CategoryPro Blogging News

John Chow has broken the story that Google has a ‘secret’ CPM advertising network called the ‘Google Display Advertising Network’ which is an invitation only impression based ad network for high profile advertisers and a select group of publishers. It apparently lets publishers negotiate their own CPM (cost per thousand ...more

I’ve previously done a little analysis of the blogs in the Technorati Top 100 in terms of their length of blogging so today when I came across a post by Stuart Brown (via blog herald)who has done similar work (but with some pretty pie charts) I was hooked. Stuart analysises ...more

Marshall Kirkpatrick has just finished up as a writer on the popular TechCrunch blog and today writes a great post on how he looked for and found stories for his blogging using a startpage, feed reader, sms and instant messaging notification and more. It’s a great read as Marshall was ...more

Over the last few weeks the Problogger Job Board has seen a little upswing in the numbers of jobs being posted. While I wouldn’t describe it as an avalanche there is definitely some interesting opportunities being added! Taciko is looking for a Startup Blogger for their webapp business Criteo is ...more

TechCrunch is reporting that MyBlogLog (a social media site for bloggers) has sold to Yahoo! for $10m. This is a pretty impressive sale as MyBlogLog has transitioned from being a blog metrics package to a social media one in a relatively short time. Congrats to the MyBlogLog team. Update – ...more

A few links from the last few days RSS feeds: Ben Bleikamp writes about how to setup WordPress locally on your Mac David Peralty writes a post asking how much is a post worth? and gives a few different options on how bloggers ca be paid Brian shares 10 ways ...more

I had a great time at the Mesh meetup last night in Toronto. It was great to meet a few old friends and a few new ones – putting a lot of names to faces including Tony from Deep Jive Interests, Sacha Chua, Stuart MacDonald, Mark Evans (whose office I’m ...more

Quick news from today (thanks to Blaine for the tip): “Search engine rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up to make it easier for Web site owners to make sure their sites get included in the Web indexes, the companies are expected to announce Thursday. The companies are adopting ...more

BlogBurst has come out of Beta testing and is entering into a ‘commercial offering’ and has announced to it’s bloggers that they are instituting a Rewards Program. For those who don’t remember – BlogBurst is a system that gives bloggers exposure in main stream media’s online sites. They sell your ...more