All Blogspot Blogs are Inaccessible in India

Reports are coming in that all blogs hosted on Blogger.com are currently inaccessible in India. I performed a quick traceroute against my old blog and, as you can see in the above screenshot, the request did time out after a couple of hops confirming the outage.
The main blogger.com website is still accessible but all the blogspot.com sub-domains are out of reach as of now.
While it would be a bit premature to say that if this is a technical issue or because of any government imposed censorship, it does bring back memories of 2006 when the Indian government asked ISPs to block a couple of offending blogs but they banned the entire blogspot.com domain from their networks.
Meanwhile, if you are in India and would like to read any any of the blogger blogs, either use a proxy server or just add .nyud.net to the blog URL and it should work just fine. For instance, if you are unable to access labnol.blogspot.com, append the .nyud.net suffix to a URL as below:

http://labnol.blogspot.com.nyud.net

Will update this story as I get more information. Thank you @inkv for the tip.
[Update] It now looks more like a glitch than a ban as several people have written back saying they are able to access Blogspot websites though the problem continues.
[Update 2] It appears that the issue is now resolved. Airtel issues a short statement via Twitter that they never blocked any blogspot blogs.

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Keep Track of your Favorite Bloggers with uFollow

Most blogs have multiple authors but the blog feed will be an aggregation of stores that are written by every single author who’s part of that blog. If X, Y and Z are writing for example.com, you are less likely to find a feed that is specific to author X or author Y.
The other problem is that some of your favorite authors may be writing for multiple publications and so if you are track their writings on the web, you need to follow all those sites in your RSS reader. Isn’t that stressful?

Enter uFollow – a free web service that helps you keep track of your favorite bloggers and columnists from one place. Unlike a RSS reader where you follow “blogs”, uFollow lets you follow “bloggers” no matter which publication they are writing for.
According to Naira Attia of the uFollow team, their service tracks around 25,000 bloggers and columnists who write for various leading blogs and newspapers. Search for your favorite blogger and click the “follow” link to add him or her to your reading list.
It's a unique and useful service but lacks RSS feeds and thus you’ll have to keep visiting uFollow.com to check for any updates from your favorite bloggers. Something similar can be done with Yahoo Pipes as well but it does involve a bit of effort.

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Get Visitors Stay a Little Longer on your Website

As a website owner, you not only want to attract more visitors to your website but you would also like them to stay a little longer while they are on your site.
Let me share two experiments in this direction that seem to be working out well for my blog. These require no programming and can be used on any website /blog as long as you have the freedom to add a couple of lines of JavaScript to your template.
1. Facebook Recommendations
Ever since I added a Facebook widget to my blog’s sidebar, I have noticed that the average time spent by a visitor on this site has increased.
That makes sense because this unique widget lists your blog’s most recent articles in a unique order of “social popularity” and people do like to check out content that their friends and others may have liked.
Facebook offers two types of widgets – recommendations and recent activity. You can put them both on the same page and rotate (similar to split-testing). The code for that looks something like this - remember to replace labnol.org with the domain of your website.

   1: <script type="text/javascript">
   2: var fb = Math.random();
   3: if (fb < .5){
   4:  document.write('<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/recommendations.php?site=labnol.org&amp;width=300&amp;height=300&amp;header=false&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px; height:300px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>');
   5: } else {
   6:  document.write('<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php?site=labnol.org&amp;width=300&amp;height=300&amp;header=false&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;recommendations=true" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px; height:300px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>');
   7: }
   8: </script>

2. Twitter Favorites
Most websites now embed a Twitter widget that either displays the most recent tweets of the website owner or the conversations (aka @replies) that he or she is currently having with others on Twitter.
I also use the Twitter widget on my blog homepage (see the sidebar) but in a slightly different manner. Whenever there’s a tweet that mentions one of my blog stories I add that tweet to my Twitter favorites. These recommendations then automatically appear on the site through the faves widget of Twitter.
The big advantage with Twitter’s widget is that you get to easily promote even your older content which otherwise stays hidden in the archives and may never get noticed by new visitors.

