CategoryReader Questions

Time for another Reader Poll – Have You Used Video on Your Blog? With services like YouTube (and many others) that make it easy to share videos on your blog I’m keen to hear how many bloggers have used video as a way of engaging readers. This poll simply asks ...more

Image by SummachPhoto Today I had a good discussion with my Twitter followers about what they were doing with their blogs over the Christmas break later this week. Most of the answers came down to the strategies that I mention in this old post here at ProBlogger – 7 Things ...more

It’s time for another annual poll here at ProBlogger – this one asking readers how much they earned in October 2008? I’ve run this poll a number of times over the last couple of years and the results are always interesting. Just to qualify it – I’m asking about ALL ...more

Last month I ran a poll here at ProBlogger which asked readers if they make money online from sources other than blogging. The result was almost completely split with 1022 of the 2053 people who responded saying Yes and 1031 saying no. Some of the comments on the launch post ...more

Do You Sell Text Links on Your Blog? Warning – Before answering this question in comments you might want to consider doing so anonymously and without a link to your blog – particularly if your answer is YES. It could hurt you to identify yourself if you say yes publicly. ...more

Today in response to an article that Andrew Sullivan published that was titled ‘Why I Blog‘ I asked my Twitter followers and Facebook friends to tell me why they blog. The responses were so good that felt it was a pity to just see them myself and not share them. ...more

I just received the following question about categorizing blogs from Ann Handley (from MarketingProfs) that I thought would make a good discussion starter. “A few weeks ago, Chris Brogan (writing on Shannon Paul’s blog) talked about the importance of being consistent on your blog. Some blogs, like my personal blog ...more

Should blogs have comments? It is a question that comes up fairly regularly in blogging circles and one that different bloggers take different approaches to. Most bloggers have them – they’re on by default when they set their blog up and they never switch them off. They see the comments ...more

Last week we ran a ‘reader review‘ competition where we gave you a link to a blog – Girls Just Wanna Have Funds – and asked you to leave a ‘review’ to help the blog improve. Chitika came to the party and offered a Tomtom One LE GPS unit to ...more