Blog Carnival - Bringing more traffic to your blog - 18-th Ed.

Welcome to the February 19, 2010, 18-th edition of "Bringing more traffic to your blog" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 44. Published Articles - 22. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

GreatManagement presents Tips for Making Google Crawl Your Blog More Often posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, "If you want your blog to be indexed quickly, you need to increase its relevancy and value."

moon saud presents How Google Caffeine effect on your work at home blog ranking system? posted at Work At Home, Affiliate Programs, Make Money Online Database, saying, "Google caffeine is now going effective and google ranking system is changing. Know how to optimize your pages for google caffeine."

Susan Tatum presents The Secret to Action-Oriented Marketing Measurement posted at Clicks ’n Conversions Blog.

Mark West presents Grow Business With Better Website Traffic | Join GIN Today posted at Global Information To Network Your Website - Join GIN-Today.

Robert Bravery presents Blogging from the Brave Programmer - Generating Traffic For Your Blog and Website posted at The Brave Programmer, saying, "Blogs and website live and thrive off traffic. If you get none or very little traffic to your blog or website then your site just becomes another “Cyber Squatter”. The whole purpose of setting up a blog or website is for people to read it, be affected by it and take action through it."

Robert Bravery presents Blogging from the Brave Programmer - 7 Tips on How to write effective blog titles that solicit traffic posted at The Brave Programmer, saying, "Blog titles are one of the most important aspects of a blog, but often times are not given the importance that they deserve. One of the biggest factors that affect your position in the Google search engine results page is your blog title"

Ziki presents Website Promotion: Link Building with Videos posted at Make Money with Youtube.

Ziki presents Website Promotion: Watermarking videos and Generating Type-in Traffic posted at Make Money with Youtube.

GreatManagement presents What is your plan B? posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, "What would you do if you were made redundant?"

Brian Taylor presents Portland Website Design and Web Development - Small Business Sites for Oregon and Washington posted at FORIX Blog, saying, "I found a superb video that summarizes what 1-way link building is and why it is so important to your page rank on Google."

Mike Herrera presents The Magical World of Marketing and Advertising posted at Social Entrepeneur Blog, saying, "Great article with criteria to help build your Marketing Strategy, plus Online and Offline techniques with links all on one article. Very helpful instead of trying to peice together fragmented information when trying to develope your Marketing and Advertsing campagn!"

Ian presents #1 Google Ranking? We Can Do Better Than That! posted at Link-Assistant.Com Search Engine Marketing Blog - SEO Tools, Tips, News & All Things SEO, saying, "#1 Google ranking is truly the holy grail of the SEO world. Grab it, and there you get your everlasting flow of free traffic, loyal customers and through-the-roof sales. Nothing left to wish. Nothing to strive for, right? Wrong. Here are at least 3 things you can do today to build on your SEO success."

Leo D presents Backlink Resource Guide How to on getting backlinks that matter… | Internet Marketing For the Rest of Us posted at Strategic Internet Marketing Blog.

Marie Julien presents Article Directories that Pay posted at Article Rewriter Softwares, saying, "Why not make money for your article marketing ?"

Kathleen Gaga presents Do this with online marketing and you’re going to fall behind - FAST! posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, "Popular consensus is we must use social media marketing incorporated into other methods if we want to be a serious player in the game of online marketing."

Ian Richardson presents 5 Benefits Of Social Media Marketing posted at Top Ranked Website, saying, "This article shows 5 benefits to using Social Media Marketing in business and is very topical at the present time."

Daniel presents 5 Ways Your Blog Can Make Money posted at Conversation Marketing: Internet Marketing with a Twist of Lemon.

Anne Valens presents Top 50 Freelance Writing Blogs posted at Journalism Degree.

Warren Wong presents Service Update #7 - Happy New Year! posted at SEO Services Blog, saying, "Some Service Updates on our seo products."

John M presents Can Posting on Twitter send you Traffic | jpmblog.com posted at jpmblog.com, saying, "Can Twitter be used to bring traffic to your blog?"

Nick Brosnan presents How I Will Drive More Traffic To My Blog posted at Nick Brosnan.com | Follow Me And Learn Internet Marketing Along The Way..

