Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Youtube, Myspace… the list goes on for days. Some of you might be asking yourselves What on earth are these social networks and more importantly, why should I care? By the end of this article, you should have a good idea of exactly what these social networks are for and how they can benefit your business.

There have been a handful of weekly blog tips, hopefully you StoreBloggers have learned by reading them as much as I have learned writing them. Maybe you find yourself wanting to know more about something relevant to our site, the internet, or the blogging realm but cannot find the time to research it yourself. Well here is your chance to nominate topics for future weekly blog tips.

There are millions of blogs out there and a good majority of those blogs are using the WordPress blogging platform. Chances are your blog’s topic is not new to the internet, so you have to think of a way you can make your blog stand out. The first thing to make changes to is your front page.

This week we are going to discuss social media, and how blogging fits in with social media. There are several different ways social media is created, blogging is just one of these ways. I think social media is rapidly changing as new technologies and ways to communicate with one another come out. We will start out by defining what social media is and how you currently use it and how you could be using it in the future.

A trackback allows you to inform a blogger you are referencing their blog in yours. Say you read something in a blog you really enjoyed and wanted to link to it in your blog, you can send a trackback which will inform the blogger that you have linked to their site in your blog, which hopefully will generate more traffic for them.