Blogging has been around for over 10 years originally used for visitors to leave comments on WebPages. It began as the opportunity to leave single sentences evolving into websites in their own right.

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Profiting off a niche is something internet marketers have been writing about for a long time. The principles of internet marketing apply just as much for blogs as it dose for the normal website.

With the news full of problems being experienced by social networking sites are we seeing the beginning of the end for Blogs and Social networking. My Space have just closed 29,000 profiles of know child offenders and Facebook's owner is in court fighting to stop a rival closing him down.

What are Blogs? Having heard the term previously but not having paid much attention most are just to afraid to show their ignorance and ask the question, what is a blog? Lets face it; the term blog does not conjure pleasant images.

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