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Blog Mania Do your friends and coworkers turn to you for fashion advice? Are you a bonafide guru when it comes to the hottest designers and trends? Or, maybe youíre a would-be political punditóthe next Walter Cronkite? You could simply have a riveting way of capturing the world around you. Whatever your talent, rant or position, you can share your inner most thoughts in a place called the blogosphere    all you need is an Internet connection.  To the uninitiated, a blog is a personal website that is updated frequently by the author and typically consists of commentary and favorite links, as well as photos, or anything else really. There are essentially two rules for blogging:  1.) Update your site at least every 48 hours and  2.) Make the content somewhat compelling. It seems like everyone has a blog nowadays; even William Shatner and Mariah Carey have one. I mean, everyoneís story is unique, right? And since you donít need to know HTML, FTP...

Blog Layout Templates Are Simple The great thing about most blogging sites is that they provide you with templates that you can quickly use to design your site. This leaves you hours of time available for concentrating on the search engine optimization aspects of it. The layout of your blog is a template. This template is going to be the workspace where you contribute blogs for the next few months. In order to prevent this space from becoming cluttered with links, it must be well organized in the first place. Most blog software or online blogging sites comes with the software. This software comes with a number of preformatted layouts that can help you put your links, archived blogs and other information away in an orderly fashion that is easy for readers to navigate. Many of these templates are also very well designed and allow you to choose your own set of fonts and colors. There is also usually some kind of function that allows you to upload images and even ...

Blog Entrepreneur: Blogging Is the Perfect Internet Business If someone were to tell you that you could create a global business, completely for free, with nothing more than the tools you already have, and the investment of your time, you'd question their sanity. Nevertheless, it's true. If blogging appeals to you, you can create a viable Internet business within a few months: for free. Blogging is a new development in online businesses. Essentially, it's instant publishing. Because entrepreneurial, blogging is so new, you have a great opportunity to build your business before others copy what you're doing, so get started now, and start building your own online empire. Let's look at five business models for your new Internet blogging business. These five models can be combined if you wish ñ there are no rules in blogging. You can change the business model of a blog at any time, to a model which generates more income. Each of these models ha...

Blog Design It is great that the phrase blog floats around the net day in and day out, but what if you have no idea what a blog really is? Is this going to be helpful to your web site? No, not really. Here we will offer the skinny on the phrase blog, and you can decide for yourself if it may or may not be useful in your web pages. This way you will not be wasting your time on something you may not need, and the energy can be put into something you find more useful for yourself. The term blog refers to weblog and it is in every fashion not a commercial or professional site. It is more of the personal nature, for comment or web site material. Generally the most recent information on a blog is kept at the top of the page, as blog's are dated log formats. Often they will have commentary of other sites or links directing you to them. Many times the site is dictated by group links and the log is updated frequently. The opinion is this is the very first weblog was back in...

Blog And Article Synergies How many of you reading this are regularly writing for your blog? Given recent statistics I'd say quite a few. However, are you leveraging that effort to maximize your results? If you aren't submitting your blog posts to one or more article directories, then the answer is no! Why Do We Blog? Everyone who blogs has a reason to blog, even if it is just to have some number of people read your thoughts. Other reasons to blog might include: linking to a commercial web site in your posts, developing search engine traffic for revenue purposes, or perhaps attracting links to your blog to attain a higher PR. In fact, every time you create a post you have the opportunity to create outbound links, optimize your post for search engines and to earn advertising revenue when readers visit. Reusing Posts as Articles Once you create a blog post, why stop there? With very little additional effort you could submit your original blog ...

Blogging: Let's Brainstorm for Content In "1 - Blogging: Let's Get You Started" we ended with the subject of content. Fresh topics are important to keep your blog readership interested, and now we're going to discuss just how you can do that. What are you going to write about? It should be a topic that you're passionate about or are at the very least interested in. If you've chosen blogging as your new career, then you don't want to torture yourself by writing about something that you have zero interest in, otherwise you might as well return to that mundane job you just quit! Feelings and emotions show through your writing, so your readers will notice any indifference you may have toward a certain topic that you find boring. Don't forget the advice about writing with a personality. Forced writing will not establish you in the world of blogging at all. Once you've chosen your main theme -- or if it has chosen you, then ...

Blogging: Let's Get You Started! So what is blogging really all about? First off, let me tell you that it's a lucrative business to blog and that blogs are easy to set up and manage. Imagine getting paid to write about subjects that interest you, whenever you want, wherever you are! The flexibility involved allows you to maintain your blog at your own pace, and with Internet cafe's easily accessible all over the globe, even your vacation won't get in the way of your blogging... Or should I say: even your blogging won't get in the way of your vacation? In this article, let's take a look at the profitability of a blog and set up one of our own, free of charge! Interested? Read on! First, you need to get yourself a blog. There are several options ñ host a blog on your own domain or get a free one. For starters, letís talk about the free blogs. You can obtain one at http://www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) http://www.wordpress.com. WordP...