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Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues from SES NY 2009

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:53:00 +0000

Wow, here we go! Search Engine Strategies New York 2009 was great. I would like to talk about the dos and donts of duplicate content, one of the most interesting panel discussions on the event.

More and more site owners are concerned about Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues, Search Engine such as Google or Yahoo can penalize you if you have more than one page or site with the same content. That is what we call duplicate content.

If you run mirror sites, will search engines ban you? If you have listings that are similar in nature, is that an issue? What happens if you syndicate content through RSS and feeds? Will other sites be considered the "real" site and rob you of a rightful place in the search results? This session looks at the issues and explores solutions.So here are a few highlights from that session.

1) Duplicate content is not good always change it up new text keywords and overall content.

2) Always use a 301 redirect when using more then one URL to pint to one site or blog.

3)Having your brand name on more then one platform as a blogger only works with content that is not the same.

Citizen Jornalism tips using video blogs to ad value to your stories.

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:43:00 +0000

Seven Tips to better Citizen journalist video reporting.

1) Get The flip Video Camera this baby comes in HD and is very sleek.

2) Take the Flip where ever you go this is the most important rule next to keeping it charged or new batteries on hand. Depends on the unit you buy.

3) Keep your eyes open practice on small stuff like planed events in your area to get the hang of it.

4) When you see braking news get in the mix. Ask others main stream reporters the facts if you come of the right way they will help you out.

5) Find your way in this is not easy but can be done even covered in mud from your day job.

6) Be creative find your way in be nice and act confident.

7) Start a Citizen Journalist blog of your own and start Fliping out stories the day you get the camera.

The video below is Rick Bellini and Robert Bellini talking about airplane engine explosion of their varsity Heating and Plumbing building in Flushing Queens NY.

Louisville Budget Travel Examiner: Get paid $100,000 for spending six months on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:36:00 +0000

Louisville Budget Travel Examiner: Get paid $100,000 for spending six months on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

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How to Get Product Reviews That Can Drive Traffic And Affiliate Sales to Your Blog

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:02:00 +0000

The picture below is of Pineapple Jerky from Jerky.com

Check out our first review on Pineapple Jerky Review on our Camping Stories blog.

Product reviews are hot right now and can help you and the company your reviewing drive traffic and Affiliate Sales if you like the product. Also it will help drive links to the authority page 1 of Search engines like Google. By adding Videos and internet radio,pod casting and Social networking in the mix what will start to emerge is your own media company. Product reviews, affiliate marketing,Press releases, Sponsorships,ad campaigns and more.

How do you get started doing product reviews?

1) Look over your blogs topic see where you can fit in there are plenty of companies who do get the point and learn to harness this new power of the Internet web 2.0

2) When you find your topics and have keywords in mind go to Google and search for the product you want to work and just add review to the end of the search.

3) When you find your topics market reviews then link those products to their companies4) Also you can just Google search on product review for bloggers this should help you find companies who Dig what you do and understand its power.

4) Call their PR or Marketing team introduce your self and your brand. You may have to talk with someone who wants to know more before you talk to the right person. These are the gatekeepers they mostly just don't get it when it comes to new media. Don’t give up find your way through you to the one who will listen you can do it.

5) Once you got your contacts at the company see what they may have in lines of product reviews.

6) Now You have a product to review be honest don't think because you are sent something that you have to be nice if the product is unsafe, taste bad or anything else let it be known.

7) Don't be mean about a bad product be professional about your finds. Work with the company by providing feedback before posting a bad review. If you post a bad review you should let the company know so the can participate so they can grow from the user feedback.

8) Create good titles keyword rich, Carry major keywords into the post at the start of any paragraph then make it bold this will help spiders find it more easily.

9) Always provide a brief description of any pictures or video you post on your blog. This again helps Google see what's in Video and Pictures, Also name your pictures with keywords when you first save them to your computer this all helps with Search Engine Strategies.

10) Always find out what the company wants your anchor text to be it is so important that you don't just put Click here this has no SEO Value at all. It needs to be like Beef Jerky or Pineapple Jerky

to learn more about Search Engine Strategies in our Bloggers School post

What is blogging to you?

