I've found very interesting site about blogs -
http://blogandpingtutorial.blogspot.com/

If you have own blog, you can register there and even get the reward!

I'm posting here an article I liked but I truly advise youi to visit this site, because there are a lot useful resources, materials, links.

What makes a blog great?
And how you can have one of them

The author who benefits you most is the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance. - Oswald Chambers.


We bloggers are so much addicted to our blogs, our community, and try to give our best to Internet. We are the source of great user developed content on Internet that has helped many people. Before us Internet was such a dull place.

I tried to write this post with some serious matters like Link Building, Link Bating, Web2.o and a few case studies on how great blogs are made in short time. But I scrapped the paper and threw it into the bin. Because optimization doesn’t make a blog GREAT. It’s that SIMPLE. So stop wasting your precious time and working too hard on optimization( a little is useful, a lot is a waste).

Blogging is meant to be interactive and thought provoking. It’s time we need to grow from bloggers, to great influencers for people coming to Internet, looking for direction.
I recently did a post on why you now need to be different otherwise you can’t be anywhere in the picture. Check out the post here.

You might be happy with your links, and might have a good Technorati ranking, but did you check your traffic statistics? HOW MANY VISITORS does each link send you daily? Most of them send you spiders. I still wonder how much juice that spider gets me from that link. I suggest you that you can still work less and get links, which actually send you visitors. REAL people.

Great blogs definitely influence our lives online and offline, and we unknowingly create paths to send them our readers, through links and forum discussions. That’s the way it is meant to be.

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Normally bloggers forget that blog is a best platform to influence people by their thoughts, experience, or in their way of thinking. There is a big mistake by throwing ads on their visitors. How can you let a visitor get out of your influential circle for few cents?

Everybody is predicting, a soon to be coming REVOLUTION in blogging. As the long tail of bloggers is getting thicker, it’s a definite place where big corporate companies will be looking for bloggers start focusing for their online presence.

Now if you seriously think blogging and a few bucks really don’t matter to you, then start challenging yourself. There is a need to grow your influential circle, and try to keep each and every visitor coming back to, giving value to your words.

Why is this important?

Not all are going to be successful. Only few best are going to be in serious business.
So it’s always better to first establish yourself as an acceptable blogger as well as your blog in the blogosphere before thinking for monetizing your blogs.

We can expect Network blogging to come up more effectively, more optimized content management solutions, with some more breakthroughs to happen in coming time.

Now its time for you to get out there and provide content worth you reader’s time. I can assure you he will keep coming back to you and bring in more of his friends, and will repay you with link love. Link exchanges and memes are out. You are going to be loved for your quality and efforts to help other with the information you provide.

Be Contagious, and make your blog addictive and be ready to get more Fame.

Register here for Blogging to Fame Contest.
(http://www.bloggingtofame.com/index.php?register)

Best Of Luck,
Divya Uttam.

Great blogs definitely influence our lives online and offline,

Completely true!
To be honest, I had even dreams with the presence of blogs while I slept!
It was blog of pretty girl and she used to post there not only her writings, but her photoes! 

For those of you, who have blogs, this would be interesting.
It's from the same blog site I've mentioned at the top


Selection Process begins for First week
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Its been time that I have written any post and I do apologise for not giving much Quality content...

Things have been busy lately, there are a lot many ideas I am working on to make the event better. So here is a little update about the Contest-

As been told previously, and for a reminder the contest is divided into two parts-
1) For Blogs
2) For Bloggers

The Contest for bloggers will go on till 1st November, 2007 where you can keep collecting fame for yourself till then. The selection for the bloggers will depend on their-
a) Social Popularity
b) Blog Popularity
c) Style of writing
The 5 Bloggers who will win the contest will get $5000 each.

The Contest for Blogs is a bit complex, where in there would be a selection of 500 blogs in an ongoing process of 10 weeks. After it, we will assign 100 blogs each to 5 Jury members and the rest can be read at the Contest rules. These would be eligible for winning the grand award of $25,000 and three $10,000 awards.

As for our final 500 blogs and 10 weeks process, Week 1 has started and selection is going on for first 50, wherein the fames collected and the quality are both taken into consideration.

The Process Is Defined as Following:

1) All Blogs who have fames above 30 automatically come in our selection criteria, out of which Top 40 will be selected.

2) 10 will be selected from the rest on their Quality. Quality parameters have been decided with the Jury.

So you may even get selected if you have just entered the competition and have only a few fames for your blog depending upon how you write and quality you maintain at your blog.
The results for the first week would be announced at the site on 25th June, 2007.

Get there and get going, collect more Fame for yourself and increase your chances of becoming an A-List Blogger.

Best of Luck for the Contest.
Divya Uttam

http://blogandpingtutorial.blogspot.com/

For me there is only one thing that can make a blog great: content! With poor content you will waste time trying to get your blog on top positions despite of good design and SEO efforts.