Your blog is indeed a combination of advice and problem solver type. In your blog, I find these posts like "HTML For Bloggers" and "WordPress Plugin: Simple Image Link" to be problem solvers while posts like "Basic Blogging Tips" shows that your blog also gives advice.

I think writing about blogging events is more like news posts. Have you blogged about latest products or money making programs or about any site that is up for sale at sitepoint? I consider these things as pure news posts. There are blogs that covers news like these very well. In my opinion, it is not easy to be a news blogger. But being a news blogger has its own advantages too.

I like your Au Pair blog and it surely looks like a problem solver blog. Since you have found the category under which it comes, you can easily attract people to your blog and build a good relationship with them.

Coming to your other blog, I think it is more of advice blog though you write on other things too. If you want to be much clearer, do some experiment. Write some posts under the categories which you think your blog comes. If you have 2-3 categories, write articles on all these categories and start posting them one by one. One category of posts the first few days and then next and so on. The category of posts which gets more response from people and gets more subscribers or link backs to your blog is the main category of your blog.

Every two months or every time you think you need to reconfirm the category, start the test again. TEST, TEST and TEST. It will help you a lot in getting long term success.

I don't think I could blog news; too much stuff already being covered – and quicker – although I have blogged events as they happen, so maybe that is news ish?

Thanks again for this post

Your effort to identify different types of blogging was interesting and helpful for me. I write two blogs, one that is solidly an advice blog, (www.AuPairMom.com) and another that doesn't really have a category (www.AuthenticOrganizations.com). And boy is it different to write them!

The AuPairMom advice blog gets new subscribers with little effort on my part– moms just pass the posts along to each other. It's really clear that people *want* advice about having an au pair.

My other blog, http://www.AuthenticOrganizations.com, is more of a challenge, because it doesn't fit in a category about solving "a need that people know they have." It's more about offering insights to people who are inclined to be thoughtful about business and organizations. Readers don't know they need or want to think about X, but they enjoy the posts once they read them.

There may be a way that my AuthenticOrganizations blog is a "helper" blog like the one that FunnyNews writes, but maybe there is another category? … I really struggle with how to categorize this blog. Somehow, I imagine that if I had a clearer way to categorize it, it would be easier to focus my writing and also help me target my marketing.

Any ideas? I'd love your suggestions… cvh

I'm waiting to hear your results being a problem solver. As I said in the above comment, try to find what you are doing best and improvise on it. It will get you success in long term.

I can see that you write humor posts. This is a niche which cannot come under any of the above three types I mentioned. But I also said in the post that there are many more types of bloggers and I would put you in the category of "Helper". You help people laugh and enjoy the day.

Lid,

That's a good question. I consider myself a combination of 1 and 2. But if you see closely everyone will have a little edge with one type over the other. Though I come under 1 and 2, I'm more of advice blogger than a problem solver.

I always try to find what I'm good at and do them more. I'm bad in reporting news and so I never try it unless I don't have anything to blog about.

I'm curious under which type you come.

Here's the thing; what if you are more than one type of blogger – say, advice and problem solver?

Have to wait few years to report how well it works.

I realize however than there probably aren't enough of us to make up our own category.

News blogs depend more on search traffic. I have never seen much of news type posts getting social media traffic. In my blog and in many of the other blogs, it is the 1 and second type of posts that get more social media traffic. At least from my experience it is that way.

I agree with you completely on the first type of blogs getting traffic from long tail keywords. But in the end, when you have a lot of news type of posts, people are always searching for the latest news and they get traffic. Especially with technology blogs, people come to blog by searching for latest news.

Thanks for your comment.

every new blog i visit these days are either Advice blog or News report.

these 2 types are easier then the 1st for of blogging (mine is 2nd one) and often money ripper.

nut i dont agree with your point about News blog get the best search traffic, infect they purely survive on social media traffic from sites like digg and stumbleup on, on other hand problem solver type of blogs gets batter organic traffic because of their longtail reach content which is more target specific then news blogs.