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:43:00 +0000

What is blogging or a blogger to you? There are so many Blog nowadays with these blogs come all types of topics. What kind of blogger are you Education, Citizen Journalist,Hobbie, enviromental,family,business blogger or main stream news. Some of us do one type while others enjoy a mix of many topic across many blogs they own or networks they post to. For me I love teaching,citizen Journalism,product reviews,sports and more. How do you know what type of blogger you are?

This is not that hard you to find out. It usally just happens to most people. There are other ways to find out. First do you like to write or shoot video? Second are you in a position to help others learn? Do you like to get stories that you see on the streets. Lots of Comapnies that do not blog need to watch there steps. for instance Path Mark supper markets had rotten meats because of open packaging. I Shot video and showed the manager. Later head quarters called me back I missed the call. I tried to call them back with no luck so I will post that video here youtube and on Helloignorants and Streets Journalism

The point is that companies have to do the right things these days with some many cameras watching. The best thing for these companies to do would be there own blog to control what happens by allowing others to post comments. Then they can do the right thing by following up. So look around you will find things to blog about or I should say they will find you. blogging on up to the east side.

The Flip Out Mino HD Challenge And Review

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:19:00 +0000

The Flip Out Challenge and review is simple, fun and will help you to create killer content for your visitors and make them become regular readers of your blog.

The original content is King for bloggers who want to do this full time. Maybe you want to be a Citizen Journalist and get nice stories for your own Social Media blog or website.

Today it take very little to get started: an URL, a host and you are off to the races. If this is what you love, then there has never been a better time, so put your game face on get moving. There are plenty of new opportunities opening up.

We have a president that embraces the New Internet Revolution and communications and has just released the White House Blog.

Good luck! Now Flip Out everyday. If you don't have a Flip yet that's great because they just came out with the new Flip Mino HD. We have received for review in the mail, and so far I am impressed.

So after you get your new customized Flip Mino HD from The Flip Store with the picture you want on it, do a review or a commercial for your business or brand. YouTube is has more page views than Google each day. Read The Flip Mino HD Camcorder Bloggers School Review.

Get a customized URL and lose the Blogspot

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:48:00 +0000

You can customize your URL using YourBrandName.com instead of having .Blogspot.com in your blog address and still keep using Blogger platform to host your blog.

The other way of having your dot com in the shape of a blog is buying your domain and then pay for a hosting service. What we did with BloggersSchool.com was buy the domain from GoDaddy and pay for their host. We are using WordPress.org plug in to power our new blog and it has being a super interesting experience. We will keep blogging here and on BloggersSchool.WordPress.com for learning interests.

The video below show how-to purchase and set up a Custom Domain through Blogger.

Why Blog? What is a Blog? Kids Answer With Excitement

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:32:00 +0000

This video is great! It shows one more time the new old age question of Why Blog? or What is a blog? What you are about to see it from the young students whose teacher has turn them onto Blogging. I have to say that I am proud of today's kids and the potential they have with all the latest tools. Bloggers School would like to thank the teacher for showcasing what she knows to be The future of information.

The Video Below is from YouTube's user Stacystube and shows Science online students talking about the question Why blog?

Here is our Why Blog explanation, from our Bloggers School

Everybody says it is difficult make things happen, make the ideas you have become reality. But how many people are trying? Besides that, most of the people are not graduated or are doing what they do best.

If you are the type of person who still feel afraid of starting your own business or even showcasing your talent, you did not realize the Social Media Revolution event yet

Social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Blog Catalog, Linked In, and sites such as YouTube and Ustream open to regular and until now unknown people the possibility of making themselves relevant, findable and even famous.

Why to start a blog for my business? Because since things that use to happen every 50 or 100 years happen nowadays in a few minutes or online, people’s needs and interests change every second too . Blogs are live and change every time they are updated, just like in the “real world”. Besides that, they are fundamentally about content, and good information makes your business get better ranks on Google.

If you don’t know how to get started or still have questions, we can help you. Bloggers School is the school and learning system of the future, including and educating people in to this Digital Era, helping them to create and customize their identities online. Bloggers School is also a Consulting and Mentoring services to everyone interested on making themselves their own brand to monetize their ideas and projects, being more happy and productive and reach their real goals in life.

