Many businesses are blind to the possibilities that emerging online trends such as blogs can offer them. The challenge lies into how you use them and integrate them into your business. Someone once said that blog stands for Better Listings On Google! However there are many other business advantages which we will look at. The challenge is in determining how a blog best fits your business goals. Your goals may be marketing focused, or they may be about project management, or they may be about customer relationships. Whatever your business goals are you should determine whether a blog can help you meet them.

A blogs or 'weblog’ is a regularly updated internet journal of organized personal thoughts made usually by an individual. In the business world this may be either as an official corporate blog or in an unofficial capacity. Business blogs usually incorporate news, issues, and ideas and speak to customers, vendors and employees. What makes blogs unique is that they link with other blogs and websites and solicit comments making them the ideal platform for an ongoing dialogue. Blogs are inexpensive, easy to set up and use, and require no technical skills such as HTML. The collective term for blogs is the blogosphere.

The blogosphere continues to grow. Technorati the leading web search engine is currently tracking 19.6 million blogs. About 70,000 new blogs are tracked every day. The total number of blogs continues to double every 5 months or so. There are between 700,000 and 1.3 million blog posts made every day. Both Google and Yahoo are introducing blogs search engines. Yahoo is currently showing a beta version of blog search results alongside their news results.  "Full Article"