Blogger Forums – A Great Place To Advertise Your Blog:  No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can advertise your blog is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and thats the main subject.  It’s a great place to meet other bloggers and to advertise your blog.  There are quite a few blogger forums that you can sign up for on the Internet. One is known as Bloggeries, where you can show off your blog, get your blog reviewed or review other blogs, and find lots of tools that you can use for your own blog.  Another good place to go is to Blog Forum. Blog Forum, like Bloggeries, has spots for you to market and show off your blog, Blogger forums are a great place to advertise because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read.  If you use your blog to advertise something that you are selling, or you want to get a lot of traffic to your blog in order to make money, you want to go someplace where it can get exposure.  When you advertise on a blog forum, you know that you are placing your advertisement in a place where blogging is something that people enjoy.  Just remember when you are posting to a forum to read the rules and abide by them. That way you’ll get your blog noticed and you will know that you are doing the

Blogging Directories – Great Advertising Venues:  If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to so that people will come and visit it. Most blog directories are listed by the topics that the blogs that are submited cover. Blog Catalog is a free blog directory that offers categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and many others. It has features such as featured blogs and other things to offer those who submit their blogs there.  Another great place to add your blog is blog-drectory.org. Not only do they have an an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location.  There are other blog directories on the Internet – these are only a couple of them. But blog directories are a great place to advertise your blog and to make
new friends. You never know what you will find when you browsing through the directory, and you may just find out information that you never knew. Some of the blog directories offer chat features as well, so that you can meet other people easily.  As you can see, blog directories are a great place to get your blog noticed and bring people to read your blog and look at your pictures.

Blogging Traffic – Give And Take:  Blogging traffic is a give and take relationship. Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is by visiting someone else ’s blog.  Go to their blog and read one of their entries, or read a few of them. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common. When you find something that you find truly
interesting on a blog, leave a comment so that they know that you were there.  One of the best known blogs available is LiveJournal.  A great feature of LiveJournal is that you can search
for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest.  Are you interested in horseback riding You can see what other bloggers are interested in horseback riding as well.  When you are commenting on someone’s post, you want to make sure that you don’t leave generic comment. If you like the post, say something about what you read in the post.  After you have commented on the person’s post, then you can say something like, ‘I really like horseback riding too. I had a similar experience to yours.’ and
then use it to link back to your journal.  But be sure that you sound sincere when you are
commenting, and don’t make them feel like you’re just fishing for traffic.  If someone thinks that you are using their blog to get more traffic to yours, they won’t visit your site and your efforts will be wasted.

Join A Community To Advertise Your Blog:  Something that you will find, especially if you join something like LiveJournal or GreatestJournal, is that users just like you have created communities for people with common interests.  There are communities for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn’t a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog.  The nice thing about communities is that there isn’t
any limit as to how many communities that you can join.  For example, say that you love blogging about books, horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them.  As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps
they will check out your personal blog.  Something to remember is that you don’t want to write
a post tht is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading.  Joining communities can be a great way to advertise your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you posted about on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your post.  As with posting comments on someone else’s blog, you don’t want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won’t visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well.

Email Groups – Hidden Treasure Troves For Advertising:  Something that has become increasingly popular since the Internet has grown are the email groups that are available through Yahoo, MSN, and other venues.  They are a great way to meet other people who have a common interest, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites.  There is plenty of diverse subjects and there are communities for just about any subject.  These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with other people.  Most of the time when you join a group, you are
encouraged to take a moment and to introduce yourself.  This is a great opportunity to tell people about your blog, but make certain that you don’t overdo it.  Just like with any of the other places you will advertise your blog, you want to make people want to go to your blog. If you are too overbearing, you will turn people off.  If your blog covers different subjects, you can
advertise it on the other groups that cover those subjects as well. Make certain that your post to the groups is interesting and that you let people know what it is that your blog is about. There’s nothing worse than getting taken to a blog under false pretences.  When people visit your blog, make certain that you thank them for visiting and respond to comments that
they leave.  If they know that you appreciate the time that they
took, they are more likely to come back again.

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Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) December 4, 2008

Chapeau Blog Awards (http://www.ChapeauBlogAwards.com ) announces Blog Review, an online destination dedicated to providing bloggers a channel to review and comment on blogs around the world.

All blogs are subject to being reviewed on Blog Review, including political blogs, entertainment blogs and opinion blogs.

