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The Relationship Between Bloggers And Journalists Is Complicated

July 4, 2010 - 6:22 pm No Comments

You should be able to set up a podcast using Blogger and FeedBurner in about the time it takes for all the images on this page to finish loading. Some bloggers tweak high traffic pages to add keyword modifiers to the page content, which helps them get a bit more traffic by ranking for additional keyword phrases.

Like everything else that Google touches, Blogger has been instrumental in bringing a practice that was the privy of the technologically savvy into the mainstream. In this case it is the habit of keeping an online journal. it’s good to nominate other bloggers for their merit, and not just because you either can’t think of anyone else to nominate, want to put them on the spot, or want to dig out the dirt on someone. Because it is owned by Google, Blogger integrates well with the full line of Google applications. You can add your blog link to your Google Chrome page, add it to your bloglines feed, and find all sorts of add ons that help blogger to run better and do more things. Google has kept up well with the newest waves of technology and now allows you to purchase your own domain name for $10 per year and host your blog on your own domain name. This is obviously more professional-looking than having yourname.blogspot.I used that method to host JavaScript files of my previously released magazine style blogger template ‘ Falkner Press. Although the option for using your own domain name does bring Google back into the mainstream, most people consider a Blogspot blog to be less professional-looking than a WordPress blog.

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