CategoryPro Blogging News

I’ve often wondered – but why don’t many online main stream media sites link when they refer to blogs or websites? I find it slightly ironic – particularly when they write about new media/blogging. I’m not sure if it’s laziness, fear of losing readers from a site or if it’s ...more

Bloggrrl had insomnia last night and so write herself a great little bloggytale – The Three Little Blogs: A Cautionary Tale – very creative. Which little pig blogger are you? I think I’ve been all three on different blogs over the years.

Redfly Marketing have released a firefox plugin that allows you to see what Google results are in different parts of the world for the keyword you’re searching for. As someone with blogs focussed upon geographic areas I can see how useful this would be. Steph writes about how using capitals ...more

Common Craft shares some of the behind the scenes story of how they make their great videos – they’ve been producing some great work lately and it’s great to see how they’re doing it. Dean starts a series today on Buzz and Viral Marketing. Read Write Web has been hot ...more

One of the popular stories going around today is that of Nielsen/NetRatings (an online measurement service) scrapping the basing of their ratings being based upon page views and moving to tracking how long people spend on a site. This is as a result of the increased use of video and ...more

I just had a rather disturbing email from a company advertising a new service called Buy Blog Comments (no follow tags used) promoting a new service offering to leave comment spam on blogs for those wanting to increase their SEO ranking. The service offers to leave spam comments at a ...more

Chris Garrett just announced his new Authority Blogger Forum which I think has the makings of a useful community. Chris is one of the better bloggers on the topic of blogging and would be well worthwhile getting alongside if you’re looking for advice.

I’ve come very close to simply marking every unread in my RSS readers as ‘read’ today because something close to 50% of posts that I’m reading are about one thing – the iPhone. While I’m a big fan of Apple and think this looks like a great product – I’m ...more

After a year of blogging Charlene writes some reflections in a post titled Web Site Monetization – A Reality Check Webconfs has a useful list of SEO basics – arranged with scores next to them ranging from +3 (strategies worth doing) to -3 (things to avoid). Nice list. DoshDosh shares ...more