Nowadays everyone will be connected and very soon very soon everybody will know each other. A fast search on Google (mention to the new comments boxes in the search result pages) can revel a lot about a person, and the whole thing is about reputation and the manners of Social Media and how to operate its tools. So, don’t loose any more time and start building your identity online.

New official "weblog'' on BloggersSchool.com

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:40:00 +0000

The very first advice for someone who heard about Blogs and Blogging and got all excited is get started. If you already have done it the second step is keep posting and follow through.

Blogger free platform, owned by Google, was our host for over two year. It is a very easy and self-explanatory platform, just perfect if you are not very familiar with computers or blogging.

However, several posts later, we realized the need of making our site more professional using tools the Blogspot domain could not provide us.

We are launching today BloggersSchool.com, our official blog and website, power by Wordpress.org.

We keep the updates on this blog and also in our BloggersSchool.Wordpress.com blog. If you want to learn how to build your own blog using a paid host, so you can have a .com, .net, .info, or .tv domain, visit your new page and read our very first post. Over there you can also learn the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.

Cocomment On Bloggers School Radio's Eye Candy Web 2.0

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:21:00 +0000

Cocomment will be taking the time to call into the show Dec 7Th @8PM EST on Bloggers School Radio. We will be talking about Cocomment tool and how it all works.

The coolest thing I seen yet from Cocomment is that if you sign up and download the free plugin It not only is track by your account and comments but also it adds automatic updates to your Twitter profile every time you comment or receive a comment. So if you don't have a Cocomment or a Twitter account there is a lot of work that needs to be done.

How to get sponsors for your Blog

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:28:00 +0000

Why does your Blog deserve sponsors? You want to monetize your blog, but you don't know hot to get started? Lets see how Bloggers School can help you

• You know about and use all the tools Social Media and web 2.0 have to offer

• You are producing good content, putting out relevant information and posting very often

• You join the discussion, got the credibility of your community and you have regular readers

• You work hard at what you do and you are passionate about sharing good content

Finding matches for your Blog: What kind of support do you need and witch companies could help you out?

• Think of companies that you trusted and you would definitely hire their services or buy their products

• Do a research about companies that are relevant to your blogs topics

• Keep yourself posted about the image and the reputation of your potential sponsors on the new stream media and, more important, online

• Make sure those companies understand what blogging and new media are and respect their potential

•Look for those who get the whole vision of what you are proposing and what exactly they can expect

What can your blog offer to your Sponsors? Make a list and memorize your approach!

• Your readers and your traffic as potential buyers or clients to them

• Your influence in your community to talk about their services and products

• Your knowledge and information about Searching Engine Optimization (SEO), New Medias and Social Media tools that their marketing team maybe don’t have

What having Sponsors can do for your Blog? Make sure you will talk to your potential supporters about it

• Products, services, funds and structure to make you and your site more professional

• Visibility and exposure to your brand to their public and followers

• Your sponsors may give you referrals that can give you long lasting business relationship with other companies for years to come

Getting past the gate keepers... Don't give up on the first try!

• Some old Gate Keepers still remain old school in most of people thoughts. Get around them and your chances become grater of landing a sponsor

• Find the contact info for your potential Public Relations or Marketing Team

• Give them your best elevator pitch of your vision

• Let the gate keepers know that when this info finally reach the minds of those possible partners, they could be the one who brought the info to the person in charge

• Don't give up! You may have to speak to as many as seven people before you get an e-mail address to send your proposal to.

• Remember the law of averages: the more people or companies you speak to look for the ones that say 'NOs' and the 'YESes' will find you

• Always show your potential sponsors what they will get out of it. Be passionate and it will shine through

How to write an e-mail proposal? It's time to formalize your idea by e-mail

• Try to be very informative about who you are, what do you blog or pod cast about. Don’t forget to provide in your message links to your content

• Be specific about what do you need from them, what is your deadline, inform quantity and sizes, and don’t forget to say what you can offer

• Always put your signature in your e-mails linking back to your site and remember: nowadays e-mail are binding contacts

• Don’t forget to leave all your contact info and check every single link and number you added to your e-mail

Adding Gadgets to your blogger blog

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:46:00 +0000

Gadgets can help add a costumized look to your blog and the amount of time people spend on your site. To get and install Gadgets to your blog watch this video from YouTube user Blogger Help.
Below is a video from blogger help to make sure you install the Gadgets the right way.

