Another week passes us by and we find our selves with a great turnout for this weeks word challenge.

Our members were challenged to write about or regarding guest blogging and it looks like we have some really informative articles being submitted.

I hope you can all follow us as we comment, digg, engage, stumble and tweet our submitted stories.

If your new to reading this let me bring you up to date.

Every Week I hold a weekly word challenge. It’s starts off on Friday (today) where I post 5 or 6 words our members vote on to be the weekly word.

The voting starts on Friday (today) and ends on Monday. On Monday I announce the most voted on word and challenge all our blog engage members to write about or regarding this word.

I allow our members the entire week to write the article. Come Friday I post all the articles submitted to the challenge linking directly to them within the Weekly Word Challenge Wrap. For participating the members get free social promotion and an opportunity to blog outside of the box.

How do you submit your article?

Simply leave a reply in Monday’s 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.

Please join me in social sharing activities. Digg, Engage, Tweet, Stumble etc… the following weekly word challenge articels

1. Guest Bloggers Lend A Helping Hand

2. Google PageRank Score Too Low? Keep Your Links Thank You

3. Blogging Tips art 5 : Guest Blogging – Must Read

4. 6 Benefits of Guest Blogging

5. Guest Blogging

6. How to be the best of guest bloggers

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Truth be told blog engage is more then an article submission service.

With our interactive community of bloggers blog engage has become one of the largest social communities online for bloggers that’s DO FOLLOW.

Blog Engage offers bloggers an amazing opportunity to socially share with each other. This is done by using other social media websites but accessing them all in one central blogging location.

The theory you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours really does prove to be true if you follow the behavior of our members. I see it everyday when bloggers engage, stumble, digg, tweet each others articles and more.

The community knows this and as we grow larger other bloggers start to realize blog engage isn’t just another blog catalog we are unique in a way like no other social community online.

What separates blog engage from other social communities is that we care about each other. We are all friends and know each other by name. In the picture below you can clearly see the share this functionality blog engage has to offer under every story submission.

Help us spread the word

Help Blog Engage grow by writing about us on your blog. Come back here to this article and post the url to your blog article about Blog Engage. I will wait until early next week and all the articles written about us and added here in a reply will be posted in a compilation promoting and marketing them with do follow love here on the blog engage social blog.

Wait there’s more

I will also send out a mass announcement linking back to the compilation article helping drive a lot of traffic for at least one or two days to your blog. So don’t miss out on this opportunity. Write about blog engage and get free promotion from our mass e-mail early next week.

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I’m always looking for members that are willing to guest post here on our blog.

I don’t require much from your end except a few minor details. The articles you write have to be unique and can not be copied from another individuals blog.

Also we require you fill out your profile information that’s displayed at the end of very blog and yes we allow you to add links to your own blog or website.

Let’s face it guest blogging is a great way to promote your style of writing and possibly gain new readers. We have a lot of web traffic and you could potentially increase your own blog awareness at the same time.

If you’re interested and want to give it a shot simply contact me admin (@) blogengage.com In the e-mail include the user name you used to register here on our word press blog.

I will then make you a contributor here on our blog and you will have full access to write articles as often as you wish.

Guest Blogging Rules

1. No affiliate links within the articles at all
2. You must leave a signature line introducing yourself and your personal blog
3. You must interact and reply to comments made on your article

As you can clearly see we don’t have many rules and are open to all your suggestions. We allow for you to blog about whatever you like in front of an audience that could bring you new readers. The article doesn’t have to be long nor does it have to be short.

So don’t be shy, sign up, e-mail me and become a guest blogger our readers await your talent.

Reasons to start blogging at blogengage

• Meet new bloggers

• Find new readers

• Learn from other pro bloggers

Please provide the following in the e-mail

• Your Current Blog

• Your Name

• Your Blog Engage Blog Username

• Topics you wish to blog about

• Other blogs you have guest blogged at

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In the years of interacting with myriad bloggers, I’ve often heard the sad lament of a blogger who can’t figure out what to write about. This is a baffling condition to me. Why would you want to be a blogger unless you were just bursting with thoughts, ideas, and snippets of info that you are dying to share with the entire universe?

