Written by Elaine Ramos from Good Recruits on December 31, 2007

Goodbye 2007, Hello 2008!

A new year, a new chance for blogging. For the year 2007, I realized that my blogging career was a little “stagnant” as compared to my 2006 blogging career. Though that is the case, there are a lot of things which I am thankful in blogging for the year 2007. Here are some of the things which I am thankful for my 2007 Blogging year:

a. Paypal in the Philippines - I know that this is rather late for us in the Philippines but I am glad that…

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Written by Susan Gunelius from Women On Business on December 31, 2007

Marketers are desperately trying to learn the best ways to leverage social media marketing and bloggers play an essential role in driving word of mouth marketing as online influencers.  In short, bloggers can make or break a company’s viral marketing campaign. 

In 2008, we’ll undoubtedly see an even greater focus on social media marketing, and the stage is set for bloggers to take the lead as online influencers.  How can you increase your influence in the blogosphere and the larger world of Web 2.0?  The first step is to build your online network. 

If…

Written by Deborah Ng from Freelance Writing Jobs on December 30, 2007

Every year at the end of the year I post a long list of link love. I do this to turn others on to some of my favorite bloggers and also to say "thank you" to loyal members of the Freelance Writing Jobs community who visit me daily. Beginning in November, I ask those who are interested to send me the details of their blogs and I’ll post them all in one end of the year link love fest. I can’t buy them all holiday gifts, but maybe I can give…

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Written by Mani Karthik from Daily SEO Blog on December 30, 2007

Generating traffic to your blog in itself is a big task, then how do you manage to make the visitors stay? Do you take special care in it? I hope you do, because it is another important factor many of us comfortably ignore.

There are of course numerous ways to increase traffic. SEO, Social Media, etc. But unfortunately there aren’t any time tested scientific practices devised so far to keep your visitors stay at the blog. Of course, there are the trial and error methods and your intuitions that might work…

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Written by Kevin from System0 on December 30, 2007

Yesterday, wordpress released version 2.3.2 of their popular software.

This version is mainly just fixes bugs from version 2.3.1 however they have added a new feature which allows you to define a custom database error page. As always, back up your database and files before you upgrade your blog.

You can see the full announcement of this release here and can download it from here.

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