PR: 5
Dawud Miracle – dmiracle.com
Healthy Webdesign – Helping independent professionals who love what they do develop and build a successful website.

PR: 5
SuccessCREEations – successcreeations.com
Web Presence Problem Solvers – Creating Success as part of the Living Web

PR: 5
Randa Clay Designs – randaclay.com
Web and blog designs

PR: 5
Andy Beard – andybeard.eu/
Blog Search Engine Performance, WordPress, Niche Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Tips and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude

PR: 4
Essential Keystrokes – essentialkeystrokes.com
Tips, tools, reviews and commentary on web design, marketing, blogging, new media and related topics.

PR: 4
Geeky Speaky – www.GeekySpeaky.com
Gaming, SEO, pagerank, blog, WordPress, plugins, & geek speak

PR: 4
Nimble Theory – www.nimbletheory.com
Startups and technology.

PR: 4
Delta Fund – www.deltafund.org
All about different aspects of Insurance, from types of insurance to how much you should take out, property insurance etc. Can you afford for things to go wrong? Get on the right path with the free articles on our informative site

PR: 4
Young, Hip and Urban… – www.yhumc.org
Transforming your home from the inside out, with decorating tips from painting through to bathroom accessories!

PR: 4
Adept Insurance Blog… – www.adeip.org
Bringing you the latest insurance information

PR: 4
Free Insurance Information.. – www.iiceb.org
Information for consumers about all kinds of insurance from home insurance, to auto insurance, life insurance, travel insurance etc.

PR: 4
Create An Internet Home Based Business – Data SystemsPlus – http://www.datasystemsplus.net

PR: 4
FastSwings – http://www.fastswings.com

PR: 3
Web Business Resource – webbizresource.com
The Web Business Resource offers information and advice about internet business, including topics regarding internet marketing, link popularity, SEO, etc.

PR: 3
Net Hustlin’ – www.nethustlin.com
Creative ideas to make money online

PR: 3
Insurance! – insure.catati.com
Find out all about insrance and insurance policies.. what type of insurance should you get? How much? Get your insurance questions answered here!

PR: 3
Name Tags and Lanyards – www.nametags.org
Nametags.org company blog is a wholesale manufacturer offering printing and engraving services and specializing in identification products such as name tags, badges, lanyards, printed vinyl banners, office signage, and other promotional items. Other services offered are screen printing, hot stamping, embroidery, acrylic bending, and four color process. Our products are popular for trade shows, medical professions, retail, government, schools, churches, and non-profit organizations.

PR: 3
Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress – www.hochstadt.com/
This Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress provides you with step-by-step tutorials, marketing strategies, and techniques to shorten your learning curve and boost your online success so you, too, make money online.

Instigartor Blog – www.instigatorblog.com
Instigating discussion, Ideas and Better Business!

PR: 3
SeroWeb – To Your Health! – www.seroweb.org
SeroWeb – your one stop shop on health and fitness information. FInd out about different vitamins and supplements, as well as information on fitness and exercise right here!

PR: 5
Unofficial AdSense Blog – www.memwg.com
Eric Giguere discusses the ins and outs of Google’s AdSense program from the perspective of an independent AdSense publsiher.

PR: 5
Computer Science Canada Blog – compsci.ca/blog
Commentary on computer programming in education, technology, role of computers, and importance of computer science education in schools.

PR: 5
Creative Real Estate Options – www.creo-lr.org
Creative Real Estate Options by Lorraine Ross. Free Real Estate Articles on Real Estate Investing from a seasoned inverstor.

PR: 5
Dawud Miracle – dmiracle.com
Healthy Webdesign – Helping independent professionals who love what they do develop and build a successful website.

PR: 5
3 Minutes – Real Estate Blog – www.3minutestomidnight.org
All about real estate and real estate investing.

PR: 3
Big Bright Bulb – bigbrightbulb.com
Ideas and advice for the smallest businesses with the smallest budgets: solopreneurs and microbusinesses. Featuring reviews of free and low-cost web-based tools and services, business books, business ebooks, and other bits.

PR: 4
SPACIFY – Modern Furniture – blog.spacify.com
Modern contemporary home & office furniture, European designer furnishings, Italian furniture, and Bauhaus furniture is online. Get from Spacify modern furniture, designer furniture, contemporary furniture & home furnishings for bedrooms, dining rooms, bathrooms, outdoors & kids platform beds at great savings.

PR: 4
World Traveller.. – www.foriegnaffairs.org
Travel the world with me – lots of tips and articles on international and domestic travel.

PR: 4
What is? What! – what-is-what.com
Technology questions, answered.

PR: 5
SuccessCREEations – successcreeations.com
Web Presence Problem Solvers – Creating Success as part of the Living Web

PR: 5
Pascale’s Garden – www.pasicx.org
Pascale’s tips and tricks on getting the most from your garden.

PR: 5
Thea Cu’s Weight Loss Tips – www.theacu.org
Free weight loss information and tips to help you lose weight from Thea Cu

PR: 4
Popcorn Ninja | Movie Reviews – www.popcornninja.com
movie reviews, entertainment news, trailers, tv shows

PR: 4
Affiliate Best Programs – www.affiliatebestprograms.com/
A discussion of earning with Affiliate Programs, SEO, WordPress Blogging and General Motivational Ideas for Internet Publishers

PR: 5
Andy Beard – andybeard.eu/
Blog Search Engine Performance, WordPress, Niche Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Tips and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude

PR: 4
The Mall Blog – www.themallblog.com
Blogging About Instantly Downloadable Digital Products And Online Services

PR: 5
New Visions To Go! – www.nvtg100.org
NVTG is in an online magazine format and is targeted at women – covers diets, decorating, cooking, craft, housekeeping etc.

PR: 4
Smart Divas – www.smartdivas.com
Investing and Finance for Women

Hand Made Gifts – www.hand-made-gifts.com
Looking for a hand made gift? Check out our free advice on finding just the perfect thing.

PR: 0
Simply Gifts – www.simply-gifts.com
Great advice on buying the best gifts for your friends and family.

PR: 0
Lots of Fun Times Three – www.pfisterfarm.com/
Life with Triplets… Taylor, Steven, and Tori

PR: 0
all about the garnaat family – www.indonesia-netherlands.nl
baby development parenting family activities

PR: 2
Funny T Shirts – www.theanaloguerevolution.com
The bestest baddest selection of rude funny and offensive T shirts

PR: 3
Dave Rigotti – daverigotti.com
Dave is a writer, speaker, and Internet marketer. He’s worked with some of the most well-known and influential brands in the world, conducting search engine optimization and developing marketing communication strategies.

PR: 4
My Loans Consolidated – www.myloansconsolidated.com
Information on loan consolidation covering several personal finance topics such as real estate, retirement, grants, debt, and more. Also featuring tools (such as mortgage and credit card debt calculators), videos, and much more. Updated daily with fresh content that helps you get informed and consolidate your debt as fast as possible.

PR: 3
Hotels near Mumbai Airport – www.orritel.com/
Hotels near Mumbai Airport – Orritel West, located near Andheri, Mumbai is the best choice amongst hotels near mumbai airport for a comfortable stay in Mumbai.

PR: 2
Blood Pressure Monitor – www.americandiabeteswholesale.com/-strse-Blood-Pressure-Monitors/Categories.bok
Find Blood Pressure monitors and Blood Pressure Monitor Accessories at great prices! American Diabetes Wholesale offers digital blood pressure monitors, automatic blood pressure meters, and wrist blood pressure monitors by companies such as Omron, Heart Sense, and Mabis. Check our wide selection of reliable and accurate blood pressure monitors, featuring dual memory banks, large adult and wide range cuff sizes, and computer uploading capabilities!

N/A
Business & Home Improvement Resources – smallbusinessaz.com/sbaz-blog/
A completely original blog discussing local business along with insight from local business professionals talking about their craft with helpful information. Information helpful not only homeowners but business owners as well.

