Blogging Questions & Answers 10

Time for another Blogging Questions & Answers. If you want to ask a question, you can do it by leaving a comment on this post. All questions will be answered.
1. Greg asks:
I am starting my first blog for our retail store. I was thinking of using the blog as the website. What do you recommend as an introductory entry for a blog?
Should I just briefly describe what we do, where we’re located, store history, etc…?
PageRank Update Coming in 2-3 Days
Hey I am not the one saying it, the word is coming from Mr. Matt Cutts (head of Google’s web spam team).
As you probably know this is just an update of the nominal PR, the one you see on the toolbars. The real one is updated much more frequently, and that is the one that affects your search rankings.
July 2008: Thanks for Our Sponsors
Just a quick note to thank our sponsors. I am also glad that all of them provide valuable and relevant services for bloggers and webmasters, so it’s a win win situation for everyone. Check them out.
Star Trek Blogging: The Borg Way
This is a guest post by Joshua Clanton.
Here is the final part on the Star Trek Blogging saga. In the past we covered the Klingon and the Vulcan approaches to blogging. Now it is the Borg’s turn.

Scour Pays You for Searching the Web: Could It Work?
I know, whenever someone offers to pay you for surfing the web, searching or sending emails around you should be suspicious right? This morning I received an email from a friend inviting me for this new search engine called Scour, which promises to pay you for searching, commenting and voting on the results on their website. It got me curious so I went to check out.

Google Is About to Buy Digg, and I Hope They Do!
There have been rumors for a while on the possible acquisition of Digg by the Mountain View behemoth. Yesterday TechCrunch reported that the negotiations should be on the final stage. The price tag is around $200 million, and Digg would be joining the Google News umbrella.
Blogging Idol: Third Week Update
Some big updates as we head for the fourth and final eight days of competition (it ends on July 31). The biggest controversy was related to the performance of the two leading blogs.

Blogging for Beginners Videos
My friend Yaro Starak is getting ready to open the Blog Mastermind course again, and by doing so he just launched a site with several how-to videos for beginners. The cool thing is that he is not requiring registrations or email list signups in exchange for that. You just need to visit the site and start watching the videos (10 of them available right now).









