Is it possible to find a site where valuable information is combined with alluring pictures of scantily clad women? As a matter of fact, it is. And that place is called The Bad Blogger. It’s the home of Wong Chendong, The Bad Blogger himself. And though the site is loaded with pictures of gorgeous women, it’s the amount of information that makes it worth the trip.

So what makes this site any different than all the others out there? The way it’s put together and presented to the world. If you were to go to any of the big time bloggers out there and ask them what their secret to success was, they’d be more than happy to tell you….for a price. TBB will offer you the same advice, but he’ll do it FOR FREE. That alone is enough to make the smaller fish happier in their pond.

But there’s more to the site than just that. There are tons of ideas on how to market yourself and create your own brand. There are tips on blogging and how to monetize your sites. There’s even a guide for the beginner on how to get their site up and running in little or no time at all. This site is full of professional blogging information and not just another pretty online face.

One of the first things you’ll notice when you visit the site, aside from all the flashy photos, is a registration form to receive TBB’s guide, Scam Sales Pages Uncensored. This free report shows you how to sift out the legitimate landing pages from the thousands of scam pages on the Internet. Along with this free report, you’ll receive a copy of The Life And Marketing Of The Guy Behind The Bad Blogger. It’s an in-depth look at how TBB worked his way up from the basic blogging newbie to the blogging genius he is today. But more than that, he tells you how he did it without expecting you to pay him for the information.

If you’re simply searching for a place where you can look at pictures of beautiful women, you could stop by The Bad Blogger’s site and get that. But if you’re looking for a site that will help you find your niche in the blogging world AND offers pictures of beautiful women, then you’ve got to check out this site. After all, he’s not just any blogger, he’s The Bad Blogger.

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In the beginning, blogging was nothing more than a way of expressing one’s self. Then it transformed into something that only a few people knew how to work into their businesses.

Today, blogging isn’t just a part of the Internet, it’s the biggest part. So how does someone who’s never blogged come to find out all the ins and outs of the process?

They need to check out Kristi Hines and her site, Kikolani.com.

Kikolani is dedicated to helping bloggers of all stages with their blogging needs. Not just with blogging itself, but with the promotional and networking aspects as well. The site offers tips for bloggers, ideas on implementing various types of social media, and marketing tactics for companies and individuals alike. If it has to do with the blogging industry, chances are you’ll find it here.

So you might be wondering how she does all this and still maintain her lifestyle. The truth is that even though she does most of it, she doesn’t do it all. Kristi allows guest bloggers to come in and offer their work to her readers. However, like any good e-zine, there are guidelines that must be followed. These include things such as making sure the piece is geared toward blogging, that the piece meets a certain word count and isn’t filled with self-promoting links, and that the piece is written specifically for Kikolani.com. And the benefits? Only that your piece will be viewed by thousands of people across the entire blogosphere.

Speaking of guest posts, Kristi does more than just create great content on her own site. She’s a regular guest poster on several other sites around the Net. She writes about topics such as why it’s important to add photos to articles, targeting the right search engines, and even how to make money by giving things away for free. One of her best articles has to do with tracking social media conversions. She goes beyond the basic information and offers the reader detailed information and graphics to show how it’s all put together. This is a must read for anyone looking to build on their social networking contacts.

There is a real difference between blogging as a hobby and blogging for business. If you fall into the latter of the two categories, then Kristi Hines can help make it happen. Check out her site and some of her posts from around the web. It is possible to turn your little blog into a well established site by adding a few of Kristi’s ideas into your daily blogging plan.

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Hi everyone I would like to welcome you to our social spotlight with Murray Newlands from Murray Newlands Dot Com.

This spotlight is very exciting as Murray shares his secrets and success stories with us.

Murray is a successful online entrepreneur and is here to answer my questions for us all to learn from.

So without waiting anymore I would like to welcome everyone to our social spotlight with Mr. Murray Newlands.

Brian: Hi There Murray and welcome to our social spotlight. Thanks for taking the time to speak with us. Please take a moment and introduce yourself to our members.

Murray: My name is Murray Newlands and I run a blog called Murraynewlands.com it is a marketing blog and I cover a variety of topics from affiliate marketing events to seo blogging and green marketing.