PR: 2
Pregnancy wheel – www.fairhavenhealth.com/pregnancy-wheel.html
Fairhaven Health offers a unique ovulation predictor that can adjust for short or long cycles plus a 9-month pregnancy wheel – all in one convenient tool!

N/A
Father’s Day Cards – www.greetingbee.com/cardSelect5x7AllFathersDay.html
Create your own Father’s Day cards only at – GreetingBee.com. We will print and mail them for you! Customize our designer cards or have fun making Father’s Day cards from scratch.

PR: 2
Pop Up Displays – www.igegroup.com/portfolio.aspx
IGE Group is your one stop shop to buy the top quality trade show exhibition booth design, pop up trade show displays and booths in Orlando and Chicago.

PR: 2
California Certified Payroll – www.contractorsprevailingwage.com/accounting-integration.html
Contractors Prevailing Wage Insurance Services provide valuable information on prevailing wage law compliance issues and Certified Payroll in California.

PR: 5
Gel Imaging System – www.alphainnotech.com
Alpha Innotech is the market leader in gel imaging systems. Their gel imaging systems are designed for customers who want to simply capture and archive their image and can be controlled from a computer.

N/A
Cookiebiscuit’s Blog – cookiebiscuit.wordpress.com/
Writing and poetry blog for the 21st century. I write poetry and also provide tips for would-be poets that I have learnt as a creative writing student.

PR: 2
Agoosa – Funny Name, Sound Advice – www.agoosa.com
Household tips, food and drink, home remedies, contests, gardening, kids crafts, remove spyware and more – great tips for free!

N/A
Merchant Account Blog – www.intelli-collect.com/cblog
Sharing information on the payment processing field, providing insight to merchants who need to establish/manage a merchant account. Topics covered: Credit card processing options, fees, e-commerce news, merchant account “insider secrets,” etc.

PR: 4
Search engine optimization service – www.convonix.com
Convonix provides customized Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services to help your website appear in the first page of search engines, and capture targeted traffic.

Election News – www.ThePresidentialCandidates.US
Information on the US presidential candidates. Focuses on the real issues instead of on the superficial topics so often covered in the corporate media.

PR: 0
Music News – gramofon.be/
Read the latest music news online

PR: 0
blogging for a living – phreakaholic.com
news, info, tips, tricks and reviews

PR: 0
Report Card – www.reportcard.me
Reportcard.me posts about the latest political news. We give our take on whats going on and how it affect us all. Original and fresh content daily.

N/A
Mechatronyx – www.Mechatronyx.blogspot.com
Machines rule the world i rule machines this is my motto.

N/A
Is it Possible to Run Your Car on Water? – www.runcaronwater4gas.com
Is it possible to run your car on water? Yes, but not on water, on hydrogen produced from water. The site below will tell you more about it.

N/A
ONLINE NEWS TODAY – www.onlinenewstoday.blogspot.com
Get daily updated news of what’s happening around the globe.Online News Today gives the latest news update,top stories and information, events and everything you need to know online.Be aware,update and know what’s happening around you.

1. The Huffington Post
The history of political blogging might usefully be divided into the periods pre- and post-Huffington. Before the millionaire socialite Arianna Huffington decided to get in on the act, bloggers operated in a spirit of underdog solidarity. They hated the mainstream media – and the feeling was mutual.

Bloggers saw themselves as gadflies, pricking the arrogance of established elites from their home computers, in their pyjamas, late into the night. So when, in 2005, Huffington decided to mobilise her fortune and media connections to create, from scratch, a flagship liberal blog she was roundly derided. Who, spluttered the original bloggerati, did she think she was?

But the pyjama purists were confounded. Arianna’s money talked just as loudly online as off, and the Huffington Post quickly became one of the most influential and popular journals on the web. It recruited professional columnists and celebrity bloggers. It hoovered up traffic. Its launch was a landmark moment in the evolution of the web because it showed that many of the old rules still applied to the new medium: a bit of marketing savvy and deep pockets could go just as far as geek credibility, and get there faster.

To borrow the gold-rush simile beloved of web pioneers, Huffington’s success made the first generation of bloggers look like two-bit prospectors panning for nuggets in shallow creeks before the big mining operations moved in. In the era pre-Huffington, big media companies ignored the web, or feared it; post-Huffington they started to treat it as just another marketplace, open to exploitation. Three years on, Rupert Murdoch owns MySpace, while newbie amateur bloggers have to gather traffic crumbs from under the table of the big-time publishers.

huffingtonpost.com

2. Boing Boing
Lego reconstructions of pop videos and cakes baked in the shape of iPods are not generally considered relevant to serious political debate. But even the most earnest bloggers will often take time out of their busy schedule to pass on some titbit of mildly entertaining geek ephemera. No one has done more to promote pointless, yet strangely cool, time-wasting stuff on the net than the editors of Boing Boing (subtitle: A Directory of Wonderful Things). It launched in January 2000 and has had an immeasurable influence on the style and idiom of blogging. But hidden among the pictures of steam-powered CD players and Darth Vader tea towels there is a steely, ultra-liberal political agenda: championing the web as a global medium free of state and corporate control.

Boing Boing chronicles cases where despotic regimes have silenced or imprisoned bloggers. It helped channel blogger scorn on to Yahoo and Google when they kowtowed to China’s censors in order to win investment opportunities. It was instrumental in exposing the creeping erosion of civil liberties in the US under post-9/11 ‘Homeland Security’ legislation. And it routinely ridicules attempts by the music and film industries to persecute small-time file sharers and bedroom pirates instead of getting their own web strategies in order. It does it all with gentle, irreverent charm, polluted only occasionally with gratuitous smut.

boingboing.net

3. Techcrunch
Techcrunch began in 2005 as a blog about dotcom start-ups in Silicon Valley, but has quickly become one of the most influential news websites across the entire technology industry. Founder Michael Arrington had lived through the internet goldrush as a lawyer and entrepreneur before deciding that writing about new companies was more of an opportunity than starting them himself. His site is now ranked the third-most popular blog in the world by search engine Technorati, spawning a mini-empire of websites and conferences as a result. Business Week named Arrington one of the 25 most influential people on the web, and Techcrunch has even scored interviews with Barack Obama and John McCain.

With a horde of hungry geeks and big money investors online, Techcrunch is the largest of a wave of technology-focused blog publishers to tap into the market – GigaOm, PaidContent and Mashable among them – but often proves more contentious than its rivals, thanks to Arrington’s aggressive relationships with traditional media and his conflicts of interest as an investor himself.

techcrunch.com

4. Kottke
One of the early wave of blogging pioneers, web designer Jason Kottke started keeping track of interesting things on the internet as far back as 1998. The site took off, boosted partly through close links to popular blog-building website Blogger (he later married one of the founders). And as the phenomenon grew quickly, Kottke became a well-known filter for surfers on the lookout for interesting reading.

Kottke remains one of the purest old-skool bloggers on the block – it’s a selection of links to websites and articles rather than a repository for detailed personal opinion – and although it remains fairly esoteric, his favourite topics include film, science, graphic design and sport. He often picks up trends and happenings before friends start forwarding them to your inbox. Kottke’s decision to consciously avoid politics could be part of his appeal (he declares himself ‘not a fan’), particularly since the blog’s voice is literate, sober and inquiring, unlike much of the red-faced ranting found elsewhere online.

A couple of key moments boosted Kottke’s fame: first, being threatened with legal action by Sony for breaking news about a TV show, but most notably quitting his web-design job and going solo three years ago. A host of ‘micropatrons’ and readers donated cash to cover his salary, but these days he gets enough advertising to pay the bills. He continues to plug away at the site as it enters its 10th year.

kottke.org

5. Dooce
One of the best-known personal bloggers (those who provide more of a diary than a soapbox or reporting service), Heather Armstrong has been writing online since 2001. Though there were personal websites that came before hers, certain elements conspired to make Dooce one of the biggest public diaries since Samuel Pepys’s (whose diary is itself available, transcribed in blog form, at Pepysdiary.com). Primarily, Armstrong became one of the first high-profile cases of somebody being fired for writing about her job. After describing events that her employer – a dotcom start-up – thought reflected badly on them, Armstrong was sacked. The incident caused such fierce debate that Dooce found itself turned into a verb that is used in popular parlance (often without users realising its evolution): ‘dooced – to be fired from one’s job as a direct result of one’s personal website’.

