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Well, before i kick someone i have to say that is not what i have expected… I had some problems with my essay that… well… are making me a bit “uncomfortable”, but that is me being light with the situation… to say the truth, “very stressed” is the right term.

Me and my friends are putting a lot of effort on this work but we are encountering obstacles that seem to never end, and when i come home and think that we have spent around 10 hours this day working on the essay to do so little progress….its very, very frustrating. This research we have been doing is turning out to be a real “bitch”… sorry about the language.

To get things worse, i won’t be able to use my internet connection for the next days… I have exceeded my bandwidth limit!!!!! Well, not me… but one of my house mate. Bastard. lol

I guess i need to get some sleep…. but not until i kick someone… but don’t get me wrong… I’m going to kick someone but it will be from the Top 100 list. Someone, and you probably know who, is doing a great job and manage to pass the 1000 RSS subscribers mark, which btw, is the limit of the Bloggervenue Top100 blogs list.

So Jason, are you ready to get The University Kid kicked from the top 100?

Here it goes: lol

Jason, Congratulations on accomplishing this mark. You are now part of the Big Guys

If you don’t Know what is BloggerVenue Top 100 Blogs, you can read about it here.

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2 days ago, i was thinking that MMO (make money online) blogs failed to show readers the practical side of Making money online. It was all “talk talk talk”, all theory, and no practical stuff, there is nothing concrete like ” i applied this strategy using these steps and i made xxx amount of bucks!”.

Now, yesterday, Custodio, a fellow portuguese blogger that makes a living online, created a post that supports what i was thinking.

He says that MMO blogs don’t show effectively  how to make money. T

he majority of the posts are theoretical, and don’t show you practical results. He even says that a probable answer for all these theoretical posts, is because these bloggers don’t really make any decent money to show…

I couldn’t agree more with him.

Talking theoretically on ways to make money is easy, even for bloggers who don’t know nothing about this niche. You just need to read blogs from this area, recycle their articles and give them your personal touch and giving no credit to the original author.

Shocked? It is a common practice…

A popular Portuguese saying

- “Those who know… Do… Those who don’t know…. Teach” -

And this saying fits like a glove to many MMO bloggers. Those who know, put their knowledge into practice and make a decent buck, while those who don’t know, will tell you how to “theoretically” make money online…

Off course, some of you, actually make a decent amount of money online, and like to create posts on theoretical ways to make money, because you simple don’t want to show how you really make money. After all… You don’t want a new competitor right?

In my opinion, MMO blogs should embrace the Bologna spirit.

The Bologna Process

For those who don’t know what Bologna process is, a quick read on wikipedia will explain you:

“The purpose of the Bologna process (or Bologna accords) is to create the European higher education areaacademic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe. It is named after the place it was proposed, the University of Bologna, with the signing in 1999 of the Bologna declaration by Ministers of Education from 29 European countries in the Italian city of Bologna“

A fundamental objective of Bologna process is to make the student, learn from himself by putting in practice what he has learned.

So when i say MMO blogs should embrace the Bologna Spirit is because i think bloggers need to loose a bit the Theoretical posts, and put into practice the theories they learned, showing almost a step-by-step post. Showing their readers what have they done exactly to make xxx dollars from affiliate marketing, what have they done to make a site a success, or what secrets do you have  and how do you put them into work.

Final Consideration

Im not saying MMO bloggers should reveal all they know or reveal their niches. That wouldn’t be a wise decision.  As Custodio say’s, a blogger should show 95% of the process, the other %5 depends on the reader.

Readers want something concrete. Something they can put into practice right away- Practical Examples!

And by the way… Don’t be afraid to show your failures. We all learn from mistakes…

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I finally arrived from holidays and im ready for action. There is lot of work to do. I have almost 500 emails to read and respond, catch up with blog comments and read many articles. This will take me around a day to acomplish, and after that i need to get back to my final graduation essay that’s killing me!!!

Anyway, keep stopping by.

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This is the forth part of the creating a forum series. Today we will be focusing in one of hardest parts of building a forum: getting members!!!

Most forums will fail if they can’t manage to attract new and active members. So one of the first things a webmaster needs to start thinking is how they will bring new members?

First Step: Create Content!

You have just configured your forum, things look real nice, but it is all very empty…

This is where you need to start your posting Frenzy! That’s right. You will need to create relevant and decent topics so that new visitors can see that your forum actually has something to show…. Don’t be lazy… I promise you it is fun. Just remember this little tip:

Don’t leave any board empty. Create content on each board your forum has. Users don’t like to see empty boards.

After that, you will have a few dozens of new topics, but there is no one responding to them. There are no discussions going on, there is no user interactivity!

What can you do to fix this? You have 4 choices:

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First let me say that It seems that feedburner is forgetting to count rss readers from google reader… Again!!!

Anyway my friends, it is time for me to take some time to rest and relax, so i will be off for a few days. I need to get some decent tan…

Don’t worry :p I will try to write one or two articles for you to read next week.

So, we are in the middle of the month (damn days pass fast ), and i think this is the right opportunity to announce that there will be some changes in the advertising prices.

New advertising prices:

So if you want to take advantage of the really cheap prices practiced here, this is the right time to book them, for one month or more.

So until the end of the month you will be able to buy advertising at the following prices:

125×125 banner ad: $5/month  (next price will be $10);

Paid reviews and links are under analysis to increase the price or not.

Here are some statistics:

OiOpublisher stats tracker shows, from last 30 days, a combined total of:

Clicks: 149

Impressions: 25158

CTR: 0.592%

Effective CPM: 0.029 USD

Effective CPC: 0.007 USD

i would say that anouncing at bloggervenue.com has a very low CPC.

Of course, these stats are from all advertising campaigns running here. Individual stats may show different results.

So long! it is time to party!!! Have fun!

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