CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Richard has a nice preview of a tool that some of you will find useful – iReader. This tool is a little like Snap (which I tried for less than 24 hours here on ProBlogger – but took down after many complaints) but instead of showing you a tiny screen ...more

Eric from MyBlogLog has written a post on their blog explaining some of the problems that they’ve been facing on the spam front over the last little while and outlining some of the things that they’ve done (and are going to do) about it. I won’t rehash it all here ...more

ProBlogger’s MyBlogLog community has continued to grow in number over the last couple of weeks since I added it to my sidebar however the last few days have given me numerous reasons to wonder if I continue with it. Community Message Spam – I am increasingly spending time deleting spammy ...more

An interesting new monetization strategy for bloggers is emerging today – letting readers subscribe to your blog via Text Messages. TextMarks has launched this new service which allows bloggers to either charge $4.99 or $9.99 per month to their readers to get these instantaneous alerts. It’s currently only available to ...more

Over the last day or two I’ve been testing a tool that bloggers wanting to stay right on top of the news breaking in their niche might find very useful. It’s called Anothr and it’s an RSS bot for Skype users. How does it work? – its pretty simple really. ...more

I just noticed that TechCrunch’s MyBlogLog community page is different to other MyBlogLog communities. It’s actually been like this for a month or two (I’m not a regular visitor to their MBL page) and is part of MBL’s Co-Branded Communities alpha test. What are the differences between Co-Branded and Normal ...more

This week I’m writing a series on how to make your RSS feeds POP and coincidentally Ronald Huereca from Dev Lounge released a WP plugin that helps you do exactly what I’m writing about. It’s a WordPress Feed Styler that allows bloggers to add design elements into their feeds – ...more

I get a lot of questions from people just getting into blogging about which blog platform to choose. I have my own preferences and opinions but try to be objective with my answer. I usually point people to my blogging for beginners post on blog platforms for starters – but ...more

LeeDodd has put together a useful list of 10 Ways to Become a More Efficient Webmaster. It’s a list of 10 tools that he uses in the running of his numerous sites and forums. They include a number of SEO tools that could be used for all types of websites. ...more