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by Stephanie Ciccarelli

As a reader, you probably like reading the comments that are left on blogs and perhaps you even leave comments on posts that you enjoy. While you may just like comments, writing to you from the perspective of a blogger, I can tell you that we love them!

Every time I receive an email from our blog notifying me that a new comment has just been left, I get so excited.

Finding out what you think, learning from your perspective, and hearing how much you appreciate what we do is a real boost of energy and your comments inspire bloggers to continue providing their readers with news, fascinating content, and unique opportunities to be part of a thriving and united community.

Commenting on blogs is also about building community.

by Jeff Casmer

Blogging news stories as they unfold is one of the most exciting and controversial applications of technology that bloggers have discovered. One thing that makes the blogosphere so active is the fact that it is possible to update a blog instantaneously, so the news on blogs tends to be more current than the news in the paper, or on television. Unlike news delivered by these other media, news that appears on blogs does not have to travel through a series of editors and administrators before it reaches the public eye. This has some advantages, and some distinct disadvantages.

One of the most notable cases of news hitting a blog before appearing in other media took place in July 2005 when terrorism struck London. As passengers were evacuated from a subway car near an explosion, one man took several photographs of the scene with his cellular phone, and within an hour these images were posted online. First-person accounts of the catastrophe began appearing on blogs soon after these photos appeared, and people all over the world learned about the events in London by reading the words and seeing the photos posted by bloggers.

by Gobala Krishnan

A while back I mentioned the word “autoblogging” on my website, which got several people confused. Autoblogging is not a blog about cars, although an “auto blog” may mean exactly that.

Autoblogging is a term I use to describe automated blogs and automated blogging. In other words, instead of the usual method of writing the content yourself, or pasting articles from article sites manually, you can actually automate the content and linking for your blogs. What it takes is the correct mindset, the correct method and the correct tools.

1) The Mindset of An Autoblogger

Firstly, an autoblogger has to learn to manage expectations. No matter how good you get at autoblogging, you’re never going to produce high quality sites that attract a loyal fan-base using autoblogging methods. Nothing beats content that is original and written by a human being.

by Oleg Ishenko, SEOResearcher.com

Blogging is extremely popular these days. And the most popular stand-alone blog engine is Wordpress. It is flexible, has many useful featires and there is a lot of eye-catching templates for it. But those who have a Wordpress blog must be aware of a serious problem that can cause your blog to be removed from Google’s search results. The problem is: Duplicate Content.

WordPress content management system which, when used with the default configuration, is not duplicate content proof. In fact this CMS is capable to render almost 100% of your content duplicate. As usual the fault of the system has roots in its advantages. WordPress has many features facilitating blogging and linking, such as RSS feeds to posts and comments, trackback URLs, monthly archives and so on. In the same time this variety of URLs returning similar or identical pages represents a clear case of duplicate content.

by Private Domain Depot

Could the blog possibly be the new pet rock of the 21st century? It appears that everyone has to have one! Everyday we are exposed to blogs, some serious and others completely ridiculous. One thing everyone can agree on is blogs are everywhere. It doesn’t matter where you are these days, you are bound to hear about or read somebody’s blog.

Bloggers come in all shapes and sizes, rich and poor, from every known profession and background, from every political party and opinion. You can find blog content in every possible category of interest.

There are people who own a blog, we all know who they are. How many times a day do you hear “check it out on my blog” or “be sure to check out this blog.” Then there are people who can’t wait to to read somebody’s blog everyday. Finally, there are people that spend all of their time commenting on blogs.