“Blog Review is designed to be a candid review from real-world bloggers covering best practices and opportunities of well-known as well as more obscure blogs,” stated Susan Misukanis, Director of Chapeau Blog Awards.

Bloggers have already been sharing comments regarding the ObamaBlog. Some reviews questioned the impact Obama’s staff writers are having on creating his blog postings.

“Enjoyed your review,” stated one post. “We all know that the Obama blog was never intended to be ‘from’ the man himself but written by his staff.”

Other comments suggest ObamaBlog contained creative and compelling messaging, while other reviewers requested to see blogs from other countries.

With its candid blogger responses and consistent messaging, Blog Review awards ObamaBlog nine out of ten stars.

Each week a member of Chapeau Blog Awards and a guest reviewer will review, comment, make suggestions and rank a new blog.

The next blog to be reviewed is that of the newly incumbent Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown. To share your thoughts or request a blog to be reviewed visit Blog Review.

Blog Review is sponsored by the Chapeau Blog Awards, the first awards solely dedicated to recognizing blogger brilliance.

Chapeau Blog Awards invites independent bloggers as well as bloggers who have developed a blog for their company or client to be recognized for their brilliance and creativity. Simply enter the Chapeau Blog Awards today for your chance to win.

About Chapeau Blog Awards:

Chapeau Blog Awards is an awards contest that tips its chapeaus to honor bloggers worldwide who devote their time and knowledge to inform, entertain and challenge their readers. Those involved in the Chapeau Blog Awards are not involved in the final selection of winners. Rather than assembling an antiquated academy of high profile ‘Noggers’ – Non-bloggers – to determine which blog is best, Chapeau Blog Awards does what bloggers do. They ask for the opinion of the public sphere of blog readers. By asking blog readers to judge the Chapeau Blog Awards, entrants can be assured of a meaningful award as selected by their most important audience; blog readers themselves.

E-mail Chapeau Blog Awards at Info at ChapeauBlogAwards dot com.

The only way to be considered for a Chapeau Blog Award is to enter your blog today.

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(PRWEB) March 15, 2005

A new “Blog” (Environmental Legal Blogs) now covers recent developments in US and California environmental law from the perspective of an attorney practicing in the environmental field for almost a quarter-century.

Why is Environmental Legal Blogs unusual? Unlike the majority of environmental publications and Blogs, Environmental Legal Blogs refuses uncritically to accept the common assumption that the more regulation, the better. The Blog tries fairly to summarize emerging issues but at the same time to stress the scientific uncertainties and inequities often accompanying new, “feel good” laws and regulations. The Blog from time to time also invites experts on a given topic to submit featured Posts that share such experts’ perspective with the reader.

To date, Environmental Legal Blogs has mainly focused on the furor over perchlorate contamination (the chemical has been found in mother’s milk) and the infirmities of proposed legislative and regulatory approaches to remedying the contamination. The Blog also has just started to focus on the legal battle over exactly what constitutes a “wetland” subject to regulation by the federal government under the Clean Water Act.

Over time, the Blog will discuss many other areas of environmentally-related Court decisions, legislation and regulation. The reader can comment on all of this discussion, making the effort really a conversation.

Posts on Environmental Law Blogs will not be done according to any set schedule but rather as developments warrant. So the reader should check back often.

Environmental Legal Blogs is the creation of attorney Stephen T. Holzer, Esq., Co-Chair of the Environmental Litigation and Transactions Department at the Parker, Milliken law firm (Los Angeles). Mr. Holzer has been practicing in the environmental field since 1982; he has particular expertise in Superfund, toxic-tort, mold and asbestos matters. You can reach him at 213-683-6671 or sholzer@pmcos.com.

