I was recently invited to give a presentation on the "do's and don'ts" of creating a successful business blog. In thinking about the topic, words beginning with the letter "p" kept coming to mind: Persistence: the number one reason, by far, that blogs fail is that they aren't maintained. The blogosphere is littered with dead blogs that haven't been updated in three, six, twelve months or longer. They'll still pick the occasional search hit for an obscure phrase, but no one links, subscribes or offers comments to them. Personality: the best blogs have a personality

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Here are the ways that business bloggers can be classified should be called based on their industry. Dogger - pet industry (or someone who rarely blogs) Mogger - criminals Logger - forestry or alcohol industry Phogger - academics Jogger - sports bloggers Shogger - porn industry Strogger - weight lifting Blinger - Showbiz Bull Shogger - Legal Blogwarer - software Gagger - Comedian Fertilogger - farming Advertogger - advertising Wholsogger - wholesale / trading Educogger - teaching / education Photographogger - photography Doctogger - health Flogger - police Rocker

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How can you develop a steady stream of new topic ideas to write about on your blog? Attract more blog traffic? Which highly successful blogs should you emulate, and what can you learn from them? What common blogging mistakes should you avoid? Which WordPress plugins are most essential?  How do blogging and other “real time” activities like social media posting affect Google search results? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the final batch of the best articles and blog posts on business blogging from 2009.

As I find interesting ways to improve search engine optimization for your blogs, I will pass these tips on. I'll keep these short and sweet: Tip#1: Improve search rankings by moving your blog name to the end of your post's Title Tag. Mark White over at Better Business Blogging explains: Because you only have a certain number of words which Search Engines register in the Title Tag (generally accepted as between 8 and 10 words) and because more weight is given to those I've written a few posts on how to easily improve your search rankings and SEO. If possible, have

There are several ways your business can benefit from blogging short of starting your own blog, from simply identifying and monitoring the most influential blogs in your industry, to asking bloggers to write about interesting developments at your company, to guest-blogging. But once you've made the commitment to writing your own blog, here are seven essential tools—beyond the blogging platform itself ( Blogger , TypePad , WordPress , Moveable Type , etc.)—to —to help promote your business blog and make it successful. Technorati Like a set of power tools for bloggers, Technorati lets you claim your blog, add tags to make it easier for people to find it, monitor your blog's popularity, place an "Add this to my Technorati favorites" Web 2.0

At last week's Blogging for Business conference , Shannon Johnson of the What About Mom blog mentioned that someone should write a post about search engine optimization (SEO) for mommy bloggers. figured for sure such a post much already exist, but when a Google search on "SEO for mommy bloggers" came up empty, I decided to fill the void. Other posts I I

Blogs are not a traditional marketing medium. Blogs written like extended brochures (in promotional language) don’t get read. blog is rather, a place to share useful content. Certainly you can promote your company and product in your blog, but this should be more in the form of sponsorship than selling language. They’re boring. A

You know the ins and outs of blogging and you think that you can help businesses setup their own blogs - think again. You may have the skills but if you can't convey your vision to your client and make them "see the light" of blogging and how it helps their business you will never sell anything and the only person who will want your help is your mother who needs help setting up the VCR (don't even bother explaining to them what a DVD is). It seems easy, right? If you're looking for a good resource on how to align your expertise with your potential clients,