) December 10, 2008 -- With the explosive growth of the blogging phenomenon the mix of information and opinion available in the blogosphere is a virtual jungle; often leaving bloggers frustrated, wondering how they'll ever be found, much less gain a readership. The solution: Bloggapedia Blog Directory and Search Engine. Bloggapedia has always been a high-quality blog directory, but the recent addition of a few new features makes the site even more blogger-friendly. That's right -- the best of the best just got better.

) November 11, 2008 -- BlogCatalog.com, a fast-growing social network for bloggers and blog search engine, has launched BC 360, an embeddable tool that allows blog readers to perform custom searches on their favorite blogs.    

"With the BC 360 widget, bloggers can now help their readers search across all of their posts and social networks," says Antony Berkman, president of BlogCatalog.com. "It not only searches for content across on their blog, but also relevant links in their Delicious accounts, the photos they've posted on Flickr, or any number of the social networking sites."

One of the reasons why blogs have increased in popularity is because of the ease of maintenance. The writer can write the content, personalize the look and feel of the blog and carry out constant updates with minimum hassle and knowledge of web-based applications.
Blogs are interactive as it allows comments and these can be moderated by the blog owner. Many e-commerce sites now consider the option of operating a blog on their sites which enables them to tap into the buying power of a blogging community.
ekwa.com is one such site which provides weblogs as a feature to actively viral market businesses. ekwa.com enables businesses to create their own profile and communicate and maintain on-going relations with their audiences through interactive features which include blogs.

) October 8, 2008 -- BlogCatalog.com, a premier social network for bloggers, launched a total aggregation search engine that delivers search results from the BlogCatalog directory, member blog posts, discussion areas, blog tags, post tags, and more than 20 social networks. It is the first comprehensive search engine of its kind developed by a blogger community.

The new search engine, accessible at http://www.blogcatalog.com/search/, enables anyone to search the BlogCatalog directory of over 150,000 blogs, and multiple social networks. The robust engine was developed after the success of Social Search, another search engine that was developed as an extension of BlogCatalog's Social Dashboard.

) November 25, 2008 -- Carl Ocab started his blog when he was only 13 years old. He has aggressively marketed and promoted his blog that it catapulted to the top page of Google for a heavily contested keyword phrase "make money online" in just a few months after it launched.

"I am thrilled to offer the theme which helped my blog a lot," says Carl. "Too often, blog themes available online are designed to give the blog a pretty face, but the 'Ultimate Blogging Theme' not only does that, it also helps bloggers increase their Google traffic and improve advertising revenue."

) November 18, 2008 -- It seems a lot of bloggers have a lot to say about content marketing: today nearly 200 sites address the topic. But only the best have climbed to the top to be named one of Junta42's Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs.

Today, Junta42, the go-to site for content marketing and custom publishing, announced the updated Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs. Reviewed by Junta42's team of custom-content experts, the list includes some of the best-known marketing blogs, as well as up-and-comers that are reshaping and reinvigorating the content marketing conversation.

Perth, 23 February 2007: In response to the increasing number of bloggers online, ineedhits (www.ineedhits.com), a leading search engine marketing company, servicing small to medium sized businesses for over 10 years, have launched ineedbloghits. Easy Blog Ping, their first premium blog marketing solution delivers bloggers one of the most effective pinging tools available.

September 15, 2008 --
Sept 15, 2008 – Web Funters Inc., a local Pakistani Fizzy Wizzy concept factory, has launched Pakistan’s biggest blog aggregator(http://www.pakblogging.com/) that makes it easy for readers to browse the blogging activity of Pakistan under one roof, from the most popular blogs and social networks of the nation.
"We have aggregated each and every topic that be covered in a blog post. Most popular categories of Pakblogging.com include Politics, Technology & Startups, Business & Finance, Sports, Entertainment, Gossips and so much more," Aly said.
The blog aggregator is designed to make it easy to keep up with what a blogger you follow is doing on all the blogging platforms they belong to.