Behind Dooce stands an army of personal bloggers perhaps not directly influenced by, or even aware of, her work – she represents the hundreds of thousands who decide to share part of their life with strangers.

Armstrong’s honesty has added to her popularity, and she has written about work, family life, postnatal depression, motherhood, puppies and her Mormon upbringing with the same candid and engaging voice. Readers feel that they have been brought into her life, and reward her with their loyalty. Since 2005 the advertising revenue on her blog alone has been enough to support her family.

dooce.com

6. Perezhilton
Once dubbed ‘Hollywood’s most hated website’, Perezhilton (authored by Mario Lavandeira since 2005) is the gossip site celebrities fear most. Mario, 29, is famous for scrawling rude things (typically doodles about drug use) over pap photos and outing closeted stars. On the day of Lindsay Lohan’s arrest for drink-driving, he posted 60 updates, and 8m readers logged on.

He’s a shameless publicity whore, too. His reality show premiered on VH1 last year, and his blogsite is peppered with snaps of him cuddling Paris Hilton at premieres. Fergie from Black Eyed Peas alluded to him in a song, and Avril Lavigne phoned, asking him to stop writing about her after he repeatedly blogged about her lack of talent and her ‘freakishly long arm’.

perezhilton.com

7. Talking points memo
At some point during the disputed US election of 2000 – when Al Gore was famously defeated by a few hanging chads – Joshua Micah Marshall lost patience. Despite working as a magazine editor, Marshall chose to vent on the web. Eight years later Talking Points Memo and its three siblings draw in more than 400,000 viewers a day from their base in New York.

Marshall has forged a reputation, and now makes enough money to run a small team of reporters who have made an impact by sniffing out political scandal and conspiracy. ‘I think in many cases the reporting we do is more honest, more straight than a lot of things you see even on the front pages of great papers like the New York Times and the Washington Post,’ he said in an interview last year. ‘But I think both kinds of journalism should exist, should co-exist.’

Although his unabashed partisan approach is admonished by many old-fashioned American reporters, Marshall’s skills at pulling together the threads of a story have paid dividends. Last year he helped set the agenda after George Bush covertly fired a string of US attorneys deemed disloyal to the White House. While respected mainstream media figures accused Marshall of seeing conspiracy, he kept digging: the result was the resignation of attorney general Alberto Gonzales, and a prestigious George Polk journalism award for Marshall, the first ever for a blogger.

talkingpointsmemo.com

8. Icanhascheezburger
Amused by a photo of a smiling cat, idiosyncratically captioned with the query ‘I Can Has A Cheezburger?’, which he found on the internet while between jobs in early 2007, Eric Nakagawa of Hawaii emailed a copy of it to a friend (known now only as Tofuburger). Then, on a whim, they began a website, first comprising only that one captioned photo but which has since grown into one of the most popular blogs in the world.

Millions of visitors visit Icanhascheezburger.com to see, create, submit and vote on Lolcats (captioned photos of characterful cats in different settings). The ‘language’ used in the captions, which this blog has helped to spread globally, is known as Lolspeak, aka Kitty Pidgin. In Lolspeak, human becomes ‘hooman’, Sunday ‘bunday’, exactly ‘xackly’ and asthma ‘azma’. There is now an effort to develop a LOLCode computer-programming language and another to translate the Bible into Lolspeak.

icanhascheezburger.com

9. Beppe Grillo
Among the most visited blogs in the world is that of Beppe Grillo, a popular Italian comedian and political commentator, long persona non grata on state TV, who is infuriated daily – especially by corruption and financial scandal in his country.

A typical blog by Grillo calls, satirically or otherwise, for the people of Naples and Campania to declare independence, requests that Germany declare war on Italy to help its people (‘We will throw violets and mimosa to your Franz and Gunther as they march through’) or reports on Grillo’s ongoing campaign to introduce a Bill of Popular Initiative to remove from office all members of the Italian parliament who’ve ever had a criminal conviction. Grillo’s name for Mario Mastella, leader of the Popular-UDEUR centre-right party, is Psychodwarf. ‘In another country, he would have been the dishwasher in a pizzeria,’ says Grillo. Through his blog, he rallied many marchers in 280 Italian towns and cities for his ‘Fuck You’ Day last September.

beppegrillo.it

10. Gawker
A New York blog of ‘snarky’ gossip and commentary about the media industry, Gawker was founded in 2002 by journalist Nick Denton, who had previously helped set up a networking site called First Tuesday for web and media entrepreneurs. Gawker’s earliest fascination was gossip about Vogue editor Anna Wintour, garnered from underlings at Conde Nast. This set the tone for amassing a readership of movers and shakers on the Upper East Side, as well as ‘the angry creative underclass’ wishing either to be, or not be, like them, or both (‘the charmingly incompetent X… the wildly successful blowhard’). Within a year Gawker’s readers were making 500,000 page views per month. Nowadays the figure is 11m, recovering from a recent dip to 8m thanks to the showing of a Tom Cruise ‘Indoctrination Video’ which Scientologists had legally persuaded YouTube to take down. Gawker remains the flagship of Gawker Media, which now comprises 14 blogs, although gossiping by ex-Gawker insiders, a fixation on clicks (which its bloggers are now paid on the basis of) and fresh anxiety over defining itself have led some to claim Gawker has become more ‘tabloidy’ and celeb- and It-girl-orientated, and less New York-centric. But its core value – ‘media criticism’ – appears to be intact.

gawker.com

11. The Drudge Report
The Report started life as an email gossip sheet, and then became a trashy webzine with negligible traffic. But thanks to the decision in 1998 to run a scurrilous rumour – untouched by mainstream media – about Bill Clinton and a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky, it became a national phenomenon. Recent scoops include Barack Obama dressed in tribal garb and the fact Prince Harry was serving in Afghanistan. Drudge is scorned by journalists and serious bloggers for his tabloid sensibilities, but his place in the media history books is guaranteed. And much though they hate him, the hacks all still check his front page – just in case he gets another president-nobbling scoop.

drudgereport.com

12. Xu Jinglei
Jinglei is a popular actress (and director of Letter From An Unknown Woman) in China, who in 2005 began a blog (‘I got the joy of expressing myself’) which within a few months had garnered 11.5m visits and spurred thousands of other Chinese to blog. In 2006 statisticians at Technorati, having previously not factored China into their calculations, realised Jinglei’s blog was the most popular in the world. In it she reports on her day-to-day moods, reflections, travels, social life and cats (‘Finally the first kitten’s been born!!! Just waiting for the second, in the middle of the third one now!!!!!!!! It’s midnight, she gave birth to another one!!!!!!’). She blogs in an uncontroversial but quite reflective manner, aiming to show a ‘real person’ behind the celebrity. Each posting, usually ending with ‘I have to be up early’ or a promise to report tomorrow on a DVD she is watching, is followed by many hundreds of comments from readers – affirming their love, offering advice, insisting she take care. Last year her blog passed the 1bn clicks mark.

blog.sina.com.cn/xujinglei

13. Treehugger
Treehugger is a green consumer blog with a mission to bring a sustainable lifestyle to the masses. Its ethos, that a green lifestyle does not have to mean sacrifice, and its positive, upbeat feel have attracted over 1.8m unique users a month. Consistently ranked among the top 20 blogs on Technorati, Treehugger has 10 staff but also boasts 40 writers from a wide variety of backgrounds in more than 10 countries around the world, who generate more than 30 new posts a day across eight categories, ranging from fashion and beauty, travel and nature, to science and technology. Treehugger began as an MBA class project four years ago and says it now generates enough revenue from sponsorship and advertising to pay all its staffers and writers. It has developed a highly engaged community and has added popular services like TreeHugger.tv, and a user-generated blog, Hugg. It was bought by the Discovery Channel last year for a rumoured $10m.

