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If you've got a blog, perfect, it's a great way to get started online.  A blog can be your main website or it can be a nice complement to a website that you already have, either way, blogging technology has made it super easy to get a blog set up and the best part is blogging software is free.

But blogs, just as with any website, need lots of traffic.  Yes, blogs get a lot of search engines recognition because they are structured so well, but you're still going to have to do your part to get as much traffic as you can to your blog so promotion is still important.

Here are a few steps for you to follow so that you can quickly begin to increase traffic to your blog …   More… »

Recently I've been following the buzz that Ken Evoy has generated with the article he sent out called:

"Why Blogging Is A Massive Mistake".

Just the title is enough to raise an eyebrow.

I don't think blogging is a mistake and I'm sure the millions of bloggers out there would agree.

If you read Ken's article, he makes some interesting points, but they are all debatable.

For example let's look at the 3 major flaws Ken points out with Blogging… More… »

I think so; it’s the spammers and the blog bullies that are bad.

As I was reading Dan Thies' comments on 'Comment Kahuna', it got me to thinking about this tool, which I do use on occasion …and it's free  

By the way, I just want to also say that I really like Dan Thies and I hang on his every word, in my opinion he's one of the best SEO guys around, and I love his "SEO Fast Start Guide", amazingly enough it's still free and if you don't have a copy – you're missing out!

Anyway, getting back to Comment Kahuna, I use it mostly because it helps me find relevant blogs that I can not only comment on but it also helps me find out what people are saying and what people are really looking for.  I don't always make comments, occasionally I do but unlike a lot of  'link focused' bloggers, I think that if it's worth my time to make a comment then I should actually try to contribute something, call me crazy!

So I like Comment Kahuna, it helps me find relevant blogs that I can intelligently contribute to. If there are people using it to spam blogs for their own personal gain then it's unfortunate.  Like I think Dan is saying — it's not Comment Kahuna that's bad, it's the people using it inappropriately that are bad.

Yes, Comment Kahuna does look specifically for blogs that use the 'nofollow tag', that may or may not be a bad thing and if your blog isn't using the 'nofollow tag' you are theoretically subject to more spamming, but that's what I have Askismet for and it does a pretty good job of nailing spammy comments.

I'm thinking that if someone takes the time to make a thought provoking useful comment to my blog why not pass them a follow link for their efforts and let Akismet take care of the spammers.

Trackbacks are an excellent way to initiate the sharing information with another website. 

It's a great way for you to initiate a connection with another blogger instead of waiting for those bloggers to discover you. 

But more importantly trackbacks can increase the awareness as well as the credibility of your blog.   After all, people have to think that your posts are good enough to be trackbacked.

Imagine if 5 different bloggers trackbacked a post on your blog.  Depending on how popular their blog is, that’s potentially as much as a hundred new readers for your blog! That's a lot of good traffic you may not otherwise get.  Nice, huh?     More… »