There’s no better way to help our members here within the community then by writing a post about the top essentials needed to benefit the most from our social community.

Something our members enjoy doing is engaging and voting for other bloggers within their niche. In order for our members to do this successfully and most efficiently is to ensure you have the follow five Blog Engage essentials.

The First Essential

The Blog Engage Word Press Plugin. This allows members that are visiting your website to either submit your content and or vote on an existing article. It also lets the user know you will in return engage with their blog article.

The Tweetmeme Button. Our members all love twitter and if you add the tweet meme button to your blog our members will re tweet if they like the content. So make sure you add the button you will 100 percent see an increase in your tweets.

You can make it look nice by adding this to your tweetmeme settings.

float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 10px;

(Change from left to right depending on your placement)

Sexy Bookmarks. This plugin is really beneficial and also have the blog engage submissions button to. Make sure to download and add it to your blog. I would suggest adding the main sites and not using them all. Please include blogengage as your first option. Look at the ones I have added here on my blog and copy it. These are the main sites our members currently use.

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Thanks,

Brian

As our community grows larger so does the participation within our weekly word challenge. I must remind everyone the true purpose of the challenge is to go out and engage in intellectual conversations on the blogs that have been submitted.

This weeks word was actually split into two seeing we have a tie. So the articles being submitted are based on Blog Maintenance and Blogging Tips.

So over the weekend and including today please join us and comments on all the articles I mention within this weekly word challenge wrap up.

Don’t be shy we don’t judge. Simply make sure you read the article and post an interesting comment.

This weeks participants are,

Blogging Tips – Starting a New Blog

DoFollow On Your WordPress Blog

Blogging Tips To Start A Proper Blog Like A Pro

Blogging Tips – WordPress Backup DB Plug-in

Need to Find Blogs to Read and Comment On? Try Blog Engage

Create the perfect search engine environment

How do you submit your article?

Simply leave a reply in Monday’s word challenge article with your url or state your submission is in your comment luv.

Why participate

Because all articles submitted to the challenge will be promoted on by me here on our word challenge linking directly to your word challenge post. This also includes retweets from myself with over 1800 followers. Also other members will be joining us in conversations on your blog. This is a great way to find new readers and get comments.

Be sure to add me as a friend on blog engage, bbrian017

Vote for next weeks words.

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Thanks,

Brian

Seeing the weekly word challenge ended in a tie 33.3% for both options I thought what a better way to get more people active and to allow two different options. So this week not only do we have one word to pick from but two.

Also take note you still only have to submit one article. You don’t have to complete an article for each word.

Blog Maintenance

Blogging Tips

How do you submit your article?

Simply leave a reply in the article with your url or state your submission is in your comment luv.

Why participate

Because all articles submitted to the challenge will be promoted on by me here on our word challenge linking directly to your word challenge post. This also includes retweets from myself with over 1800 followers. Also other members will be joining us in conversations on your blog. This is a great way to find new readers and get comments.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

Subscribe to my blog as well

Twitter, bbrian017

Thanks,

Brian

Important announcement from Brian

The Word Challenge is Dying help us Revive it!

You can vote for next weeks word at the link above let’s see what Brian wants to do for this weeks word as the poll didn’t post correctly in last weeks challenge.  I think it might be good if we can get some others posting about the challege to help promote it!

 Prior Word Challenges

Weekly Word Challenge Wrap Up Jan 01
Weekly Word Challenge Wrap Up Jan 08
 Weekly Word Challenge Wrap Up Jan 16 – Helping Others

 This weeks Entries –

 Ms. Ileane’s (Guest Post on Blazing Minds) – WordPress Plugin Video Tutorial

 Kissie – George Bush Kanye West Mike Myers

 Alison Moore Smith – Delta Touch Activate Kitchen Faucet?
(Not sure if I get this one but sounded like your entry from comments or did I miss something?)

 SEO MKT – Favorite Blogs of 2010

 The Money Cult – Best Blogging Sites

Why participate

Because all articles submitted to the challenge will be promoted on by me here on our social linking directly to your word challenge post. This also includes retweets from myself and Brian with over 5000 followers. Also other member will be joining us in conversations on your blog. This is a great way to find new readers and get comments.

The challenge

I challenge all the members here in our community to write an article about or regarding the weekly word “Helping Others”.  The article doesn’t have to be of any special length simply write about the topics and submit your article to the Blog Engage.  Please remember to comment below with your blog post and link if it not in the comment luv link. 

Also do me a favor and post about the word challenge as I would like for more to enter.

I invite all out active blogging members to start participating in our weekly word challenge. I know it’s a commitment and if you find it’s too demanding join us twice a month instead. This is a great opportunity to gain new readers and quality back links.

I’ve been doing it weekly on my personal blog SEO Marketing and Promotion for 10 weeks now.

What we do is allow all members to vote on a word that you would like to blog about or regarding. I will start posting on every Friday Announcing the available words to pick from.

Simply leave a reply in the article with your url or state your submission is in your comment luv.

Why participate

Because all articles submitted to the challenge will be promoted on by me here on our word challenge linking directly to your word challenge post. This also includes retweets from myself with over 1800  followers. Also other members will be joining us in conversations on your blog. This is a great way to find new readers and get comments.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

Subscribe to my blog as well

Twitter, bbrian017

Thanks,

Brian

2009 was a great year for blog engage and it’s members. We had an amazing ending with the awarding of our 2009 year end contest. I still haven’t heard from all the winners so if you want to claim your prize I will give you until the end of January. You can check if you’re a winner here, 2009 contest winners.