treehugger.com

14. Microsiervos
Microsiervos, which began in 2001, took its name from Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs, a diary entry-style novel about internet pioneers. It is run by Alvy, Nacho and Wicho, three friends in Madrid, who blog in Spanish. The second most popular blog in Europe and the 13th most popular in the world (according to eBizMBA), Microsiervos concerns itself with science, curiosities, strange reality, chance, games, puzzles, quotations, conspiracies, computers, hacking, graffiti and design. It is informal, friendly and humorous, moving from news of an eccentric new letter font to reflections on the discovery of the Milky Way having double the thickness it was previously thought to have.

microsiervos.com

15. TMZ
You want relentless celebrity gossip on tap? TMZ will provide it, and when we say relentless, we mean relentless. The US site is dripping with ‘breaking news’ stories, pictures and videos, and deems celeb activity as mundane as stars walking to their cars worthy of a video post. TMZ was launched in 2005 by AOL and reportedly employs around 20 writers to keep the celeb juice flowing. It pulls in 1.6m readers a month and is endlessly cited as the source for red-top celeb stories. It was the first to break Alec Baldwin’s now infamous ‘rude little pig’ voicemail last April, for instance. TMZ prides itself on being close to the action, so close, in fact, a TMZ photographer had his foot run over by Britney Spears mid-meltdown. They auctioned the tyre-tracked sock on eBay in aid of US charity the Children’s Defense Fund last autumn.

TMZ.com

16. Engadget
Engadget provides breaking news, rumours and commentary on, for instance, a camera able to track a head automatically, the very latest HD screen or ‘visual pollution’ concerns prompted by hand-held pico laser-projectors. The world’s most popular blog on gadgets and consumer electronics, Engadget was founded by Peter Rojas in 2004 and won the Web Blogs Awards that year and each year since. Now part of Weblogs Inc (owned by AOL), it is offered on many other sites (including GoogleMail) as a default RSS feed, and is published in English, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. Last year, a mistake confirmed Engadget’s power – upon reporting a supposed email (which turned out to be a hoax) from Apple, informing Apple employees of a delay in the launch of iPhone, Apple’s share price fell by 3 per cent within minutes. Rojas also co-founded rival gadget blog Gizmodo.

engadget.com

17. Marbury
No matter what happens between now and 4 November, you can be certain the US presidential election of 2008 will be among the most historically important and dramatic of any fought. Having an informed opinion will be a must, but if you are as yet unable to tell your Iowa Caucus from your Feiler Faster Thesis, Marbury – a British blog on American politics – is the place to start. The site’s creator, Ian Leslie, is an ex-expat who fell for American politics during a four-year stint living in New York. The site signposts important events and interesting analyses, gives context and witty commentary on everything from the most serious speeches to the silliest election-themed YouTube clips. And West Wing fans will be pleased to note that the blog’s name is a reference to the show’s British ambassador to the United States, Lord John Marbury, who, appropriately enough, provided an eccentrically British but reliably insightful appraisal of American politics.

marbury.typepad.com

18. Chez Pim
Attracting around 10,000 people from all over the globe to her site every week, Pim Techamuanvivit has tried and tested an awful lot of food. From Michelin-starred restaurants to street food and diners, she samples it all, and posts her thoughts and pictures to share with other foodie fans. She advises her readers on what cooking equipment to go for, posts recipe suggestions for them to try, and gives them a nudge in the direction of which food shows are worth a watch. She’s not just famous on the net, she’s attracted global coverage in the media with her writing, recipes and interviews appearing in such diverse publications as the New York Times, Le Monde and the Sydney Morning Herald.

chezpim.typepad.com

19. Get More Reviews
Recently rated the 18th most influential blog in the world by Wikio, Get More Reviews, which has the tag line ‘product reviews, service review and website reviews’, is website from Canada, which aims ‘to boldly blog what no one has blogged before’, and recently posted its 10,000th entry. Get More Reviews reports on technology and odds and ends, encouraging readers to rummage through an 1851 edition of the New York Times one minute and to contemplate the differences between mooses and elks the next.

getmorereviews.com

20. The Sartorialist
As ideas go, this one is pretty simple. Man wanders around Manhattan with a camera. Spots someone whose outfit he likes. Asks if he can take a picture. Goes home and posts it on his blog. But the man in question is Scott Schuman, who had 15 years’ experience working at the high-fashion end of the clothing industry before starting The Sartorialist. He’s got a sharp eye for a good look, a gift for grabbing an on-the-hoof pic and an unwavering enthusiasm for people going the extra mile in the name of style. Minimalist it might be, but his site – a basic scroll of full-length street portraits, occasionally annotated with a brief note – is mesmeric and oddly beautiful. The site attracts more than 70,000 readers a day and has been named one of Time’s Top 100 Design Influences. So if you’re out and about and a guy called Scott asks to take your picture, just smile. You’re about to become a style icon.

thesartorialist.blogspot.com

21. Students for a free Tibet
Taking the protest online, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) is a global, grassroots network of students campaigning to free Tibet, which has been occupied by China since 1950. Students in Tibet face arrest for posting on the site, but many escape to blog about their experiences in exile. With a history of direct action, the group is now uniting worldwide members through the web, blogging to spread word of news and protests, and using sites like Facebook to raise funds. The organisation, which was founded in 1994 in New York, spans more than 35 countries and gets up to 100,000 hits a month. In 2006, SFT used a satellite link at Mount Everest base camp to stream live footage on to YouTube of a demonstration against Chinese Olympic athletes practising carrying the torch there. Later this year the web will be a critical tool in organising and reporting protests during the games. ‘SFT plans to stage protests in Beijing during the games and post blogs as events unfold,’ says Iain Thom, the SFT UK national co-ordinator. ‘But for security reasons we can’t reveal details of how or where yet.’ Similarly, a massive protest in London on 10 March will be the subject of intense cyber comment. In response, the site has fallen victim to increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. Investigations have traced the sources back to China, leading to speculation that the Chinese authorities are trying to sabotage the site to stop online critics.

studentsforafreetibet.org

22. Jezebel
Last year Gawker Media launched Jezebel – a blog which aimed to become a brilliant version of a women’s magazine. It succeeded quickly, in part by acknowledging the five big lies perpetuated by the women’s media: The Cover Lie (female forgeries of computer-aided artistry); The Celebrity-Profile Lie (flattery, more nakedly consumerist and less imaginative than the movies they’re shilling for); The Must-Have Lie (magazine editors are buried in free shit); The Affirmation Crap Lie (you are insecure about things you didn’t know it was possible to be insecure about); and The Big Meta Lie (we’re devastatingly affected by the celebrity media). Their regular ‘Crap Email From a Dude’ feature is especially fantastic, as is their coverage of current stories (opinionated and consistently hilarious) and politics. It offers the best lady-aimed writing on the web, along with lots of nice pictures of Amy Winehouse getting out of cars.

jezebel.com

23. Gigazine
Created by Satoshi Yamasaki and Mazaki Keito of Osaka, Gigazine is the most popular blog in Japan, covering the latest in junk foods and beverages, games, toys and other ingredients of colourful pop product culture. Visitors first witness ‘eye candy’ such as David Beckham condoms (from China), 75 turtles in a fridge, the packaging for Mega Frankfurters or a life-size Ferrari knitted from wool, learn of a second X-Files movie moving into pre-pre-production, watch a vacuum-cleaning robot being tested and compare taste reports of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new Shrimp Tsuisuta Chilli.

