The blogging phenomenon perfectly integrates in the second generation of web services know as Web 2.0 since this is the most convenient platform for all Internet moves. What is there for bloggers with Web 2.0? First of all, the whole aim of the new web-technology is to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users, on the one hand, and increase the usage rate on the other hand. The next legitimate question that rises here touches on the best ways to attract traffic in the conditions of the transition to blogs that are sources of highly functional content.

First and foremost, we need to say here that with blogs web information is no longer centralized in terms of authority, not to mention that the freedom to use and re-use material is limitless. From a certain point of view blogs become a real market, in which content is the transaction environment. Hence, Web 2.0 traffic tactics mainly gravitate around the optimization of blog articles for advanced search on the search engines. Though it may be very tempting, don’t aim too high from the very beginning, it is almost impossible to get large numbers of visitors form the first blogging days.

 
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that when you post on a blog it doesn’t go top to bottom? It is bottom to top. It is driving me crazy.

So here is another mistake not to make…. that I obviously am making…. know how to work a blog!
I know how to run a website, build an online store, create a website, adding pages, links, do html, but blog….hah…..having a very hard time which is why these posts are such a mess.

I’ve been writing on here as I think of things, getting my thoughts together, not realizing I didn’t have any idea how to switch the posts around, or even if you can.  
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Trying to decide where to even start. It seems that is pretty much the story of my getting into this venture. I have gone for months with a goal but took forever to reach it. I start reading a website, I see links and click them and end up all over the place. Does that happen to you?

So I then bookmark all these sites, I have so many folders, most probably have the same bookmarks in them since I started trying to organize them-(didn’t work). Then I started putting folders in my email-that didn’t work either.

Next I just deleted a bunch of bookmarks. I gave up. Way too much information overload.

So, the first thing I can say to you is, if you are starting out and looking for information, try to stay within just a few sites. Once you start clicking all over the place some of the information you will read just gets confusing and ends up not making any sense.  Most sites say the same thing in different ways, then others will tell you to do something that another site just told you not to do….talk about confusing!  
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I started by searching online.  I really wanted to get into a new online business other than my retail site.  I was more interested in sharing information. I love research. I am forever looking things up for someone, constantly reviewing every site I can, every product, every persons comments on something. 

So research is what started this for me. I wanted to created a site making things easy for others. Because I spend so much time online I started looking for sites that made things easier, gave more information, but never found the “exact” thing I was looking for.  
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