Joe Revod presents Business Tag Line (For Blog) Changed posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

pbmedia presents Blogging Tip: Don’t Use Dates in Your Permalink Structure posted at jammer(six).

Viviana Widjaja presents Links Building with Article Marketing Strategies posted at Guide to Pro Blogging.

MyMaria presents Building Backlinks posted at Residual Income Web, saying, "One of the best ways to increase traffic through your blog is by building backlinks. Here’s how, and where, to get started."

Joe Revod presents Autoresponder Messages Revamped posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

Andy Hayes presents Are you blogging with a strategy? posted at Travel Online Partners (TOP), saying, "If you want more blog traffic, start acting like it and get a strategy put together."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of bringing more traffic to your blog using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Blog Carnival - Bringing more traffic to your blog - 17-th Ed.

Welcome to the December 18, 2009, 17-th edition of "Bringing more traffic to your blog" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 48. Published Articles - 19. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

John M presents Why use Blog Directories | jpmblog.com posted at jpmblog.com, saying, "The advantages of using blog carnivals"

GreatManagement presents How To Write Articles � Decide On The Format posted at The Digital Archives, saying, "What does the format have to do with how to write articles? It actually does have some relevance. In fact the newspaper and magazine publishers have made format into an art."

GreatManagement presents Increase your Twitter following with these top 10 Twitter Tools posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, "If you are on Twitter, here are some Twitter tools that will help you manage your tweets and bring more traffic to your site. Enjoy!"

Brian Terry presents Profitable Website Ideas – In Just One Click? posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Cindi presents Your Website is Not Enough posted at Chiropractic Marketing | Chiropractic Advertising, saying, "In 2009, a chiropractor can not rely on simply having a website to bring him new patients from the internet. It’s simply not enough anymore (and likely hasn’t been for a few years.) Now if it was still 1999, and you were the first to get a website up in your town, then you could expect to get new patients from it over the next few years. But by 2004-2005, just about everyone had a website in your area. This brought up a new problem, since there was now quite a bit more competition online."

GreatManagement presents What is the best blogging platform? posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, "There are better platforms than others and choosing the right platform for your blogging journey is crucial."

Zhu presents The Art Of Promoting Your Blog | Correr Es Mi Destino posted at Correr Es Mi Destino, saying, "What most people (including me when I first started) don’t realize, is no matter how great your blog is, chances are that if you don’t promote it, people won’t find it. There are apparently over 50-60 millions blogs worldwide and your blog could be lost in a dark corner of the internet forever if you don’t “hunt” for readers."

Susan Tatum presents Intuition Sucks - That’s Why We Test | Clicks ’n Conversions Blog posted at Clicks ’n Conversions Blog.

Diane J Corriette presents 12 Free and low cost traffic generation tips for bloggers | Make Money Blogging with make money blogging expert Diane Corriette posted at Diane Corriette.

Dragos Roua presents The First Year Of Blogging - Promotion posted at Dragos Roua - The Choice Of A Personal Path.

Thursday Bram presents Scribnia: How Do You Rank Bloggers? by Hyper Modern Writing posted at Hyper Modern Writing.

estudyantengblogdogs presents Repurposing Content posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

20smoney presents Monthly Blog Update: November 2009 posted at 20s Money, saying, "A review of my growth in traffic and online income over the last month including my thoughts on various traffic metrics and how to increase them."

Ziki presents How to Find High Paying Adsense Keywords - Make More Money with Google Adsense posted at Make Money with Youtube.

Susan Tatum presents Are you getting enough? posted at Clicks ’n Conversions Blog.

Leon N. presents The Science of Niche Internet Marketing posted at How to Build Residual Income, saying, "There isn’t really a secret to bringing more traffic to your blog. It just comes down to getting links. However, you can rank #1 for flying monkeys and still not make a dime. You need to be able to pick the right niche."

Justine Mckinley presents Your Niche Is Evolving – Are You? posted at Social Marketing by Michelle MacPhearson, saying, "blog about niche evolution"

Thursday Bram presents Advertising Writing Services: Does It Make Sense? posted at thursdaybram.com.

Thursday Bram presents Business Bloggers: Shifting from Blogging for Yourself posted at Hyper Modern Writing.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of bringing more traffic to your blog using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Blog Carnival - Bringing more traffic to your blog - 16-th Ed.