gigazine.net

24. Girl with a one-track mind
Following in the footsteps of Belle de Jour – the anonymous blogger claiming to be a sex worker – the girl with a one track mind started writing in open, explicit terms about her lively sex life in 2004. By 2006, the blog was bookified and published by Ebury, and spent much time on bestseller lists, beach towels and hidden behind the newspapers of serious-looking commuters. Though she was keen to retain her anonymity and continue her career in the film industry, author ‘Abby Lee’ was soon outed as north Londoner Zoe Margolis by a Sunday newspaper.

girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com

25. Mashable
Founded by Peter Cashmore in 2005, Mashable is a social-networking news blog, reporting on and reviewing the latest developments, applications and features available in or for MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and countless lesser-known social-networking sites and services, with a special emphasis on functionality. The blog’s name Mashable is derived from Mashup, a term for the fusing of multiple web services. Readers range from top web 2.0 developers to savvy 13-year-olds wishing for the latest plug-ins to pimp up their MySpace pages.

mashable.com

26. Greek tragedy
Stephanie Klein’s blog allows her to ‘create an online scrapbook of my life, complete with drawings, photos and my daily musings’ or, rather, tell tawdry tales of dating nightmares, sexual encounters and bodily dysfunctions. Thousands of women tune in for daily accounts of her narcissistic husband and nightmarish mother-in-law and leave equally self-revealing comments transforming the pages into something of a group confessional. The blog has been so successful that Klein has penned a book, Straight Up and Dirty, and has featured in countless magazine and newspaper articles around the globe. Not bad for what Klein describes as ‘angst online’.

stephanieklein.blogs.com

27. Holy Moly
If a weekly flick through Heat just isn’t enough, then a daily intake of Holy Moly will certainly top up those celeb gossip levels. The UK blog attracts 750,000 visitors a month and 240,000 celeb-obsessees subscribe to the accompanying weekly mail-out. It’s an established resource for newspaper columnists – both tabloid and broadsheet – and there’s a daily ‘News from the Molehill’ slot in the free London paper The Metro. Last month Holy Moly created headlines in its own right by announcing a rethink on publishing paparazzi shots. The blog will no longer publish pics obtained when ‘pursuing people in cars and on bikes’, as well as ‘celebrities with their kids’, ‘people in distress at being photographed’ and off-duty celebs. But don’t think that means the omnipresent celeb blog that sends shivers round offices up and down the country on ‘mail-out day’ is slowing down – there has been talk of Holy Moly expanding into TV.

holymoly.co.uk

28. Michelle Malkin
Most surveys of web use show a fairly even gender balance online, but political blogging is dominated by men. One exception is Michelle Malkin, a conservative newspaper columnist and author with one of the most widely read conservative blogs in the US. That makes her one of the most influential women online. Her main theme is how liberals betray America by being soft on terrorism, peddling lies about global warming and generally lacking patriotism and moral fibre.

www.michellemalkin.com

29. Cranky flier
There’s nowhere to hide for airlines these days. Not with self-confessed ‘airline dork’ Brett Snyder, aka Cranky Flier, keeping tabs on their progress. He’s moved on from spending his childhood birthdays in airport hotels, face pressed against the window watching the planes come in, and turned his attention to reporting on the state of airlines. His CV is crammed with various US airline jobs, which gives him the insider knowledge to cast his expert eye over everything from the recent 777 emergency landing at Heathrow to spiralling baggage handling costs and the distribution of air miles to ‘virtual assistants’.

crankyflier.com

30. Bloggerbible.com
It’s a neat word bloggerbible is just a simple contraction of  its preceding expletive but from those three letters an entire fugging industry has grown. At BloggerBible.com, celebrity offenders against style, elegance and the basic concept of making sure you’re covering your reproductive organs with some form of clothing before you leave the house are ‘fugged’ by the site’s writers, Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks. In their hands, the simple pleasure of yelping ‘Does she even OWN a mirror?’ at a paparazzi shot of some B-list headcase in fuchsia becomes an epic battle against dull Oscar gowns, ill-fitting formalwear and Lindsay Lohan’s leggings. The site stays on the right side of gratuitous nastiness by dishing out generous praise when due (the coveted ‘Well Played’), being genuinely thoughtful on questions of taste and funnier on the subject of random starlets in sequined sweatpants than you could possibly even imagine.

bloggerbible.com

31. Gaping void
In the middle of a career as an adman in New York, Hugh MacLeod found himself doodling acerbic and almost surreal cartoons on the back of people’s business cards to pass the time in bars. Everyone seemed to like the idea, so he kept going. Things started going gangbusters when he pimped his cartoons on the internet, and as he built an audience through his blog, he started writing about his other passion – the new world of understanding how to adapt marketing to the new world of the net. Remember when everybody was madly printing off vouchers from the web that saved you 40 per cent? That was one of his: aimed at helping shift more bottles from Stormhoek, the South African vintner he works with.

gapingvoid.com

32. Dirtydirty dancing
If someone stole your camera, took it out for the night to parties you yourself aren’t cool enough to go to and returned it in the morning, you would probably find it loaded up with pictures like those posted on DirtyDirtyDancing. The site seems pretty lo-fi – just entries called things like ‘Robin’s birthday’ and ‘FEB16′ featuring pages of images of hip young things getting their party on. And that’s it. The original delight was in logging on to see if you’d made it on to the site – your chances increase exponentially if you’re beautiful, avant-garde and hang out at clubs and parties in the edgier parts of London – but now the site can get up to 900,000 hits a month from all over the world.

dirtydirtydancing.com

33. Crooked timber
With a title pulled from Immanuel Kant’s famous statement that ‘out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made’, it’s an amalgam of academic and political writing that has muscled its way into the epicentre of intelligent discussion since its conception in 2003. Formed as an internet supergroup, pulling several popular intellectual blogs together, Crooked Timber now has 16 members – largely academics – across the US, Europe, Australia and Asia. The site has built itself a reputation as something of an intellectual powerhouse; a sort of global philosophical thinktank conducted via blog.

crookedtimber.org

34. Beansprouts
Combining diary, opinion and green lifestyle tips, Beansprouts is a blog that covers one family’s ‘search for the good life’. Melanie Rimmer and her family of five live in a ‘small ex-council house’ with a garden on the edge of farmland in Poynton, Cheshire. They grow food on an allotment nearby, keep chickens and bees and ‘try to be green, whatever that means’. Rimmer set up the blog nearly two years ago when she first got the allotment and says she felt it was something worth writing about. With one post a day, often more, topics for discussion can range from top 10 uses for apples to making scrap quilts.

bean-sprouts.blogspot.com

35. The offside
Launched by ‘Bob’ after the success of his WorldCupBlog in 2006, Offside is a UK-based blog covering football leagues globally, gathering news and visuals on all of it, inviting countless match reports and promoting discussion on all things soccer, from the attack by a colony of red ants on a player in the Sao Paulo state championship third division, to the particular qualities of every one of Cristiano Ronaldo’s goals so far this season. Considered by many to be the best ‘serious’ blog in the game, it nevertheless promises irreverently, ‘If there is a sex scandal in England, we’ll be stuck in the middle of it. If a player is traded for 1,000lb of beef in Romania, we’ll cook the steak. And if something interesting happens in Major League Soccer, we’ll be just as surprised as you.’

theoffside.com

36. Peteite Anglaise
The tagline of a new book hitting British shelves reads ‘In Paris, in love, in trouble’, but if it were telling the whole story, perhaps it should read ‘In public’ too. Bored at work one day in 2004, expat secretary Catherine Sanderson happened upon the concept of blogging. With a few clicks and an impulse she created her own blog, and quickly gathered fans who followed her life in Paris, the strained relationship with her partner and adventures with her toddler. And there was plenty of drama to watch: within a year her relationship had broken up, and she’d met a new man who wooed her online. Readers were mesmerised by her unflinching dedication to telling the whole story, no matter how she would be judged. Soon afterwards, however, Sanderson’s employers found out about the blog and promptly fired her. Defeat turned into victory, however, with the press attention she gathered from the dismissal not only securing victory in an industrial tribunal, but also helping her score a lucrative two-book deal with Penguin.

