This blog post round-up once again brings a little something for everyone. As always, read what you like, leave the rest.

12 Blog Tune-Up & Spring Cleaning Tips
by Thomas McMahon at BloggerDesign.com.
This is a great list of housekeeping activities for your blog. I would add three more:

Review Your Categories: Are they still relevant to the direction and purpose of your site? Do you have too many? Do you need more? Is your content spread fairly evenly across them? If not, adjust.
Review Your Tags: Take a look at your tag …

Today is the last day of school for my kids, so when they arrive home, I’ll be handed their report cards.
Have you gotten your report card(s), yet?
What? You didn’t know there were report cards for you? Oh yeah…and here they are:

Website.Grader.com – Free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website
PressRelease.Grader.com – Evaluates your press release and provides a marketing effectiveness score
Twitter.Grader.com – Evaluates your Twitter profile
Facebook.Grader.com – Evaluates Facebook personal and business pages
Gobbledygook.Grader.com – Check your content for use of gobbledygook words
Personality.Grader.com – Evaluates your …

Social media marketing – is it really effective, or is it just a great way to feel busy, like you’re doing something to promote your business?
If Social Media Marketing is something you?ve been interested in exploring, you?ll want to download and read this excellent report, ?SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING INDUSTRY REPORT: How Marketers Are Using Social Media to Grow Their Businesses? by Michael Stelzner. You get the report absolutely free. (You don?t have to enter an email address or anything.)
Michael set out to uncover the “who, what, where, when …

Commenting is an effective traffic building strategy for your site/blog. Every time you visit another blog and leave a comment, you leave behind a link back to your own site. The more interesting, relevant or controversial your comment, the more likely readers of that blog will click through to your site to find out more about the person who left the comment they’re reading.
Notice I said, ‘…the more interesting, relevant or controversial…’
When I receive a comment that interests me, and it’s from someone I don’t already know, I click through …

Consider these scenarios:
A friend introduces you to someone. First thing out of their mouth is, “Will you marry me?”
You walk in a new restaurant. The owner greets you with, “Would you like dinner delivered to your home every night?”
Crazy, right?
What would you think? You don’t know the person your friend introduced from Adam and you haven’t even had a chance to try the food at the new restaurant yet – so it’s pretty clear your answer to both would (at best) be, “I don’t know” but more likely, “No!” …