CategoryPro Blogging News

update: How to blogs earn money? For more information on this topic check out ProBlogger the Book. Yesterday I spent the afternoon wading through some of the most highly visited blogs going around at Truth Laid Bear’s Traffic Ranking page which ranks those blogs with Sitemeter statistics. I quite often ...more

I’ve been looking over the online version of Business Week that this week focusses upon Blogging. The articles that I’ve read are well written, insightful pieces – but I can’t help feeling a little disappointed that they tend to focus largely upon businesses who blog rather than blogs that are ...more

Search Engine Watch notes a few new trademarks from Google – including one interesting one ‘ TrustRank’ which they speculate that it could be an indication that Google are cooking up some new ranking system (like PageRank?) that is for combatting web spam. Also trademarked by Good are the terms: ...more

T.L. Pakii Pierce has a great rant about Blog and Ping and the growing trend of using Blogger.com blogs for the purposes of Spam. Especially the emerging automated mechanisms that allow spammers to ‘blog and ping’ hundreds (if not thousands) of times in a very short period. I won’t link ...more

Wayne writes on the topic of Non Profits Profiting From Blogs. He believes that not for profit organizations can gain incredibly from blogging which is something that I’m also a strong advocate for. ‘The value of blogs to any non-profit is almost unlimited. First of all, a blog provides a ...more

Paul has been imagining if the Blogosphere was a Nation and has started putting together some office bearers including: President: Robert Scoble Vice-President: (still thinking on that one) Goodwill Amabassador: Steve Rubel Department of Justice: Glenn Reynolds Department of Commerce: Darren Rowse Department of Education: Susannah Gardner Supreme Court: Shel ...more

What would be your top 5 qualities for a Pro Blogger to have (in order of preference)? Discuss below in comments if you like or write about it on your own blog and leave a link below.

I’m always fascinated by the approach that different bloggers take when it comes to interacting with their readers and other blogs. I’m not going to name names but this week I’ve had a number of email correspondences with editors/owners of three medium to large blogs (bigger than any of mine) ...more

Fascinating article over at oir.org on how editorial lines are blurring as bloggers’ salaries are tied to traffic. I’m not sure how I missed it when it first came out – but I’m glad Duncan mentioned it. The article looks at a number of models that blog networks and multiple ...more