August 22, 2008 --
London, 21 August 2008
Would-be superstar bloggers need no longer fear choosing a host that can’t handle the rapid growth in traffic that occurs when a blog hits the big time.
Researchers at WhoIsHostingThis.com have revealed who hosts the world’s 100 most popular blogs.
The study offers an at-a-glance guide to hosting companies with proven performance at the top of the blogosphere.
The report reveals that the hosting company of choice for top bloggers is Media Temple, a privately owned hosting company based in Culver City, California.
Media Temple hosts 11 of the top 100 blogs, with the runner up, Datagram the proud host of 8 top blogs.

) December 4, 2008 -- Artiklz, the company that brings you conversation search, today announced the release of three new features for the blogosphere audience.

) October 2, 2008 -- With over 80,000 website listings, NZS.com is on a mission to map the New Zealand web. The site has been building for seven years while steadily growing its directory listings, search features and a dedicated following of NZS.com users. SLI Systems' learning search technology is enhancing the directory search results to improve quality and relevancy.

) July 24, 2009 -- Website owners and bloggers who have been affected by the economic recession could be sitting on a welcome cash bonus, according to Siteredeemr.com.

Site Redeemr: Recycling the Web

Siteredeemr, who specialise in purchasing defunct websites and blogs, has revealed that the number of offers that they have made to buy websites have increased by 500% over the past month, with a 300% increase in the number of completed site purchases over the same period.

) November 24, 2008 -- Textforfree.net has gone web 2.0 with its popular text messaging service. Visitors are now offered a host of new features that allow them to easily manage their text messaging needs all from a single user-friendly control panel. The new site distinguishes itself with an emphasis on user experience that is incorporated into a host of new features related exclusively to text messaging that our visitors have suggested to us throughout the years. Free members are offered a host of features which include; SMS scheduling and reminders, message archives, search features, a contact management system, group messaging, auto-carrier lookup and delivery reports.

) June 16, 2009 -- Blogging Beginners is the fool-proof way for everyday people to launch a profitable blog empire by harnessing to almost limitless potential of niche blogging or drive visitors to your already existing business site. Day after day people are hungry for vital but obscure information. Blogging Beginners painstakingly shows savvy entrepreneurs how to post engaging sites and draw traffic, all with minimal technical knowledge.

HighFivez.com a new website launched last month provides blog lovers with a new source for finding the hottest blog posts on the internet today. This new community for bloggers provides a peoples view of the top blog posts.
HighFivez.coms content is 100% driven by its members who can share posts or blogs that they find interesting. Other members can then HighFive these posts if they like them or Pound them it they dont. Users are provided with news worthy information and bloggers receive a surge in traffic due to exposure on the HighFivez home page.

) December 4, 2008 -- Chapeau Blog Awards (www.ChapeauBlogAwards.com) announces Blog Review, an online destination dedicated to providing bloggers a channel to review and comment on blogs around the world.

All blogs are subject to being reviewed on Blog Review, including political blogs, entertainment blogs and opinion blogs.

) December 2, 2008 -- Brighton-based SEO company Upstream Connections' celebrates twelve months of blogging in December 2008 and, in recognition of the milestone, is posting a free, downloadable guide to successful blogging on its website. During the past year, the Upstream Connections blog has seen posts on such diverse topics as social media optimisation, newsletter writing, reputation management, paid search, viral marketing, search engine optimisation and offline publicity.

) October 23, 2008 -- Popular Internet website Wagg.it -- also known as "The People Friendly Website"-- has just established a new and savvy "buzz" group section for Internet entrepreneurs. Website and blog owners from all over the web are coming together at Wagg.it in order to join the new groups. Wagg.it's groups provide a chance for website owners and bloggers to share and exchange ideas about online business promotion, advertising, marketing, and tips for generating traffic.

get "web 2.0" support here!

) August 25, 2009 -- Gurgle.com would like to share the exciting news that it has just launched gurgle blogs.

What is gurgle.com?

Gurgle.com is a pregnancy and parenting community website which prides itself on its fun and friendly tone. At gurgle members can read a range of features on pregnancy and parenting-related topics, watch tutorial videos on everything from which food to avoid in pregnancy, to how to deal with toddler tantrums, and share tips with other parents or parents-to-be in the chat forums. As well as all this, members can now write their own gurgle blog

Why should parents or parents-to-be write a gurgle blog?

