Lately it seems Blogging and becoming a Blogger is all the rage.  They seem to have a power all their own as blogs have been key to the downfalls of major political and media members like Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and CBS news anchor Dan Rather for instance.  At first it seemed an entertainment outlet for teenagers instead of gaming all night, they would Blog as a means of staying in the "know" and making sure their friends knew everything about them. 

Celebrities and other high-profile people seem to use them also to captivate an audience and announce different trends in their lives, mostly personal.  Still Blogs are not just for teenagers, celebrity brats, they're for the average business person, mainly right now it seems Realtors are utilizing the media to market themselves.  And this begs the question do Blogs and the action of Blogging really help businesses?  Are they good marketing tools or just a waste of time?  Can this medium help or hinder your real estate business?  The answer remains in how they are used and to what degree.  It is really all about knowledge.

 Still what is Blog really?  For those of us that remain technically challenged and couldn't be a Web Master if we tried, a Blog is as user friendly as web content comes but it is a way of managing content or a CMS, content management system.  The software involved really does all the work for the Blogger and this allows just about anyone to create and maintain a Blog.  This action of maintaining or updating the Blog is known as the verb form of Blogging as well as someone who Blog is a Blogger.  The individual Blogs are also known as posts and they are usually organized in reverse chronological order.  The most up to date material will be viewed first.  Still with all the Blogs in the Super Information Universe, what makes a Blog unique, eye catching?  What makes it a different media from just a web site or a forum, email or other e-based media?  How is this method unique in format and material?  Can this be found in the way it balances technology with individual expression?

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 You should make note that there is a distinct difference between ways to make money with a web site than ways to make money from it.  What this means really is that there is a difference in methods used for encouraging traffic and actually methods of increasing profits, in general.  I mean you can drive traffic to the site but that doesn't bring about the big moneymakers, only the click thru amounts. 

A good example of this contrast is the sense that just by combining AdSense ads with the web text is a way to make money from a website.  Couldn't be further from reality.  No that is only a tool for making more money and only serves to increase the ad click rate.  The real money can be found with a PPC ad network.

As a result this list can be categorized as direct and indirect schemes.  Below are illustrations with links to better orient you to this way of thinking.  

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Social networking - you've heard of it but do you know the magnitude of what it really means? 

 Social networking happens because individuals chose specific clubs or groups of people in which to hang with because of their individual interests.  These groups can be found in any demographic found smaller, rural communities to the expanding suburbs and metropolitan areas, urban and fast paced.  While social networking traditionally has been done in person at meetings or in the workplace, lately it seems it is most popular online as a means of creating virtual communities.  The Internet has made it possible for people to have friends all over the world brought together by common interests like knitting or rebuilding Ford transmissions.  Universities are even creating virtual learning centers to replace the more traditional classroom.  Where will it stop?

For online social networking web sites become important gathering places.  The web site becomes a channel, a social site for people's virtual selves to congregate.  Once you have gained free access to these social sites, you can begin networking and socializing with others, even start discussing different topics about your common interest.  The key is learning about people from their profiles and even contacting them about their experiences.

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Blogging is everywhere. It seems everyone has a blog or is blogging about something at any given time. It is the new e-mail, even better than texting because your words are alive in cyberspace. The corporate world has turned to blogging as a means of creating online marketing tactics; artists use it as a form of self-promotion and retailers use blogging as means to influence branding of products. It is all about presentation and audience participation. With all this in mind, it is an expected behavior of marketing gurus.

Blogs have popped up for everything from real estate, movies, self help, food to books. The list goes on and on, changing daily as social interaction changes between people, consumers and anyone on the ‘Net' who will listen. Pretty soon people will not even need to leave the house! This might be a good thing with the price of gas but blogging is changing the very face of the world. So what is going on with yours because I really want the 411? What makes a blog? What is it any way and why should we care because Proctor and Gamble told us or Miley Cyrus has one and so does every other teen?

A blog is just like a diary, journal, your thoughts, a website. It needs to be built and maintained. Much like a ‘Field of Dreams' it gets much of its background history from journaling online. Instead of the traditional diary locked and thrown under the mattress, one has an e-journal now a days. But what makes one blog better than another? Do you really want to know about every second of my day, what we ate for dinner last night or what I think about "How I met your mother." A blog is all about the traffic just like a website and well, if yours is boring then, need I say more?

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Internet advertising has been growing dramatically. In the first quarter of 2008 alone, $5.8 billion-yes, BILLION!- was spent on online ads by enterprises nationwide, big and small. This spending level is a huge jump of 18.2% from the same period one year ago, according to Interactive Advertising Bureau. Receiving the lion's share of this online ad business is...you guessed it: Google. This search engine juggernaut took in 61.8% of the big billion-dollar pot in May 2008. This information can be confirmed on ComScore Media Metrix.

Here are the goods on how you can optimize your site:

1. Spotlight your search term on the page.

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Why do you want your business to get listed in a web directories? If you don't know the answer to that question, you could be missing out on a big opportunity to drive traffic to your blog or website.

 Before you start, it's important to know what a web directory is. Think of it as being like the telephone yellow pages, only for websites instead of for phone numbers. A web directory contains links to websites and divides those links into categories and sub-categories.

Next, it's important to understand why you should submit your website to a directory. The reason you should do this is to give your website credibility with major search engines. One-way search engines determine the legitimacy of a website is to count the number of one-way links. A link on a website that directs traffic to your website is called a one-way link. The more one-way links, the more credibility your website gains.

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