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For Bloggers Who Want to Review O’Reilly Books

O’Reilly Media, the publishers of many popular technology and programming related books, recently launched a book review program specifically for bloggers worldwide.
The idea is that they’ll send you an eBook of your choice from the list of available titles. After you are done reading the book, you’ll be required to post a 200-word review of that book on your blog as well as on a consumer retail website like Amazon.com, oreilly.com, barnesandnoble.com, or borders.com.
You may then request another O’Reilly title for review.
More details on the O’Reilly program can be had from oreilly.com/bloggers. Book publisher Thomas Nelson too has a very similar book review program for bloggers.

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The Loading Time of Popular Tech Blogs Compared

This video compares the web page loading time of the most popular tech blogs including TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times and LA Times’ tech blog.
The thumbnails turn dark as soon as page is fully rendered.
It turns out the blog that gets the maximum number of eyeballs is also the slowest of them all.

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Getting used to the new Windows Live Writer

Microsoft is expected to unveil the next version of Windows Live Essentials (codenamed Windows Live Wave 4) in the coming days.
The suite offers an impressive array of free software programs including Windows Live Writer (for blogging), Movie Maker (for editing videos), Photo Gallery (for managing pictures) and Windows Live Mail (an excellent desktop email client).

Windows Live Writer - Wave 4

I have been writing this blog using the new Windows Live Writer since the past week and am a bit surprised to find that, except for a couple of cosmetic changes to the interface, there’re no new features in the software.

Writer now sports the ribbon with contextual tabs and therefore almost feels like part of the Office family.
If you are a power user, who likes working with keyboard shortcuts, you can always minimize the ribbon and get more writing space. You’ll however still need the ribbon for inserting pictures in the your blog posts because the good old CTRL+L shortcut has been reassigned for left alignment and I don’t know if there’s a new shortcut for insert pictures except for Alt –> I –> E –> C.

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The sidebar in Live Writer is gone and some of the common tasks, especially those related to drafts, have moved to the main menu. If you also prefers saving drafts online instead of the local disk, you may find the new location a bit inconvenient.
Personal bloggers will love the new image enhancements in Writer. You can now quickly add new effects and borders to your pictures without requiring an external image editor. The downside is that Writer, like in the previous versions, adds inline CSS styles to your pictures and there’s no way to disable that setting.

The input boxes where you add tags and categories to a post have moved up and the advanced post properties – like post slug, post excerpt, etc. – are now hidden by default under the “View all” menu.
Maybe the Writer team is trying to widen the appeal by making the interface more simple but if you have been using this software for a length of time, you may be a little disappointed as some of the regular tasks now require a few extra steps.

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Be Selective When Choosing Advertisers

As a content publisher and website owner, you should be very careful about picking advertisers for your site. Don’t ever devalue your site by running irrelevant ads like the blinking cursors or those teeth whitening solutions.

Advertisements and promotions contribute to the experience you provide. Like any other content on your site, ads should be useful, relevant, and current.
Hold your advertisers to the same quality standards as your product. Don’t let a third-party reflect badly on you or your site.
If you’re trying to drive revenue, don’t drive your readers away from your site with annoying, inappropriate garbage. link.

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The Habits of Successful Bloggers

Annabel Candy has put together a good list highlighting the habits of highly successful bloggers. All great points!

Top bloggers know how to quickly get people’s attention, how to keep it, and how to make their posts easy to digest.
Most effective bloggers tend toward short posts. They also divide their copy into short paragraphs, and use bullet points or numbered lists to keep the reader scanning. They use compelling subheads so readers can scan for the information they need.
They write consistently about their chosen subject, and with a consistent voice and approach. Even when they write about something that seems to be off-topic, they relate it back to the niche they know their readers are interested in.

