What is more, the spider search engine companies recognize this and make it a point to spider the blog networks on a regular basis, sometimes a daily basis.

It may take a spider search engine up to three months to spider your site if you go directly to their submission page to add your domain to their database. On the other hand, with a blog, you can put a story about your domain on a blog with a link to your domain, and your website can generally get crawled within a week or so of putting your link on the blog.

Blogs Require A Commitment On Your Part

Daily additions to your blog should be your goal. If you do not have time to do daily additions, you should at worst do a weekly addition to your blog.

Just like in the real world of websites, if you don’t update your blog on a regular basis, the spiders will save their time and resources by not spidering your blog on a daily basis. If however you do update on a daily or near daily basis, then the spiders will visit your blog with the same fervor you bring to your blog.

Additionally, it sometimes seems like the search engine spiders are giving some additional weight to the results culled from the blogs. The point in this additional weighting is that blogs are filled with personal comments and recommendations rather than sales pitches.

Now that you have also learned this important lesson, it is time to put this knowledge into action. Make it part of your daily or weekly schedule to add fresh, interesting content to your website. Your banker will thank you.

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One of the great things about having an art blog is that you can update it right away. It can often take days or weeks to update an art web site. You can also edit a post and correct it immediately. And it is also possible to go back and edit or tweak a post after you have published it on your artist’s blog any time you want to.

You can do very different things with an art blog than you can with an art website. They are a great combination.

An artist’s web site is like a constant one-person show. An artist’s blog has a very different tone than an artist’s web site. An artist’s blog is like having an ongoing chatty art conversation.

The subject matter can be much more personal in an art blog. You can talk about events and information that just would not fit in with an artist’s website.

I am in the early learning stages of art blogging and I am finding that art blogging can be a whole lot of fun.

? Mary Baker 2005

Mary Baker is a contemporary realist painter, whose studio is in Newburyport, Massachusetts. This New England city, north of Boston, has been the inspiration for the artist?s realistic oil paintings. Mary Baker is a professional artist and has shown in New York art galleries.

You can visit Mary at her website, Mary Baker Art at http://www.marybakera rt.com, see her beautiful paintings and read her articles on a variety of subjects including a four part series on Art, Artists and the Web. A list of articles can be found on her Site Map and Mary’s paintings can be seen on every page of Mary Baker Art.

You can also visit Mary Baker’s artists blog, Mary Baker Art-Blog to find art information for artists and people who are in the art world.

1. They the perfect public relations tool. Their personal nature gives you and your organization a unique voice online - a voice heard by the people who matter - your customers and clients, other bloggers and the media.

2. Blogs act as instant-feedback mechanisms. They allow readers to respond to your posts via the comments section or link to them on their own blogs using Trackback. These features provide near real-time feedback on ideas, opinions and issues that affect them, or highlight and address new or existing problems.

3. Blogs help to position you and your company as experts and leaders in your industry.

4. Their simplicity and addictive nature allow you to share more of your knowledge more often. Blogs are about sharing what you know, think and believe on an ongoing basis.

5. Search engines index your blog posts more often because of more frequently updated content. Your ongoing blog and knowledge sharing shows up in the search results, making it easier for your customers and prospects to find you.

6. You can have many conversations with many people at once - something nearly impossible in the brick and mortar world.

7. They?re automatic buzz-machines. Go ahead and try it. Blog about something new - a new product or service launch, an improvement to an existing product, or a newly appointed manager. See how fast the news spreads throughout the blogosphere.

8. They?re self promotional due to their RSS feeds being aggregated across the net almost instantly, exposing your knowledge to a growing number of potential company evangilists.

9. Companies who blog are considered early adopters, thought leaders and ?in. Blogging is cool and companies who blog are cool.

But the most important thing to remember when blogging is that you?re not a speaker talking to an audience, you are sharing and interacting. You are one more voice to be heard and how powerful that voice is depends on how much interacting you do. It?s the opposite of Advertising.

