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THE BLOG

How many times have you searched for information on a particular topic and found that some of the highest results returned are from blogs? Blogs offer a wealth of information, good and bad, but have become widely used in combination with websites as a key business and marketing tool. This chapter offers a general overview of blogs, the technology behind them, and why they are important digital marketing tools.

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Figure 8.1 Blogs, or “web logs” for those not into the whole brevity thing, can offer a wealth of useful information, all of which is typically crawled by search engines.

To Blog or Not to Blog?

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