The 8 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers

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Some WordPress Plug-ins for Language Translation are Best Avoided

Now Get Quickest Access To Google By Setting It As Your Homepage!
The WordPress repository contains quite a few plug-ins that can automatically translate your blog’s content into multiple languages. Some of them will even store a copy of the translated text locally so subsequent requests for translated content are served directly from your blog.
Such plug-ins are popular for an obvious reason - they make your site multilingual with little or no effort and you can therefore possibly rank in non-English search engines as well (even with all the machine generated" content).
There are however two problems here. First, Google’s usage policy doesn’t allow other sites to store results of translation in the database for a long time so you are indirectly violating TOS because of that language plug-in.
The second and even bigger problem here is that instead of bringing in more search traffic, using language translation plug-ins can actually decrease traffic to your site because Google often views “auto-generated” pages as spam.
Xavier deMorales from the Google Search Quality team recently wrote on the Webmaster blog, very specifically, that websites should not serve machine translations to search engines.

We recommend that you do not allow automated translations to get indexed. Automated translations don’t always make sense and they could potentially be viewed as spam.

This is a very clear hint from Google and it applies to all language plug-ins that “cache” translated results for the purpose of making your site “multilingual” automatically.
If you've already added such a plug-in to your WordPress blog, it won’t harm if you can block bots from indexing your language sub-directories (see robots.txt) and switch to a JavaScript based Google Translation widget instead that works "on-demand."

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Now Upload Videos to your Tumblr Blog

Tumblr, the most beautiful blogging platform, just got a little more powerful.
You can now upload videos files as large as 100 MB directly to your Tumblr account. The cool thing is that, unlike Youtube where you to wait for the system to finish transcoding, videos uploaded to Tumblr will instantly show up in your blog.

While the service is often seen as a quick-blogging platform for sharing snippets and web clippings, the company is working hard to become a full-feature blogging service. They’ve recently added support for Pages and their new Community feature looking like a good option for blogs who accept guest bloggers.
Coming back to video uploads, while can can embed a fairly large video file to your Tumblr blog, you are limited to five minutes of video per day. That looks like a small limit for sure but Tumblr fans still have another reason to cheer for. And there’s absolutely no waiting time.

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How To Find Blogs Who Need Guest Bloggers

Looking to market your business or your own blog through guest blogging on other websites? Lisa Barone has a great tip on how you may spot guest blogging opportunities on the Internet:

Often bloggers will hint (meaning to or not) that they’d be open to accepting a guest post. If your favorite blogger mentions they’re about to go on vacation, offer to fill in while they’re away. If you’ve noticed they’ve slowed down posting a bit, offer to help out. Did they tweet about just having a baby, buying a new house or how they’ll be going offline for a bit? This may be a great opportunity for you to hop in. Don’t wait for the personalized invite that may never come. link.

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What News Websites Can Learn from Blogs – Proper Attribution

There’s a nice debate happening on the web about an NYT blogger who was let go because he lifted content from WSJ without attribution.
Felix Salmon writes:

The problem, here, is that the bloggers at places like the NYT and the WSJ are print reporters, and aren’t really bloggers at heart.. It’s almost as though they think that linking to a story elsewhere is an admission of defeat, rather than a prime reason why people visit blogs in the first place.

Mathew Ingram writes:

Some news sites have become notorious for either rewriting an entire post from a competitor, or excerpting huge portions of the content on their own sites, with just a small link that credits the original source. The economic incentive is the same, whether it’s a web-only outlet or a traditional media web site: to aggregate pageviews and sell them to advertisers.

Tom Foremski writes:

When I became a journalist/blogger more than five years ago, I loved the fact that I could quote directly from many news sources and then add my contribution to the story.. This embarrassment wouldn’t have been an embarrassment if its reporters were allowed to do the decent thing and attribute and link back.

