Aaron Pratt of SEO Buzz Box posts some nice links to interviews he has done with Todd Mailcoat and Danny Sullivan. The interviews contain great linkbaiting tips and techniques. Visit Pratt's blog to learn more.

Darren Rowse has an excellent post on how 103Bees.com has added a search engine analysis tool that knows whether a search term used to find your blog was a question. A blogger can easily use the results from this tool to identify opportunities for new blog posts. In presenting his own experience with the new tool, Rowse comments, "In effect just by analyzing these 11 questions that brought people to ProBlogger in the last 2 hours I could quite easily have found 11 new topics to write about in upcoming posts."

Read more of Rowse's review at ProBlogger.net.

PayPerPost, a service that allows advertisers to pay bloggers to post content, has altered its stance on disclosure. A blogger will now be required to disclose s/he is being compensated when making a post about an advertiser's product or service. "This isn’t a perfect fix for PayPerPost", says Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, "advertisers can still require a positive post about their products, and the disclosure does not have to be within the post itself." Read more at TechCrunch.

Jim Kukral (of ReveNews fame) has launched a new service to help bloggers monetize their blogs. Called BlogKits, the service displays CPA ads on participating blogs-- which according to Kukral is a better alternative for low-traffic blogs than Google's AdSense.

Read more at Shawn Collins' Affiliate Blog.

Performancing founder Nick Wilson announced that they will be releasing enhancements to their advertising service. The service helps bloggers make money from their sites by allowing advertisers to pay for ads on their blogs. Next week, the company will be rolling out a beta of its 'Network Ads'. Operating on a CPA model, this feature will allow bloggers to fill their Performancing ad space with ads from Performancing's inventory for those times where a particular advertiser has not purchased the space. Read more about the offering over at Performancing.

Easton Ellsworth has assembled a list of places on the internet where you can get free images to use in your blog postings. The list includes Webshots.com, Fotolog, StockVault and seven others. Read Ellsworth's list of recommendations at Business Blogwire.

Marshall Kirkpatrick over at TechCrunch is reporting that Google has started to mix in related blogs into its main search results.  Marshall shares a screenshot from Andy Boyd showing how Google's search engine is displaying blog posts related to a user's search.

Other bloggers have been unsuccessful in reproducing Boyd's discovery, however Kirkpatrick believes that Google's testing of this is plausible.  "It’s a believable scenario because Google recently added blog search to Google News last month and to Google Alerts four days later", says Kirkpatrick. "The UK, where Boyd lives, is frequently a testing ground for new Google features right around the corner."

Read Kirkpatrick's full commentary over at TechCrunch.

Eches blog calls attention to Matt Cutts' comments on how paid blogging could hurt your position in the Google result pages. Services like ReviewMe and PayPerPost connect advertisers seeking publicity with bloggers willing to write reviews about an advertisers' products. In an interview with Mike MacDonald, Cutts recommends that bloggers use the "nofollow" tag in their links. "You want my links for traffic.. totally fine..just don't make it so they affect search engines..so that's why we say use nofollow..or use a redirect which is through robots.txt."

At least "It's a complete waste of time for 99% of the market", says Jim Kukral of ReveNews in a recent comment on John Chow's blog.  Kukral's position is that AdSense only works for high-traffic blogs, and that the majority of blogs just don't receive enough traffic to be viable for AdSense.  Chow doesn't share this assessment. Find out why on Chow's blog.

Technorati has released a new 'Link Count Widget' which allows visitors to your blog to find out how many other blogs out there that are linking to your post. "I’m sure it’ll also stroke a few egos", says Darren Rowse of ProBlogger, "and conversely leave a few bloggers feeling a little left out by the lack of numbers that the widget reports."  Read more about the Link Count Widget at Technorati.

Brian Clark of Copyblogger has accumulated over 6,000 subscribers to his blog in just 10 months.  In this blog post, he reveals the strategies he's used to get there.  Read Clark's full list of recommendations at Copyblogger.

Reuters has invested $7 million in social media company Pluck "in return for an undisclosed ownership stake", according to an article on the Reuters' website. With this investment, Reuters "plans to offer Pluck's BlogBurst blog syndication service to thousands of its media customers worldwide". BlogBurst is a service that allows media outlets, such as The Washington Post, or the San Francisco Chronicle, to display content from select blogs on topically relevant pages on their sites. Read the full announcement here.

ClickTracks.com has released a case study, "LuckyOliver: To Blog or Not to Blog," that discusses whether a busy start-up should take the time to blog. A key finding of the study was a 60% increase in the average time visitors spent on the site who had visited the blog versus other site visitors. The study also found that readers of the blog were 22% more likely to sign up for a site membership. Read the entire case study here.

Randfish of SEOmoz.org chimes in with the tools he has used to get inspiration for great blog posts.  The author describes how he uses each resource in particular to gather post ideas.  See Randfish's full blog post here.

This article is being talked about in the blogosphere this week. It offers some useful advice on how to successfully launch a blog including tips on making a first impression, tips on setting up your RSS feed, social bookmarking, link building and networking with other bloggers in your topic space. It's not clear who wrote the article, but it's worth the read.