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.

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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

Have you looked at the quality of blogs being submitted to our website? If you have you know as well as I do blogengage has some really great looking blogs. So for this quality I say thanks. Without your hard work, dedication and commitment our community would be less of value then it is today.

Thankfully we are great bloggers and have great blogs and for that we have a high quality blog article submission website.

Pay close attention over the next 4 or 5 visits to the website. Read some articles that interest you and based on quality of content and design you will be satisfied.

I personally take the time to moderate the first submission from all our new members. I visit their blogs and moderate their content and design. Based on these results I deleted or approve the account.

Many of our members talk highly of our community. If you ever meet a true blog blogengager you will know it. They are real true bloggers. The kind that will read your about us page. The kind that will read your content and comment.

For this I extend a thank you to all the members who have been with us for the last two years. It’s been a blast and I look forward to our growth in 2010

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Brian

Blogengage Weekly Word of the week challenge is “Helping Others”

1^st let me thank everyone one more time for taking time to write a post for the challenge for last week.  I think your really going to like the word this week.  This is a great topic.  Based on the votes the word or topic is about helping others.  You have all week to get you post in.

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 blogengage.  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

I had to share this news with you all. On Friday we hit over 1000 unique hits. This is a huge accomplishment and traffic has never been higher.

Right now we are averaging a high amount on unique traffic to our site. So what does this mean? Keep submitting, write more and submit more. As our traffic increases so does yours.

This is where blogengage is different than any other social network. We gain traffic only to pass it on to you our blogging community.

With the launch of our new free blogging service we should see things get even better.

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Brian

Awesome work everyone way to get involved and take some action.  I hope everyone had a little or will get a little extra traffic as a result of your actions.  Lot’s of great posts from the community here.  I enjoyed reading all.  I think I missed tweeting some will have to circle back and make sure I caught them all.

In case I missed your entry please let me know and I will add it but here are the ones that I captured from the comments.  Last weeks words were “Blogging Goals” to help kick the year off with some Goal talk.  Here is all the entries thank for taking time to enter.

SEOMKT Setting realistic blogging goals for 2010.

FMSSEO My Number 1 Tip for Achieving your Blogging Goals

The Star Celeb My Blogging Goals for 2010

Win-With-1 Blogging Goals 2010 and Beyond

Ms. Ileane’s Blog Blogging Goals Helping New Bloggers In

Tycoon Blogger Blog Goal Setting

LetUpdate Dot Com Blog in New Year 2010

Holly Jahangiri Blogging Goals 2010

IM Kevin Tan How to set your internet marketing and blogging goals for 2010 an

The Money Cult How to Accomplish Goals for your Blog Business

I Can’t Internet Setting Your Goals on Short Term

I thank everyone who participated and if you’re not included it’s because you didn’t leave your url in the latest word challenge article.

Ok, Here is the deal I like the idea of given everyone a week to vote on the word but we need a word for this week so I will let the poll run all week but for this coming week we will use the word that has the most votes on Monday Morning.

Then for next week we will use the word with the next highest votes.  This will be nice more time to vote an a little extra time to write for those that write over the weekend.

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 which will be announced Monday. The article doesn’t have to be of any special length simply write about the topics and submit your article to the blogengage

Also please enter any word or topic suggesting below I will be sure to add them in future polls.

When you search for blogging tips these days, one thing that always seems to stand out is the word “niche” and when you read about it on these blogs they always say that you should set a niche for your blog to blog about and stick to it.

But the question arises, Do you have to stick to a niche or can you stray from it?

I myself blog about a lot of stuff, so I suppose you could say that Blazing Minds is set in the niche of “Mixed Bag”, but if you do have a lot of interests, then why should you only blog about one thing and one thing only, OK I know there are a lot of blogs out there that do only blog about one thing and they do very well, but do you get a wider audience by blogging about anything you want and do you get a set target audience doing it this way or just people strolling around the net looking for everything and anything.

Over the time I have been blogging, when I do do several posts about one subject, I personally get bored with them, I think that is why I enjoy blogging about anything I can, after all, I’m not in it to get rich, only to have a bit of fun and meet fellow bloggers and have even more fun.

Maybe that is one of the reasons that I now have guest bloggers, not only do they help in bringing some freash blood to my blog, but they can also bring in some knowledge to subjects that I may not know much about or nothing about and not only teach me but my readers, but then again does this mean that the blog is falling in to a niche for these subjects, there’s that word again, niche!

Do you blog in a set niche or do you blog about what you want, are you following a route of only blogging in subjects that seem to be big on the search engines top keywords that could possibly make you money or are you blogging from the heart just to have fun.

So there we have it a small question with a big post

Are You Blogging in The Right Niche? Do You Care?

Word of the week is “Blogging Goals”

Hello, everyone as we know the start of a new year is a time when a lot of us look at our goals for the year.  Why it is important to be setting goals though out the year the new year really helps get everyone thinking.

Based on the votes the word for this week will be blogging goals.  If you wrote something recently within the last week or two on this let me know and I will add it to the wrap up if not hurry and public blog about your goals.  Did you know those that publicly talk about their goals have a better chance of hitting them.

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 which will be announced Monday. The article doesn’t have to be of any special length simply write about the topics and submit your article to the blogengage

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.

Talk to you Friday.