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How Do I Create My Own Blog

Building a blog from scratch is a lot easier than you might think

Why would you want to start a blog? Here are a few reasons: 1.) You want to share photos and anecdotes with family members who live far away.2,) You’re an artist and you want to show off your work. 3.) You have a hobby and you want to connect with people who share the same interest. 4.) You want to keep a record of all the cool Web sites you visit so that you and you friends can go back and visit them. 5.) You work in a company that needs to stay on top to research and development news in your industry.6.) You know a lot about a particular other people, and went to engage in debate and conversation with them. 7.) You’re a budding comedian and want to try your jokes out on the public.
Blogs are so popular because they make it easy for anyone to publish on the Web. Before blogging software was developed in the late 1990s, posting fresh material to your Web site was a complex and tedious task. That’s why so many sites read: “Under Construction.” Usually, the sites weren’t really under construction; the person maintaining the site was just tired of the rigmarole required to keep it current, and gave up.
The history of blogging can be traced back to 1996, when a site called Xanga.com launched a service that allowed people to maintain online diaries. But blogging didn’t really take off until 1999, when a company called Pyra Labs introduced a service that would change the landscape of the Web. It was called Blogger, and it allowed anyone with an Internet connection to create Web pages that were very easy to update with fresh content. Blogger organized the content in to reverse chronological order (so the most recent content would always be at the top of the page, where it should be), and automatically generated a browsable archive and a searchable database. It was nothing short of a revolution on top of a revolution (the Web) on top of a revolution (the Internet).
Today, there are lots of different ways to make and maintain a blog, but Blogger (now owned by Google) and Vox (owned by SixApart, makers of the venerable Movable Type blogging software) are both excellent places to begin. With either service you can create a blog and start publishing to the Web in under ten minutes flat.
Should you use Vox or Blogger? That depends. Vox is slightly easier to use than Blogger, and with it you can create a very nice looking blog in minutes. It integrates well with Flickr, YouTube, and other media sites.Making it easy to add photos, Videos, and more to your blog. On the other hand, Blogger offers greater customization. You can run your own ads on a Blogger blog, add a visitor counter, and even dig into the guts of the HTML and edit them to your heart’s content. Because I like to twiddle with my blog, and I already know HTML, I prefer Blogger. But for a newcomer who wants to make an attractive blog without having to worry about any technical issues, Vox is the way to go.
Creating a blog using Blogger
1. Go to blogger and create a free account. Just enter a user name, a
password, a display name (the name that will appear on your blog posts.,
it can be your real name or a pen name), and your email address. That’s all
you need to create your account. Click “Continue.”

2. Give your blog a name. Provide a blog title, “Mark’s New Blog.” and a address, like marksblog. Blospot.com Blogger will let you know if the address you want is still available.

3. Choose a template. You don’t need to be a professional designer to make a pretty blog.Blogger offers a bunch of predesigned layouts you can use.

That’s it. you now have a blog and a Website address that you can print on a
business card or email to your friends.
Now that you have your own blog on Blogger, you can start publishing your entries. If you aren’t logged in to your Blogger account, go to blogger and sign in.

1. Create a new entry. Click the image of the green cross, labeled “New Post”, and you’ll see a window.

2. Give your entry a title. When you title a blog entry, don’t be clever at the expense of clarity. Think like a Newspapers editor and summarize your entry in a single descriptive sentence. people skim blogs the same way they skim Newspapers-they’re on the lookout for something that caches their interest. Also, an RSS newsreader (learn about RSS) may not display anything but your headline, so that may determine whether or not a reader clicks through to the entire entry.

3. Wirte your entry. If your’re writing about another Web page, always summarize whatever is on that page. For instance, if your’re wirting a blog entry about a video of a skateboarding dog, describe the video in your blog entry. The worst thing you can do is write something like: “Check out this amazing video- you’ll be blown away!” you shouldn’t force people to click a link to learn what it is. A much better approach is to say: “Here’s a video clip of a bulldog riding a skateboard. It knows how to steer, push with one leg, and how to jump on and off the board at curbs.” Your readers will really appreciate the effort and come to rely on you as a curator of cool stuff.

4. Add images, links, and formatting to your entry. The icons on the top of the Blogger draft window allow you to add bells and whistles to the text of your entry. You can highlight any portion of the text and make it italicized, boldface, or colored. you can turn any text into a link by highlighting that text and clicking on the icon of the globe with a chain link. If you want to add a picture, click the icon of the photograph. Note that there are two ways to add photos to your blog entry. One is by selecting an image that’s already on your computer. You do this by clicking “Browse” and navigating to the image you want. The other way is by entering the URL of an image already on the Web. The problem with the letter method is that Blogger will simply point to the URL of the image in your blog entry. Why is that a problem? Because the owner of the URL might become angry that you are “hotlinking” to an image on his or her site, which uses some of his or her monthly data transfer allowance. Also, sometimes images become unavailable on other Web site, which will leave an unsightly broken link in your blog post. That’s why I recommend you use the first method-selecting an image on your computer. When you do this, the image is stored on Blogger’s own image server, and it’s perfectly OK to use Blogger’s bandwidth!
5. Preview your entry. Click “Preview” to see what your entry looks like before you publish it. Now would be a good time to proofread your entry for any spelling or grammatical errors.
6. Publish your entry. Click “Publish Post.” Congratulations! You’re now a bona fide blogger.

