CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

There’s some interesting buzz around the blogosphere today about a tool called Zemanta (found via WebWare) which is a blogging tool that works in your browser as an add-on that suggests content and licensed pictures that relates to content that you are writing at any given time. Once you’ve got ...more

If you’re into comparing stats with your competitors (or friends) then you might like to check out Feed Compare – a tool that lets you compare the numbers of subscribers to a blog with other blogs (as lon as they are all using Feedburner). Here’s a comparison of my two ...more

This is a guest post by Roni of GreenLiteBites. Roni has developed a successful online community, BlogToLose, to support her weight loss blog WeightWatchen. In 2005, I started a blog to track my weight loss progress after joining Weight Watchers. Initially, the site was a very egocentric attempt to be ...more

Just a quick note to let readers know that I’ve just switched over to TypePad AntiSpam Comment filtering here at ProBlogger. If you have any issues commenting please do let me know.

Around a month ago regular readers will know that I wrote that I was about to start an online video making course at WebVideoUniversity. Around 10 other ProBlogger readers signed up with me and have been partaking in this four week course over the month of May. I said that ...more

After my post a few days back about my love hate relationship with Akismet I was pleased to see Six Apart announce another option for bloggers looking to stem the tide of comment spam – TypePad AntiSpam. While I’m yet to try it the reports coming in about it are ...more

I love Akismet – it’s a WordPress tool that has literally saved me months of work. It has blocked 4,059,113 comment spams on ProBlogger alone over the last year or two – something that I will be forever grateful for! However every day or two I get an email like ...more

Today I’ve been checking out Andy Beal’s latest venture – Trackur. Trackur is an online reputation monitoring tool that has been developed for companies and individuals wanting to take a serious look at what is being said about them in the blogosphere. I can also see the possibilities for using ...more

What statistics do you monitor in Google Analytics? I’ve written before on some of the statistics that I monitor on my blogs but one that I didn’t include is to look at the traffic coming in from Search Engines over time. Here’s one of my favorite ways to get a ...more