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Doing a simple search for the term blog reveals some interesting information found in the SERP. There is absolutely no mention of WordPress or any other blog publishing platform. Yet, there are three instances of Google mentioned.

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The Top 20 Contest Blogs list ranks contest blogs by their Pagerank, Alexa rank, Bloglines subscribers, and Technorati. Because of the recent Pagerank issues, it is the least powerful stat.

Each are valued a number from 0-10. I took the basic for read more »
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Have you ever thought about the future of blogging? What will blogging be like a year from now? As serious bloggers become more experienced, they create and manage more and more blogs. What will those blogs be like? read more »
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Often times the more simple utilities can be overlooked. These two font viewers can help shave some time off reviewing fonts for design projects. read more »
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Isn’t Email Marketing Just Spamming?

I generally get 1-2 “marketing” emails asking us to look at certain affiliate programs, blogs, or posts. Isn’t this just another form of spam?

Wikipedia lists “E-mail Spam” as “unsolicited e-mail”. Unsolici read more »
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Plenty of sources give tips about how to rake in the votes on sites like digg and Sphinn. For example, include using numb4r5 in the title or Cutting in the name of a topical online Celebrity. Those tips a great, but how do we take it too the next l read more »
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Don’t enter stats checking orgies without protection. It is not the size of the stats that matter but how you use them in your mind to get closer to your goal with out deluding yourself. read more »
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Read about how my blog started serving Paypopup ads. I tracked it down to AdGridWork and blogged about it. AdGridWork replied back confirming my suspicion that their servers were indeed compromised over the last weekend. If you had seen it in a blog read more »
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For a long time I didn’t bother to try to “optimize” my blog for search engines. I didn’t really know anything about it, and it all seemed to complicated. I’m sure now there are more “tricks” that can be done, but we get pretty steady incoming googl read more »
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Once you know how your blog ranks you can start implementing changes that will increase your Google PR, Alexa Ranking, etc., it’s time to spruce up the looks of your blog. read more »
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You have a blog and you have been studiously writing useful posts and steadfastly replying to your readers’ comments. You have a good habit of linking to fellow bloggers and get delighted when someone links to you. You have also been working to get read more »
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