Google adds a friends list, social bookmarking, RSS feed item sharing, comments on blog posts and a blog recommendation engine based on your friends list In Google Reader, you can create your Google profile;you can now add a Google Reader shared items friends list, add individual pages or posts to Google Reader shared items and get this Google Reader now has a blog Recommendation Engine. - You can create a list of friends from Gmail contacts. - You can mass email your friends.

Part one I talked about how pitch can burn you so here is the next step in what you can do to lessen the pitch and use marketing more'. Do you know what the most highly missed opportunity that most Bloggers overlook in marketing their blogs? Email list building! Gathering e-mail addresses is still king and the MOST important feature in your site for three reasons. 1. First of all the purchase to visitor percentage rate on the internet is 1%,

Do you know what pitch is? You may think you do, but let me tell ya, it is not what you think. So what is pitch? They use it to seal asphalt. If you have ever watched a crew laying out pitch you probably noticed FIVE really, really, important things about pitch: Pitch is black. Pitch is really freakin hot. If you get too close to it, it sticks to you. If you do get it on you, it burns the hyde right off you. Like naplam. Once you get burned by pitch,

Blog comments are your best resource, both on your blog and when you leave comments other blogs and here's why. Blog comments on your blog allow you to get feed back from your readers, both good and bad. Your buyers will post favorable mini testimonials that you use in emails, salesletters and in blubs in blog posts. Better yet you receive OBJECTIONS and "This cannot possibly work" type comments. And get this, they are your best resource. Yeah, the ones that do not buy.