Welcome to the October 30, 2009, 16-th edition of "Bringing more traffic to your blog" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 62. Published Articles - 24. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

Nigel S presents Copywriting for the Web Becomes Easier When you Think Like a Spider « Seo by Swaby posted at Seo by Swaby.

Alex_Sysoef presents Triple �P� Of Total WordPress Security posted at Make Money Blogging, saying, "WordPress security is one of the most overlooked aspects of Blogging, be it a blogging to make money or blogging for fun. And I don�t believe it is due to ignorance but more due to wrong advice or sometimes even wrong script used for blog installation! And yet � WordPress Security is one aspect that has potential to damage your reputation, possibly even lead to your blog being banned from Search Engine results! Triple �P� Of WordPress Security Is A New Concept I have Coined That Is Designed As A Complete Solution to WordPress Protection!"

seowizz presents 3 Ways To Ensure SEO Failure posted at Search Engine Optimisation.

Andre Nilsen presents Learn Article Marketing The Right Way To Build a Substantial Passive Income posted at QualityNetworkers, saying, "Learn to make money online"

Olivia Hamilton Montgomery presents First, Find the Traffic posted at eCommerceGal’s Blog, saying, "About 99% of marketers just blindly pick a product and head straight to promotion without ever bothering to find out if they have any customers. Specialization is required, and it means that you can distinguish yourself. AND. You’ll be a lot more successful. This post shows you how."

Place For Bloggers presents 4 Simple Ways to Help Your Blog Posts Go Viral on Twitter | Place For Bloggers posted at Place For Bloggers, saying, "Place For Bloggers help you make your post go viral on Twitter"

Jacqueline Gharibian presents 168 Unique Visitors a Day On a New Blog? posted at Start Your Own Online Business With $ Zero |How To Start An Online Business,Free Tips,Tools.

Place For Bloggers presents 7 Ways to Learn as a Successful Blogger | Place For Bloggers posted at Place For Bloggers, saying, "Place For Bloggers give his interpretation of the word ‘Learn’ for a successful blogger"

Jeremy Zongker presents Lost in Translation posted at Reliable Writers.

Steve Sick presents Attract Visitors To Your Website | Learn how to turn your passion into a profitable website, blog, or online business! posted at You Create Website, saying, "Learn how to attract visitors to your blog or website. This is a thorough list of ways to attract visitors to your site."

Nigel S presents Three Ways to Out Rank Your Competitors on Google posted at Seo by Swaby, saying, "Out rank the competition for more traffic to your blog."

Relax presents How to blog with great substance posted at The Wise Curve, saying, "Nowadays, blogging seems to be a popular activity."

Andre Nilsen presents WordPress � The Ultimate Blog Platform? posted at QualityNetworkers, saying, "WordPress Review"

John M presents Catching Traffic - Blog about News that Interests you | jpmblog.com posted at jpmblog.com, saying, "Don’t be afraid to blog about topics that interest you. If it interestes you then it will interest others."

thejosher33 presents Internet Marketing Tools | Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.

john c erianne presents The Dark Side of Paid Posting, Pt. 3: The FTC Chimes In posted at Diary of a Mad Editor.

Nigel S presents Halloween Web Traffic Isn’t Scary « SEO by Swaby – Utah SEO, SEM & Social Media posted at Seo by Swaby.

Brian presents Increase SERP Rank on eHow posted at Earn Residual Income Online, saying, "A case study on increasing SERP rank and the resulting web search traffic to a published article."

GreatManagement presents How To Write Articles � Check For Errors posted at The Digital Archives, saying, "Learning how to write articles can be quite a process and that first article coming hot off the press could get you all enthusiastic. Before rushing to enter your first work to a Pullitzer nomination panel, remember to check and recheck for errors."

Raivyn presents My Advice to Aspiring Pro Bloggers posted at Quoth The Raivyn.

