began blogging in 2005 (my promoted blog was founded in 2009) and have never looked back. Here are eight reasons why students should join the blogosphere. Simply activate it on your WordPress setup to optimize your site for search engines. Google XML Sitemaps : Create an XML-compliant sitemap for your blog to help search engines. This is a guest blog post by Michael White of Musings of a PR Student. Students should be worried about their job prospects. Competition is rife and the top advertised jobs receive hundreds of applications. 1.Your blog is your portfolio. MORE >>

Since the site was founded in 2005 by Pete Cashmore, Mashable has primarily focused on whatever’s hot in social media and technology. Research tools Twingly twingly.com This spam-free blog search engine includes Twingly Blogstream, a widget that connects traditional media to the blogosphere, and Twingly Screensaver, a visual representation of the real-time state of the blogosphere. Trendpedia trendpedia.com A blog search engine and trend-tracking tool that organizes topics in a trendline to show the popularity of a subject over time. daily.”) DannyBrown.me MORE >>

As Ruud Hein points out over at Search Engine People, their homepage is also huge. Though both sites have been around since 2005, TechCrunch quickly established itself as the industry leader, with founder Michael Arrington’s personal rants and opinions gaining attention around Silicon Valley and beyond. With things like the Panda update and the many other Google changes we have to keep up with, worrying too much about search engines tweaks is rarely your best strategy. This is an important blog post, because it makes a prediction. As mentioned, this is a long article. MORE >>

Google News While still a young company relying on private capital, Google launched a news aggregator in 2002 that was intended as a companion to its increasingly popular search engine. in 2005. The Ninth Circuit has repeatedly found that certain reproductions of copyrighted works by a search engine are a “transformative&# use. But, it is worth noting, the case for transformative use isn’t as strong for a news aggregation site as it was for a pure search engine. ABOUT ARCHIVES CONTACT SUBSCRIBE TWITTER What’s the law around aggregating news online? MORE >>

They are simply the top 10 blogs in the world…according to the Technorati engine criteria. site’s authority may rapidly rise and fall depending on what the blogosphere is discussing at the moment, and how often a site produces content being referenced by other sites. TMZ, for example, was a robot hobby site up until December 2005 when it started to cover celebrity gossip as it still does to this day. Picking a brandable name means that people can easily come back to your site time and time again via the address bar in their browser or a search engine like Google. MORE >>