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Blogging For Business Resources
Why Every Small Business Should Have A Blog
Business Blogging Resource Guide - Bookmark this page and refer back often as I will be adding to it!
Blog Lightning - How to create and promote your blog in a flash
Blogs On Blogging
Andy Wibbels Business Blog Consulting
Blogging Software
WordPress www.wordpress.com - software you install on your server
Movable Type http://www.movabletype.org/ - software you install on your server
Type Pad www.typepad.com - hosted and very easy to use – Seth Godin uses. You can
set-up numerous blogs in a matter of minutes
Expression Engine www.expressionengine.com - I use this PHP hosted software. This one falls more to what is called content management.
Blogger www.blogger.com - Google owns and it’s free, but has drawbacks for more sophisticated blogger
Drupal - www.drupal.com
SqaureSpace - www.sqarespace.com
Driving Traffic and Readers to Your Blog
Blog Search Engine www.BlogSearchEngine.com - This is one of the originals and the biggest blog search engine
Robin Good’s list
www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/ - just bookmark it!
BlogRolling http://blogrolling.com/ - BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease
Bloglines www.bloglines.com - Bloglines will also build and power your list of blogs that you like to link
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Super Cool Secret #1 - How To Get Yahoo To Notice Your Blog
1. Get your own MyYahoo page.
Just go to http://my.yahoo.com and
sign up if you don't have your Yahoo! ID yet, or just sign in if you
have one.
2. Add the 'Add To MyYahoo' button to your site.
Get the HTML code to do it at
http://my.yahoo.com/s/button.html 
3. Then, click on the button you just created and add your own feed to
your MyYahoo
That's it. You just announced your feed to Yahoo!
Show me the money - Ways to make money or as bloggers say "monetize" your Blog
Google AdSense www.Google.com/adsense - Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website
publishers of all sizes to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money.
BlogAds www.blogads.com - Blogads.com is a network of influential bloggers who collaborate to promote and sell blog advertising.
Amazon Associates www.amazon.com - make money selling just about anything under the sun including books and music.
TradePub http://www.tradepub.com/ - Giveaway free one year subscriptions to industry specific print trade magazines and earn money.
Aggregators and News Readers
Pluck www.pluck.com - free and easy to use
NewsGator www.newsgator.com - integrates with Outlook and delivers new headlines to
your inbox like email
FeedReader
www.feedreader.com - free and web based
BlogLines www.bloglines.com - web based and my favorite as it allows you read RSS
Feeds and find ones that are related to your interests - this can be a great way to find other feeds to add to your web site
Radio User Land http://radio.userland.com/ - Probably the most fully featured and
complicated of the bunch
Other Blog resources to explore
Ping O Matic www.pingomatic.com - Pinging lets dozens of services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. PingoMatic allows you to send a ping to many blog update sights with one click
WebLogs www.weblogs.com - Tracks the blog universe for updates
Technorati www.technorati.com - Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs. Tracks who is talking about what - Sign up and find out when someone mentions one of your posts
Bonus Resources
Some fun advanced reading – don’t go here until you’re ready!
Furl www.furl.com - Furl will archive any page, allowing you to recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. Browse your personal archive of Web pages, and subscribe to other archives via RSS
delicious www.del.icio.us - del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Feedburner www.Feedburner.com - FeedBurner is an RSS/Atom post-processing service that allows publishers to enhance their feeds in a variety of interesting and powerful ways. By republishing their feeds through FeedBurner, publishers gain detailed feed statistics, maximum feed format compatibility, "shockproofing" to absorb bandwidth spikes, and more.
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Duct Tape Marketing Workshops
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About John Jantsch
Small Business Marketing Coach, author of Referral Flood and creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System
Business Blogging Resources
Resources for any business considering a blog or wanting to get more from an existing blog.
RSS Resources
Links and resources to RSS and Feed Syndication Tools
Ezine Resources
Links and resources for marketing with an ezine
Email Resources
Links and resources for marketing with email
Local Search Engine
Optimization Resources
for small businesses
Marketing With Public Relations Resources
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Pay per
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