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We’re wrapping up blogs month at OurChurch.Com, so what better way to end it than with a list of blogging tips.  Sure, there are lots of blogging tips articles out there already.  I even found an entire series of 30 articles each on a different tip for bloggers.  What I want to do, though, is boil it down to the best, most important, absolutely essential blogging tips.  So, here are my top 12. 
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Today marks Christian Web Trends’ first birthday.  To celebrate we would like to thank the people who have contributed to the success of this blog, take a look back at some of the highlights of the first year, and a look at what lies ahead.
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Comment spam is a huge problem for blogs.  Spammers use programs to automatically post thousands of bogus comments to blog articles with links to their websites in them.  Because search engines consider a link to a site to be a vote of confidence for that site, spammers spam blogs in the hopes that the links they post will boost their Viagra-hocking site (or whatever) to the top of the search results.

The NoFollow link attribute was developed to combat blog comment spam by telling search engines not to follow the link or count it in their ranking algorithm.  The theory was that if spammers are not getting any benefit from the links the post, they would stop spamming.

Unfortunately, the theory is flat out wrong and the NoFollow attribute has been a total failure. Why is that?  And what has Christian Web Trends done about it?
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As you probably know by now, February is Blogs Month at OurChurch.Com.  We’re pulling out all the stops to help people develop, improve, and promote blogs.  So, today we’re doing something very simple to advance that goal, a blog roll call.  If you publish a blog, post a comment with the name of your blog, a brief one-sentence description, and the URL.  It’s an opportunity for you to help get the word out about your blog to our 16,000+ readers.

Even if you don’t publish a blog, it’s a great opportunity to see what your fellow CWT readers are writing about.
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A blog can be a great way to help people by sharing information, insight, and inspiration with others who share your interests.  A blog is also one of the best ways to attract new visitors and links to your website.  But blogging is not for everyone.   In this article…

- Find out if blogging is a good fit for you
- What you need to know before starting a blog
- The biggest blogging decision you’ll ever make
- Tips for making a blog great (more…)

February is Blogs Month at OurChurch.Com.  A blog is one of the best ways to attract new visitors and links to your website. So, all this month we’re focusing on helping businesses, ministries, and individuals develop, improve, and promote blogs.  We’ll be blogging about bloging and doing some extra things here on the Christian Web Trends blog including the celebration of its first birthday.  In this article…

• Christian Web Trends survey
• Blogs discussion
• Do you blog?
• Christian Web Trends Award

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