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The Ins and Outs of Blogging Disclosure

So when are you supposed to disclose? ReadWriteWeb says:

Financial association — Not advertising, but less clear affiliations such as investments, ownership, or partial-ownership. For example, If you own stock in Company A then disclose that you do when writing about said company.
Employment — If you are paid by a company [...]

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Unsolicited Blogging Advice #29384 - Adsense and Content Building

I think someone i know said something like: “Do not ask what adsense can do for you, but what can you do for adsense.”
A lot of new local bloggers are hopping onto the adsense money train blind and disoriented. They slap adsense codes on their pages as if google pays based on the amount of [...]

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Of Blog and Souls

Jayvee has launched his Blog and Soul Movement over at BlogandSoul.net. I have talked to Jayvee extensively before he launched the movement and pointed out a couple of things:
1. There is a lot of blogging movement in the grassroots level, a lot more people are starting to blog via multiply, blogspot or even via their [...]

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Alexa Movers and Shakers - 5/23/2007

Not at all surprising since Starcraft 2 was just announced a couple of days ago. Blizzard has another surefire hit on their hands.

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Blogger Q&A - Sonnie Santos

Thanks to Sonnie for answering the questions.
1. Do you feel that a blog’s theme is an integral part of blogging? Is this applicable only to a select blogs or do you feel that anyone who has a blog will benefit from a personalized theme?

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Looking for that great domain name?

….Unfortunately, they have all been registered!
I’m just kidding, but not by much. Its very hard (impossible?) to register a great domain name these days with all the bulk registrations and domain squatters. Not to mention the millions of people who have thought of registering that great domain name you wanted. But with a little [...]

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NTC: Resistance is futile, your blogs will be assimilated

Here’s another “bright” idea from the Philippine government:
The National Telecommunication Commission plans to classify Web sites and other data posted on the Internet as a value added service that needs to registered with the government.
In the preliminary hearing of a draft memorandum circular on value added services, Edgardo Cabarrios, NTC director for common carrier [...]

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To Follow or notfollow

Here’s an interesting discussion regarding how search engines such as google and yahoo treat links with the “nofollow” attribute. For those of you thinking “follow-what?”, here’s a quick rundown:
nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It [...]

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The real reason nobody reads your blog

You’ve got the content, you have the gift of writing and your site looks good but why is no one reading it? A recommended read for anyone into blogging, individuals and businesses alike.
The real reason why nobody reads your blog is this: massively successful blogging is about establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships. It’s all [...]

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Joining a blog network

Some of you who have been reading my personal blog over at codamon.com know that i have been fortunate enough to be able to join such prestigious blog networks such as Creative Webblogging and B5Media. Do you know whats the coolest part of joining these companies imho? Prominent figures in the blogging industry notice you [...]

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