Paul Short is a veteran internet marketer, professional blogging consultant and owns the popular blog directory http://www.getblogs.com

For more information on blogging and marketing with blogs, check out Paul’s site at http://www.bloglogic.net

Or alternatively, what would you trust, an advertisement or a recommendation, even if it is from a stranger?

The answer is rather obvious and it tells you why sites like Amazon.com have been such a huge success. Folks mostly buy books at the recommendation of others that seemingly have the same taste and inclinations as they do.

Our little experiment also tells you why PR is always so much more effective than advertising. A small favorable mention in a newspaper article or on the TV news show is often much more valuable and effective than dozens of expensive advertisements placed in the media.

It also tells you why affiliate programs have rapidly grown online into the multi-billion dollar industry it is today. It?s much easier for me to refer you to another site or product than it is for me to try and sell you my own products and services.

Imagine the sort of power and effectiveness that you can harness from having other blogs out there commenting on your product or service? Actually quite a number of leading online businesses are already cashing in big on this little secret that should actually not be a secret at all. Have you heard of folks talking about leading entrepreneurs seeking out bloggers to blog about them and their businesses? It is quite common these days and some of the names being associated with this practice are big online names like Microsoft founder, Bill Gates.

So what do the big boys know that the rest of us are slow to grasp? One obvious answer is the power of blogs and especially the power of recommendations and referrals from other people?s blogs.

You can go one step further and have a valuable article giving out useful tips on a hot subject that relates to the site that you want to refer people to. The advantage with this sort of article is that it is bound to get a much wider readership which means that at the end of the day, it will end up registering many more referrals to the targeted site. There are however a few secrets to making referrals effective which you should acknowledge.

Christopher Kyalo is a successful online writer and entrepreneur. Read the rest of this article at his Blog profits blog.

Business blogging in particular is gaining steam as more businesses are finding its utility in attracting more of their core target audience. Although monetization of blogging is still up for grabs, businesses aren?t waiting around to find out what the buzz is all about.

If you are already a blogger, you probably know how much work it takes to maintain and engage your readers. This isn?t just an ordinary website with an ?about us? page, it?s an organic living tool which must be updated on a regular basis to feed its hungry audience. But even if you are good at writing, that alone won?t guarantee success. Online promotion is a critical if you want your business blog to be found and read.

So how do you get more visitors?

First and foremost, you must understand the importance of a good title of your blog posts. Not only does it inform the reader to what they are about to read, but also it is a tool for search engines to find and rank your content in the billions of documents lying out on the Web. Don?t just pick something that sounds good, but try to include important keywords that web searchers would typically to find your information.

Make your content useful and not salesy. Are you an authority on your topic or are you trying to sell me something? This is important if you value return visitors. Blog resourceful information and leave your company website for the latter.

Blog Directories and Search Making your blog content available to others is surprisingly easy. All it takes is some time and a hard-hitting sales pitch. A search on Google for ?blog directories? yields millions of results where you can submit your blog such as Technorati.

If you?re trying to hit a niche category like business, other niche directory resources such as the Business Blog directory by iBlog Business might also be worth a look at.

Take some time to identify some of the best directories that fit your needs and write a keyword rich title and a clear concise statement as to what your blog includes. (10 words or less is a good rule of thumb)

Best of all, search engines love links from directories and will use them to index your postings in a timely manner. Be patient and the traffic will come.

The Major Search Engines Search engines are no doubt important for any web strategy. As I stated above, good titles and directories are a good way to be found. But if you really want to excel your readership, there are a couple of key items to keep in mind that search engines find useful:

Blogger Resources Blogging is a community that can be rewarding to belong to. But just like any social group, insider jargon must be learned to fully participate and appreciate the community. Here are some of the bare essentials that you may find useful in the blogosphere:

• Permalinks- this is the name given to the link for any particular post so that it may directly accessed or book marked. Typically, if you click on the posts title that will lead right to permalink. However, many blogging platforms and blog templates will reference permalinks differently such as permalinks, link to this post, etc.
• Trackback URL?s- if read another bloggers post and want to reference it later and let the other blogger know that you are giving them credit, a trackback is a great tool. Look at the bottom of any post and click ?trackback? to get the URL that you wish to reference in the future. When you enter your post, put in this URL in your trackback field and when you submit, your blurb will appear on the other bloggers post as comment.
• Blogrolling- a collection of blogs that you frequently read that are listed on your homepage. By noticing other bloggers, you in effect are sharing other resources that your audience might find useful. Your visitors can also learn a great deal about you by the very things you read.