Dan from PA writes:

Perhaps a solution might be to require newspaper authors to cite their sources. It's what we do in academia. Online, it would be rather simple to implement. It could be implemented as a hidden feature for those who wished to read only the text.

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Tips for Writing Guest Posts on another Blog

If you are looking for tips on how to write a great guest post for another blog, Copyblogger has some excellent advice for you:

Write the guest post. Don’t ask. Just do it

Don’t pitch the idea. Don’t ask for permission. Don’t solicit. Just write the best post you can. What’s the worst case scenario? It’s declined. Pfffft! Your work still has value. Submit the guest post elsewhere or put it on your own blog.

Skim through the past 2-3 months of posts

See what specific topics the blog has been hitting recently. See which areas in which they’ve been lacking the past few weeks. Read some comments and find out what their readers want to know more about. link.

You are also welcome to write a guest post
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How to Get Business from your Blog

You have a business and all the clever geeks and Internet marketers around you say that you should start a blog to promote your business online.
Well, if you really want to sell your products online, ignore that advice and start a blog that doesn't talk about you, your products or your company. Instead the blog should help people and some of them will eventually become customers.
Joel Spolsky writes:

If you're selling a clever attachment to a camera that diffuses harsh flash light, don't talk about the technical features or about your holiday sale (10 percent off!). Make a list of 10 tips for being a better photographer.
If you're opening a restaurant, don't blog about your menu. Blog about great food. You'll attract foodies who don't care about your restaurant yet.
If you make superior, single-source chocolate, don't write about that great trip you took to the Dominican Republic to source cocoa beans. That's all about you. Instead, write the definitive article about making chocolate-covered strawberries. For the next 10 years, whenever a gourmand or a baker searches Google for a recipe on how to make chocolate-covered strawberries, he or she will find your post. Helping your users make awesome chocolate-based confections is likely to attract readers who might buy fancy chocolate, and that's the point of a successful blog. link.

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The Best Tech Blogs

If you are looking to expand your reading list, you should definitely check out this list of best tech blogs done by David Pierce. It has 50+ blogs related to tech, gadgets and web design.
My favorite picks from David's list include:

Pogue’s Posts – David Pogue’s funny, smart, and a great representative of the common man.
Lifehacker – The grand poobah of “little things to make your life more productive, more efficient, and more awesome” blogs.
jkOnTheRun – Arguably the most seasoned gadget-heads out there, they’re a smart, thoughtful, and objective resource for all things gadget and mobile.
Smarterware – Gina, the founder of Lifehacker, took to Smarterware to share more great tricks, and never disappoints.
All Things D – A group of thinkers from the Wall Street Journal, all discussing, analyzing and talking tech. My favorite? Kara Swisher.

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How to Migrate your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain

This guide is for bloggers who plan to move their site from wordpress.com to a personal web domain using the self-hosted version of WordPress blogging software (wordpress.org).
After the migration in complete, all your older blog links will continue to work and visitors will be redirected to the new site.
Why move to WordPress.org?
Like most other people, you started your first blog on WordPress.com because the service was free, you weren't required to have any technical skills and there were plenty of widgets, themes and plug-ins to help you quickly customize the blog.
Then, as your blog was getting popular, you found certain limitations. For instance, you could not monetize your blog traffic because WordPress prohibits the use of Google AdSense and other forms of advertising on free sites. There are thousands of beautiful themes for WordPress out there but your choices were limited. WordPress.com doesn't allow JavaScript so you couldn't use advanced tracking software like Google Analytics.
Other than Google ads and themes, a big reason why you may want to move from wordpress.com to a personal web domain is branding.
Step 1: Get a domain name and rent some server space
To move your blog from WordPress.com to your own domain, you first need to have a web domain and some server space where you'll host that blog.
Though you may buy web domains at reasonable prices from site like GoDaddy or Network Solutions, I recommend Google Apps that costs $10 per year per domain. In return, you get all the Google goodies (like Google Docs, Gmail, etc.) but the best part of the deal is that your registration details will stay private - people won't be able to see your address or phone number from the whois record of your domain.
Web hosting services that you may want to consider for hosting your WordPress blog include Dreamhost, Rackspace, Media Temple, Blue Host and KnowHost. Digital Inspiration is  hosted on Dreamhost.com PS and am fairly satisfied.
Step 2: Transfer posts from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
Now that you have the basic infrastructure in place, let's setup a WordPress blog. All web hosting companies offer 1-click WordPress installation so this shouldn't be a tricky thing but make sure that you install WordPress software in a sub-directory – see instructions.

