I know I speak the truth in this article when it comes to blogging. The sad reality is many bloggers don’t care about your blog. They skim your content and try to post the most constructive and accurate comment they can without reading the entire article. Please understand I have also been known to “skim” through an article but I sometimes feel obligated to comment on all the blogs submitted...

After two great years of open and public registration I have finally made the decision to close our doors and make Blog Engage a private invitation only website. This decision is due to the high volume of poor quality blogs, spam submissions and comments. Overall this is great news for the quality of our content and website. Who has the invitations you ask? Everyone! The entire community has the ability to...

Yet another week passes and here we are with the blog engage word challenge. This weeks word is helping others. Remember  you can always join the challenge. Visiting the blog engage blog and you will see Jared does it every Friday and Monday. Perhaps it’s not something I did intentionally but either way it’s a success. If you’re a member of the blogengage community you’re constantly reading blog...

Over the past few months I have made some  little changes to our site that dramatically affects the way our site operates. For the longest time I was having major spam issues that forced me to change the way blogengage operated. See initially blogengage is meant to be a vote based system. You submit your blog articles and members in return vote on it. Depending on it’s popularity it would a chance of...

Our first week passes by and the blog engage social blog is getting an amazing response from our readers. I wanted to start taking Monday here on my personal blog to keep updated on what’s happening and who’s being spotlighted. So far on the Social Blog we have had 3 Community Spotlights and 2 Social Spotlights. So far I think it’s working out great. What we have here is great mixture of talented...

Over the past few days I have been sent random twitter messages asking what’s going on at the blogengage blog regaridng the social and community spotlights. So I decided what a better place to blog about it then my own blog. The mian difference between the two are huge. Let me post below the difference in bullet form explaining both the social and community spotlight. Perhaps after this article you will...

As you socialize you increase brand awareness and as your brand awareness increases so does your blog traffic. Deciding where to spend your time socializing in today’s market requires great thought as this will be where your blog traffic is originated from. Blog Communities offer unique features and functionality to gain your interest hoping someday you will take the time and invest your marketing efforts...

As another weekend passes we find our selves back at the grind. It always amazes me how fast the weekend goes by. Either way I’m ready for another work week as it’s one more opportunity to generate more sales plus I get to blog as it’s Monday and I’m a Monday to Friday blogger. Seeing I started blogging 5 days a week (instead of seven) I think I should start to look for some sort of consistent format...

I’ve never stopped to think how much would be involved with owning and managing a social network. I simply had the idea and started to develop it. It was funny because I bought the domain name and then made the site. I knew what software I wanted I didn’t have any idea’s and for some strange reason I like the name blogengage. I would had never imagined having so much business and social responsibilities....

What a crazy week so far at blogengage. It’s hot baby and the ovens only preheating! Look I said it before and I’ll say it again. You get out of life what from what you put into it. As you market your blog the same rules apply,  when you join social communities and build relationships once again the same rules apply. You have to Engage with your readers and Engage with their bloggers. Think about...