Brian: This is great because most of our members here at blog engage will find yourself and blog very interesting. We are always looking for marketing and blogging tips. Please do tell us why you started blogging in the first place I think many of our members would like to know more.

Murray: I started blogging this spring 2009 and post once or more every day. I love blogging. My blog has grown to over 1000 page views per day and I have made lots of blogging friends around the world.  I started when I was asked to work on a social media project for a friend and then I went to a show and meet two bloggers there. One of them was a new friend Heather Smith from  and the other was an old friend Steve Hall.

Brian: I love hearing why people started blogging I always find it so interesting. I think one of the most unique aspects of blogging is the ability to meet people from all around the world without actually leaving the comfort of your own home. Take a minute and tel the blog engage members something unique you offers your readers when visiting your blog.

Murray: I interview lots and lots of bloggers so if you want to know lots about other bloggers, what motivates them and what they are up to then my blog is the place to read. I also go to lots of shows and events and post about what is coming up, what is on and what happened where so cover a lot of industry information. I am now also reviewing social media monitoring tools.

Brian: I was just visiting your blog today before I started preparing the interview. I think you really have something special going on over there and loved your you tube introduction. I think this is a great way to build that first impression on your visitors. Anything great example of this is Don Powers. I just loved his you tube video it’s amazing! So tell our members, how do you find new readers, where do you market your blog?

Murray: I get a good response from Twitter but I also market my blog on other blogs via guest posting. Lots of the bloggers I interview link back to their interviews, they also twitter them and Facebook link them. This has a big viral effect for my blog.  I do now also get lots of traffic from sites like blogengage.com and other blogging sites. People tend to link to some of my content.

Brian: It seems you area true marketer and don’t spend to much time in one single place at a time. I also try to take advantage of many social communities including facebook and twitter. I’ve recently started guest blogging as well and it’s been an amazing experience. If you had to name some of your favorite blogging communities what would you say?

Murray: Well I have 29,000 followers on Twitter, and my Facebook Fan page has over 850 fans.  I am also a big fan of the problogger forum as well as Bloggeries.

Brian: I know it’s been sometime since we spoke about this interview so I updated the amount of twitter followers you had originally stated. It’s amazing how many connections you have maned to make on twitter I think I only have 2000 followers. I don’t know how you do it. Look from everything you have learned online to date what would you recommend to the average blog engage member?

Murray: Read some of the better blogs about there about blogging. Get to know some blogging buddies who can exchange tips and help you, want to know more Google blogging buddies. Learn to be great at SEO, if you can do it yourself it can save you a lot of pain and time.

Brian: Murray thanks so much for taking the time and having this interview with us. You are always welcomed to guest blog here on the community blog as often as you wish

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Welcome to another exciting and eventful social spotlight here on the blog engage community blog.

I try my best to find new and upcoming bloggers in order to do our social spotlights. Now what’s nice about this spotlight is it’s not a typical blog engage blogger.

Aaron has a specific niche within the photography market but still deals with many of the aspects we all do as an everyday normal blogger.

Many of our challenges regarding marketing and promotion are across the board and not specific to anyone individual. For this reason I thought it would be nice to get the point of view and perspective from a niche related blogger.

Please join me in a warm welcoming to Aaron B. Hockley from Social Photo Talk dot com

Brian: Hi Aaron welcome to our social spotlight and thanks for taking the time to speak with us. Please take a moment and introduce yourself to our members.

Aaron: I’m Aaron Hockley, a photographer and blogger who has worked with online publishing in various forms for over 12 years. My current focus is Social Photo Talk which is a website and services to help photographers understand social media. I produce content about Twitter, Facebook, blogging, Flickr, and other social technologies and provide specific examples of how a professional or serious hobbyist photographer can use them to spread influence and make money.

Brian: You know I’ve always had an interest in photography but never had the time to peruse it. What initially got you into blogging?