What Are Some Tips for Running a Popular Blog?

Follow a few simple rules to ensure your blog gets the readership it deserves

I love blogging. The idea that anyone with a cheap computer and a -a-month Internet connection can publish words, pictures, videos, and audio to a potential audience of a billion people never fails to excites me. This kind of media broadcasting power would have cost millions of dollars just a decade or two ago. I’ve been posting to my own blog (internetbillionaires.net), since January 2009, after I wrote an article about blogging for a business magazine called the Industry Standard and fell in love with this form of self-publishing. (The Standard killed the article because the editors thought blogs were a passing fad! The Earth Review ended up publishing the article in its Winter 2000 edition. Today, internet billionaires has turned into a profitable business, thanks to advertising revenue.
Through all of this, I’ve thought about what it is that has made internet billionaires (and other blogs) successful and interesting. Here are some tips that should come in handy:
1. Write about what you’re interested in. The cardinal rule of blogging is to write about the things that fascinate you. It may sound obvious, but I’m surprised at the number of people who post things just because they think they will attract more readers to their site. Nothing is further from the truth. if you aren’t passionate about the thing you’re writing about, readers will quickly become bored and never return. If you happen to love collecting vintage guitar-string envelopes, then by all means start a blog about it. I promise you that the other thousand people around the world who share interests will find you and become loyal readers. In short, create the kind of blog that you would like to read yourself.
2. Don’t worry about being the first person to post something. Some bloggers think it’s crucial to be the first to blog a story. Chasing after scoops is foolish. With literally millions of blogs out there, and thousands of new ones appearing every day, it’s unlikely you’ll be the first one in the blogosphere to cover a news event. Instead, focus on finding things that interest you (rule#1, again) and adding your unique perspective. And re-member, if a piece of new to a lot other people as well.
3. limit the number of links you have in an entry. On internet billionaires, we usually try to include just one link per entry, and place it at the bottom of the entry. That’s because each entry should be about one idea, not a bunch of scattered thoughts with links going in all different directions across the Web. there are exception to this rule, of course, and sometimes you really do need to have two or more links in an entry for comparison purpose, but the “one -entry/one link” restriction is a good starting point.
4. Write at least one entry every day (weekends excepted). Think of your readers as laboratory animals in an experimental cage that’s equipped with a bunch of levers. The leavers are blogs. If the lever you control dispenses a tasty morsel each time it’s pushed, the animals’ effort, the animals will stop pressing your lever and look for a more reliable source of nutrition. That’s why it’s good to post at least one blog entry a day, because people will get used to the idea that your blog will deliver a treat each time they visit.
5. Use pictures. If you own the rights (or have the permission from the rights holder) to a photo or illustration that pertains to the subject you’re writing about, by all means use it. Images are the quickest way for people to determine whether or not a blog entry is worth the time to read. I always include the cover of any book, DVD, CD, or comic book I’m reviewing because it makes the blog page look more interesting. (I don’t worry about securing permission to use them in these cases, because I feel confident that my use of them in a critical review constitutes “fair use”). A few good places to find photos that you can see for free are Open Photo, Flickr, and Creative Commons.
Another option is paying to use photos on your blog. iStockphoto is a royalty-free stock photograph community where you can buy the rights to use over a million images on your blog for as little as each and videos for and up. The quality of most photos is excellent, and I guarantee that if you use images that illustrate you writing in a creative and appropriate way, it will make you blog more successful. (If you’re a photographer or illustrator, you can upload your work to iStockphoto and collect royalties when other people use your images.)
6. Include a way for people to suggest links for you to write about. internet billionaires has a “Suggest a Link” form to let readers send us ideas for things to write about and link to. Web get lots of good leads from, you can either install a Formmail script (like the one here: nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml), which requires some technical know-how, or you can use a form service like Formmail. to (which charges a month) to handle everything for you. Of course, you can also include your email address on your site (or use a Gmail address especially for handling link suggestions), but if you go that route, you should “mask” the address from email-harvesting software used by spammers.
7. Credit your sources. When someone tells you about an interesting link, or you write about something you discovered while reading another blog, credit that source by providing a link to it. Your source will appreciate it, and will repay you in kind the next time they blog something they came across on your blog.