Summary As business blogging gains traction, promoting and differentiating oneself in the sea of Websites will be increasingly more difficult. However, business blogging offers a unique opportunity for those who are willing to make a long-term commitment in building a valuable community. As more businesses find their way to the blogosphere, the future of the business community looks bright!

Christian Del Monte: Director of Operations for TMA E-Marketing has a B.S. degree in Marketing from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

He has directed and worked on Internet marketing projects for mid to large-scale clients including several fortune 500 companies. Christian continues to head up the operations for TMA as well as lead research and development on vertical search markets and business blogging.

1. First, be sure your blog is search engine friendly. It will help the search engines pick up and categorize your site easier. Edit your blog template to include a meta tag with search terms related to the content of your blog.

2. Then hang out your ?open for business sign? by getting your blog listed in directories and on topsites. Choose your directories wisely as most require a link back and you do not want clutter up your blog with fifty pages of directory links. Ideally, you want to get listed in directories with a high page rank but don?t completely discount newer directories. You will, usually, get included into newer directories much faster because they are trying to build their database as quickly as possible.

3. Submit your RSS link to syndication directories. Many aggregators look here for content to offer their subscribers.

4. Write and submit articles to article repositories. Content is king and article directories have exploded on the scene as a great way to get it quickly. It doesn?t matter if you are the CEO of a megastore or a regular ole Joan, they?ll take what you have to offer. Be sure to edit for grammar and spelling and include an anchored link to your blog in the author bio section.

5. Weigh in on controversial topics related to the content of your blog. Let?s face it, we are a nation that loves drama and people will search for and visit places that offer information or opinions on the latest scandals.

6. Be sure to provide a link to your blog on your website and vice versa. Also most forums allow you to add a signature to your posts. Write something witty and include a link to your blog.

7. Join a blog community such as Blog Explosion or Blog Clicker. You earn credits by visiting blogs listed in the community directory which translates into return visits to your site. You can also use earned credits to purchase ad space in the form of a banner rotation or being featured on the opening page of the site.

8. Be active in the blogosphere. Most bloggers will allow you to link to add a link to your site so visit other blogs and leave comments. DO NOT SPAM! The quickest way to lose fans is to spam them. You are much more likely to receive visits if you offer thoughtful comments relevant to the post.

9. Take part in a banner exchange. It is the same type of situation with the blog communities. You advertise banners on your site in exchange for the partner site advertising yours.

10. Join a webring or two or three. Webrings are a great way of hooking up with likeminded bloggers and to gain traffic via the host?s marketing efforts.

11. Exchange blogroll links with bloggers whose internet homes you like to visit.

12. Slap your slogan and blog address on a t-shirt or coffee mug and either sell or give away as apart of a contest. Cafepress is a wonderful resource for creating and selling personalized items.

13. Write a Meme and tag others with it and/or submit it to Meme directories.

14. Give out awards. Be sincere about this and make sure it is related to the content of your blog. (i.e. if you are a blog template designer, give out awards to blogs whose designs you like.) Make sure the award links back to your site.

15. Tell people about it. Recruit visitors offline by talking to internet savvy friends and family about your blog. A guerilla marketing tactic is to print a bunch of business cards with your blog address and leave them in public places. Cheesy, yes but hey people are curious.

Despite what you see on reality television, there is no such thing as instant fame. It takes patience, persistence and perseverance to snag and keep worshippers. These tips will help put you on the road to deification. The rest, my friend, is up to you.

Happy blogging.

Indigo Black is the administrator of Blogilepsy, the place to go for blogging tutorials, news and gossip. Got questions about blogging, visit the forums.

