CategoryPro Blogging News

Six Apart took the step of offering active TypePad users affected by recent problems compensation today. Rather than compensating everyone the same they actually left the level of compensation somewhat up to the bloggers themselves and gave them the following options: – While the performance issues caused me some inconvenience ...more

Daylight Savings has had a significant impact upon my blogging activities. A few weeks ago we put our clocks backward forward an hour to get an extra hour of daylight over our upcoming Summer. The same weekend much of the Northern Hemisphere put their clocks forward backward (signifying the end ...more

Google have just made Google Analytics available for free to Adwords advertisers. Google Analytics is a re-branded ‘Urchin Analytics’ which previously costed $199 per month. Google bought Urchin out in March of this year. Here’s how they describe it: “Learn how visitors interact with your website and identify the navigational ...more

Robert Scoble posted over the weekend about whether there should be more debate or critique over the use of ad programs like Adsense or Chitika by bloggers (as there was earlier in the year with Marquis paying bloggers to post about them. His post caused a bit of a stir ...more

Have you ever has a $10,000 hour? Steve Pavlina has a post on $10,000 hours where he talks not about hours where you actually earn $10,000 in an hour but hours where you do things that in the long run have the potential for that type of earning capacity. One ...more

Hone, a fellow Melbourne blogger, asked me to answer a few questions in a mini interview – he published my answers here if you’re interested.

Interesting post over at Inside Google on a patent that Google has filed for a product called Google Automat which looks like an extension to their AdWords program where advertisers can not only place an AdWords ad but can get their own free standing page to serve as a product ...more

Nick over at Threadwatch has announced a new project he’s working on – a company called Performancing LLC whose first project is a blog on the topic of professional blogging written by some of my favorite bloggers – Nick himself, Peter Brady (from Ads on Blogs), Andy Hagans (from BizNicheMedia), ...more

If you’re an Aussie and you have a blog it might be well worth your while to enter this competition which will award $10,000 to Australia’s Best Blog. It’s sponsored by a Melbourne hosting company – Smarty Host. Entries opened a couple of days ago and close on 28 November. ...more