Bloggers Buzz

The Blog Studio has launched part 2 of their How to design a blog series Describing the purpose and setting goals which covers some of the following:

* let our target market know we exist
* show off our work
* position us as experts in our field
* give a sense of our character
* keep visitors coming back
* elicit inquiries

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, blog design,

The Blog Republic has rolled out Make Money Blogging for Dummies detailiong the major components necessary to be turning aa blog into a profitable operation

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, professional blogging,

Akismet has announced that their anti spam platform is now available for the Lifetype blogging platform.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, anti spam, akismet,

SEOmoz blog has 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic which includes a solid list for improving the optimization of your blog

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Matt at WordPress has issued a warning to splogs (spam blogs) created during SEO contests:

A few times a year someone decides to hold a search engine optimization contest to see who can get top rankings for various search terms on Google. As the number #1 hit for “Matt” on Google, I can totally understand the fun of this sort of endeavour.

However many times the contestants in these contests use less than kosher means of winning, such as spamming or creating dozens or hundreds of blogs all linking to the same website. (Sometimes called splogs, or spam blogs.) These blogs use up quite a few system resources, junk up the tags system, and can slow the site down for normal folks.
There are many blogs being created here by people wanting to use our blogs to try to win this contest. But WordPress.com is about blogging. It’s about communication, thoughts, news, and many other things in life. It is not about SEO.

These blogs are not welcome and will be removed when found.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, spam blogs, wordpress, anti+spam,

Blogger has added a New Old Feature to Beta, Edit HTML view:

Blogger in beta initially launched without a few features — it’s still a beta version after all — and it turned out that one of the ones folks missed the most was having an Edit HTML view for their templates in the new Layouts system. I can sympathize with that myself. Complete template control was one of the things that originally made me choose Blogger over the other available options almost four years ago (and yes, that was before I worked here). That kind of personalization and customization is important to us here at Blogger, so I hope no one thought this feature was gone for good.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, blogger, blog design, blog template,

Good news for Blogs using Text Link Ads as an advertiser on their blogs or websites, they are in the process of making the August payments now and if not already, your payment should soon be in your paypal account.

Incidentally if your interested, Text Link Ads is an advertising provider on Bloggers Buzz and advertising can be purchased via this link. If your a blogger and you haven’t signed up for Text Link Ads yet, whats stopping you. It’s easy to make money using Text Link Ads and once its set up on your blog takes zero maintenance!

Tags: blog advertising, text link ads, revenue

WordPress.com has added Avatars:

On your profile you can now upload an image to be associated with your account, also known as an avatar.

We’re still rolling out the places these will show up, but for now you can see them in the comments section of this blog.

Why not upload an avatar and then leave a comment to show it off? Any ideas for how we can use avatars?

Update: You asked for it, you got it. There are now avatars in the latest posts, tag surfer, and my comments pages.

Update 2: There are now avatars in the forums.

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