petiteanglaise.com

37. Crooks and liars
Founded in 2004 by John Amato (a professional saxophonist and flautist), Crooks and Liars is a progressive/liberal-leaning political blog, with over 200m visitors to date, which is illustrated by video and audio clips of politicians and commentators on podiums, radio and TV. Readers post a variety of comments on political talking points of the day, although 9/11 conspiracy theories are often deleted, and there is a daily round-up of notable stories on other political blogs.

crooksandliars.com

38. Blogger Bible
For Clothilde Dusoulier, a young woman working in computing and living in the Paris district of Montmartre, starting a blog was a way of venting her boundless enthusiasm for food without worrying she might be boring her friends with it. Five years later Chocolate and Zucchini, one of the most popular cooking blogs, has moved from being a hobby to a full-time career. The mixture of an insider’s view on gastronomic Paris, conversational, bilingual writing and the sheer irresistibility of her recipes pull in thousands of readers every day. This, in turn, has led to multiple books and the ability to forge a dream career as a food writer.The name of the blog is, she says, a good metaphor for her cooking style: ‘The zucchini illustrates my focus on healthy and natural eating… and the chocolate represents my decidedly marked taste for anything sweet.’

bloggerbible.com

39. Samizdata
Samizdata is one of Britain’s oldest blogs. Written by a bunch of anarcho-libertarians, tax rebels, Eurosceptics and Wildean individualists, it has a special niche in the political blogosphere: like a dive bar, on the rational side of the border between fringe opinion and foam-flecked paranoid ranting. Samizdata serves its opinions up strong and neat, but still recognisable as politics. On the other side of the border, in the wilderness, the real nutters start.

samizdata.net

40. The daily dish
Andrew Sullivan is an expat Brit, blogging pioneer and defier-in-chief of American political stereotypes. He is an economic conservative (anti-tax), a social liberal (soft on drugs) and a foreign policy hawk (pro-war). He endorsed George Bush in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. Barack Obama is his preferred Democrat candidate in 2008. So he is either confused, a hypocrite or a champion of honest non-partisanship – depending on your point of view. He is also gay, a practising Roman Catholic and HIV-positive, a set of credentials he routinely deploys in arguments to confuse atheist liberals and evangelical conservatives.

andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

41. The F word
Founded in 2001, the UK’s first feminist webzine is responsible for reviving debates around feminism in Britain. Edited by Jess McCabe, the site, which receives around 3,000 hits a day, is dedicated to providing a forum for contemporary feminist voices, with a daily news blog, features on stereotypes and censorship, podcasts on pornography and regular feminist film reviews.

thefword.org.uk

42. Jonny B’s private secret diary
Growing in popularity since its debut in 2003, Jonny B’s diary – which is clearly neither private nor terribly secret – catalogues the rock and bowls lifestyle of one man in the depths of rural Norfolk. With the mocking self-awareness of a modern Diary of a Nobody, the author tells tales of wild nights at the village pub and the fortunes of the local bowls team. As a slow, gentle satire on modern village life, it is often held up as an example of blog as sitcom, and has not only attracted a loyal band of readers, but a dedicated fan club on Facebook desperate to work out the real identity of the wit behind the site. Previous guesses have included Chris Evans and Johnny Vaughan, though both have been strenuously denied.

privatesecretdiary.com

43. Popjustice
When Smash Hits! died, Popjustice became the new home of pop music. Founded in 2000 by Peter Robinson, it combines fandom with music news and raw critique, all hilarious, and all blindingly correct. Recent features include a review of Eurovision failure Daz Sampson’s new single ‘Do A Little Dance’ (‘The listener is invited to muse on the sad inevitability of their own death’) and a furious debate about the future of Girls Aloud.

popjustice.com

44. Waiter rant
Rant isn’t quite the right word for this collection of carefully crafted stories from the sharp end of the service industry in a busy New York restaurant. ‘The Waiter’, as the author is known, has been blogging his experiences with fussy customers and bad tippers since 2004, winning a gong at blogging’s biggest awards, the Bloggies, in 2007. It’s representative – but by no means the first – of the so-called ‘job-blogs’, with people from all walks of life, from ambulance drivers (randomactsofreality.net) and policemen (coppersblog.blogspot.com) to the greatly loved but now defunct Call Centre Confidential. Between them they chronicle life in their trade, and usually from behind a veil of anonymity. Something about the everyday nature of The Waiter – a person we like to pretend is invisible or treat with servile disdain – deconstructing the event later with a subtle, erudite typestroke, has captured the public imagination and (hopefully) made some people behave better in restaurants than they otherwise might.

waiterrant.net

45. Hecklerspray
The internet’s not exactly short of gossip websites providing scurrilous rumours of who did what to whom, but some stand out from the rest. Sharply written and often laugh-out-loud funny, Hecklerspray has been called the British alternative to Perez Hilton, but it’s different in important ways: the emphasis here is on style and wit, with a stated aim to ‘chronicle the ups and downs of all that is populist and niche within the murky world of entertainment’. Basically, it’s gossip for grown-ups.

hecklerspray.com

46. WoWinsider
WoWinsider is a blog about the World of Warcraft, which is the most popular online role-playing game in the world, one for which over 10m pay subscriptions each month in order to control an avatar (a character, chosen from 10 races) and have it explore landscapes, perform quests, build skills, fight monsters to the death and interact with others’ avatars. WoWinsider reports on what’s happening within WoW (‘Sun’s Reach Harbor has been captured’). It also reports on outside developments and rumours (‘A future patch will bring a new feature: threat meters’). Supporters of US presidential candidate Ron Paul promoted on WoWInsider their recent virtual mass march through the WoW. And the blog recently reported that America’s Homeland Security are – seriously – looking for a terrorist operating within WoW.

WoWinsider.com

47. Angry black bitch
Angry Black Bitch, which has the tagline, ‘Practising the Fine Art of Bitchitude’, is the four-year-old blog of Shark Fu of St Louis, Missouri. She has never posted a photo of herself and this ‘anonymity’ has led recently to her having to fend off claims she’s really a white man, even a drag queen. But taken as read, Shark Fu is a much-discussed, 35-year-old black woman, tired of the ‘brutal weight’ of her ‘invisibility’.

angryblackbitch.blogspot.com

48. Stylebubble
Fashion blogger Susie Lau says Stylebubble is just a diary of what she wears and why. But few diaries are read by 10,000 people a day. Lau, 23, admits to spending up to 60 per cent of her pay from her day job in advertising on clothes, but now she’s viewed as a fashion opinion former, she’s being paid in kind. Her influence is such that fashion editors namecheck her blog, Chanel invites her to product launches and advertisers have come calling.

stylebubble.typepad.com

49. AfterEllen
Afterellen takes an irreverent look at how the lesbian community is represented in the media. Started by lesbian pop-culture guru Sarah Warn in 2002, the name of the site gives a nod to the groundbreaking moment Ellen DeGeneres came out on her hit TV show, Ellen, in 1997. Since then, lesbian and bisexual women have moved from the margins on to primetime TV, and this blog analyses the good, the bad and the ugly of how they’re portrayed. It’s now the biggest website for LGBT women, with half a million hits a month.

afterellen.com

50. Copyblogger
It’s dry, real, and deafeningly practical, but for an online writing-for-the-internet blog, Copyblogger, founded in 2006, is remarkably interesting. Swelling with advice on online writing, it’s an essential tool for anyone trying to make themselves heard online, whether commenting on a discussion board or putting together a corporate website.

copyblogger.com

The best thing about these places are that they are legit and pay you either by check or Paypal.  Another bonus is that they often pay you to refer others which can really add up.  If there is an online income opportunity that you want us to know about, please use our contact page to let us know about it and we will be happy to publish it here if its a winner.

Start making cash online by using our recommended programs, it will help justify all that time you spend online.

Home Biz Ideas Goldmine – 1035 Ideas!