After you ad a Gadget please send us an email with your URL so we could see your blog and new Gadget. Bloggersschool@gmail.com

Blogging about New Years Eve 2008-2009

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:17:00 +0000

There are many things you can blog about for New Year, like parties, dinners and events that are happening around this time. The New Years Eve Ball attraction, for example, is bringing news and technology to Times Square, in New York.

This will be the first year that the new ball will be left in place as a permanent fixture for the world to see year round when they come to NYC to visit. The new ball, in the picture below, has millions of colors and patterns that can be change every night to make a new feel to the city. They already promised special editions of the ball for the next 4th of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving holidays.

Here is an article we post on Street's Journalism, one of our other blogs, about the new permanent New Years Eve Ball.

Bloggers School would also like to wish you all Happy Holidays and a great start next year. We want you all have the best performance in your personal and professional projects, and we know Blogging is the perfect way to get started.

We hope in 2009 we can be your blogging school or consultants.

iBreakfast discusses why you should get a Widget for your blog

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:44:00 +0000

Widgets are little things, but in the digital world these little windows in to your blog can be something so valuable that if you still don't have one it is better start thinking about it.

Widgets are basic small applications or programs used on web pages to provide a specific function. The newts thing now is using Widgets as little windows for other blogs or sites or even with an alternative space for updated content and instant messages.

The last iBreakfast of the year happened in New York last December 18th and brought three of top producers and entrepreneurs from the Widgets business. They talked about the process for monetizing of these platforms, many types of use and possibilities for the future.

The speakers Michael Chin, from KickApps, Chris Damsen, from Netvibes, and Chris Kobran, from Clearspring, exposed why these mini-sites that stick to other sites are becoming so valuable. They also discussed how Widgets are attracting advertisers and other marketers looking to grow and keep a loyal audience.

Bloggers School attended to the iBreakfast and shoot the video below that shows a couple of questions answered for the iBreakfast guests. The title of the panel moderated by Alan Brody was "Wealth in Widgets".

For BuzzLogic, influence is golden

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:44:00 +0000

Is you blog wealth? Witch means: are you posting often, using the keywords properly and producing killer content? Are you also joining tools and networks to promote your blog and joining the conversation leaving comments in other sites and blogs that cover your subject as well, right? So probably your blog is not only wealthy, but healthy, and you are ready to monetize it!

Advertising networks such as BuzzLogic can help you with professional Ads, but your blog has to be on shape to get this help. What their platform is able to do is analyze who is influential in the Blogosphere and determine which blogs perform best for specif companies. The advertisers pay a premium for this targeting technology, and BuzzLogic pass the benefit to the blogs who holds the announces.

If you want to learn more about BuzzLogic and the Conversational Ad Network they are about to release, listen to our radio show on BlogTalkRadio Network. Bloggers School will be talking live to BuzzLogic, 8PM EST, about their technology, besides answering listeners questions.

Eye Candy Web 2.0 - Bloggers School's new segment helps you to select Hottest Tools and Coolest Sites to Power Your Blog

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:59:00 +0000

Create a blog is very easy. It is self-explanatory. You just have to follow the steps and in a couple minutes you are ready to go. You can post and entry. But the thing is as soon as you start posting and comparing your blog to others you realize there are so many tools out there that you need a deep immersion to know everything about it.

Last September during BlogWorld Expo, in Las Vegas, we learned about a lot of tools, network sites and platforms built to made the Blogsphere easier and better. Since Bloggers School has been taking new and very exciting ways. We are getting new Blogging Consulting clients, witch made us start using and testing those different products to offer to them, so they can customize and improve their blogs.

That is our new segment in our weekly Radio Show on the BlogTalkRadio Network is about: EYE CANDY WEB 2.0 - Hot Tools and Cool Sites to Power Your Blog. We will be talking to the creators, webmaster and the people behind the platforms and leaning more about their services. Our goal is help our clients and audience to choose the best and the more appropriate bookmarks, widgets, search boxes, and social networks sites for their kind of use.