Can I Blog Anonymously?

if you want to be heard but not seen, blog anonymously

I always attach my name to anything I write online, because I feel that it’s important to stand behind what I say in public. But I also understand that anonymous speech is sometimes necessary. Corporate whistleblowers and political dissidents living under oppressive regimes have a right to be heard without getting fired or imprisoned.
For example, in 2004, a young Internet journalist from Tunisia, Zouhair Yohyaoui, wrote an entry on his popular TUNeZINE blog asking his readers to vote on whether Tunisia was a “republic, a kingdom, a zoo, or a prison.” Soon after, six Tunisian secret policemen arrested him while he was in a cybercafe. Yahyaoui was held without charges and tortured until he revealed his blog password, after which the Tunisian government removed his blog from the Internet He was held in prison under appalling conditions, and died there in 2005.
That’s one reason I like the idea of anonymous blogging. BlogSafer is a guide for blogging in conntries that frown on free speech. It offers guides for bloggers in Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, and other countries where bloggers must live in fear that they’ll suffer the same fate as Zouhair Yahyaoui.
Does anonymous blogging have a potential for abuse? Sure it does But to me, the benefits of anonymous speech outweigh the dangers.

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This is the Wikipedia definition: Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.

I recommend that you read lots of people’s blogs to learn what blogs are. Go to your favorite search engine and type in the word ‘blog’ and the subject you’re interested in. For example, ‘web design blog’, or ‘blog music’, or ’sports blog’. You’ll find lots of blogs that way.

Blogs have become a way in which regular, non-technical people can post information to the Web as easily as they can access it.

Why Are Blogs So Important?

Well, they’re not that important, yet. But they could be soon, and most likely will be. In fact, some would argue that they are already vital in today’s Web business world. I am not ready to agree to that yet, but it is becoming more obvious to me over time that blogs can no longer be ignored in business.

Online businesses can benefit from blogging by taking advantage of a vehicle for easily posting new, original, and business-related content on a regular basis.

Here Are Some More Business Benefits Of Blogging:

* Blogs help to position you and/or your company as experts and leaders in your industry.

* They’re interactive in nature. At the end of each blog entry is usually a link that allows anyone to add their own comments to your blog entries. This allows your customers and potential customers to make comments about your products or services or ask you questions to help them in their buying process.

* Blogs are marketed easily and quickly by their RSS feeds.

* Blogs allow you to stress your choice of products, services, relevant news stories, quotes, pictures and more with your audience, customers and potential customers.

* People are generous with adding links to your blog if the content is good, especially within their own blogs. More links means more traffic and better search engine rankings.

Here Are Some Ways In Which You Can Make Revenue From Your Blog:

1. Selling advertisements. Whether you use banners or text links, if your site draws a regular audience interested in your blog topics or theme, try to offer ad space to organizations that are looking to market to your audience. In fact, if your blogs becomes really popular then advertisers will call you.

2. Offering Google’s AdSense. Google’s website explains, “Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money.” Learn more about AdSense.

3. Affiliate Programs. Affiliate programs allow Web sites that provide links to your site to receive payments or reciprocal advertising in exchange for promoting your Web site. In the case of blogging, this is reversed, where you post links within your blog, and collect money from the owners of those links when they result in a click-through and sale.

Here Are Some Websites Where You Can Get Your Blog Listed:

* BlogWise – http://www.blogwise.com

* Blog Search Engine – http://www.blogsearchengine.com

* Blog Hub – http://www.bloghub.com

* Blog Daisey – http://www.blogdaisey.com

* Get Blogs – http://www.getblogs.com

* Is Blogs – http://www.lsblogs.com

How To Blog For Business:

First you need to get blogging software. You can choose to create a blog that is housed on another site such as http://www.blogger.com (which is a blog service) or you can host it on your own Web server. I recommend the latter since the links that are developed by others pointing to your blog won’t be counted in the search engines. This is because the links are attributed to domains, so a link to http://MyNewBlog.blogger.com gives a link credit to blogger.com and not your domain.

