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• Basecamp -web-based project collaboration tool
• Convert PDF to Word online
• Tech news and tech news videos
• Think long and hard before starting that second or third blog
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• Skip, Scan, Stop, Save and/or Spread?

I have discussed how powerful an email list is in previous posts. You better start building an email list in the early days of your blogging. Once you build up a good subscriber base to your email list, you can monetize it in similar techniques as your blog. You may advocate products as an affiliate, sell advertising, sell your own products or just use it to foster relations.

Did you know that the next Google PageRank update will be in March 2009? Be proactive, and prepare your blog the next round. Here are a few easy techniques you can apply during March to get the highest Google PageRank:

• Add a Google Sitemap to your blog if you haven’t done before
• Do Offsite and Onsite SEO For your blog
• Join as many blog carnivals as possible
• If you have a custom blog design, learn How To Promote Your Custom Blog Design through CSS galleries. You will get some good quality backlinks.
• Learn The 5 Basic Steps Of SEO For Your Blog
• Download Google’s SEO Starter Guide
• Learn How To Track Your Keywords with HitTail
• Get Blog Buzz software and explore WordPress blogs with the ‘nofollow’ tag in the comments field. It will save your time and effort from searching for blogs manually to build backlinks by leaving comments on.
• Benefit from the free seo tools provided by the SEO Tools Shop.

Have your say, and tell me what else can be done to get the highest Google PageRank in the next round?

When you submit your blog to Google, you must also include a Google Sitemap. This specific sitemap is in a XML format and it allows Google robots to crawl your site more easily and efficiently. Meaning, a Google Sitemap will definitely bring more free traffic to your blog. The best of all, it is also recognized by other search engines like MSN, Yahoo, and Ask.

You can use Google XML Sitemaps plugin to add a Google Sitemap to your blog.

• Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
• Download the plugin.
• Once you’ve installed and activated it, select XML-Sitemap under Settings in your admin area.
• At the top of the page, click the link to generate the sitemap for the first time (no need to change any of the settings).
• You should see a success message.
• View the sitemap you just created at http://yourlocalhost/wordpress/sitemap.xml.

If you can afford only $17 , you can also try  Google Sitemap Maker Software which provides even better indexing for your blog posts.

For those of you who are interested in search engine optimization, probably you have already heard “onsite” and “offsite” SEO for blogs. You might be confused, that is why I decided to clarify the issue.

Onsite SEO refers to the steps that you can take to optimize the content on your blog to increase your search engine rankings. Onsite SEO is active, and involves factors that are completely in your control to optimize. Inversely , offsite SEO refers to all the other methodologies that don’t involve your own content that you can undertake to enhance your blog’s ranking in the search engines.