Static Front Blog Page, Yay or Nay?

Lately there seem to be an increasing number of new  bloggers who want instructions that enable them to create a static front page on their blogs. They want to have a static front page for aesthetic reasons ie. to make their blog look less like a blog and more like a website.

Some types of blogs such as professional, business, photography and wedding album blogs, etc. may be enhanced by the appearance of  a static front page.  But I wonder what impacts making the static front page choice may have on the blogs of  every day bloggers, who are  trying to achieve a good flow of targeted readers and PageRank.

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Business and Blogging Trends

There are dozens of important consumer trends worth noting at any given time of the year.  The global recession hasn’t ended and will affect the trends in buying patterns for years to come. Tracking consumer trends  is  a way to gain inspiration for  profitable new goods and services to develop, and showcase in your business blog, when you are ready to offer them to your clients and customers  in 2010.  Continue reading