CategoryPro Blogging News

LoudLaunch is yet another service that is aiming to connect bloggers with advertisers. They don’t really give any information about it on their site yet but already there are comparisons to the controversial PayPerPost. It’ll be interesting to see what they’ve learned from the PayPerPost fiasco. Is PayPerPost Manufacturing Controversy? ...more

The AdSense blog tells publishers what advertisers have known for a month or two now – that they’re basing how much they charge for ads on the quality of the landing page. This apparently means a ‘higher quality’ of ad should be being seen on our sites. While I’m all ...more

Congratulations for the team at Text Link Ads for being acquired by MediaWhiz in the 24 hours. This was an acquisition waiting to happen as TLA have built themselves up over the past few months into an advertising network that is providing numerous bloggers with their largest income – out ...more

A few weeks ago Matt from Chewing Pencils emailed me asking if I could judge his Christmas Cartoons Group Project. Matt had 17 entries submitted (I’ve included links to each below) and gave me the difficult job of choosing one to win. The choice was difficult (and I’m not just ...more

ZeroBoss writes a post on how to get people to read what you write – good solid advice Celebrity Cowboy share his 7 Secret Strengths (a little language warning) Ben shares some of the behind the scenes workings of the new b5media homepage at Blog Herald Thom emailed me today ...more

Dave young points to an older article on The Power of the About Us Page Disambiguity writes a post on tips for podcasters to hold the attention of their listeners – there might be a few applicable ones for bloggers in it too BJ asks is your blog outstanding? A ...more

It’s been interesting to see Amazon/A9 release the beta of a new Cost Per Click (CPC) advertising program to run ads on their pages. It’s called Clickriver. I’m interested for a couple of reasons. Firstly – I think it presents bloggers an interesting opportunity to promote their blogs. Increasing numbers ...more

I was a little dubious when I first heard of the Elite Retreat but as I’ve been pondering it for the last 24 hours I’m convinced it is a good idea. What is it? Well in short – it’s an opportunity to spend a couple of days with a group ...more

Compete – SnapShot is a tool that I’m sure some bloggers will find useful in their analysis of how their blog compares with others. Yes I know – it’s not cool to analyze your own stats too much but most of us do it from time to time on sites ...more