Every Wednesday, 8PM EST we will be showing you the best tools and "toys" you can install in your blog to track your audience, understand how people are finding your information and blog more professionally.

Starting an online business in down times

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:15:00 +0000

With so many people unemployed it's a great time for starting an online business. We have you covered from your start as a Blogger, Podcaster, Citizen Journalist, Affiliated Marketing or Social Network.

1) Get your URL from GoDaddy.com Discount Domain Club

2) Get cards calenders or poster printing from an online printing service. Make sure you put your web page on it

3) Give out your cards and build your brand online and offline

4) Blog it up! Show you have a lot of knowledge about your topic

5) Find ways to monetize your blog using Affiliate Marketing links and looking for places that buy reviews and you can blog about your subject, like Sponsored Reviews. We also added an affiliate link to GoDaddy, and you can do the same. Just make sure the content is relevant to the review or the affiliate link.

Check out the new Flip Mino Camcorder Designable

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:22:00 +0000

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I was checking out The Flip's website and learned about this new model that has been just release, The Flip Mino. In this picture you can see a Flip Mino personalized with my picture, Carolina Frederico.

The Flips are already known for being the Bloggers best friends, for being easy to use and make the uploads to the web faster. The new Flip Mino is smaller and thinner and has the same exact performance as the Flip Ultra. The Flip MinoHD, however, has 4GB of internal memory and promisses high-definition quality videos.

The new Minos, the new Bloggers Sweetheart can only be purchased from the Pure Digital Inc. Site and the models are available in black or can be personalized with pictures from your personal archive.

Learn how to use Affiliate Marketing from Zac Johnson to make real money online

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:14:00 +0000

Do you want to make money that could create a better lifestyle for your family? Of course you will have to work for it, but who told you that has to be hard, that there isn't an easier way?

What I am about to show you is a real way of making residual income: it's called Affiliate Marketing and it getting more popular as time moves on. Imagine selling brand names that you know, trust and have putting links in your site? You just have to blog about your topic and mention the links for services and products that mach with your topic. If you update often, putting out good content and relevant information, your traffic will considerably grow and you will make the sales.

Visit Zac Johnson's Blog for more details. He is a very good example of real profit.

Zac will be with us live Wednesday, November 19th @ 8PM EST, on Bloggers School Radio. Join us and call in to ask your questions about Affiliate Marketing.

The video below was made by Moneyreignis and it is about how Zac Johnson made 806.000 dollars in four months.

The video below was made by Affiliate Summit and has Zac Johnson talking about online Affiliate Marketing and the use of a blog.

What is the IBNMA?

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:57:00 +0000

The IBNMA is the International Blogging and New Media Association. You can learn more about what the association stands for in its website.

Blogging, Podcasting and other forms of New Media have become tools of an emerging industry. The International Blogging and New Media Association has been formed to serve as a single voice representing members of the industry and as an advocate to promote its growth. The Association's mission is four-fold: To provide Research, Information, Education and Advocacy to bloggers, podcasters, social media practitioners and others related to the industry in any way.

The IBNMA is the brainchild of Rick Calvert, the creator and Co-founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo, that Bloggers School attended for the second time last September. Rick Calvert saw a need to bring the international online community together so it can evolve as one voice in a new media world.

It was a pleasure to meet up again with Rick Calvert at BlogWorld and first meet the president of the IBNMA, Paul Chaney. Chaney will be live in our next Radio Show, Wednesday, November 12th @8:00PM EST, answering questions and talking more about the Association.

In the video below, Paul Chaney talking about Social Marketing.

Free Blog Traffic: how to

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:54:00 +0000

In this video Bob Parsons, the founder of GoDaddy, will give you five special and inexpensive tips to generate traffic for your blog or site. Pay attention, realize how you can apply these actions to your business and get it going. It really works.

