I was tagged by Alex Mayo from her site, thanks a lot Alex 
No, its not the playground recess kind of tag. According to the "Tagging" rules I'm supposed to answer her question of "Why I Blog" and then ask four other bloggers a question. Then we all get to play tag, sounds like fun, right?
Why do I Blog? Simple enough question I guess...
Do you want to find out what is being said in real time about you, your website, product or service? Finding a discussion that happened recently and not two years ago is often quite difficult from the regular search engine results. Thanks to a new breed of Alexa type Web 2.0 websites this is no longer the case.
One of these new Web 2.0 websites is called URLfan and it is useful to find out what people are talking about in real time. URLfan is a website that allows you to find the current buzz in the blogosphere and discover what's being talked about and referenced.
You want to get the best search engine rankings because you know that is the key to getting tons of targeted traffic to your website, but how? You've got tons of search engine competition in a highly competitive keyword. You may need to focus on these search engine ranking strategies below if you'd like to achieve better exposure.
Create a website with content that is valuable to your targeted visitor. If you've got great content on your site the search engines will naturally be drawn to it as long as its unique with proper keyword placement and structure. Some ways you could make your website valuable to visitors is by giving away a informative newsletter, ebook, coupons or just valuable information.
A good online marketing strategy is extremely important to building the internet business you desire. If you are involved in the turmoil of only focusing in on individual marketing tactics instead of an overall online marketing strategy you will not be as effective.
Your Marketing strategy versus your marketing tactics.
If your interested in tracking your online business buzz there are many ways to do so. A viral marketing buzz tracking tool I like to use to see what's being said about me or my business online is called Serph.
Finding long tail keywords to use on your website pages should be a part of your online marketing strategy. Long tail keywords are those 3 to 4 word long specific keyword phrases that people search for related to a product you're selling.
Targeting long tail search phrases is incredibly valuable because people who search for long tail keywords are often at the end of the buying cycle. This means they know what they want and are looking for information to confirm their buying decision and take action.
Compete is a consumer service that gives detailed consumer behavior charts to companies or anyone who wants to analyze website visitor behavior. It allows you to analyze your website, a competitors website or several websites together to track important visitor data.
Squidoo is a web 2.0 type website created by the famous viral marketing guru Seth Godin. Squidoo's purpose is to put the power of recommendation in the hands of people like you and me. Similar to a blog platform Squidoo's a great place to post reviews, personal thoughts and make money from them.
To start posting to Squidoo you need to create a SquidLens or also known as just a lens. You can start your squidoo lens on any topic you want. Once you've signed up, chosen a name for your page and added content, you click publish to get it live.
I'm in the market for the best forum software to use with a new domain I just picked up. Naturally I've been spending hours browsing through forum reviews and pros and cons of each forum software. Turns out that finding the best forum software isn't to hard if you've got a little bit of cash to throw around.
Choosing the best content management system to use for your website platform can be a challenging task. There are hundreds of different cms choices and price ranges for cms platforms.
Before you make a decision on which cms software to use you should definitely take some time to ask yourself this question. What do you want your website to do? Consider what you wish to accomplish with your website and which features you desire on your site.
In my experience there's no right or best cms platform out there. Instead there are the best content management systems based on certain criteria that you wish your website to achieve.