CategoryPro Blogging News

Over at the YPN blog Rand (a guest poster) writes a useful post on Leveraging Linkbait. Nice to see some exploration of the topic on an official Yahoo blog. For more on linkbait you might also like to read my mini-series on the topic: Introduction to Linkbaiting Motivations for Linkbaiting ...more

LifeDev writes a post titled Think for Yourself, And the World Will Follow – it’s written about business ideas but I think could be applied pretty well to blogging too – originality counts for a lot. ShoeMoney shares his favorite WordPress Tricks and Plugins – two plugins I hadn’t seen ...more

Reader question…. Do you have newsletters attached to your blogs? Why/Why Not? If so – are they effective ways of finding traffic and building community for you?

The interview that I did with Jeremy Schoemaker this morning is now available for download or to listen to here. Also on the call (right at the end) Jeremy announced that I’ll be one of the presenters at the next Elite Retreat in San Francisco on 19-20 March. I enjoyed ...more

Friedbeef’s tech posts an Interview with AutoPinger founder Vinson Wang. Autopinger is a ping managing service. Instigator Blog has a post with 8 Steps to Growing Your Blog Community One Person at a Time. Good solid tips on not taking the readers you already have for granted and growing your ...more

Still wading through my inbox. Here are a few more links from the last week (more to come). YPN have been running a series of posts on Optimizing for Relevancy to help getting more relevant ads. Part II was released this week. Abe at Blog has a post on Adding ...more

Chris asks Is 2007 the year for Blog Communities in the wake of a number of blogs adding forums to their blogs in recent times. I’m not sure it’s the year of ‘blog communities’ as such – but I definitely think it’s the year that we’ll increasingly see blogs merging ...more

I’m back from my week off and now the massive task of clearing my inbox and sorting through the many thousands of unread items in my news reader begins. In doing so I’m going to do a few speedlinking posts over the next 24 hours to catch up on some ...more

Tubetorial does it again with another helpful video tutorial – Back Up Your Blog or Risk Losing It All Yaro asks is Professional Blogging a Sustainable Business Model? – I think so, but not for everyone. The Diva Marketing Blog has a fun (and useful) posts – 22 Blogging Tips. ...more