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  • To Blog Or Not To Blog: The Ups And Downs Of Blogging
    Whenever the subject of the phenomenon called blogging is raised, most people immediately think associated it with an online diary or weblog. The term weblog refers to key words. First is web from the World Wide Web and log, as in keeping a log. Even though it's not that difficult to pronounce it was eventually still shortened to just “blog”.

    From the time that the first 'blogs' made its appearance in 1994, the act of recording thoughts and experiences online spread like f...
  • Blog Users Debate: Full Or Partial Feeds?
    One topic of debate that has gained attention in the blogging community is the choice between using full or partial RSS feeds. For the uninitiated, RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a set of web feed configurations that are spelled out in XML code. It is utilized in web syndication, often used by online news groups, blogs, podcast services, and online education systems, among others.

    RSS provides the user the choice between full feed and partial feed. ...
  • Beware Of Malware-Infected Blogs
    Internet users and blog-browsing addicts beware! As weblogs come free and are quite easy to use, they continue to gain popularity. Hence, criminals operating on the Internet are becoming more aware and are taking advantage of the use of these online personal journals to ensnare unwitting victims. Not long ago, spyware and malware were spread mostly through email and file-sharing, and system infection was prevented by spam blockers and email scanners. Nowadays, clicking on a s...
  • Blogs And Sales: A Natural Business Partnership?
    As you can surmise, one of the principal reasons why businesses find blogs effective as business tools is they help generate or increase sales. While there is no quantitative amount with regards to the exact monetary significance of blogging on sales, there are evidences of some sort of return on investment. Increase in sales can be and often is one of the indirect effects of successful blogging.

    Blogs – Good for Business

    Imagine sitting in front of your computer with m...
  • Corporate Blogging: Do’s And Don’ts
    The blogging phenomenon has started to make companies view the potential benefits of corporate blogging. They all agree that blogs achieve a mass media effect through the high level of networking in the blogosphere wherein news disseminates very rapidly. The blogosphere (online community of blogs and their writings) has heralded a new communication tool that can influence public opinion of a company. However, companies are slow to react to the growing credibility of corporate...
  • Blog Marketing Miracles: How To Bring Sales To Your Business Through A Weblog
    An increasing number of business entities are actively using blogs as part of their marketing strategy. Why? Blogging is providing them the ability to connect with their audience thus encouraging goodwill which in turn helps bring sales.

    Marketing through Blogging

    It is nothing you have not heard for quite some time now. Blogging has caused quite a stir. It has, in fact, continued to proliferate rapidly. In early days, a blog is just a personal online diary. It is a pla...
  • Using Bloggers For Pushing Products: A Good Idea?
    There is an interesting conversation in the blogosphere. The discussion centers on using bloggers to push products and getting compensated in return. Should bloggers accept monetary payment or any form of remuneration for writing about certain products, services or events on their blogs?

    Issues and Views

    Now that blogging is spreading like wildfire, drawing large crowds of audience, business advertisers, sponsors and the like are one in advocating it as an effective mea...
  • Some Of The Best Ever Blog Specific Tools
    Blogging is one of the most popular activities people do on the Internet today. According to Technorati, there currently are seventy-five thousand (75,000) new blogs everyday and about 1.2 million new blog updates everyday. As the activity of blogging gets more popular, there will be more and more tools that will be created to specifically address the needs of the blogging population of the Internet users. This article will attempt to catalog some of the best ever blogging to...
  • How To Make Your Blog Marketing Budget Work
    Maintaining a blog costs money. A blog owner has to contend with hosting service fees and other incremental expenses associated with publishing a blog. However, there are several techniques a blogger can employ to make his tight blog marketing budget work. Foremost of these ploys is implementing painstaking search engine optimization (SEO) strategies. SEO helps lessen the costs of marketing a blog.

    Search Engine Optimization – Some Key Points

    How do you get readers to v...
  • How Business Weblogs Really Affect The Marketplace
    Over the years, the Internet has become a hub for people to discover and invent new ways to share relevant information in just a blink of an eye. A compelling worldwide conversation has begun. This conversation has become the new market. The members of this market communicate in a more open, natural honest, direct and at times authoritative way. They are talking, explaining, complaining, and sharing information in an unmistakably human voice.