Rachel Ryan’s Stay Home System

Honest Riches-Make Money Online the Honest Way

Work at Home Paid Surveys Cash Surveys Only

HomeProfitCode – Your Complete Work At Home Resource

Mega Cash Course

Royce Money System

Make Money Online

Work at Home Small Business Ideas to Help You Make More Money!

Affiliate Marketing Institute

Legit Online Jobs

Say Goodbye To Your Boss – Work At Home!

Work At Home Success Kit

Rich Photographer – Make Money with Online Photos!

The Definitive Start Up Guide To Making Cash With Your Camcorder!

Trading Pro System -Trade Stocks & Options Like A Pro

The Google Traffic Pump System

Make Money Online System

Go There Now To Earn Extra Money!

With so many ways out there to earn a buck I started my extra income journey in the newspaper.  I browsed part job after job that would easily pay for my extra gas spendings.  Then I thought, well I hate to leave the comfort of my home again since I am already required to leave to go to my first job.  So sticking with that I sat down and pondered how I could make some doe from home.  I could babysit or do some sort of low budget manufacturing….not.  Then it occured to me, if I was going to make more money to pay for those higher gas prices, I was going to need to make it online.

I immediately started browsing how to make money online.  Crap site after crap site came up promising the world, but none of them turned out to be legit.  Then I remembered reading something about a bunch of people making money filling out online surveys.  So again I browsed crap site after crap site reading the details and legitimacy of what they had to offer.  After much research and some earnings under my belt, I am happy to annouce I have found an easy way to make money online filling out simple surveys.

Learn How You Can Here

Yup, its true.  I fill out online surveys for extra money and its more than enough to pay for the recent spike in fuel prices.  I am earning a few hundred dollars per month for only a few hours of my precious time per week.  Ya, I know, its not alot of money, but then again I’m not exactly giving up my heart and soul either.  I sit back with a large beverage…sometimes alcoholic in nature at my new part-time job filling out surveys online.

I guess the best part is now I’m even making money without really doing anything.  How you ask?  I simply show others how to make easy money doing what I do.  Since I enjoy reaching out to my fellow man, getting people interested in making easy part-time money has been a breeze.  As a bonus for the lucky people who do checkout this awsome way to make spare cash, they too can refer others and make money too.  It really is a good way to make some extra money, the checks are sent out every month and you don’t need to provide any special information like a credit card or anything like that. 

Ok, I’ve said enough, but I will leave you with these final details.  There are already thousands of people doing this and if you are not, there’s still room for more!  Don’t waste another day, even if you don’t care about the high price of gas like I do, you need to check this out for yourself.  Tell your friends and family, tell them all!  There is easy money to be made, just click the link and sign up, you will not be disappointed!

CLICK HERE – YOU WILL BELIEVE!

What Exactly Is Forex Trading?

“Forex” stands for foreign exchange; it’s also known as FX. In a forex trade, you buy one currency while simultaneously selling another – that is, you’re exchanging the sold currency for the one you’re buying.Currencies trade in pairs, like the Euro-US Dollar (EUR/USD) or US Dollar / Japanese Yen (USD/JPY). Unlike stocks or futures, there’s no centralized exchange for forex. All transactions happen via phone or electronic network.The Forex market is a nonstop cash market where currencies of nations are traded, typically via brokers.  Foreign currencies are constantly and simultaneously bought and sold across local and global markets and traders’ investments increase or decrease in value based upon currency movements. Foreign exchange market conditions can change at any time in response to real-time events.For those seeking to make calculated risks based on sound decision making, Forex provides an appropriate platform to accomplish this.The main enticements of currencyThe currency trading (FOREX) market is the biggest and the fastest growing market on earth. Its daily turnover is more than 2.5 trillion dollars, which is 100 times greater than the NASDAQ daily turnover. dealing to private investors and attractions for short-term Forex trading are:

• 24-hour trading, 5 days a week with nonstop access to global Forex dealers.
• An enormous liquid market making it easy to trade most currencies.
• Volatile markets offering profit opportunities.
• Standard instruments for controlling risk exposure.
• The ability to profit in rising or falling markets.
• Leveraged trading with low margin requirements.
• Many options for zero commission trading.

 Markets are places to trade goods. The same goes with FOREX. The Forex goods (or merchandise) are the currencies of various countries. You buy Euro, paying with US dollars, or you sell Japanese Yens for Canadian dollars. That’s all.

Forex Trading

The investor’s goal in Forex trading is to profit from foreign currency movements. Forex trading or currency trading is always done in currency pairs. For example, the exchange rate of EUR/USD on Aug 26th, 2003 was 1.0857. This number is also referred to as a “Forex rate” or just “rate” for short. If the investor had bought 1000 euros on that date, he would have paid 1085.70 U.S. dollars. One year later, the Forex rate was 1.2083, which means that the value of the euro (the numerator of the EUR/USD ratio) increased in relation to the U.S. dollar. The investor could now sell the 1000 euros in order to receive 1208.30 dollars. Therefore, the investor would have USD 122.60 more than what he had started one year earlier. However, to know if the investor made a good investment, one needs to compare this investment option to alternative investments. At the very minimum, the return on investment (ROI) should be compared to the return on a “risk-free” investment. One example of a risk-free investment is long-term U.S. government bonds since there is practically no chance for a default, i.e. the U.S. government going bankrupt or being unable or unwilling to pay its debt obligation.

When trading currencies, trade only when you expect the currency you are buying to increase in value relative to the currency you are selling. If the currency you are buying does increase in value, you must sell back the other currency in order to lock in a profit. An open trade (also called an open position) is a trade in which a trader has bought or sold a particular currency pair and has not yet sold or bought back the equivalent amount to close the position.

The nice thing about the FOREX market, is that regular daily fluctuations, say – around 1%, are multiplied by 100! (in general, Easy-Forexâ„¢ offers trading ratios from 1:50 to 1:200). If, for example, the exchange rate of “your” pair of currencies increased by 0.6% in the last 4 hours, your profit will be 60% on your investment! Such can happen in one business day, or in a few hours, even minutes.

Moreover, you cannot lose more than your “margin”! You may profit unlimited amounts, but you never lose more than what you initially risked and invested.

You can implement your choice (the pair of currencies, the volume amount) under any direction to which the market is moving, and yet make profit. It does not matter whether the exchange rate is going up or down: you can always decide to buy Euro and sell dollar, or vice versa – buy dollar and sell Euro. You don’t have to physically possess certain currencies in order to perform “buy” or “sell” with them.

Forex online. Without it, you are wasting your time (and money).
Forex trading involves substantial risk of loss, and may not be suitable for everyone.

However, it is estimated that anywhere from 70%-90% of the FX market is speculative. In other words, the person or institution that bought or sold the currency has no plan to actually take delivery of the currency in the end; rather, they were solely speculating on the movement of that particular currency.

Exchange Rate

Because currencies are traded in pairs and exchanged one against the other when traded, the rate at which they are exchanged is called the exchange rate. The majority of the currencies are traded against the US dollar (USD). The four next-most traded currencies are the euro (EUR), the Japanese yen (JPY), the British pound sterling (GBP) and the Swiss franc (CHF). These five currencies make up the majority of the market and are called the major currencies or “the Majors”. Some sources also include the Australian dollar (AUD) within the group of major currencies.

The first currency in the exchange pair is referred to as the base currency and the second currency as the counter or quote currency. The counter or quote currency is thus the numerator in the ratio, and the base currency is the denominator. The value of the base currency (denominator) is always 1. Therefore, the exchange rate tells a buyer how much of the counter or quote currency must be paid to obtain one unit of the base currency. The exchange rate also tells a seller how much is received in the counter or quote currency when selling one unit of the base currency. For example, an exchange rate for EUR/USD of 1.2083 specifies to the buyer of euros that 1.2083 USD must be paid to obtain 1 euro.

