There’s a good number of Must-Read articles this past week that you may not want to miss. Oh, and of course, some blog contests to keep you busy.

Enjoy!

Must Reads

• With all the advertisements that are plastered everywhere on the web today, it is not surprising that netizens have already developed an Immune to Advertisements. Blogging Mix writes an excellent post about it which is a very must read!
• Ever since Blogging surfaced, it has been branded as a threat to tradidional media. But is there a need for the two teams to face off? Manila freelancers shares his thoughts on his article here.
• Having experienced lots of instances where the healthy discourse on the comments section has been neglected, Doc tess decides to turn the moderation option on. Find out her reasons on her article, When the need for moderation arises.
• Yuga shares an interesting finding on the searching trends of netizens today and titles it "The Poor Uses Yahoo; Rich Ones Use Google". Is it really true? I use Google, but I’m not rich. I just feel that Google returns a more accurate search result than Yahoo.

Blogging Tips

• Jehzlau shares a good tip on his post "How to Increase Your Blog Traffic Even If You Don’t Update Frequently"
• On my aritlce "Blogging is Just About Making Posts, There’s also the Marketing Side of it" I asked my readers about their marketing campaigns for their blogs. Dexter of TechatHand.net replied with a blog post.
• Manuel Viloria shares his case study of a particular 2 year old multi-topic blog that posts almost everyday but only earns $2.00/day. Find out what is the reason for its low earnings and what steps to take to fix it.
• Marghil Macuha shares his reason why he is still on Pay-per-play despite the reviews by many people saying that it won’t be successful.

Offline Blog Events

• After the very succesful Blog Ethics and Libel Roundtable Talk last February 16, BlogandSoul.net follows it up with another Kape @ Isla sa Pandesal event titled "A Conversation with Butch Dalisay" and will be held on March 8. Read more about the event here.

Blog Contests

• Manila Freelancer is holding another contest where you could win a copy of Jessica Zafra’s latest book, Twisted 8: Night of the Living Twisted! It’s really easy to join! Find out more about it here.
• Blogging Mix also has another blog contest on his blog and this time the price is a Task Manager program for those bloggers who want to have a little more productivity in their blogging lives. Check out the contest mechanics here.

 Happy Blogging!

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