) January 30, 2009 -- In an effort to bring industry articles, blogs, news, and information into one place, DigitalSignage.com has created a custom news aggregation site for the digital signage industry. Interested Digital Signage users and consumers alike can now submit news stories, comment on recent articles, and suggest interesting and relevant information be posted to the news feed.

) November 17, 2008 -- Before today blog owners couldn't do much about the dull search results page on their blog. When installing site search on their websites or blogs, site owners are left with the typical, bland white background with blue or black text search results they've come to settle for from the "premier" site search solutions.

Viewzi For Publishers Blog View

) September 3, 2009 -- TheBlogFrog, a tech start up offering social add-ons (also called widgets) for blogs, is taking the mom blogger market by storm. The Boulder-based company offers social features for blogs that let blog readers ask each other questions, discuss relevant topics, and see each others' blog posts and Twitter streams, all without leaving the blog.

Hamann and Banks

) December 18, 2008 -- Friendster, Inc., a top 20 global website based on traffic and the #1 social network in Asia, today announced that the all-new Friendster Blogs and Forums are available to Friendster's over 90 million members worldwide. Both products have been enhanced with new features and redesigned.

Friendster

) August 19, 2009 -- Like its sister website (Regator.com), Regator for iPhone features a carefully curated collection of thousands of the web's best blogs as well as a searchable archive of more than three million high-quality posts. It is now available in Apple's App Store and is the only iPhone app to provide this level of access to top blogs.

With the unique new app, users can:

) October 23, 2008 -- Award-winning news and politics website Talking Points Memo announced today that it set new traffic records in September 2008. TPM drew 26.7 million page views and 2.6 million unique readers in September to its network of news aggregation, election and investigative reporting blogs.

It also set a new record for its video content, recording 16.3 million full YouTube video views in September. TPM's video channel TPMtv was consistently the most popular channel on YouTube.

September 13, 2008 --
My Experiment With Web Conferencing Service Search Engine Optimization
Conducting experiments are the best way to identify what works and what doesn't in SEO. With the permutations and combinations of different contexts no one rule can fit in for everyone.
The experiment I conducted was a tiny one but the questions it has raised is important. None of the results proved what I had already heard everyone say about Google domination.SEO Experts & Web Conferencing Companies
SEO experts suggest that we gather backlinks as if our life depended on it. Do it at any cost and through all ways and means. Web conferencing companies need to identify what works for them to get more search engine traffic to their sites. Web Conferencing SEO Experiment

) October 20, 2008 -- TxtVox continues its leadership in the burgeoning mobile messaging space with the rollout of AddToAny widget extensions. This seamless integration allows any user of the AddToAny subscription widget to instantly sign up for TxtVox blog alerts directly from within the tool.

"We are delighted to include TxtVox in our widget," commented Pat Diven II, Founder and President of AddToAny. "Our users are passionate about staying connected with their favorite blogs. The ability to easily sign up for mobile alerts should prove to be a very popular addition."

) December 9, 2008 -- Best of the Web is pleased to extend its directory services to users in the United Kingdom and Ireland. While the company's trusted search model is already popular with users in Great Britain, a localized UK directory (http://botw.org.uk) will provide its constituents with a comprehensive view of quality websites organized by region and topic.

) September 15, 2008 -- eLawMarketing, a leading provider of SEO services and other online marketing solutions to law firms and lawyers, announces the release of a new white paper entitled the The Top Ten SEO Best Practices for Law Firm Websites. The 6-page report provides SEO tips and strategies to help law firms and individual attorneys maximize the search engine visibility of their websites and blogs. Among the topics discussed are: composing effective title and description tags, keyword research, building internal links, soliciting external links, and monitoring SEO progress with Google's analytics and diagnostics tools.

) September 13, 2009 -- Serious webmasters know that links are an important part of the search engine optimization process (SEO), and http://www.Link-Exchangers.com (LE) currently offers a FREE Lifetime Upgrade at their site which provides webmasters with an excellent software tool to help in collecting relevant links between websites 24/7. The Lifetime free upgrade is available for a limited time.

