Sorry guys, but this is another one of those ideas that isn’t quite “there”.

My opinion is that what makes a blogger professional or a professional a blogger is not what they *say* they do, but what they actually do and their content itself.

Sure, there may be cases where it’s unclear what the blogger’s motives or agenda is, but use your blogging “voice” and your title text and description text and blog roll, etc. to make it clear.

If you want to set up a professional blogger organization, then having a badge to connect to its site or blog would make sense. Something that effectively says “Member – Professional Blogging Association – Since 1879″.

It never hurts to identify the “parent” organization on whose behalf you are blogging, if any.

Finally, I would ask why anyone should even care that you’re a “pro blogger”.

Of course, it’s usually quite easy to tell who is “blogging as a business” — ever notice all the Google-style ads?

Parting shot… how about a bloggers union?

– Jack Krupansky