CategoryBlogging Tools and Services
Migrating your Blog Between Platforms: Pitfalls and Consequences
Today’s guest post is by from Swade from Trollhattan Saab. In it he tells his story of migrating his blog from one blog platform to another. I’m almost willing to guarantee that anyone who’s been blogging for more than a year has contemplated migrating from one content management system (CMS) ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Skribit – Find Out What Your Readers Want You to Write About
Thanks to an email from Matt (no url supplied) I’m playing around with a new little widget on my sidebar here at ProBlogger called Skribit. The idea is that it’s a tool for gathering and prioritizing the topics that readers (ie YOU) want a blogger (ie ME) to write about ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Six Apart Launch an Ad Network and New Services
Tomorrow Six Apart will launch a new ad network, the acquisition of a social media agency and new ‘services’. I’ve published the full press release below but tomorrow Six Apart are going public with some major developments. The main components of the announcements today: A New Ad Network – for ...more
Advertising
WordPress 2.5 Goes Live
WordPress 2.5 launched over the weekend and has lots of good things bundled up in it. As usual Aaron has a great post with 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5.
Blogging Tools and Services
Find Creative Commons Licenced Photos from Flickr via Your WP Blog
This WP plugin looks amazing – it finds Flickr Creative Commons licenced images all from within WP. “With the Photo Dropper plugin, you can now search millions of Flickr photos and add them to your WordPress posts with just 1 click, all without leaving your WordPress dashboard. Attribution links are ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Aweber Start Reporting Stats to Feedburner
In my recent First Impression review of Aweber (a newsletter service with some nice features for bloggers) a number of readers mentioned that the thing that was stopping them from using Aweber was that those who subscribe to them using Aweber’s Blog Broadcast option would not be counted in the ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers
I was a little slow getting onto Twitter last year (when so many other bloggers embraced it). To be honest I didn’t think it had much to offer me – I’m beginning to see how wrong I was. In this post I want to explore how I’m using Twitter to: ...more
Blog Promotion
Aweber To Start Reporting Blog Broadcast Subscribers to Feedburner
Yesterday in my Review of Aweber a couple of readers commented that they wished Aweber would report those to Feedburner the numbers of those subscribing to RSS feeds via email with Aweber’s ‘Blog Broadcast’ feature. Today Andy reports that this is a feature that will be added soon. This removes ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Openads announce free hosted ad server
Openads yesterday made a fairly significant announcement that I’m sure will interest many bloggers who are looking for a tool to manage the ads on their blog Actually they announced two things – the first is that they got some serious funding and the second that they’re launching a new ...more
Blogging Tools and Services