CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Do you want to make your blog Sticky (or keep people coming back for more)? There are lots of ways to get first time readers to become loyal to your blog but today Aaron compiled a nice little list of four WordPress plugins that can definitely help. I’m sure there ...more

A couple of days back I linked in a speedlinking post to a WP plugin called WP Text Ads – a plugin that allows bloggers to sell their own text links. In that post I asked if anyone had used it and offered to publish a review of one if ...more

LineBuzz is a new commenting solution for blogs that has got me a little curious. The concept is pretty simple – it allows your readers to comment on specific parts of your blog post by highlighting any text that you’ve written. It’s probably best to learn about it by seeing ...more

Users of Google Analytics will be happy to hear that it’s about to get an upgrade. The Google Analytics official blog reports the New Version and says that it includes a redesigned reporting interface, new email and export reports, custom dashboard, trend and over-time graph and more contextual help tips. ...more

Yesterday WordPress released a plugin to allow hosted WordPress.org bloggers to use their WordPress.com Stats system on their blogs. I’ve not tested it but Muhammad Saleem’s reviewed it for you here.

Ben has noticed that Technorati have started giving blogs an ‘Authority Rank’. The Top 100 list used to be base upon incoming links but now is based upon ‘authority’ (although I don’t see much has changed in that list so far). There’s nothing about how they’re coming up with authority ...more

I wish I could get a screen capture of this but I think Google just added a new little feature to the AdSense for Search search field that I’m using here on ProBlogger in my sidebar. Here’s what happened: I was searching for something on ProBlogger and as I type ...more

Just a quick note to note that it seems like Technorati are making some changes to their Top 100 Most Favorited List – changes as in…. it’s not there. I’m not sure it’s a permanent change or whether it could be a glitch – but in light of recent conversations ...more

Kevin’s picked up a new feature that Google have added to their blog search service in a post Google ads auto-link to add search to Google Reader. If you’re a user of both Google Reader and Google Blog Search then you’re going to find this one useful. Do a search ...more