Everybody is blogging these days! Kids, teens, moms, dads, and even grandmas are blogging. Due to the popularity of blogs, and the ease of use, even businesses blog. It could be the business owner blogging, in the case of a small business, or it could be someone hired to blog for a major corporation, such as Microsoft. Everywhere you look, there's a blog.

You can use blogs in a couple of ways to help your article marketing endeavors along. The first way is to publish your articles on your own blog. Setting up a blog is easy. Most webhosting companies include blogs in the webhosting package, or you can choose a hosted blog, such as that found at www.blogger.com .

Make sure that your blog has syndication or RSS abilities, and allow your blog readers to syndicate your articles! This is a vital point in using blogs for the distribution of articles.

Simply get your blog set up, set up any categories that you want to have, and start copying and pasting your articles in. Make sure that you use pinging features so that blog directories are updated each time you add content to your blog. Also visit http://pingomatic.com/ to have several services ping your blog at one time as well. This will help increase traffic to your blog.

The second way to use blogs to help your article marketing is to visit other peoples blogs that relate to your niche. When you find a topic that you have written an article about, add a comment, with a link to the articles (preferably to the article posted on your own blog), inviting other readers of the blog to read the article.

In most cases, it would be considered bad form to post your entire article on someone else's blog. Make sure you simply link to the article instead of posting the entire article, and make sure that the article really is very relevant to the topic at hand.

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