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Trend Has Companies 'Blogging for Dollars'

<img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 6px 0px" alt="PR Newswire" hspace="0" src="http://blogsite.com/styles/blogsite/Blogsite/content//prnewswire100.jpg" align="left" border="0" /> RICHMOND, Va., May 4 /PRNewswire/—It's nothing new to find bloggers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, hogging the top of the rankings on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. What is new, however, is that companies large and small are entering the blogosphere in droves, hoping to create that success for themselves. [<a title="Blogging: It's Not Just for Self-Expression Anymore" href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=danews.story&STORY=/www/story/05-04-2006/0004354517&EDATE=THU+May+04+2006,+09:00+AM" target="_blank">more</a>...]Virgina-based SEO consulting firm, NetBaldwin, released this news story yesterday explaining why commercial blogsites are becoming so vital.  Of course, we've anticipated this shift for some time.  But what I found particularly interesting about this news release was the rate and breadth of coverage the story received.  The story has been picked not only by the blogging/SE/techie community, but also by numerous mainstream business media outlets like The <a title="The Dallas Morning News" href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=danews.story&STORY=/www/story/05-04-2006/0004354517&EDATE=THU+May+04+2006,+09:00+AM" target="_blank">Dallas Morning News</a>, and Yahoo! Finance.Commercial blogsites really are going mainstream. 9 application/xml false advertorial marketing business blogging commercial blogging commercial blogsites commercial weblogs self-expression The Dallas Morning News Read the complete news release in The Dallas Morning news http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=danews.story&STORY=/www/story/05-04-2006/0004354517&EDATE=THU+May+04+2006,+09:00+AM Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 $Admin false true false false true 174050 false false true false false false true 76096 blog blogsite/Blogsite/web