If your blog is a business blog, you really ought to host your own blog as opposed to using a blog service. You’ll need the extra functionality and control.

If you plan on hosting your own blog and if you plan to use a UNIX Web server platform, then you need to go with blogging software such as Movable Type, for example. If you have a Microsoft Web server platform for your site, then you’ll need software such as BetaParticle blog. Here is a great list of various blog software: http://www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html

Next you’ll need a database to hook your blog up to. The database is what stores the blog entries, among other things. If you don’t know if you have a database on or connected to your website server, or if you don’t know how to hook up your blog to your database, contact your host company or Web server administrator for help.

Once you have the blog set up on your domain (for example http://www.MyWebsite.com/blog) and you’ve hooked it up to a live database, you can start blogging. Generally, each entry is also a day. So you can write a new entry every day, or whenever you want, and that entry will show up on the blog at the top, moving older entries below.

You ought to think of a theme for your blog. In other words, your blog could be about your personal experiences in the industry you’re in. It could be about your company’s product reviews, or new services. It could be about your thoughts and opinions about issues related to your industry. It could be a place where you regularly find and list new resources to help others in your industry. The list is endless. But be sure to stick to a theme and be original. You want to offer something of value to your website visitors.

Sticking to a theme helps you position yourself for future advertisers and also makes for better reading for your visitors. Furthermore, you want to give a good impression with your blog with each and every entry if you want it to augment your online business. Finally, sticking to a theme helps with the search engines since it’s believed that engines determine website themes and use this information for ranking.

Of course your blog could be about personal things too. Many blogs are just that, an online journal. But since we’re interested in Web business here, I am discussing business blogs only.

What’s great is that blogs get indexed easily and quickly by search engines. Each entry is another “page” that can be potentially listed in Google for example, which will drive more traffic to your site.

Another neat thing about running a blog once it’s set up is that you do not need to be technical at all to make regular entries. This is helpful if you want to delegate the writing to someone else, since technical skills won’t be a prerequisite. This allows you to have the most qualified person regarding the blog’s theme and, hopefully the best writer, actually making the entries.

Be creative. Add images to your blog entries to spice things up a bit. Although blogging can be lonely, keep at it. Sometimes it seems like you’re just writing new entries each day for yourself only. It may be a while before someone chooses to add a comment to one of your entries. You may not hear from anyone for a long time. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t reading it. In fact, check your website statistics to see just how many people are visiting your new blog. As you add more entries, get your blog listed on other sites and market your blog. It will build, and eventually you’ll have a nice following of engaged readers.

Most importantly, be sure to pepper your entries with calls to action. For example, if your business blog is attached to your travel website and the blog’s theme is traveling and finding great travel deals all over the world, make sure you add a link to an entry that points people to a travel special you’re running on your website. What would be even better is a blog entry about the fantastic vacation you took to Hawaii and included at the end was a link to cheap Hawaii vacation deals on your website.

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(PRWEB) August 16, 2004

eTwine.com announced today that it has added a unique and fun high-end blog application to its website. Blogs have become extremely popular recently and eTwine is pleased to be able to offer this feature to its members. In doing so, eTwine.com believes it has become the first social website to integrate blogs with social networking, event planning, and online dating features. eTwine’s website is located at http://www.etwine.com.

eTwine.com’s new blog tool is designed to be more fun and interactive than the typical blogging experience. eTwine’s blog section is completely free and serves as a stand alone feature, which at the same time is completely integrated into the existing eTwine.com website. eTwine.com now offers online dating, social networking, and event planning & management, along with its new blog feature, all integrated into a single social community.

At the core of eTwine’s blog application is the blog rating system. All members are able to rate every blog entry from 1 to 10. As a result, eTwine members can use these ratings to find the funniest and most popular blog entries. As a social website, eTwine anticipates that funny dating stories will quickly become its most popular blog subject. Currently, the highest rated blog entry on eTwine.com can be found under the category dating blogs and begins: “OK – guys just stink! Maybe I should start dating girls?? I’m more attracted to guys but I think it would be so much easier to be with girls.” A list of eTwine’s highest rated blog entries can be found at: http://www.etwine.com/blogs/?Show=HighEntries .    

With its new blog section, eTwine users can:

Rate any blog entry 1-10. A high rating earns “props” for the blogger!

Use eTwine.com blog ratings to instantly be directed to the most popular and funniest blog entries.

