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The world of blogging moves really fast. As fast as millions of people can write code, plug-ins and content. About 75,000 new blogs are added everyday. Bear in mind that most of them are of the ilk “My Cat’s Philosophy” and really aren’t readable and provide no value to anyone but the indifferent cat blogging community.

Alright, we all know that our daily routine should include a shower, a shave and maybe even brushing our teeth before we do our daily blog posting. In the world of blogs, content is king, regardless of whether you brush your teeth or not. Hopefully you’ve optimized your blog, the content is valuable and every post is pinging out the RSS world. People are now taking notice.

Here’s 5 more ways you can improve your blog and create value for your company or cause and better the user experience.

Get People to Participate
Help out your content building strategy and your traffic strategy by encouraging people to participate. Here’s some tips:

Keep People Participating

Keep the Spam off your Blog
Once your blog is off and running, pinging out of control and people are participating, it’s important to keep the spam off your blog. Nothing is more annoying to the user than having to sift through non-appropriate content. Dealing with articles and postings “Awaiting Moderation” can become cumbersome, so try to “nip it in the bud” when it comes to every Romanian or Indonesian blog spammer that comes along. If you’re using WordPress the Askimet plug-in works great, it comes with the free 2.0 download, but you’ll need a WordPress API code (free).

Make Sure Your Bloggers Can Contact You
Don’t expect everyone of your readers or group to want to post their “personal” comment on your blog. Some people actually still do value their privacy! Make sure there is an easy way for them to contact you directly, especially if you’re answering questions or hoping that someone will ask you for a custom proposal. One more time Dagon Design has a great plug-in for a Contact Form (Formmailer) and it has a visual security code that keeps the spammers away. It’s easy to configure, free and comes ready for WordPress and in a standalone PHP format if you use another blog program.

Incorporate Your Existing Site
Regardless of whether you’re running a standalone blog or running one connected to your main site. Make sure that you include hard static links back to your order form, about us, product white papers, contact information, etc. in your blog. It’s not hard to do, put it in the Links section, or add direct links in your header and/or footer. Most blogging software isn’t really ready for shopping carts (although there are some plugins out there in Beta that look promising) but that doesn’t mean you can’t have one. With a little creativity in your header, footer and sidebar you can utilize all of the functionality you currently have on your website, or anyone else’s website.

Well, that’s it for these 5, 5 more just popped into my head! The blogosphere moves fast, make sure you’re moving smart! As always, make sure you have a clear picture in your mind, or better yet on paper of what your goals are for your blog in terms of Return on Investment, then find the right plug-ins, partners or programmers to help you achieve those goals.

Happy Blogging!

Christopher Conlan is Managing Director of Kaboodle Ventures SEO Copywriting and The Blog Mill
Blog Templates a firm specializing in affordable Search Engine Optimization and killer blogs.

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Wordpress is a wonderful blog program. It’s feature rich, widely supported, and FREE! You’ll also find hundreds of plugins for wordpress that will add rss feeds, polls, galleries, and more. Today I want to share with you one of the best plugins for wordpress that can make you money. It’s called Cashlinks Lite.

Cashlinks Lite is a plugin that will dynamically hyperlink any keyword or phrase to any url that you specify. All you have to do is write the article, do a review, or even use syndicated articles in your blog for content. Then Cashlinks Lite will insert the code to hyperlink keywords in the article automatically.

Before Cashlinks Lite, writing an article with links to your affiliates meant stopping every other sentence to insert the hyperlink code on the text. If you want to link to several different affiliates, it’s a major pain and can really stop your in your tracks. Even worse, it disrupts your thought process and could cause you to start all over.

How about all of the previous posts you have in your blog. Ever go back and edit them because you wanted to include links to new affiliates? If you have hundreds of posts, you wouldn’t even think about doing that. You’d probably pick two or three then get too tired or bored to do anymore. It’s a mundane task and very time consuming.

But wait! Isn’t that what computers are for? To do all the mundane repetitive things that we humans don’t feel like doing? Wouldn’t it be nice if your computer could go back and insert the hyperlink code for you on every keyword in every post, article, or page you ever wrote in Wordpress? Now thanks to Cashlinks Lite, it can. Whether you have one post or thousands, Cashlinks Lite will dynamically insert hyperlink code on every keyword or phrase you tell it to.