Next go to your old WordPress.com admin dashboard, click Tools –> Export, and save the XML file to your local computer (fig. A). Now, in your new site’s WordPress admin panel, click Tools –> Import and then choose WordPress.  Select the file you previously downloaded.  On the next page, choose the authors, and check the box that says “Import Attachments.”
Everything from your old WordPress.com blog, including images and other attachments, will now be automatically imported into your new WordPress.org blog.
Step 3: Redirect visitors and search engines to your new blog
Your new WordPress.org blog is a copy of your old WordPress.com site but search engines and human visitors will still land on your old site as they know nothing about the new one. Therefore we need a mechanism to redirect traffic coming to the old WordPress.com addresses to your new blog.
This is not that difficult either. First, login to your domain registrar (the company with whom you registered the domain). Then change your domain's DNS settings so that your domain points to WordPress.com servers.
Important: Make sure that you write down the existing nameserver addresses, as you will need them later on.

Once you have noted that information, change the DNS name servers to ns1.wordpress.com, ns2.wordpress.com and ns3.wordpress.com. The domain registrar, in some cases, may request you confirm the change in name-servers.
From your WordPress.com blog's dashboard, select Upgrades -> Domains.  Enter the URL of your new domain, and click “Add Domain to blog.”  Then click “Map Domain” when asked to confirm that you wish to add this address to the blog. You cannot have www in the URLs and also don't put the trailing slash.
Domain mapping is a premium service and will cost you $10 per year. You can pay with either PayPal or a credit card of your choice.
Once this is completed, you need to set your personal domain (abc.com) as the primary address for the WordPress.com blog. In your WordPress.com admin panel, go back to Upgrades and select Domains. Select the checkbox for the domain you just added and click Update Primary Domain.

Step 4: Reverse the DNS Nameserver changes
Change your web domain's DNS servers back to the original nameserver settings. Save the changes, wait for a while and now both your personal web domain (abc.com) and the old WordPress blog (abc.wordpress.com) will take you to the new site.
That's it. Incoming links, search engine traffic, RSS readers, and everything else will get redirected to your new site. You will however have to renew the domain mapping upgrade from WordPress.com every year if you wish to keep your WordPress.com address redirecting* to your new site.
[*] WordPress.com uses a 302 redirect with domain mapping which means a "temporary redirect" and therefore search engine bots will continue to index your old site in addition to the new one.

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Self Promotion is Important for Bloggers

When it comes to self-promotion, some people feel shy while other just hate promoting their own content on the web thinking others will do it for them.
Well, once you have a good number of people reading youu blog, they'll help in promoting you but when you have not reached that point, you need to market your stuff on your own because no one else will:

Creating good content on the Web is not enough. Maybe it was when there wasn’t as much of it competing, but today there is. What separates the Good Content that IS read from the Good Content that IS NOT is your ability to promote it..
Of course, there is a line. If you go in doing nothing but promoting yourself and promoting content that doesn’t deserve it, then you’re going to be shunned and ignored. link.

