Without a blog, a business, whether online or offline based, is as good as heading towards a dead end, especially for small and medium sized businesses due to the high competition.

The online penetration of companies, small, medium and even for some large ones is considered low. Most business owners don’t even have the idea

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I have never been a big fan of using the top comment plugin on my blog. However, I do my own thing to reward my commenters.

What do you think of the top comment plugin? Is it good or bad for blogs? How do you reward your commenters? Do you use an alternative to the plugin?

Here are my positives, negatives, and possible al

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To help fight spammers and bots, stumbleupon has started using captchas when submitting reviews.

I personally can't stand captcha and it will make my stumbleupon experience a little more annoying. I won't be leaving as many reviews.

The article has already recieved different opinions, good and bad.

How will it affec

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There are growing numbers of bloggers making money by writing for other blogs. With the popularity and success of multi-authored blogs and news-related blogs, this appears to be a trend that will continue as there is a considerable need for valuable, well-written content that draws attention. As a paid writer, if the work that

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Social media is a great resource fro bloggers that can produce tons of traffic and exposure. Unfortunately most bloggers have no strategic plan with social media, and as a result they have very little to show for their efforts. Traffic alone usually is not what you are looking for. This post lays out the reasons that bloggers n

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Did you know that Google sometimes tells you great keyword and keyword phrases that are easy to get the number one ranking for? And that they give that information to you alone and for free? Read about how I took one of these phrases and turned it into multiple #1 rankings as well as the most visited page of one of my websites.

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Mark does an excellent job in this post discussing the 5-Point approach to building web traffic and increasing subscribers by focusing on quality content above quantity. How many times do we have to continue being reminded of quality content, rather than posting every day and saying nothing at all?

I must agree with everythi

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I think some times BZ users forget that Blogging Zoom is still a baby. March 1 will be our 5 month birth date but yet I feel that it is a blessing that folks forget that because this means that people already see us an established site.

Now even though our baby status we already have some very influential BZ users as

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Growing a successful blog usually takes a good bit of time. This post looks at several different strategies, along with some real world examples, for growing a blog very quickly. While these methods will not guarantee the success of a blog, they have been demonstrated to drastically speed of the growth process. A few bloggers t

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If you market your blog with social media you will certainly face some challenges. Many bloggers think that social media is an easy answer for traffic. Although it is a great source of traffic and exposure, there are also a number of challenges that you will face and that you should be aware of. Here is a look at 10 of them. Th

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This article looks at 10 reasons why every blogger and website owner should use social media. There are some obvious reasons, like traffic and expsoure, but there are also some points that most people will learn from. This is one of the 1st posts on a new blog that just launched today. I believe the post presents a well-balance

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Using forums can help a blogger in many ways - traffic generation, creating exposure, getting help on certain topics, learning more - AND ideas for new posts and articles.

 By reading forums in your niche and the questions people are asking, you can figure out what kind of things people need to know and want to le

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Super Blogging sponsored a group writing project which includes a great collection of links! There is a lot of valuable advice collected here! Don't miss these excellent tips! Make sure you check out Social Media Mega Project at Colloquium, which is one of the articles highlighted here, focusing on BLOGGING ZOOM!

So come

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I searched for one without any luck. A simple BloggingZoom Firefox Add-on. It adds a Zoom It option to both the right click menu and tools menu. It can handle pages that have and have not been submitted. If the page has been submitted, it will Zoom the article; if it hasn't been submitted, it will forward you to the submit p

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I just want to get something out real quick to all the blog readers out there (and even if you are a blogger). First of all, everyone knows what lurkers are right? Everyone is a lurker, that's for sure. If you really don't know what a lurker is, it's basically someone who reads discussions in places like blogs and forums but

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