About Blogs

Several years ago, surfers started collecting information and interesting links they encountered in their travels through webspace. As the time passed they started creating logs of the information they collected and soon they started creating their own web logs. The web logs enabled them to update the information and links as often as possible. This was what the guy in the conference was doing. Improvements in Web design tools have certainly made uploading and updating easier for them.

Blogs are more permanent than posts to an online discussion list, more dynamic than older-style home pages. They are more personal than traditional journalism, and definitely more public than diaries. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary site. So, there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.

These are a few common characteristics of a blog, but blog types may slightly vary. Some blogs provide succinct description of judiciously selected links. Some others contain commentary and links to the news of the day. Few are endless stream of blurts about the writers day. Few others are - political blogs, intellectual blogs, some are hilarious and some topic driven. They are all - Weblogs.

More than a list of links and less than a full-blown zine, weblogs may be hard to describe but easy to recognize. A blog can be recognized by its format: a webpage with new entries placed at the top, updated frequently. Often at the side of the page is a list of links pointing to similar sites. Some sites consist only of a weblog. Others include the weblog as a part of a larger site. Even though there are so many different blogs, there is one thing common about all the bloggers: most are noncommercial and are impassioned about their subjects. Defining Blogs

A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.

Blogs are alternatively called Web Logs or Weblogs. However, blog is used unanimously because it seems less likely to cause confusion, as web log can also mean a server’s log files.

Blogs & The Worldwide Web

Both personal sites and lists of links have existed since the web was born. Indeed, the ability to link one document to the other that existed on the global network drew early enthusiasts to the Web. They published pages and eagerly perused the pages published by others. That was the time when the accessibility to the pages from any computer with a modem and a browser was more important than the content of that page. For a while, webpages became an interesting addition to the cyberspace. Then the space got crowded. As a result the web grew at an exponential rate and search for the required information became difficult and simultaneously more time consuming.

Until, a few of these enthusiasts decided to put the links they collected daily onto a single webpage. These people placed their stuff descriptive text and link/s, for example: their travel records, on the web. The text enabled the reader to know why they should click the link and wait for the page to download. And so a particular type of website was born.

The New York Times article about a website named LemonYellow, published in July 1999, didnt say a word about weblogs, but affirmed the notion that webloggers were onto something.

Most of the early weblog editors designed or maintained websites for a living. Few of these editors just knew HTML - the simple coding language used to create webpages.

With Weblogs becoming popular, the personal websites became extensions of their day-to-day lives. Webloggers started rolling personal journals ongoing links-laden riffs on a favorite subject. Soon they linked to general interest articles to online games, and often to Web-related news.

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I realized yesterday that I seldom read the whole entry unless it’s very short. Many are quite uncomfortable to read, some downright excruciating, in terms of their grammatical skills, spelling, and style. Because it is such an immediate and off-the-cuff personal expression, do the standard language rules apply?

The conversational nature of a blog leads naturally to an informal, casual approach that can be refreshing and innovative, indirectly echoing some of the great writers of the past who used dialect and local expressions to vitalize their work.

It is unfortunate that so many who write don’t understand basic language rules so cannot effectively break them. When it takes major time and effort to understand what on earth the writer is trying to say, rather than being able to appreciate the content and point of view being expressed, it becomes merely an exercise in frustration.

The beauty, and ultimate value of blogging, is that communication is direct, individual, and uncensored. No editor with an eye on public opinion or potential legal consequences is cutting out whole paragraphs in fear they will offend. There is no filter applied by conservative management or the need for committee consensus prior to publication.

However, those of us who publish our thoughts and opinions to the world do have one big responsibility: to our readers. We can, happily, say anything we want but need to clearly communicate our point of view.

Anything less demeans the value of this wonderful new medium and leads to millions of electronic pages that fail to unite us in community, as is our goal, but merely consumes virtual space like the incoherent ramblings of a lonely psychotic.