Bert Meert presents Blog By Your Rules - Bert Meert posted at Life, Blogging And The Pursuit Of Personal Growth.

seowizz presents Maximising You Google Experience and Maintaining Rankings posted at Search Engine Optimisation.

seowizz presents SEO – Its All About The Links posted at Search Engine Optimisation.

presents 7 traits you must posses to be like blogging guru Darren Rowse posted at Gh Blogger, saying, "For all who aspire to be bloggers, a must read"

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of bringing more traffic to your blog using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Your Blog - Content and Personality

Your Blog- Content and Personality
By Vickie J. Scanlon


Content is what keeps your blog going. No Duh! But what goes into the content should be considered. Such as personality, frequency, and amount of content. I’ll explain.


Frequency of Content

Frequency of your content has been an up in the air type of debate for me. How many times should you update your blog? Well, through all my reading I’ve seen the following: some say daily, some say minimum of 3 times weekly, and others state a minimum of 1 time a week is mandatory. Okay, which way do you go?

The one post a week is really the true minimum. It will do two very important things: 1) keep people coming back; 2) keep the search engines updating your blog.

But if you choose the one time a week, the post should not be a short blurb. Why? You’re giving your readers little reason to stay around. And I personally would deem the effort as well, a lazy attempt to creating a blog. But again, it doesn’t mean that you should be writing them a book. That too, may cause anxious bloggers to ride the mouse to exit your blog.


Content with Personality

Content does not have to be boring. It can entertain while supplying valuable info to it’s readers at the same time. But what is important on a blog is that it should present your personality, through your own words. That is what draws people to your blog. If you maintain a formal, unapproachable style- it can be boring not only to your readers, but also to you.

That does not mean you cannot have guest writers on occasion. This can add variety and give additional information to your readers, on areas within your niche that you are not as well versed on.


Blog and Content Management

As your website grows, you may find that your articles are beginning to become unmanageable and a time consuming venture when updating your website. A blog can be a great solution to content management of your articles. And what I am finding, a better vehicle to getting your content read and your website noticed.

To conclude, go for quality content and differentiate yourself with your personality and your own views. This will keep your readership interested and coming back for more.
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Marketing and Blogging

People thought blogging was or is a fad. And that may be. But this fad does help you in your marketing.

Blogging is content rich, and if you are not aware, anything that is rich in content is, in most cases, devoured by the search engines. That can place your blog in the top 10 of the search engines.

Some people procrastinate, some people have a fear of writing, fear that you will not have the info to keep people interested, or some people think it is time consuming. But if you put it in a different perspective -- it can get you to your target market quickly, and thus, additional income.



Blogging - Benefits and Drawbacks
By Vickie J Scanlon

Blogging has it's pluses and minuses. But in truth, the benefits do out way the drawbacks. You may be one of many people who have put up excuses not to blog -is it procrastination or a number of miscues or beliefs. Let's see.


Blogging Drawbacks -- Preceived or otherwise

For many, the biggest blogging drawback, it the commitment of time. Depending on your blog, you may need to write frequent posts. And to make the posts relevant and content rich takes time.

However, if you have other things going on with your business - you do have to manage your time appropriately to get quality information out to your readers. But -- it is time well spent. You'll soon find how good of a marketing tool a blog can be. Why do I say that? Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines are always looking for quality content. And, a blog is content rich. If you give the readers good material and the search engines what they want, you will see quality, targeted traffic.

For those who don't like to write, this may be the biggest hurdle. But what is nice about a blog is that it is informal. If you supply people with the information that want and need they will come.


Blogging Benefits
Blogging can reap many benefits, if you think outside the box. For example:

1) Adsense Advertising and with additional complimentary advertising allowed by Google you can make money with your blog. Not only are you drawing your target market to your blog with your content, you can have another avenue to making a secondary income.

2) Businesses-quality product information about a product, or it's add-ons can help a customer decide to buy or not to buy a product.

3) Customers or target market contact. This is a great way to introduce yourself to your target market and let them know what you are all about. This communication tool allows you to not only stay in touch with customer, but with prospective customers in a non-abrasive way -- allowing them to take a closer look at your business, service, product or information.

Granted, blogging takes time. But the benefits, I feel, out way the pain you may feel at writing. What benefits, search engine exposure -- in most cases, you'll see your blog at the top of the search engines before your website. Why? Content.

If you choose quality content over quantity content you will see additional benefits for your efforts. Such as: 1) increased creditability and expertise in your area 2) the distribution of your blogs to search engines. 3) increased traffic.