Find links to blog entries from your friends which automatically appear on a user’s eTwine.com homepage.

Sort eTwine.com blog entries by Highest Rated Blogs, Most Recent Blogs, Most Props, and by Blog Subject.

See who has the most “groupies” to find out who the most popular bloggers are on eTwine.com. A member obtains a groupie every time someone bookmarks their blog.

Add comments to any blog entry

Share blog entries with friends and/or hotlist with one click.

Create a list of favorite bloggers for easy access from a member’s personal homepage

Have access to blogger’s detailed eTwine.com profile directly from any blog entry.

View a user’s most recent blog entries by date on their quick profile when running any eTwine.com people search.

View blog entries directly from any eTwine.com member profile.

Use eTwine.com’s advanced privacy controls for any blog entry which allows users to determine who can view their entry.

Users can learn more about eTwine blogs and register for free at: http://www.etwine.com/?Blog=Blog

To visit eTwine, please click http://www.etwine.com

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About eTwine.com:

eTwine, Inc. is a privately held corporation, headquartered in New York. Beta-launched in May 2004, eTwine.com uniquely integrates online dating, social networking, and event planning & management with a free blog tool into one easy-to-use platform. eTwine also offers several unique features within each application including group/double dating, semi-private events, blog ratings, and much more.

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Princeton Junction, NJ (PRWEB) June 12, 2006

www.bloggingsystems.com – Blogging Systems, the leading real estate blog services provider, today announced a series of real estate marketing tips entitled ‘10 Benefits to Blogging’ that will be shared with real estate agents and brokers to help increase leads and revenue.

Tip number 1, search engine marketing, is dedicated to helping real estate agents and brokers increase their search engine ranking.

“I have found that while many real estate agents understand the importance of having a web presence they may underestimate the control they have over their own search engine ranking,” said Richard Nacht, CEO of Blogging Systems. “Blogging Systems’ goal is to empower real estate agents by showing them how to rank highly on Google, Yahoo and MSN and in turn increase leads by implementing a real estate blog.”

Blogging Systems’ developed a real estate blog platform, Community Publisher, which can help real estate agents increase their search engine ranking.

Blog technology, which powers Community Publisher, is a natural magnet for search engines. Search engines, in particular Google, base website rankings on content. This means that a well-written, routinely-updated and keyword optimized real estate blog can deliver higher rankings among the search engines.

Tip number 1, search engine marketing, is an important lead-generating tool for real estate professionals. To learn the balance of the benefits to blogging sign up for a Real Estate Blog Webinar at: http://www.bloggingsystems.com/Promotions/gen-lp.asp

About Blogging Systems

Blogging Systems provides real estate blog platforms that produce a low-cost, high results tool for Community networking (both offline and on the internet), effective communication and collaboration, competitive marketing, sales and customer relations.

Blogging Systems provides turn-key Community blog networks which are the ultimate real estate marketing tool. Ours is a “soup to nuts” approach with experienced blog professionals who guide clients through the process step-by-step. Not only do we provide the most robust real estate blog platform on the market today, we back it up with training and technical support. Clients receive a turn-key system and the training and knowledge needed to use it as a complete real estate marketing system.

For more information about how to add a blog to your real estate marketing tools, visit: www.BloggingSystems.com or call: 800-985-BLOG (800-985-2564).

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(PRWEB) May 14, 2006

Monthly Income, a leading website about online promotion, is announcing the launch of its new “Complete Blogging Guide” free resource.

This profound new free resource provides Blog Enthusiasts with step by step guide about how to start a blog and keep it updated the best way. (For the Complete Blogging Guide free resource, see: http://www.monthlyincome.ws/blogging-guide)

Complete Blogging Guide includes everything a Blog Enthusiasts needs to quickly and easily start a blog and keep it interesting to receive more visitors and discover how you can use blogs for profits or for a business. For example, the following blogs and promotion essentials are included in Complete Blogging Guide:

The most complete guide about blogging

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“Complete Blogging Guide is the Complete way to start a blog and keep it interesting enough to receive more visitors,” said Juan Buitrago, Webmaster of Monthly Income. “Our new free resource completely eliminates the problem of searching for info about how to start a blog, keep it updated and use it on several different resourceful ways”

Monthly Income provides easy tips to make of your existing blog a success.

Click here to visit your free resource called Complete Blogging Guide

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