Virginia Bola is a licensed clinical psychologist with deep interests in Social Psychology and politics. She has performed therapeutic services for more than 20 years and has studied the effects of cultural forces and employment on the individual. The author of an interactive workbook, The Wolf at the Door: An Unemployment Survival Manual, and a monthly ezine, The Worker’s Edge, she can be reached at http://drvirginiabola.blogspot.com

You see, many of you shun the entrepreneurial types. They must be after money, and either you won?t give it to them, or you have to, because they have something you want?, and you may not even like them.

By the same token, you enslave yourselves to Google?s adsense, making your blog overcrowded with other people?s calls for your visitors bucks, whether qualified or not, and giving them an immediate exit from your contents in order to WHAT? To become part of Google?s FedEx club (Paychecks of $10,000 delivered to the door).

So there, you install that little ?Donate? button on your own site, wait and hope? for MONEY; isn?t that what you are doing?

Two days ago, I have been accused of having a fake blog, being called a splogger by ?fellows? from the WP forum (podz Support Maven; mikep Member), who preferred to call me names rather than answering a help request of mine ?Why my images do not show on the links in WP, with URLs qualified?. However, my blog supplies any visitor with carefully chosen and sometimes priceless information. If I get a commission, I eat, and then I can continue researching on behalf of any blogger?s time and money savings, investing my valuable time; something you won?t have to do.

In the process, I have also helped the visitor who did otherwise not know about the software, the innovator who thought it out and has to be remunerated for it, and the payment processor, affiliate system provider providing the bandwidth. In short, my action was a 4-fold benefit, apart from the fact that it brought a DIRECT result for my activity.

Did your source (maker, creator) give you your brain to hope and wait, or to have an idea that compels your site visitors to hand over their buck right now? Are you in charge of who?s right and who?s wrong, or supposed to be a fellow human?

I find that many people with active online presence are extremely judgmental, policing others. They seem to be unaware that EVERYTHING one thinks, says, or does backfires on oneself like knocking ones own head with a hammer. Will they, someday, get it that one cannot hurt another, for what?s supposedly ?wrong? with the other is a REFLECTION of God?s (your inner) image?

So, they keep smashing the mirror, and for some reason, the person, or cause of reflecting what bothers doesn?t go away?

All this has been answered by a strong, silent type, a man of few words, Jesus The Christ. He did not tell us to sit, wait and hope, but to be profitable, take oil in the lamp, ask, seek and knock ? most importantly NOT to judge. He is not a weird eccentric in cloak and sandals, but the only being on earth with a 100% applied understanding of wisdom, and His instructions are SCIENTIFIC & exacting.

Regardless of whether you believe in wisdom (oil), or just remain ignorant of its practicality, entrepreneurship is when one desperately looks for answers until they are found, and NOT to sit on a ?Throne? in the self-imposed spiritual basement.

I have also been to the How-to corporation?s forum, and found that the forum monitor ridicules his visitors? Good business?

My point is, if you want money, do something creative to get it. That?s ?knocking?. BTW, money is a symbol for flow, or bottleneck in the mind.

Spiritual entrepreneurship differs from all else by having the best of humanity at heart and never deviating from it by listening to the ?majority?, or through ?democracy? (same thing). Spiritual truth is based upon Theocracy, the authority of the highest, most abstract idea, put into practice and superseding everything else.

Only those, who ?see & do? (understand spiritual law & principle and enact it) can be great in the kingdom? What?s the kingdom? Find?

This was today?s hot air coming from an OiB.

Dr. Ina Bliss promotes spirtual entrepreneurship http://www.telechurch.org/viralfundraisingebook/

It is interesting that people are always joking about others talking about the weather and just think if you talk about the weather on your Blog, you will totally increase traffic on your web site. What kinds of things do people like to read about on a Blog during hurricane season?

People are looking for alternative news stories and events, which are not in the mainstream media but are of public interest. You may also find people who either live in the devastated or destroyed region from a major tropical category hurricane or catastrophic tropical storm, which flooded their area, who are willing to tell their stories on your Blog.

This firsthand knowledge will help drive traffic to your web site and it is a public service to the citizens to know what is really going on from real people who are really involved. Please consider this in 2006.

Lance Winslow