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my internship at the ER is finishing. Im going to do the last shift this afternoon. So at 23h45 Greenwich time i will be offically free!!!! I will have about 6 days free to rest and dedicate myself to blogging and other stuff.Then i will initiate another internship doing community health for another 8 weeks. But i will have time to continue blogging regularly. So i hope… :)

So i expect to resume daily blogging the following days. :)  Expect a few surprises starting tomorrow. :)

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First of all i would like to apologize to all to my top commentators of August for not giving the rightful link love they deserve. I was unable to access the blog in these past days, and the table has been reset for the new month so i am unable to retrieve the stats… :(

Let’s start with the Top 100 update:

We’ve just had the first blog to reach the 1000 rss subscriber limit. :)

The top 10 for the month of August are:

  1. Wordpress Theme Designer
  2. Dat Money
  3. The Net Fool
  4. Yimto
  5. Blue Verse
  6. Blogger Noob
  7. Ian Fernando
  8. Brad Blogging
  9. The WWW Blog
  10. Unconventional Marketing Blog

Thanks to all that have been contacting me to add blogs to the list, and thanks to all that have been voting on their favourite blogs!

BloggerVenue stats from the previous month:

Google Analytics:

2,810 Visits (-79)

4,889 Page Views (+350)

Average 90 Visitors/day (-3)

Wordpress statistics plugin:

4643 Visits

25992 Page Views

It is always good to use different statistics programs. Despite de variations you see here.

RSS feed count: 68 (-11) - Bad month :(

Alexa Rank: 113,00 (was 131,692) - Will i make it to the top 100,00 again?

Compete Rank: 202,451 I’m still waiting for the Unique Visitors count to update.

August Earnings:

Reviews: $24 (-27,75) - this was a slow month for reviews from third party providers. I haven’t had the necessary time to give the proper attention to them.

Private Ad Sales: $45 (+$2)

RevResponse Payment: $50

Ebay Partner Network: $6,03

Affiliate Marketing: $5,60 Again a very week spot….

Total Earnings of August: 130,63

August Expenses:

Curiously i had only $1 buck of expense last month… lol

Ok, since i didn’t spent almost nothing, i can say that this was my best month so far with a total profit of $129,63.

I can only think what could i have done if i had done all things i have planned…..

So, what about you. How was the month of August for you?

P.S: As i have mentioned before, my ad rates will increase. Now a banner will cost $10/month. Links will cost $3, this is a $1 increase. After a check on the amount of clicks they have i decided to increase a bit. Still, the rate is low comparing to similar blogs.  Reviews will remain with the same price.

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All bloggers in their everyday blogging activity, which involves reading, commenting in other blogs, researching for new material, will eventually write a new post.

Now, a common mistake that i see a lot of times, in my opinion, is that some bloggers tend to write big articles. When i say big, i mean 1000+ words articles. I don’t know about you, but im not very fond of big articles. I mean, i get tired reading all that stuff, specially if the blogger does not know how to captivate the readers.

Im no angel here. I have some posts, specially the recent creating a forum series(part 1 and part 2), that reach 1000 words.

Blog Visitors are like newspaper readers. They look for the headlines and potentially for the first lines to get a global picture of what it’s about, and if they find it useful they will read it. But even so, they will jump paragraphs!

We want our visitors to completely read our posts, but lets face it. If we write to much we will loose them.

So how can we get more with less?

After thinking about it i have come across with a few tips to get more of your articles with less words:

  1. If you plan to write an article and you know you have a lot to say then simply split the article, even if it is part of a series of posts;
  2. If you can’t split the article then create sub topics in your post. This way, if the readers jumps paragraphs they can focus on the sub topics they are interested;
  3. Write a nice introduction for your post, one that can grab the readers attention, making him want to read the full post.
  4. Use related images. Don’t deny the power of an image inside a post. Just remember to insert it in the right place.
  5. Don’t use a small font on your blog. It is a big mistake. Small fonts tire the reader’s eye, and it will most likely make him run away from your post/blog;
  6. Write friendly. Don’t be formal. We want the visitors awake right?;

Now, this is my opinion, and you will find some bloggers that will totally disagree with me. They defend that more detailed (meaning: big) articles will produce more and better results…

They will say that depends on the niche, and if you are on the make money online niche, then a more insightful article will produce better results. But is it really?

