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The past half decade has seen the popularity of "Blogging" grow to epidemic proportions.  Millions of web logs (blogs for short) have cropped up like weeds and you're wondering exactly what it is you're missing don't you?  Kenneth R. Sword Jr, our Blogging Advisor reveals some surprising stats on the blogging phenomenon.  If you've been on the fence about jumping into the blogging world, this might just give you the push you need. 

Attention: Webmasters.  Linda Caroll, our Internet Profit and Newbies Advisor brings you a concise list of Do's & Don'ts of website design.  If you have your own website or are planning one, I'd highly recommend using this as your primary checklist. 

Finally, Michele Miller, home-based business owner, medical transcriptionist, and talented writer offers up a helpful guide on how to keep your home business on track to success.  You'd be surprised what we do to waste our time when we work from home. 

Michael Dela Cruz, Adland Digest

Internet and Profit Newbies If you're new to making money on the internet, get to know the Do's and Don'ts of taking the step into the world of generating income online.

Linda Caroll

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Web Logs, Blogs and the Art of Blogging The ongoing growth of Blogs and RSS feeds	Kenneth Sword
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If You Are Not Blogging You Are Losing OUT! I've been researching more about how to get that #1 spot with my blogs and the more I read the more I learn. I'm going to address today is this: If You Are Not Blogging You Are Losing OUT! You are losing the biggest market growth to advertise your business to. You are losing ground in getting in on this NEW internet land rush. Why do I say this? Let me refer to a company, Technorati, a blogging directory and a little more, and let you see what they are seeing. In summary: * Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs * The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months * It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago * On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day * 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created * Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives * Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated * Technorati tracks about 1.2 million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour * Over 81 million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day * Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers Did I just post right? Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs? Now, granted, there are some blogs that should not exist or just waste digital space. Don't confuse 'MySpace' as a blog either. It is a community with a blog feature within. So all of the teen ranting you see there will not be accounted for as legit blogs. Anyway back to Technorati. The State of the Blogosphere is Strong OK, I'm paraphrasing from a more famous speech (Bush-2006) that happened January 2006, but the truth is that the blogosphere continues to grow at a quickening pace. Technorati currently tracks 27.2 million weblogs, and the blogosphere they track continues to double about every 5.5 months. The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago. New blog creation continues to grow. Technorati currently track over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day - and 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created. In other words, even though there's a reasonable amount of tire-kicking going on, blogging is growing as a habitual activity. In October of 2005, when Technorati was only tracking 19 million blogs, about 10.4 million bloggers were still posting 3 months after the creation of their blogs. In addition to that, about 2.7 million bloggers update their blogs at least weekly. A News Cycle Measured in Megahertz Moving beyond spam, the number of people reaching out and reaching each other continues to grow. Daily Posting Volume tracked by Technorati continues to grow, and the blogosphere also reacts to world events. Technorati tracks about 1.2 million posts each day, which means that there are about 50,000 posts each hour. At that rate, it is literally impossible to read everything that is relevant to an issue or subject, and a new challenge has presented itself - how to make sense out of this monstrous conversation, and how to find the most interesting and authoritative information out there. The Continued Rise of Tagging In January 2005, Technorati launched its tagging service, based on the rel=tag microformat, which is a simple way for bloggers to associate their posts with topics, and to make it easy for people to find interesting posts on a given subject. Today, they have tracked over 81 million posts with tags or categories - and over 400,000 new tagged posts are created every day. Tags for Blogs There was still a major problem, however - how to easily find the most interesting blogs on the subjects that you cared about. So, in September 2005, Technorati launched Blog Finder, a tags-based way for people to find the most authoritative blogs on a particular subject, allowing bloggers to tag their blogs with the subjects they felt were most relevant for themselves. In 4 months, over 850,000 blogs have been put into Blog Finder, making it the most comprehensive directory of blogs on the web. Over 2,500 categories have already attracted a critical mass of influential bloggers writing about them, from Politics and Technology to Gardening or Erotica. And more are created every day, making it easier for people to find the most interesting blogs in the topics they care about. So with all of this information about blogging how can you ignore the inevitable? Blogging is here and here to stay. The longer you wait to start the more behind the pack you will be. __________ Kenneth R Sword Jr Blog Advisor for AdlandPro Co-CEO - Bizzy Blogz & Bizzy Blogz Community http://www.bizzyblogz.com/krsword http://www.bizzyblogz.com/AutoBlogAds/ http://www.bizzyblogz.com/YourOwnArticles/ http://www.bizzyblogz.com/PrivateLabelBooks/ http://www.bizzyblogz.com/PrivatelLabelAudioBooks/ New! Bizzy Blogz Community - like MySpace http://www.bizzyblogz.biz An Advertising Traffic Machine http://www.megatraffic.us/ So far, I have given away over $47,500.00 in advertising memberships. Are you next?
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