CategoryPro Blogging News

Techcrunch is reporting that PayPerPost is buying Performancing and will make the announcement today sometime. They say that the reason for the purchase is to give PPP access to Performancing’s 28,000 users. I will be interested to read the official announcements later today as I’d heard previously that a sale ...more

The final day of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project has arrived and as with each of the previous times we’ve done it I find myself with a mixture of feelings including being over stimulated (when you read 292 blog posts on such a wide array of topics it ...more

Day 3 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project has seen yet another solid round of submissions – 74 in all today (which brings the total so far to 208 – see them all here). While numbers are slightly down on last time I’m excited by the quality of ...more

Blogger Beta came out of beta a couple of days back. So I’d be interested in hearing Blogger user’s reviews. Do tell! WSJ has published an opinion piece on bloggers and how we’re a mob. The irony is that bloggers everywhere are joining together to storm the paper’s website like ...more

Lifehacker: the book has now started shipping through Amazon. I’ve ordered mine. Another example of leveraging a blog to make money. Aviva Directory has a list of 99 tips to do branding on the cheap. It’s written for Web Startups but a lot of it could apply to bloggers. Are ...more

Two weeks ago it was Yahoo sharing the most searched for terms in it’s engine – today Google shares theirs with their annual Zeitgeist Report. Google’s top searches for the year: 1. bebo 2. myspace 3. world cup 4. metacafe 5. radioblog 6. wikipedia 7. video 8. rebelde 9. mininova ...more

Day 1 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project is over and 55 submissions have arrived in my inbox from readers who are competing for the $2500 in prizes. This round includes a few posts from our sponsors themselves (they’re not in the running for prizes but wanted to ...more

An Australian Blogging Conference looks like it will be held in Brisbane in March of next year according to Peter Black who is organizing it – via Des Walsh Josh Dorkin put together a useful post on copyright and what to do when someone steals your content Search Engine Journal ...more

Epiar Market Research Blog has put together an interesting list that tracks what ‘Christmas’ things people are searching for online this year. Here are the first 8 items on the list. They are estimated searches as measured across all search engines. See the full list at Christmas Wishes Expressed in ...more