Aaron: I began blogging several years ago as a way to share my thoughts on some current projects. I’ve worked with a variety of blogging systems and tools, ending up as a WordPress user for the past few years. I feel that the WordPress community is one of the biggest assets of the software, and I’m proud to have launched and produced WordCamp Portland, a two-day conference for education and collaboration amongst WordPress users, developers, and authors. This year we had over 200 attendees (plus another 150 simultaneous viewers of our online stream).

Brian: It’s amazing that you actually launched and started Word Camp I’m betting many of our readers are going to be looking into this! hopefully blog engage can help bring you more attention to the event. Aaron please tell us something unique you offer your readers when visiting your blog.

Aaron: I feel that my most valuable position is that I am a professional photographer with a strong tech background. There are quite a few photographers who dabble in social media, and there are a lot of social media consultants who can provide generic advice, but merging the two provides solid, tangible tips and advice that photographers can implement for themselves.

Brian: Where do you enjoy marketing your blog the most?

Aaron: I spend a fair amount of time networking with others in the photography industry and participating in photography-related forums and websites. One of the challenges is that a significant part of my target market is photographers who aren’t yet doing much with social media, so I need to focus on reaching them via more traditional means. I also do a lot of blog promotion through Twitter, other blogs, and Facebook.

Brian: What are your favorite social communities?

Aaron: I’ve found a few Flickr forums that have been great both from a personal development and point as well as marketing my blog and work. From a social media perspective, I’ve learned a TON by building up a network of smart people on Twitter, and I’m digging the recently-launched ProBlogger community.

Brian: I’m also a big fan of the problogger forum but I’m not using it as often as I would like. From your learning’s what would you suggest to the average or beginner blogger?

Aaron: The most important thing for any blogger is to produce quality content on a regular schedule. Maybe it’s weekly, maybe it’s daily, maybe it’s a couple times a week, but the important thing is to produce. Some of it will be good, some of it will be great, and some of it might stink, but the experience will help one become a better blogger in the long term.

The other important thing I’d recommend is to network with as many other bloggers as possible. Those within your industry or niche will be able to share very similar experiences, but also get to know folks who work with different topics. Even though I blog about photography and social media, I’ve learned from music bloggers, politics bloggers, and others whose areas of expertise differ from mine.

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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!

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New to the blogosphere and blogengage I welcome Brad Edgar from unconventional growth dot com into our community spotlight. Make sure to vote up his latest article, Stanford University’s Top 10 Ways to Improve the Credibility of Your Website | Unconventional Growth

Brad Edgar has a wealth of experience and knowledge when it comes to both small- and large-scale businesses. He has worked with clients across North America and has experience in consulting and supporting enterprise resource planning, warehouse logistics and e-commerce software within industries ranging from apparel wholesale distribution, right through to mining product distribution.

He serves as business consultant, providing advice and solutions for both organizations and individuals seeking sustainable economic and corporate growth and development.

Brad is new to our community and you can add him as a friend! Please do so I’m real friends with Brad we work for the same company. Make sure to read his latest articles they are all full of great content,

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I must admit when I started the social spotlights I didn’t think I would get such a huge response.

I’m sitting here with an in box of over 35 plus social spotlight interviews.

None the less I am working on releasing them all so be patient yours will come soon.

I also wanted to say thank you to everyone that took the time to answer our social spotlight questions.

Brian: Hi Melvin and welcome to our social spotlight. Sorry for taking so long but it’s been a pretty busy month here at blogengage with our contests and promotions but I have managed to find sometime to day so we can entertain our interview. Please take a moment and introduce yourself to our community of bloggers.

Melvin: Hello everyone, I am Melvin Dichoso, 19 year old computer science student and resides in the Philippines. I have been into this whole Internet business for 2+ years mostly making money through affiliate marketing, managing several community-oriented websites and blogs and yea just plain being everywhere online.

A lot of people who read my main flagship blog @ MelvinBlog.com really don’t realize I’m under 20 and they just get surprised when they read my about page. Btw, MelvinBlog is a marketing tips blog designed for bloggers which aims to *hopefully* send out good information generally about Internet marketing and the online business thing. Fortunately for me it renders good traffic and a very nice overall community.

