blogging,

Copyright © 2004 Priya Shah

Blogging software is really a simple Content Management System (CMS) that easily adds new pages and integrates them into your site's navigational structure and linkage.

Blogs and blog posts are naturally search engine friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous HTML.

Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a web page.

But depending on the blogging service or software you use, the results may look somewhat different.

Copyright © 2004 Priya Shah

With the growing interest in blogging as a means of online promotion and branding, a lot of marketers are starting blogs to promote their opinions, products, books and services.

But a blog is like a website. "Write and they will come" isn't exactly a magic formula to bring in traffic by the boatload.

If you need to promote your website in order to build traffic to it, you need to promote your blog as well.

Here are some ways you can become a well-read and influential blogger.

My friend Boris in Amsterdam has been creating a wonderful tool which I think is worth sharing with you here.

WeBlogistan is a tag cloud project with a twist, and is paired with "Clickmybut" - both can be added to your own blogs easily. It's still beta, of course, but I have experienced no problems with either service placed in my main blog at Speaka's Plain English

Boris' new venture Fleck.com is also a very innovative concept.

Regards from Scotland,