If this article were in a Wordpress, you would see several links in this article already. I wouldn’t have to insert the hyperlinks manually or re-edit this article. All would have to do is write this article as I usually do for any post, and Cashlinks Lite does the rest. Those of us who blog on a daily basis, understand what a time save this really is! For those of us who have hundreds of pages in our blogs, it’s a miracle!

Every link you see in every post on every page of your blog would be automatically created with Cashlinks Lite. You wouldn’t have to edit a single page. Anytime you want to change how a keyword links, just go into the Wordpress control panel and update the url for that keyword once! Then Cashlinks Lite will replace every instance of that keyword with the new hyperlink automatically.

A powerful technique when using Cashlinks Lite is to link specific keywords to your own sites. Any search engine optimization expert will tell you that incoming links to your site will have more impact on how your site ranks than any other single technique. More importantly, when those links use “anchor text” for the keywords you are optimizing for, your site will rank higher for those keywords.

The best example of this is “click here”. If you search for “click here” in google, you’ll find in #1 position Adobe Reader. Of course Adobe is not optimizing their site for “click here”, but how many websites use the anchor text “click here” which links to the free Adobe Reader software? Probably millions!

This is where Cashlinks Lite can really improve your rankings to all your sites. By choosing the keywords you want to optimize your site for, then telling Cashlinks Lite to hyperlink those keywords to your own sites. If you have hundreds of pages in your blogs, you would now have hundreds of links using the keyword anchor text of your choice linking back to them!

Now here is the best part. Cashlinks Lite is FREE! So there is no reason not to get this powerful plugin.

To Download Cashlinks Lite, click here: Cashlinks Lite & More

Robert Rogers is a writer in the Washington DC area. He specializes in professional internet marketing.

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The proliferation of online personal journals known as weblogs or more commonly, blogs, has revolutionized the way people interact online and changed the manner in which they consume information. Not only do people share the mundane facts of their day-to-day lives (at times even their sex lives), but they also vent their political opinions, raise money for charity, review books and movies, draft short stories and novels, relate their travels, and give the conventional news media a run for its money. The number of unique uses for blogs is a great as the number of blogs themselves.

In 2004 a number of political bloggers were given press credentials at the presidential nominating conventions of both major political parties. Since that time more and more politicians have begun hosting their own blogs as a way to interact with constituents. In addition, many reporters who covered the opening days of the war in Iraq posted accounts of their exploits on personal journals as well as filing stories with their news agencies. Today popular news programs like PrimeTime Live have blogs that augment their programming material.

Normally blogs are updated on a regular basis with entries appearing in chronological order, usually reverse. A number of free blog services make it quite easy for the novice blogger to establish a presence on the web. Blogs from Blogger, LiveJournal, and EasyJournal fit into this category. Many people, however, seek to customize their blogs with designs and content that fit their personalities and interests.

Often in this scenario the blogger registers a domain name, pays for the services of a web hosting company, and either installs and customizes the blog software or hires a blog designer to do so. Software popular for this more sophisticated application includes TypePad, Expression Engine, MoveableType, and WordPress. (Note that WordPress is a free blog application but many designers for hire create custom templates for this popular content engine.)

Blogs not only contain text entries, but link to other blogs and sites across the web. Blogs may include photographs, video, and increasingly audio files, often in a talk show format known as “podcasts,” a reference to the wildly popular portable media player from Apple, the iPod. Podcasts have taken the basic idea and format of blogs and moved them into the spoken word. Many podcasters post transcripts or “show notes” of their program in conventional blog format as well as making their downloadable “broadcasts” available.

With the availability of content management software that makes keeping a website as easy as filling out a form and clicking a button, people who would never have seen themselves having a web presence have joined the online community in droves. Bloggers come from all sections of society and all age groups from teenagers to octegenarians. Whether personal in nature or politically themed, blogs have changed the online world in a decisive fashion and continue to proliferate at a steady rate.

If you don’t have a blog of your own, you should definitely consider starting one. Possibilities are endless and shouldn’t be neglected.

Kevin Dark is an Internet marketing expert. A brand new project is to start soon at Goonz Blog Directory.

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