Blog exposure
To get your blog out to the masses, think about setting up your blog with Ping-o-matic. Ping-o-matic will get the exposure you want for your blog by hitting numerous feeds after each update. And, its free.


Blogging can have its problems, as with anything. Such as:

1) People leaving negative comments. But if you look at some of the top affiliate marketers, or even good ecommerce sites, you can see where a negative can be turned into a positive. How? For ecommerce sites,its a great way to tell the person to contact a certain email and they will follow up. Can you see the benefits? If you have a public relations issue, use your blog to state your case.

2) People just using your blog as a vehicle to advertise, without a true comment. That is easily taken care of - through your blog dashboard, set the control for reviewing of comments before allowing it on your blog. This helps to eliminate spammers.

As you can see blogging does have it's pluses and minuses. But what is the key to blogging-writing. Stop the procrastination, the mental excuses of why you shouldn't do it and try it as another avenue in your marketing mix. As you know, you should have more than one avenue in your marketing portfolio. If you don't, you're could be missing out on valuable traffic.

About the Author:
Vickie J Scanlon -- Visit her site at: My Affiliate Place for tools, ways to promote your blog or website, accessories, software, computers and more.
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Blogging and Your Niche

The Article below "Successful Blogging" gives you seven different strategies to successful blogging -- with of course, an emphasis toward your niche. Make sure the niche you choose is something that you have strong interest in -- you can't keep your readers interested, if you are not interested in your niche as well. It will show.


Successful Blogging
by Sharon Hurley Hall

What makes some blogs more successful than others? Here are seven strategies that will contribute to every blog's success.


What's Your Niche?

When people start to blog, they often have little idea what they're going to say today and less idea what they'll be talking about in five years' time. That doesn't matter much at the beginning, but if you're going to stick to blogging, you need to find something you enjoy writing about and can stay current on. Something that's a big part of your life will make a good blogging niche. For me, that's writing; for you, it could be something else.


Keep Your Focus

Once you've found your niche, stick to it, most of the time at least. When your readers get used to the content you provide, your readership will dip if you go off-topic for too long. You need to find a way to make your content relevant to your readers. Sometimes all you need to do that is a good title. Choosing a title that relates to the theme of your blog or post will help readers realize what your topic is and how this post relates to it.


Read Or Dead?

If you want people to read your blog, you've got to give them something to read - and you've got to make it regular. For some people, this means posting at least once or several times a day. For others, it means posting a couple of times a week. If you're a WAHM or part-time blogger, you may not have a lot of time to sit down and think of posts, let alone write them. But as long as there's activity on the blog, there'll be people reading it. Stay away too long and people are likely to abandon your blog for one that's got fresh content. Since people have lives that are offline (as well as online) getting a guest blogger is a good way to make sure your blog is updated if you have to be away. And with some blogging platforms like Wordpress, you can submit blog posts by email.


Tell The World

Sitting around waiting for people to find your content can take a long time. Instead, take the content to them with headline animators from Feedburner, email alerts from Feedblitz, RSS feeds from whoever you choose. Submit your blog to directories and try to think of a description that will make people want to visit. This is especially important if your blog is just one of many in a crowded field. What is the unique selling point of your blog? What makes it stand out from the rest? That's what you need to put in the description. Use pinging services like Pingoat to let people know you've updated your content. Also use the social bookmarking services to take your blog posts to a wider audience.


Read All About It

Read other people's blogs, not just on your own blogging plarform, but everywhere. This will let you know what people are thinking and talking about and may give you inspiration for blog posts of your own. This article was inspired by a post on Problogger, for example.


Talk To Others

When you read other blogs, be sure to comment if you've found the post interesting or useful. If you have something to add to the discussion, that's even more useful. The best blogging has a community feel and you have to keep talking to maintain that community. That also means that you should respond to all comments on your blog. If you get a lot of visitors, you don't have to respond individually, but it's nice for people to know their voices have been heard.


Work Those Links


Use blogrolls and bookmarks to keep track of the bloggers you read. You can also link to interesting posts in your own posts and use the trackbacks feature to let those people know about the link. If you're lucky, those people will also link back to you and you'll get new readers for your blog. But that's only one part of the story. The best way to keep getting readers for your posts is to link to them in other posts. After all, you're the person who's most likely to know if one of your blog posts is related to another.