This year I will be setting limitations on what people can actually donate or sponsor the contest with. The categories you can win in will also be changing. To benefit our community and it’s members we must try our best to make it fair and competitive.

Get Involved and Sponsor our Contest.

If interested in sponsoring our contest please simply contact me via e-mail bbrian017 (@) hotmail dot com I’m looking for anything that would be beneficial to our members. Cash Prizes, Word press Themes and other big ticket items are wanted. All sponsors will have a link in my e-mails and on my blog article as the months pass you will also benefit from the traffic.

Prizes and Contests to be announced soon

Rules and regulations

• You must be a blog engage member

• You must be subscribed to our rss feed

• Self promotion is allowed and is recommended to have a good chance of winning

• This is the official thread for contest prizes and sponsors

• Perhaps another rule will come to mind

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

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Twitter, bbrian017

Thanks,

Brian

I was over at Alexa this morning looking at the recent spike in activity in blogging wire and decided to also take a peak at how blog engage is doing. I didn’t notice much of an increase regarding ranking but what I did notice was something that made me feel really good about the last two years of dedication to our social community.

When visiting Alexa you can see the third tab in names reviews. In two years time I have never once looked at this section, until today. What I found was just amazing and surprised me unlike anything I have felt in a long time. I wanted to say thanks to all the individuals that have added reviews and will include your personal review.

Fiona Kitchen

A great network and community of bloggers. Full of facts and useful info regarding blogs and blog improvement. It’s a very friendly place to be with everyone being thoroughly helpful to one another.

Will McCulloch

Brian’s site helps to connect bloggers throughout the world, encouraging them to read each others’ posts, vote on them and learn from them. Perhaps the most important and impressive feature of this network is that it builds a lot of positive relationships within a community where the amount of co-operation is truly remarkable. Helping lots of new bloggers to find both help and a growing audience, BlogEngage is, without a doubt, my favourite website find of 2009 so far.

Hishaman

Here I am just reviewing my favorite social network and also the Brian the guy behind BlogEngage for the good work they are doing to develop BlogEngage and provide such good service to engage all bloggers together in a healthy and safe environment.

Wchingya

Blogengage is a social bookmarking site that benefits members with exposures and networking. What I love about it is the dedication of the founder, Brian and continuous support from fellow members who never cease to support each other’s posts and voting. I truly appreciate this site. All the efforts been poured in are well recognized. Definitely worth a mention here on Alexa.

Ileane Smith

Blog Engage is a website that specializes in catering to the blogging community. Bloggers can search topics of interest or articles from specific blogs or they can register and become part of the Blog Engage community. Once registered a blogger can submit articles which will be read, commented and voted on by other bloggers. A post that has been submitted becomes published after it has received 7 votes from other bloggers. This system helps to strengthen the network and provides additional blog traffic and exposure with like-minded individuals.

As a blogger you will also experience personal growth and gain new knowledge from reading and visiting blogs covering various topics. The community is also encouraged to interact with each other by leaving valuable comments on each others blogs, which helps to improve the quality of the content found on each blog. Blog engage members can also benefit from participation in the Google AdSense revenue sharing program which was introduced as a new feature in November 2009.

There is an additional component of an online discussion forum for members to participate in. The Alexa ranking for blogengage has rose from 40,000 in September 2009 to 20,000 in October 2009.

Thanks everyone it means a lot to know you appreciate and enjoy this amazing community of bloggers we have come to create together.

Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

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Blogging Wire, bbrian017

Thanks,

Brian

Another great week thanks again to those that took the time to write an article for the Word Challenge. I going to move this wrap up post to Saturday just so everyone has till end of day Friday to get your post in.

Next weeks word is ?

Favorite Blog(s)

Now is your chance to help some others and say something great about your favorite Blog or list of Blogs.

This weeks Entries

Please take time to read, tweet (#blogengage) and comment I know I plan to go back thought these this weekend.  Looking very forward to it.

I Can’t Internet – Helping others is what Blogging is all about

Ms. Ileane’s Blog – Thanks for all your Help

Integral Web Solutions - You have a friend in me

Win With 1 – Business Ethics: Helping Others is Good All the Way Around

SEO MKT – How Blog Engage can help you as a Blogger

The Money Cult – Helping Others Important Part to your Success

Blazing Minds – Tweetdeck Discover Twitter Followers
– Need to make sure to have word at least once next time or no credit but I liked the article and it was very helpful so thank you for the link!

Next weeks Poll

Why participate

Because all articles submitted to the challenge will be promoted on by me here on our social linking directly to your word challenge post. This also includes retweets from myself and Brian with over 5000 followers. Also other member will be joining us in conversations on your blog. This is a great way to find new readers and get comments.

The challenge

I challenge all the members here in our community to write an article about or regarding the weekly word “Helping Others”.  The article doesn’t have to be of any special length simply write about the topics and submit your article to the Blog Engage.  Please remember to comment below with your blog post and link if it not in the comment luv link.

Also do me a favor and post about the word challenge as I would like for more to enter.  You have till Friday to comment here with a link to your post to get credit in the weekly wrap up.

Look forward to your articles.  Talk to you Friday.

Jared P Little
The Money Cult