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I was reading a really great article by Alex Iskold of Read/Write Web about why Technorati is more than just a blog search engine. Alex had written the article in response to Emre Sokullu’s piece on Technorati’s exit strategies now that it had fallen behind Google Blog Search on traffic. It is useful to bear in mind that Emre’s piece is not the only one that discusses threats against Technorati from Google and examining exit options. For example, the business magazine Inc. discussed the same topic in its most recent March issue.

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I am a big fan of bloggers doing paid reviews. When done right, everyone wins–the blogger who gets paid, the advertiser who gets exposure and constructive criticism, and the readers who get a recommendation.

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Let’s take a look at the titles of some business books and see if we can use them to help our blogging.

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There can be more than one reason why a reader visits a blog repeatedly. Thus, it’s important to identify as many reasons as possible and use those to guide our posting. Does this advice sound strangely familiar? If you read my post on fool-proof brainstorming, it is the foundation for the Visitor Grid method of brainstorming outlined in that post. As probloggers, it is obvious that if we know why people are coming back to visit time and time again, we can focus our posting and make sure we post only what our readers want to read.

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