So, what is your opinion and experience about this?

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Paid Reviews are one of the main sources of income for many many bloggers, including my self. It’s easy, somewhat fast and a noob can start making money with little effort.

The process of receiving money to review a site or a product can lift some impartiality issues. We can think that if someone was paid to write about something will tend to do it in a positive tone, even if they don’t know squat about it. It is really easy to write a 50 or 100 hundred word review after looking at the site for a couple of minutes. But those kind of reviews only request some buzz and some links. And the advertiser does not care if the writer spent a lot of time researching.

But this brings another negative aspect. Google does not like paid reviews that pass some link juice to the reviewed site. And what does it do when it detects this? Google slaps your blog and you can say bye bye to organic visitors!

For that reason, more and more bloggers don’t disclose that it is a paid review, and use a sitewide disclosure page. Individual or sitewide, it is important that we disclose it was a paid review. The reader deserves this information and decide if it will continue to read or not.

For these reasons and more, many bloggers don’t do, or limit the number of paid reviews. But after this long introduction (yes it was an introduction lol), i will give:

5 reasons why you should do paid reviews on your blog:

1- You make easy money (dahh!): It is easy. You just need to signup for any paid to review site and get an opportunity. depending on the offer and your writing skills you can write a decent review in 10 minutes, and there are some offers that pay $10 or more for a 50 word review!

2- New advertisers may appear: If you got a paid advertising from private ad sales it is a complete different case from point 1. I recommend that you write the review slowly after a careful study of the site and be impartial. Ask for information, see what the advertiser pretends, and If you do a review that the buyer liked  then he may ask another one later or even recommend your blog to a friend. Word of mouth is the best advertising you can get.

3- Bring more visitors from search engines: Ok, some say that if you write a review you should try to fit it to your blog subject. That is comprehensible. But you won’t loose nothing if you write a review that is not related to the niche of your blog. On the contrary. There is the possibility that your paid review attracts visitors from google searchs. They visit your site, may get interested on your blog subject and you earn a new reader. Also, visits from search engines  are known to click more on adsense ads or affiliate links than your regular visitors. It is a double win: You get paid to review, you earn from visitors that come to that review.

4- Paid reviews may spark your comments on your blog: this may not result for everyone and depends on several factors, like what type of comment plugins you use or the skill you have to adapt the text to your blog subject or to your own experiences.

I did several paid reviews that caught the readers attention and made them comment, and sometimes creating a little discussion around the subject. And we, the bloggers, love to see some activity in the posts we create. If you see the review is not of the interest of your readers than if possible you should associate an experience you had, like a problem you had with hosting and what have you learned from that, or even about a loan you took a few years ago. This may encourage readers to share their thoughts and experiences with you.

Again you win. You win money and see your blog active.

5- Find something useful: I could mention another advantage such as you can increase your writing skills, but that you accomplish every post you write, and so, as a 5th reason i choose the possibility that paid reviews offers you the chance of finding something useful to you and your readers. I have found offers that were useful to me, by browsing the advertisers list of by reading other reviews made by fellow bloggers.

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Wow, almost 6 days without publishing anything here at the blog! I don’t like to do this but my situation demands it.

It is the final week of my internship at the health centre and a project that i am doing for the internship is taking longer than i expected, although i am at the final steps of it, but still i need a couple more days to have it at the necessary stage.

Sadly this is making me fall behind on some jobs i have pending such as new bans stores, mini sites and reviews…. :\

So while i don’t post a decent topic here i will let you read some posts of blogs that i read:

How to find a niche for your bans store - Flimjo

Speed up your blog - The Net Fool

Bill from TheBlogentrepeneur says that you should treat your niche sites like Business.

And finally, Building A Famous Blog Is Like Writing A Hit Song is brought to you by Tom from Standoutblogger.

Have fun reading these posts and ill see you in the next post! ;)

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