    As business continues to be in...
  • How Blogging Can Shift The Power Structure
    Companies, big and small, have joined the blogosphere. Microsoft is blogging, so are General Motors, Google, IBM and Sun Microsystems. Companies are using blogs to engage customers and employees as well. Written by employees and in some instances by CEOs, blogs adopt a conversational and engaging tone which make them easy reading. Blogging has even empowered employees in more ways than one. A glaring evidence is employee bloggers, in most cases, have shifted the power structu...
  • 20 Million Bloggers And Counting – The Stats Of The Blogosphere
    It is confirmed. The Blogosphere continues to grow at a pace no one has anticipated. In fact, it would be very difficult to quote a number as the total tends to change by the second of every day.

    The Blogosphere Report

    According to the State of the Blogosphere report as of February 2006, Technorati is tracking 27.2 million weblogs and is expected to double about every 5.5 months. The Blogosphere as it is at present is estimated to be over 60 times bigger than it was thr...
  • 10 Suggestions For Blog Usability
    Ignoring key usability issues on blogs may make it difficult for readers to understand a site. Writer confidence can also be hard to attain as well. This would certainly not work well for the site since all sites strive to reach the widest audience possible. Here are some suggestions to ensure your blog usability:

    1.Provide the Personality

    Blogging has generally been associated with anonymous or geeky-nicknamed authors. This makes it almost impossible to establish trust...
  • Rawsugar’s Benefits For Bloggers
    Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. RawSugar is a guided, tag-based search engine that is said to offer a multitude of benefits to bloggers. The most notable of which is the impact it could have on regular search.

    What is RawSugar?

    RawSugar delivers guided search for tagged content. Guided search provides the users the most relevant topics for results at each level of the search. Through this, results can quickly be narrowed down, en...
  • Bloggers’ Tips On Keeping Your Readers Happy
    Many bloggers find themselves wondering why their blogs do not generate enough traffic or why readers don’t seem to come back to visit. The answer is simple. The blog just isn’t interesting enough for most people to bother with. To make a blog interesting, you need to exert some effort to improve not only the look of the blog but the quality of writing as well. Readers after all have millions of blogs out there to choose to read from. So if you want to have readers and keep t...
  • The Importance Of Backing Up Your Blog
    Backups in every computing endeavor just make good sense. Without your good, reliable backups, you're likely to go through the hell of data loss and the frantic rush to recover everything at least once and probably more than that in your lifetime. Data loss can happen for many reasons: the degradation of a hard drive, an upgrade, a hostile hacker, even a catastrophic power surge. Whatever the reason, it happens even to the best systems.

    According to a recent poll sponsored...
  • How To Podcast Using Wordpress
    Podcasting is the next step up from blogging. While blogging is done by armies of pajama-clad ordinary people, podcasting is done by many of these same people, though less often in pajamas, in front of a digital or audio recorder. Short pieces are recorded, then distributed via RSS 2.0 or Atom to their website, typically a blog site. Listeners and viewers can then download podcasts using podcast clients. A good podcast client (for example, Juice, CastPodder, or iTunes) will a...
  • How To Eliminate Wordpress Blog Comment Spam
    One of the most serious problems with any blogging system, including WordPress, is that the comments area is wide open to that scourge of the Internet, spammers. In this case, it's comment spam.

    Comment spam is created by people seeking to boost their Google rankings by having lots of links pointing to their own websites. This causes a wide variety of problems:

    • When Google detects content spam, they will often block the site it's coming from because it messes up their...
  • Where To Get Content For Your Blog
    Blogs and websites that have rich content are always going to do better than those that don’t. I am sure you wondered where these blogs get their ideas, views and opinions. It is easy to write about something you are passionate about- but to do that most days of the week is extremely hard, since you would probably run out of things to talk about or you simply don’t have the time. So how do they do it? Where do they get their ideas? Do they get help from tools and other source...

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