To me, it’s like someone who says, “I am an inventor!” and then wracks their brain about what they can invent. Or someone who claims to be a musician and then tries to figure out what instrument they will learn.

If you can’t think of anything to blog about, maybe you’re not really a blogger! Or, at very least, maybe you’re trying to write in an area where you have too little interest and/or too little expertise.

Still, I’ll admit that even great writers do get writer’s block on occasion. So if you’re a real blogger, but have found yourself in a temporary rut, I’ve compiled a few ideas to help you remember all the great posts that are waiting to come out.

Within your blog niche, consider:

Innovations in Technology or Methods

What are new ideas? What are people trying? What is working? What isn’t? If you’re an MMO blogger, you might discuss your perception of the newest social media venture. Maybe you’ll note the pitfalls of a once-popular method.

Humorous Anecdotes

There’s nothing like an inside joke to foster a feeling of community. If you’ve seen something funny that only those in your niche will understand, share the laughter with your readers. My husband is an electrical engineer, so one of our favorite jokes compares the various kinds of engineers (electrical, mechanical, civil, etc.) in a way that addresses the inherent rivalry. I’m a singer (and an alto) and a favorite pieces is called “Alto’s Lament.” It’s full of all sorts of references that only a singer (and only a fellow non-melody singer) will understand.

Problems — Resolved or Not

Discussing common frustrations or difficulties within your topic is an easy way to get started. If you don’t have a solution, point out the ways you’ve tried to address the issue and why they haven’t worked. Ask for collaboration. If you have solved the problem, share your solution clearly and explicitly.

Admired or Important People

Who are the movers and the shakers in your niche? What have they done and what are they doing now? What can you learn from them? Analyzing the successes of others can be an valuable source of inspiration. Perhaps their examples can be applied to your own life or work.

Emotional Experiences

What issues and circumstances in your niche make you happy? angry? worried? optimistic? Share your feelings about the things that are coming up with your site visitors. Chances are, they are shared.

Once you’ve identified one of these things in your niche, all you have to do is share it. If it’s interesting to you, it will probably be interesting to someone else.

I’m not sure if you have seen our Blog Forum yet but it has potential to be a really great environment for blog traffic.

We have created a nice and easy to use blog forum for all our members to join.

For the record I am considering moving the forum off site and purchasing it’s own domain name but for now it’s still in a sub folder here at blog engage.

I think the best way to get you interested would be to walk you through the benefits of joining our forums community.

I’m going to discuss all the forum with you and hopefully by the end of the article you would have already signed up.

The first thing I would like to confirm true is we are unlike any other blog forum. We not only promote marketing and promotion but it’s the main reason we in the first place.

We allow you to requests diggs, comments, exchanges, stumbles and much more within the forums community. We are do follow and profit sharing blog forum.

Alright let’s discuss the forums shall we?

The Blog Engage Forum Chat – This can be used for promoting your latest articles. It’s simple you log in post a little comment with your url and our forum members will go visit it.

General Discussions and Introductions – This forum is used to meet one another. To build relationships and have general discussions with one another.

Blog Marketing and Promotion – This forum is for marketing and promoting your blogs. It’s also used for advice on how to market and promote your blog. You will find social network discussions and much more with this forum.

Search Engines and Optimization – This forum will be great for new and advanced bloggers. If you have questions about specific Search Engines or need help with SEO this is your one stop deal.

Blog Revenues and Income - if you’re looking for ways to earn money on your blog this is the forum for you. I have many links linking to the most popular affiliates and publisher companies you simply cannot go wrong.

Buy Sell or Trade Forum – looking to sell links? looking to buy links? This is the place if your selling, trading or buying. Don’t be shy but do be careful who you sell to or buy from. Ensure the member has a lot of reputation and has been a member for some time.

Comment Exchange – This forum was inspired by a member of our. Tho it hasn’t really picked up I’m sure we will find a good use for it eventually. I’m assuming the more members we get the more it will be used. It’s definitely a great way to get comments.

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Have you ever taken a moment to ask yourself who makes it all happen?

Who keeps voting everyday and who helps our community to grow strong?

To be honest the answer is very simple and it’s you, our members. You have made us what we are today and you will make us become what we are meant to be tomorrow.