We are very glad to announce the launch of a new directory at www.webmarketingindia.net/directory/. This Web directory allows all the people involved in various fields like education, business, computers, career, art, automotive etc to add their link for free, with no reciprocal links required. Directory is also have an option of deep linking i.e. people can submit inner pages of their website. The site was started in an effort to create a free and complete resource for the people who can get all the general information at one place.

) June 17, 2009 -- DirectSatTV, a leader in DIRECTV distribution, is proud to announce the beginning of their 2009 Best of Blog Awards meant to nominate the best of entertainment postings on blogs throughout the year. Nominations for the BoB Awards are currently underway and will end on July 15th, 2009. After the nomination period has ended, voting will open on July 22th, 2009 and end on December 1st, 2009. On November 1st, 2009 the front-runners for each category of the BOB Awards will be announced before voting closes.

) September 25, 2009 -- Internet marketing legend Matt Bacak is back with a newfound commitment to his blog. On a near daily basis, "The Powerful Promoter" has been updating his once-neglected Weblog with fresh content that provides genuine value to the reader. Recent topics have included Why Facebook Marketing Is a Must for Your Internet Marketing Arsenal of Tools and Marketing on Twitter Increases Visibility - And Profits.

) October 29, 2008 -- Unique Opinions, an innovative concept of providing free content to webmasters, has just been launched as a one of its kind service among other content providers. It not only supplies free and high-quality content, but it also aids in the distribution process via the use of social networking sites, also part of this free unique service.

) September 22, 2008 -- ContentSpooling.com has enhanced their services, providing a powerful, effective article marketing solution, perfectly balancing automation with manual control.

Customers using the unique service now get access to an expanded network of sites and blogs as distribution points, access to more article directories and superior statistical reporting of potential keyword choices. Customers can try out the powerful platform for a free and without risk for 21 days. Witness the power of ContentSpooling.com's enhanced features, presented in a redesigned, new-look Web site.

Coral Springs, Florida - CannyLink, an online directory, announced today that they are debuting new services to help site owners attract more visitors. The directory now offers the ability to create featured listings that get noticed at reasonable prices. In addition to this new service, the company has now made it possible to promote other online directories through home page listings.
Unlike many online directories, CannyLink goes to the trouble of hand coding each and every link on their site. This allows site owners the ability to ensure that their listing goes up the right way, without having to deal with tracking codes. When a site owner creates their link with CannyLink, they can be assured that they will get an actual link on a static page.

) October 9, 2008 -- 10to1.com, a social voting site, announces their new 10to1 Button, which provides an easy way to add voting and social networking to your site or blog. The button is one line of code that you add to your blog, website or article that quickly and easily introduces social voting and interaction to your readers. Because there is a lack of interaction on most sites, adding the 10to1 voting button quickly gives your users an easy way to give feedback on what matters to them.

) May 19, 2009 -- Jalbum connects their customizable web photo albums with blogs. The new Jalbum Blog badge is automatically updated and shared when an album is published with Jalbum. Photo albums can be published anywhere, to a free Jalbum account or the bloggers own site.

Jalbum blog badge

) October 5, 2009 -- In a clear sign that people are ready for a good laugh and have a desire to be happy, Cheezburger Network, formerly known as Pet Holdings, today announced that I Can Has Cheezburger? has served its billionth page - or 10 billion images - of cat-inspired photos and videos. The landmark was achieved in just over 33 months since the site launched in January 2007. It also comes on the heels of the company's September release of the four-week New York Times Best Seller "How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLCat Guide 2 Winning," which includes a brand new collection of LOLcats that provides hilariously evil tips on attaining world domination in a motivational book (for cats).

) January 21, 2009 -- This week, the Mannix Marketing, Inc. corporate blog, located at blog.mannixmarketing.com, was named on TopRank CEO Lee Odden's BIGLIST of Search Marketing Blogs - a selective, international compilation of the "Best Blogs On The Net."

Mannix Marketing Corporate Blog

Best Blogs On The Net.