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An Efficient Structure for WordPress Permalinks – Don’t Make the Mistake I Did

WordPress offers you plenty of options for choosing a permalink structure for your blog. For instance, you can chose to have dates, post IDs, categories or even the name of the author in the pemalinks (short for permanent link).
The URL structure that you see on this blog uses the following custom format:

/%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/

So if I am writing an article on WordPress Tips under the Blogging category, the URL of that post will look something like this:

http://labnol.org/Blogging/WordPress-Tips/1234/

Here are some reasons why I chose such a permalink format:
#1. The URL structure is SEO-friendly and also looks clean in snippets that are displayed in search engine results pages.

#2. The structure doesn't contain dates. I generally try to write "timeless" blog posts that should stay relevant for a longer period of time and hence skipped the date completely from the URL - the date is anyway displayed in blog articles and sometimes even in search snippets as in the above screenshot.
#3. Google News includes quite a few multi-author blogs in their index and one of their technical requirements says that all article URLs must contain a unique number. If in future, this blog grows and gets included into Google News, I won't have to alter the permalink structure because there's a unique number already in the URL – it's called Post ID.
#4. Words in the URL are separated by hyphens and not underscores as suggested by Matt Cutts in one of the WordPress camps.
The Problem with this URL Structure
Now before you use a similar permalinks structure for your own blog, let me share a problem – this structure can make you site a little slow. That's because WordPress will have to run some extra queries each time to figure out whether the URL matches a WordPress page or an individual post.

For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs (which always use the text "page slug" as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties).

They have raised a ticket for the above issue but it won't be fixed until WordPress 3.0 so you are better off not using the structure that I am using.
What's the Best Permalink Structure
If you are looking for performance, the best permalink structure would just have the /%post_id% in the URL. That's however not very SEO-friendly so you may consider going for a structure like the one below (there's no trailing slash).

/%post_id%/%postname%

I know you can change the permalink structure anytime (Tools -> Permalinks) and WordPress will do a 301 redirect from the old URLs to the new ones but that might push your site out of Google's index for some time so there's a bit of risk involved.

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Why People Leave Negative Comments on Blogs

Nick Bilton of NYT recently asked Anil Dash on why he thinks people are a "bit insensitive" when leaving comments on blogs and whether blogs should allow anonymous comments:

I think comments can become negative depending on the type of conversation you allow to happen. For example, you’ll rarely see negative comments on a site like Flickr, where they’re discouraged. ..There is a large pool of dedicated detractors who are negative because the New York Times represents something to them, separate from what the story’s about.
Anonymous comments were never inherent to the Web. We originally had to allow people to comment anonymously because we didn’t have the infrastructure, technology or resources to build identity into commenting systems. But today, it can be important to start linking to people’s Twitter or Facebook accounts so that we can apply some consistent identity (even if it’s pseudonymous) to these comments. link.

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A Book Review Program for Bloggers

Book publisher will send you free books if you agree to write reviews on Amazon (or another online bookstore) and on your blog.

Book publisher Thomas Nelson has created a program - Book Sneeze - for bloggers worldwide who maybe interested in reviewing books.
The program works like this. You pick one of the books from their catalog and they will ship you a complimentary copy of that book for free. In return, you'll have to post a review of that book on your blog and on Amazon.com or another online bookstore such as Barnes & Noble, Borders or Wal-Mart.
Once you are done with the review, you can keep that book and request another book to review from Thomas Nelson.
Most book publishers frequently get in touch with bloggers for writing book reviews but Book Sneeze takes an almost reverse route – here the blogger is contacting the publisher and anyone can figure out which blog has reviewed what title. That's because the site maintains a public database of bloggers who are part of the book review program including the books that they have reviewed in the past.
Michael Hyatt of Thomas Nelson says that in addition to free books, bloggers also earn a link from the main site and that my pump up your Google rankings.
Such reviews don't exactly fall in the category of "sponsored posts" as the blogger isn't getting paid for the review but they're still close because he still get to keep the product (in this case, books) after writing the "mandatory" review.
FTC guidelines aside, sign-up for the book review program only when you are sure that your loyal readership won't mind reading such reviews on your site.

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