CategoryPro Blogging News

Kyle over at Warpspire has an interesting post reflecting upon the impact that releasing a WP blog template (which got picked up as one of the templates offered on WordPress.com) has had upon his blog’s success of late. The results include increased traffic, loads of inbound links (which helps with ...more

Last year I did something that I thought I’d never do (as a lover of blogs) – I invited readers to share what they thought was wrong with blogging and today I think it’s time to do it again. I introduced the question last time by sharing a story of ...more

Someone asked me the other day what skills I wished I had to enhance my blogging. I was able to answer them very quickly as most of them are glaringly obvious to me and probably those around me. The gaps in my web skill set are mainly technical. Blog and ...more

Just a short note to say that if you’ve registered for the Blogonomics Cruise that you might need to read this and re-register because organizers had a hitch with the registration process – in short they didn’t get everyone’s details so you might think you’re going but they might not ...more

Here’s a few random links I came across today to keep those of you on the other side of the world amused while I sleep tonight. Enjoy: WordPress 2.0.1 Released – pretty self explanatory. Dave Taylor asks the question – Does Your Top Level Domain Affect Your Search Engine Rankings? ...more

Well it’s official – I’m now one of the presenters on the Blogonomics Blog Cruise (my page is yet to go up on the presenters list but trust me – barring unforeseeable circumstances I’ll be there – update – it’s up now – although they must not have like my ...more

Here’s a bit of fun – a tool that can convert an IM conversation into a cartoon. Here’s the start of a ‘typical’ conversation that I seem to be having a lot of lately. The name of the person asking the question has been removed to protect the stupid innocent ...more

A few days ago mentioned SnapShirts a company that can put a word cloud from your blog on a T-Shirt. I’ve since made up a ProBlogger one if you’re interested but the thing that interests me the most is a recent update on their blog which illustrates the power of ...more

Last week’s Poll asked readers to share how long they’ve been blogging for and the results are now in. The spread was actually quite wide with good percentages of the total vote of 910 participants polling in each area. The largest group were in the ‘under 3 months’ segment with ...more