Regator.com: a tool witch selects the best blogs and post online

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:55:00 +0000

This week Bloggers School is interviewing Kimberly Turner, Co-Founder & Editorial Director from Regator.com. The site is a blog aggregator witch selects the best blogs and post online. Regator.com is not only a blog search engine, because they select the content they publish. If your blog is selected, you can show videos, audios. The site has lot of viewers and is a win for all involved: from the blogger to the reader and the creators of Regator, Scott Lockhart, Co-founders CEO; Chris Turner, CTO; and Kimberly Turner.

Regator.com is located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Learn more about Affiliate Marketing from Shawn Collins, the founder of Affiliate Summit

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:05:00 +0000

When the subject is Affiliate Marketing you have to learn from a real Affiliate Guru.

Affiliate Marketing lessons can bring in big bucks if done right. Shawn Collins is one of the biggest affiliate marketing gurus around. He is the founder of Affiliate Summit, Affiliate Tip and Ask Shawn Collins. Shawn will be live tomorrow, Thursday, October 23rd, on Bloggers School Radio at 5:00 PM EST.

To see our other post about Shawn Collins, hit our BlogTalkRadio Blog

You can see above a video of Shawn Collins from AskShawnCollins.com with some info about Affiliate Marketing for newbies.

Interview with Joyce Schwarz, creator of The Vision Board

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:55:00 +0000

This Thursday October 16Th at 8:O0 PM EST we will be talking with Joyce Schwarz creator of the book called The Vision Board on Bloggers School Radio, on the BlogTalkRadio network. She will be explaining how all you bloggers can create a Vision Board for your blogging projects or any aspect of your life.

The author of The Vision Board - The Secret to an Extraordinary Life, Joyce Schwarz, is a nationally acclaimed Hollywood & VIP career strategist and new company launch expert features insider secrets, tips and exercises to guide you in creating a visual guide and collage-like system called a Vision to design your life. Joyce Schwarz may be best known for launching the Missing Kids on the Milk Carton campaign.

Joyce has created and accomplished allot at a young age. We are very happy to welcome her to our show it is a true honor. She has also written 5 other books like Hollywood 2020 and many more. She know lots about Product launches, Sponsorships, writing books, networking and is very remarkable. She also started Joycecom, where she workers with many brand name companies to help the to gain ground in there markets. Joyce also had ihaveavision made just for the book the site is very sharp and delivers a nice feel to get you excited about the book and give you even more info about visioning.

We meet Joyce Schwarz at the Blogworld Expo 2008 along with other great people that hold and share tons of knowledge about what they have done. That knowledge can help you move forward. This show is the kick off to our continuing coverage of the great people who attended or spoke at BlogWorld Expo 2008. This is the reason we keep telling you all to come next October 2009. The info you will receive and the people you meet are priceless.

Next Thursday we will have Shawn Collins creator of The Affiliate Summit on Bloggers School Radio. This show is at 5:00 PM instead of 8:00 PM just for the show with Shawn then we move back to every Thursday at 8:00 PM EST.

How to start a blog: use the desire and find a blog host?

info@smokescreenplate.com (John A Ciampa) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:21:00 +0000

How to start a blog?

So you are ready to start a blog great your moving in the right direction.Learning to blog can be sometimes hard but has it rewards. If you started one already even better don't look back. If this is what you love I mean the topic you will blog about then go for it don't let anything stand in your way. Want it so bad it is almost painful. Then use the pain as an alternative fuel to drive your vision home consult with others when necessary to get the job done.

Now that you have the desire it time to pick a host. This blog is hosted on Blogger owned by Google and has worked for me so far but there are many other tools available on other platforms such as Movable Type and word Press. Coming back from the Blogworld expo this past month we learned about movable type and the tools it offers and looks like it's the place to be right now. to

Then there is Word Press this is a tricky one there are two Word Press platforms one at www.wordpress.com that does not allow business site to be used on that platform and then www.wordpress.org this one does allow Affiliate Marketing and has lot of automatic plugins to make the life of an Affiliate marketer really Smooth. We will be talking to Shawn Collins October 23rd At 5PM EST on Bloggers School Radio Shawn is the inventor owner and operator of the Affiliate Summit we will be asking him more about plugins and Wordpress vs other platforms like blogger and movable type in the use of Affiliate marketing today.

Bloggers School offers a full line of blog consulting contact John1516-232-3463 or by email bloggersschool@gmail.com happy blogging