ad network) and Feedster (an RSS Search Engine) have decided to team up to provide ads to bloggers. They’ll be offering three options for running ads on your blog: Ads directly on your blog Ads in your RSS Feed Podcast Advertising (not available yet). It ...more
Advertising
Feedburner Changes Ahead
In the comments of my previous post on the FeedBurner service Duncan, a representative of Feedburner, left the following comment which has a few interesting revelations in it for Feedburner users about upcoming features. Hi Darren, You can always tell if your FeedBurner feed is in synch and up to ...more
Blogging Tools and Services