CategoryPro Blogging News

I’m sad to say that the b5media/ProBlogger NY Blog Bash event that was planned for 9 June has been postponed. The issue was not the level of interest from those wanting to attend (I’m confident that we’d have come close to selling out looking at the expressions interest we received ...more

WordPress 2.2 is available for download Download and as always Aaron Brazell is releasing his article – the 10 Things you should know about WordPress 2.2. Gili has written a pretty detailed model (and calculator) for valuing blogging ventures – my own philosophy is that a blog is worth what ...more

Des asks – You’re a Nice Looking Blog – Who Owns You? – anonymous blogging anyone? Mani shares their 5 top mistakes when they started blogging (I think I could write a 50 part post on that topic :-) ) Daniel shares his Top 10 Underrated WordPress Plugin Chitika’s posted ...more

Brian at Copyblogger has just announced a cool group copywriting project which I’m sure many of you will enjoy competing in. It’s all about creating irresistible offers using landing pages. There are $10,000 in prizes up for grabs and it will be a judged competition (I’m one of the judges ...more

Dosh Dosh asks whether you’re being indexed by the Snap Search Engine and suggests how to make sure you will be. John TP points to a WP Plugin that lets you sell reviews from your blog directly – cutting out the middle man of services like PayPerPost and Review me ...more

I get the question of ‘How Much Can Bloggers Earn?’ quite a bit. Paula Neal Mooney has put together an interesting list of Bloggers and the Salaries that they make from their blogging. It’s a list that I suspect has taken her considerable time to put together. While this type ...more

Ryan Caldwell writes a post over at Performancing on Finding Good Writers For Your Blogs – an explanation of how he hires bloggers to work for him. Eric is writing a series on how and why to move a website to a blog. Nicholas has put together a little PHP ...more

Journalism Hope has a good interview with Tom Biro from the New Media Strategies Team at MWW (a PR company) on the latest campaign that Nikon are doing with 50 bloggers to promote their D80 DSLR. The campaign is called ‘picture this’ and it involves Nikon loaning a D80 (and ...more

Congratulations to Tim Ferriss who I Interviewed last week about his book The 4 Hour Work Week. I just logged onto Amazon to check out how it’s ranking and he’s cracked the top 10 list! Not bad for it’s first week of release. Well done Tim! PS: the interview series ...more