Blog Engage offers an amazing opportunity to make friends and develop great performing blog traffic. Without you our members we would have no articles and we would have no traffic. For your dedication and commitment I thank you all.

I wanted to write a post to show the appreciation for our dedicated members here within our community. This is for the ones that really make the difference.

These members show dedication, commitment and they also vote like theirs no tomorrow. I would like to welcome the top voters of our blog engage social community.

#1. Alison from win-with-1 with 16309 votes
#2. AggieBrad from The Christian Entrepreneur with 11500 votes
#3. hishaman from The Famous Bloggers Club with 10939 votes
#4. iwoodpecker from iwoodpecker.com with 4799 votes
#5. loupdargentonline from Forward and Share with 2924 votes
#6. element321 from elements back yard garden with 1778 votes
#7. Jen jose from E Referer with 1752 votes
#8. Karren (Blazing Minds) from Blazing Minds with 1678 votes
#9. Will (what a Website) from What a Website with 1585 votes
#10. karlfoxley1 from fmsseo with 1435 votes

Please make sure to visit their blogs and post some nice comments. These guys and girls have pretty much voted for all of your submitted articles.

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So far we have managed to create and make a success from our weekly word challenge.

What I would like to do now is create another fun and interactive community activity all our members can participate in.

See the word challenge is really limited to blog niches and if you’re not in that niche you’re sort of left out.

So I was hoping to get some feedback from our members on other ideas and suggestions on what we can do.

The activity should be a writing one and preferably something that can help us out. Either help us become better writers or simply more aware of our blogging activity’s and writing styles.

I’m open to all sorts of ideas and suggestions. So don’t’ be shy leave us a reply below and let us know your thoughts. This is a great opportunity to get our community involved with each other and to start building on our community relationships.

Blog Engage has so much to offer bloggers and by creating these community activities we help each other grow. We can become more mature in our writing styles, find new readers, build new friendships and much more.

So like I said leave a comment below with your idea and if we get enough of them I can make it a vote to pick the new blog engage community activity.

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I know it’s been a while since I posted any social or community spotlights.

This is why I wanted to take this opportunity and see if I could get one out to you.

Today’s spotlight is with a young blogger out of Denmark. He goes by the name of Dane Blogger and is known as Mikkel Juhl.

Mikkel has been a member of the blog engage community now since October of 2009. I have enjoyed his company and his writings.

I have watched a few of his live shows and thought they were really great. If interested you can check out Mikkel over at ustream he’s always putting on great shows.

Without further waiting I would like to welcome Mikkel from Dane Blogger.com

Brian:Hi Dane and welcome to our social spotlight. Please take a moment and introduce yourself to our community members.

Mikkel:Hello every single Blog Engage member (who reads this blog) – My name is Mikkel Juhl, I’m from Denmark (yes the tiny country just above Germany.) I’m 14 years old and enjoy blogging. I’m still in primary school, so lots of homework to be done, while blogging.

In Denmark I’m in top 5 of Internet marketing bloggers – and I’m highly ranked on “make money online” (just the Danish phrase) I am at least in top 5 on that keyword. So in Denmark I’m a well known blogger, now I’m blogging in English (just started 4-5 months ago) but have been blogging for over 2 years.

My English “build a better blog”-blog is called DaneBlogger, you can find it on DaneBlogger.com – I’m not only writing “build better blog” stuff on it – also general Internet marketing. I also have a live show – which is online frequently – next show is the 11th December (just watch my blog.)

Brian:Tell me Dane; what got you into blogging and what level of dedication do you have towards blogging?

Mikkel:Well, it started with me browsing the web about 3 years ago and I thought these webpages was so nice and I wanted to have my own. So I read on a Danish site called “HTML.dk” and then I started to create webpages. Finally in August 2007 I bought my own domain (http://mikkeljuhl.com still in use), where I tested homepages (mainly html). Then I got onto PHP – and suddenly I found myself writing my first blog post.

Remember this is 2 years ago – now my blogging really has been improved throughout these years. I got involved with blogging, when I was just 12 years old. Then I was playing around – in the start it wasn’t my purpose to start making money blogging. But then I initially added some Google Ads and that it actually is possible to make money online.

