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Why Your Business Needs a Blog

Published June 15th, 2007 in Blogging, Marketing

By now most businesses have a website and at least appreciate the fact that it can benefit their business in some way. Most businesses, however, see their website as a way to sell more products or simply as a glorified yellow pages ad. Millions of internet users around the world use blogs to communicate online, [...]

Finding Blogs in Your Niche

Published June 14th, 2007 in Blogging

Blogging is very community-oriented in nature. Each industry or niche has its own community of blogs. As a blogger, becoming a respected and trusted part of that community is key to achieving blogging success.
Why Do I Need to be an Active Part of the Blogging Community?

Bloggers link to other blogs – Regardless of what industry [...]

The Best WordPress Plugins

Published May 31st, 2007 in Blogging

One of the biggest advantages to using WordPress for your blog is the quality and quantity of available plugins (most of which are free). The right plugins will help to increase your productivity and improve the usability and effectiveness of your website. If you are not familiar with WordPress plugins the first place to go [...]

Links for Bloggers

Published May 24th, 2007 in Blogging, Links

Here are some links to some of the best recent articles and resources for bloggers:
How to Develop Stickyness to Your Blog from Blogging Tips
101 Essential Blogging Resources from Logtrepreneur
Official Release of BlogEngine.net from DZone
Battling Bloggers Block from ProBlogger
Top WordPress Tools of the Month from roScripts
How Does Google Blog Search Determine Blog Rank? from TheWrongAdvices

WordPress 2.2 Now Available for Download

Published May 22nd, 2007 in Blogging

Leading blogging platform and CMS WordPress announces the release of version 2.2 for download. Download here.
Be sure to read 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.2 from Technosailor.
Also check out the article from Daily Blog Tips, Top 10 Underrated WordPress Plugins.

Traits of Successful Blogs

Published April 1st, 2007 in Blogging

If you are an aspiring blogger you can learn a lot by studying blogs that have been successful. Once you have identified what makes them successful, you simply need to apply the same principles to your own blog. To make your research easier, we have listed ten traits of successful blogs.
1. Consistent Posting
In order to [...]

26 Steps to Blogging Success

Published March 24th, 2007 in Blogging

Blogging has proven to be an effective method for businesses to communicate with customers and potential customers online. Blogs offer a great deal of flexibility for the user and increase the visibility and promotional capability of a website. Trends of internet users continue to move towards more interactive websites, including blogs. With thousands of new [...]

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