Brian: It seems many bloggers are starting your. I think the youngest bloggers so far we have interviewed was Corey Freeman. What I like about this is it really goes to show that anyone can blog no matter of your age. Please take a moment and explain to our readers why you started blogging.

Melvin: As stated in my about page, I started blogging because I learned that I can earn from it. My first blog was a basketball blog and like most newbies I failed miserably and learned my lessons. Luckily basketball was really a passion for me so, with money or not I decided to just continue. After a year it paid off and eventually made some good money. More than the money its the experience that helped me the most..

Brian: Melvin I must admit I’m very impressed by our honestly. Not many bloggers would admit to failure and here you are openly advertising that you failed. I want to stress to our readers right now that even though Melvin has failed in the past true success comes when you don’t give up and you try again. Melvin if there’s something unique you offer your readers or a specific reason why anyone should even visit your site what would you say that reason is?

Melvin: I really don’t know. Maybe I just speak out on a personal stand point. Most of my readers like me and my blog because they think I’m funny and my persona is spontaneous. I guess most people in the Internet just got tired of over professional blogs with super duper perfect grammar and fortunately in that case my blog is neither

Brian: Interesting concept. So when we visit your blog I’m assuming we can expect to visit a nice relaxing environment filled with information regaridng the web and everyday web usage. I like that idea you are right to many blogs are too serious these days it’s nice to have a change in pace. So tell us Melvin where do you enjoy marketing your blog?

Melvin: I enjoy mostly on forums where most people are just interactive. Any place which is easy to connect to people is enjoyable for me. Also by doing guest posts as it’s like telling the big blog’s subscribers to “subscribe to my blog too”.

Brian: Judging form your last two answers Melvin it’s clear to me you like non stressful relaxing environments to market your blogs in. Seems with both agree on that. I like to avoid anything that seems to busy or confusing. I do my best in forums and social networks personally. Tell us what are your favorite social communities currently?

Melvin: Uhm, Blogengage? Heheh, seriously I’m a social junkie guy and I get to every social community as possible. I enjoy stumbleupon and reddit for the massive traffic they send. And yea Blogcatalog for discussions (I know you hate them).

Brian: You know Melvin I actually want to clear something up. It’s not that I hate Blog Catalog but they are a greedy community. They are NO FOLLOW and share no page rank juice. They will out rank you for you keywords and take all your organic traffic. Hate is such a strong word. Let’s say I don’t agree with their practices. But surely I don’t hate them. Tell us Melvin if you were to give advice to our young and aspiring bloggers what would it be?

Melvin: Hmm, let me think. Well my piece of advice is, think first if blogging is really for you. If it’s not then don’t do it, don’t start one as you’d probably just waste your time. Most bloggers really DON’T get compensated that much for the effort they exert. But because they love blogging, they are in the blogosphere. If you’re just in the game for money then forget about it.

Brian: Melvin I wish I had your advice prior to when I started blogging. I feel under appreciated all the time. It’s frustrating and sometimes it gets me upset but I grow with it. What I have learned is to find appreciation in your own work and it helps fill that void. Things are better now but at one point I definitely felt along out here.

Melvin: I don’t know but even if I compile the best blogging and marketing tips here and the guy reading here isn’t serious or dedicated with blogging then its useless. In the end it’s like assessing what you’re goals are, if you can provide all the startup hardwork, and spend initial costs. If not, then maybe you’re better off doing other things. Things that you really like.

Brian: Melvin this was a great interview. Like I said above ‘m sorry it took so long I’ve been busy managing blogengage and my blog so it’s been a hectic week to say the least. Well that’s it for today everyone. If you have any questions for Melvin leave them below.

Thanks Melvin

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It’s been a few weeks since my last social spotlight so I thought it would be most appropriate to start the week of with one. Een is a member here on blogengage and submits his articles daily like the majority of our members. Today we will discuss with Een what initially made him start blogging, why he enjoys it and other questions regarding his blogging career.

Brian: Een I would like to welcome you into our social spotlight. It’s been great having you as part of our community and it’s only appropriate we have you here for our social spotlight. Please take a minute and introduce yourself to our community members.

Een: Hi, first of all I would like to thank Brian for giving me this opportunity to be interviewed. (more…)