This lead to a new blog called “BlogMarketing.dk” again a Danish blog, where I write about blog marketing and Internet marketing in general. I made more money on that, by doing affiliate marketing. Then I figured out that I want to reach out to a much bigger market. The whole English speaking market. This really gave me a rush. I love my blog daneblogger.com – more than any other of my blogs (mainly because I’m able to reach a much bigger market.)

I will not say that I have had failures. I have had 3 blogs, all well read, my first was a “I’m just blogging – no goals”-blog. I didn’t want to earn money from it, I will admit that I didn’t earn that many money from
it. I think I earned around $3 per day, on AdSense.

I know lots of you would not call that success at all – but it was my first blog I blogged on that blog for over a year and it was a blog that just talked about me and programming, some of my passions.

Brian:Dane, let’s say I’m a  new blogger. I just heard about you today in this interview. Tell me and our readers what you offer on your blog that would make us want to visit you.

Mikkel:Well I guess I deliver some great content. I have been told that my
content is inspiring and motivational also it’s not what everybody else writes about (at least, that’s what I’ve been told.) I don’t care that much about the grammar – everybody isn’t perfect.

What I think is special/unique is that I do Live shows – I know some bloggers do some live shows but far from every blogger does this. I just like to appear live and just talk about marketing. Last time I went live,
I talked about personal branding. This is not something you only can use in blogging. It’s something that every company/website and blog can use. I like that my “blogging”-tips isn’t only for blogs.

As well I try to reach out a quite huge market, not only teens – everybody in general who wants to make money. Mostly by blogs but also for other people – regular people with a business who might want to increase list subscriptions.

Brian:Dane, tell our members where you currently market your blogs.

Mikkel:Hello Mostly Twitter – well that’s where I market my new blog posts at most.

Then I enjoy BlogEngage – I know that I don’t use BlogEngage that much, but I think it’s far more powerful than Digg. The # of users are just much lower than Digg – and you actually know who made BlogEngage I have no idea who made Digg? That’s what make BlogEngage so much more powerful!

So I use Twitter mostly, then some social bookmarking sites, forums comments, blog carnivals and just relationships. I love networking with other bloggers (feel free to contact me and chat, using Twitter (@DaneBlogger) or my blog contact form.

I’m think it’s easy to market a blog – it takes more time when a blog is in the developing stages (early, because a blog is always developing ) I normally use the small marketing streams (blog comments, forum comments etc.). Every now and then I post some guest posts – In the future I’ll try
to go for the more known blogs (let’s see how that works)

Brian:If you had to make a decision and say what social communities were your favorite what would you pick?

Mikkel:The all-time favorite is Twitter. I am really starting to feel the power of Twitter after I began interacting more with my followers. I get a quite good response rate for my links when I tweet some links.

Then I don’t use Facebook that much for communicating with my audience – that’s more for my friends and family, but it definitely is one of my favorites though.

Forums – I love forums. They are easy and you can help lots of users there I especially enjoy the ProBlogger forums they are lovely. It easy to get help and easy to help – there is always some people online to help you.

I don’t know if you want to call ustream.tv a social community, but that’s really a place I enjoy.

Brian:From your learning’s what would you suggest to the average or beginner blogger?

Mikkel:Don’t stop. I know lots of people who quit blogging after they have blogged for a month because “they don’t make $300 bucks every day” – you should neither blog for money, because somehow that does the opposite of motivating you.

Keep going. The start of a blog’s life is the hardest. In the start just don’t worry about traffic. Your focus should be on the content. The key to blogging success is: Content+Marketing.

A thing that I have found really good to do is to write two blog posts one day. Then use the next day for pure marketing. So you write on forums, write comments to other blogs and so on. This will give you much more energy to do the blog posts on and the marketing on.

The last thing is: INTERACT! Interact with others it is so important that you can talk to other. Listen to other than yourself. Help them, if you need any help!

That was my wise words. Hope you enjoyed them! Connect with me @DaneBlogger,

I’d love to hear from you!

Socially Connect With Mikkel

Thanks for being such a great member to our community Dane Blogger.

If you have any questions regarding this community spotlight simply post them below and I will answer them.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

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