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Many virgin bloggers face two issues when they first venture into blogging. The first, is lack of content inspiration and the second is getting comments on your blog posts. We’ll cover writer’s block on another post. Today I’d like to help you with the comment aspect. Having a new blog with no comments is like buying and driving a brand new range rover and no one to show it off to! What’s the point?

Okay, it’s not exactly the same thing. With blogging you should be writing because you’re passionate about what you’re blogging about. So that a lack of acknowledgment will not dissuade you from pursing your writing. Although this is important, the whole point of web 2.0 and blogging is the idea of a community and interaction. I don’t know about you but a community of 1 "ain’t" much of a community to me.  So what’s a newbie to do about getting more comments?

There are some obvious things you’ve probably read such as: Write good content, Get Your SEO skills up,  Be a celebrity and blog about nonsense. But that may not always be practical or even available to all bloggers. So here are some other ways to get more comments to you your blog.

1. Write incomplete articles.

As human beings we’re all pretty much trained to create an ending for any of the stories we tell.  That’s the whole point of telling a good story, right? That may be great when you’re reading a bed time story to junior. But

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For any business it’s extremely important to look for ways to keep up with your competitors and if you’re smart staying ahead of them. There are several ways to conduct business market research. You can send spies to their store fronts or websites to snoop around. But that takes time and energy that your spies employees could be using to make you more money.

You could sign up for your competitors newsletter or mailing list. That’s actually very cost effective but if your competitor isn’t active in those fronts then it really serves you no purpose. Or if they’re smart they’ll boot your ass off their list!

Competitive Analysis

Why not hire the biggest and best aggregator of data on the earth today, My friend and yours, Google.com!

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My favorite Internet marketer, John Reese has just released a new free Internet marketing video which is a trailer to his new course: "How To Build A Successful IMA Business".

In the 60 minute teaser video, John discusses his new philosophy on Internet marketing. It’s actually a very refreshing view of the online marketing landscape. In a nutshell, John is implying that many of us have been lead astray by "Gurus" who claim that there is no money in marketing to other Internet marketers. I wonder why the gurus have been saying that for so many years? Could it be that they want all the glory and money for themselves? Duh! But true to form John takes responsibility for his part in pumping these lies as well. He goes through 10 myths about Internet marketing and systematically dispels each one.

It won’t surprise me if John loses some guru buddies.

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Search Engine Optimization basically consists of two main factors your content and people linking back to you. The latter accounts for most of the weight in Google’s eyes. We’ve all heard that web 2.0 is the Internet. Period!  It’s not a fad and it is here to stay. So we as Internet marketers need to come to grips with that, evolve and discover how to use this phenomenon to our advantages without abusing it! Yes its a fine line. But so many things are in the marketing world.

What Is Social Bookmarking?
One way to balance marketing and adding value to the web 2.0 community is to use Bookmarking websites. In a nutshell a bookmarking website is an online tool that people use to… Guess what? Bookmark or save their favorite sites. But unlike the bookmarks you may be using in Firefox or Internet Explorer (Do people still use that browser?), websites saved on social bookmarking networks are made public. This makes total sense since Web 2.0 is all about sharing content and interactivity. Chances are if you’re bookmarking a website, you must feel it has some inherent value. Consequently this may also mean that others will share the same perspective about these websites.  So having it online for the world to see is an easy way to share that value and website.

How To Use Social Bookmarking Sites For Backlinks
Okay enough about the sharing is caring B.S. Here’s what’s in it for you on the marketing end.

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