Here is another edition of blogosphere summary which you must follow every week on this blogging guides blog as I will bring you news and buzz from every corner of the blogosphere so that you will not choke yourself with a long list of blogs in your bookmarks and RSS feed reader!

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Be well prepared as this might seem to be the end of your week but I will give you a whole lot more work to do for your blog and your blogging life as the blogosphere has never been quiet.

This week, I will be bringing you blogging tips on blog themes modification, social media, blogging networking and Entrecard woes. Also, I will be showing two grand contests with great (I mean really great) prizes launched and coming up respectively! Read on to find out more on what I have to offer on this week’s blogosphere summary.

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The guys over at SEO Meter did a good job by creating a new SEO tool to measure Google bot crawl rate for our sites. Hop over now, add your blog to their directory and let them do the work of tracking your blog’s Google bot crawl rate.

Benefits of Knowing Our Blogs’ Google Bot Crawl Rate

Google bot crawl rate on your blog determines how fast your contents are indexed by Google and how high the trust that Google has for your blog. Getting our new blog posts indexed fast means that our blog will be faster than others to break a news on the search engines, even though we might be slower compared to others in posting the news.

Knowing the Google bot crawl rate can be said as a vital part of search engine optimization. All this while, we can only check the time that Google takes to index our new blog posts by guessing without having a known appropriate tool to assist us.

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Propaganda is a way not only to achieve surface objectives such as traffic building and branding for bloggers, it also enhances influence and authority, making persuasion much more easier.

Relevance of Propaganda to Blogging

Propaganda, as I mentioned earlier can bring a lot of benefits to your blog. When we plan to launch a propaganda exercise, we tend to leave deep marks in the subconscious mind of our readers which will lead them back to our blogs, opt-in for newsletters and purchase a product based on our recommendations.

Propaganda can be seen as a blogging style, which combined persuasion and interaction with the aim to influence. Seems like it is a difficult term for you? If you have a "Yes" answer to all the following questions, it is highly possible that you have a propaganda plan in mind.

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