These strategies are a good way of building a blog readership and a sense of community with your readers. Once you've done that, your readers will come to you with questions and comments that will lead to other blog posts - and you'll be sure that someone wants to read them.

About This Author:
Sharon Hurley Hall is a freelance writer, ghostwriter and editor. Sharon worked in publishing for 19 years, writing articles and editing and designing books and magazines. Sharon writes on freelance writing for InspiredAuthor.com. For more information or to contact Sharon, visit doublehdesign.com.
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Blogging Going Forward

Blogging is an ever evolving medium, some say it is a fad -- others say that it is not and is here to stay. But as of today, blogging is here and it is being utilized in many creative ways. Obviously, it is up to the individual if they want to use it as a personal tool to shoot the breeze or if they want to use to to promote their website or product -- and to make money.

If you are wanting to make money, then obviously, the most important thing is to get a niche that everyone is searching for, but where the competition is not to high. Not an easy thing to accomplish or find. Whatever is your case, personal or business, here is some info to get your blog up and running and in the search engine eyes.


Blogging Going Forward
By Vickie J Scanlon

Blogging is your online diary of events, thoughts or for the business person a reserve of articles and comments directed toward your business. That definition is just the beginning of what blogging is becoming -- it's becoming much more.

Since Google Adsense has allowed Google Ads to occupy a place on your blog -- additional revenue, is at your disposal. "Oh", you say, "is that all?" No way. There are some individuals that do not have a website, but are utilizing their blog or multiple blogs to create an income, even testing the waters before a website goes up, and again, creating a presence on the web. And as for advertising for your blog -- take a look at BlogSnob at http://blogsnob.simpleads.net.

Your Blog, Your Website
For those who have a website, your blog can help you with your SEO process. As your readership increases so will your ranking -- what is dependent on that, of course, is the quality of the content. Content and search engines are extremely compatible as you know -- thus, your search engine ranking can take a big jump.


If you have a website, here are some ways to getting noticed:

1. A remotely maintained blog or one on your own server, place a link on your website. This can help you to increase traffic to your blog.

2. When you make an entry into your blog, try to make reference to something on your website -- this creates an inbound links. In addition, I would use absolute links -- which will enable you to place a couple of keywords in the title.

3. Be keyword aware -- and relevant to your website. This helps your SEO process as well.

Blogging Accessories and Necessities
After you have written your quality content -- get it out to the masses -- have it pinged by Ping-o-Matic (http://pingomatic.com/)-- again, it's free. Pinging gets your blog out to the masses, letting them know that you have updated your blog and it is ready for them to read.

As your readership increases you may feel the urge to create a blog forum -- a tagboard services, which enables your readers to interact, as if in, a forum. If you are on blogger.com they have several free tagboards that you can use -- look under "Third Party Add-ons", or do your own search in Google.

Will there be Misuses with Advertising?
Will there be and misuses with advertising in blogs? Yes. People have different agendas, priorities and scruples.

You will probably see article misuse as well as, reader frustration to advertising if it is overkill. Thus, first and foremost, the blog must give potential readers quality content, and as to advertising -- it must be appropriate without overkill, or your reader will just simply click the blog away.

For example:
1. If you have more advertising then content -- you've lost the premise of a blog.
2. And if you put links to your own products within the body copy of another person's article, this, in my opinion, is changing copy, and saying that the author endorses the product. (article misuse)

Blogging can be a positive addition to your website or even to your first attempt to gaining a presence online. But with everything, there is a right way and a wrong way of presenting your product, service or views on line. Remember, to always keep your reader in the forefront -- by asking yourself -- if I was reading a blog, what would I want to see -- and most importantly, what would annoy me the most.

To conclude, blogging is beginning to grow, and its uses, are only limited by an individual's imagination, and of course, the search engines rules -- and I might say, individual readers tolerances and your ethics.


Vickie J Scanlon has a BBA degree in Administrative Management and Marketing. Visit her site at: My Affiliate Place for free tools, articles related to affiliate marketing, ebooks, how to info, affiliate opportunities – all aimed toward the affiliate marketer and the marketing process.
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