At any given point, time and place, if an investor buys any currency and immediately sells it – and no change in the exchange rate has occurred – the investor will lose money. The reason for this is that the bid price, which represents how much will be received in the counter or quote currency when selling one unit of the base currency, is always lower than the ask price, which represents how much must be paid in the counter or quote currency when buying one unit of the base currency. For instance, the EUR/USD bid/ask currency rates at your bank may be 1.2015/1.3015, representing a spread of 1000 pips (also called points, one pip = 0.0001), which is very high in comparison to the bid/ask currency rates that online Forex investors commonly encounter, such as 1.2015/1.2020, with a spread of 5 pips. In general, smaller spreads are better for Forex investors since even they require a smaller movement in exchange rates in order to profit from a trade.

Margin

Banks and/or online trading providers need collateral to ensure that the investor can pay in case of a loss. The collateral is called the margin and is also known as minimum security in Forex markets. In practice, it is a deposit to the trader’s account that is intended to cover any currency trading losses in the future.

Margin enables private investors to trade in markets that have high minimum units of trading by allowing traders to hold a much larger position than their account value. Margin trading also enhances the rate of profit, but has the tendency to inflate rates of loss, on top of systemic risk.

Leveraged Financing

Leveraged financing, i.e., the use of credit, such as a trade purchased on a margin, is very common in Forex. The loan/leveraged in the margined account is collateralized by your initial deposit. This may result in being able to control USD 100,000 for as little as USD 1,000.

Five ways private investors can trade in Forex directly or indirectly:

• The spot market
• Forwards and futures
• Options
• Contracts for difference
• Spread betting
• A spot transaction

A spot transaction is a straightforward exchange of one currency for another. The spot rate is the current market price, also called the benchmark price. Spot transactions do not require immediate settlement, or payment “on the spot.” The settlement date, or “value date,” is the second business day after the “deal date” (or “trade date”) on which the transaction is agreed to by the two traders. The two-day period provides time to confirm the agreement and arrange the clearing and necessary debiting and crediting of bank accounts in various international locations.

Risks

Although Forex trading can lead to very profitable results, there are risks involved: exchange rate risks, interest rate risks, credit risks, and country risks. Approximately 80% of all currency transactions last a period of seven days or less, while more than 40% last fewer than two days. Given the extremely short lifespan of the typical trade, technical indicators heavily influence entry, exit and order placement decisions.

How do I start?

Register (Easy-Forexâ„¢ offers the simplest and quickest registration process, no obligation); deposit your first trading “margin” amount (credit cards are welcome, only by Easy-Forexâ„¢); start trading.

It can’t be simpler or easier than that. Need help? We’ll provide you with 1-on-1 training and service, as much as necessary (Easy-Forexâ„¢ offers real people service, live, in your own language).

How do I trade Forex?

You select the pair of currencies with which you wish to make a Forex deal. You determine the volume (the amount of the deal). You deposit the “margin” (collateral needed to facilitate the deal. Usually – only a very small portion of the whole deal, say: 1% or 1:100).

Before you finally activate the deal, you can still “freeze” it for a few seconds. That enables you to either change the terms, or accept it as is, or altogether regret the whole idea. The “freeze” feature is a unique service by Easy-Forex.

When your Forex deal is running (you hold an “open position”), you can monitor its status and check scenarios online, whenever you wish. You may change some terms in the deal, or close it (and cash the profit, if any, or minimize the loss, if any). Moreover, Easy-Forexâ„¢ lets you determine a “take-profit” rate, with which the deal will close automatically for you, when and if such rate occurs in the market. Meaning: you do not have to stay near your computer when you hold open positions.

And finally, I want to leave you with some helpful tips for trading Forex.  These tips will guide your successful trading to earn the profits you are seeking.

Don’t be influenced: You have your own game plan stick to it. If you are influenced by others you will constantly be changing your mind, learn to insulate external sources once you have made up your mind. You will always find someone who will give you a logical reason to do the opposite.

Know your risk vs. reward ratio: The minimum ratio you should be using is 2:1, so if you are successful on 50% of your trades you are doing well. For instance, if you are long GBP/USD and you want to earn 30 pips you should not risk more than 15 pips. You should never risk 30 pips in order to make 10 pips, For if you do you’ll make more a lot more successful deals then unsuccessful ones, but the poor ones will ruin any your chances for profit. Your risk vs. reward analysis is extremely important to trading successfully.

Trending or Neutral: Learn to analyze the market; is it a trending market or a neutral market? In a trending market then follow the trend in a neutral market buy on lows and sell on highs as long as you use stop-losses you are controlling your risk.

Don’t fight the trend: Don’t try to buy on dips and sell on highs on a trending market. The old saying “the trend is your friend” is a good one, why fight it go with it!

Set a Stop Loss: Before entering any trade, decide beforehand the amount you are willing to lose and stick to it, set a stop loss on the trade before you enter. Do not fluctuate your stop loss if you are in a losing trade. during times of extreme volatility it can be difficult or impossible to execute orders. stop orders become market orders when executed so the order may not be filled at the desired price.  As a result, the initial risk can be estimated, but not guaranteed.

Averaging – don’t do it: One of the most common mistakes traders make is the continuing adding of a losing position. Averaging will be the death of short-term trades. For short-term trades, preserving capital is the most important thing, and putting too much capital at risk will jeopardize success. In short term trading, if a strategy is right the market should move in the correct direction within a relatively short period of time, however if it’s wrong, the short-term traders should realize that they traded incorrectly, they should take the loss and move on. There is not much room for pride in short term trading. You should never add to a losing position.

Chasing a bad idea: Happens all the time, you see a potential trade – decide to wait till the next day to see if it sets up, when you see that it did exactly what you thought it may be too late. Review your reasoning for the trade, make sure your initial reason is still there if not forget about the trade. There will always be trading opportunities be patient and strike.

Understand the way the market thinks: You should understand that all the information (except for newly released information which the market adjusts too within a short moment) is already built into the price of the cross. You should know what indicators are coming; particularly the majors and you should know what is already anticipation by the market. There are many publication of market anticipation for major indicators.

Trading – a game of probabilities: You will not be correct 100% of the time, it’s a fact. Good experienced traders roll know this, it’s a numbers game, and you’ll make some and lose some the idea is simply to win more than you lose, not to catch all the fish in the pond. Understand trading is a game of probabilities and if you do the right thing in the long run, you will come out ahead. Learn from mistakes, when you start trading you may well lose more in the beginning than you make, think about what you did wrong, try not to be emotional about the trades, if you stick to your game plan and learn hopefully your profits will out weight your losses.

Know why you are in the trade: Keep a trading log, and write down why you entered a trade. Don’t be impulsive have a plan, this way you will learn which strategies work for you in the long run and which don’t. If trading before or after releases work for you, look for them and trade those.

Have a maximum run: If you have 4 or 5 bad trades in a row, take a break, something isn’t working, go away regroup, don’t be afraid to take a break.

Study: Learn new ideas, keep up to date, and don’t trade other people’s ideas, you should always know why your in the trade.

Have Fun: Enjoy what you do, keep calm, stay as unemotional as possible – you will be more successful.

Keep your position sizes within your limitations: Successful traders know that in order to profit you trade for the long term. Trading is a game of probabilities, and over the long run as long as you stick and implement sound strategies and stay consistent – success is much more likely to come. To be a successful trader you should never take a position that puts substantial capital in jeopardy. In actuality you will rarely find successful traders who risk more than 10% of their account in any trade. For instance, if you deposit USD 25,000 your maximum loss should be USD 2,500 on a margin of 5% and a EUR 100,000 minimum trade that works out at about 2.5 figures or 250 pips (on a EUR/USD trade) as a maximum. Normally trade with a stop loss of under 50 pips and a maximum stop loss of one-figure or 100 pips and trade sizes of 100,000 to 200,000 base units (the leading currency), thereby risking substantially less then 10% and more like 2-5% of the deposit on hand. You might want to start small and increase your trade sizes as your confidence grows.

If the logic goes you go: If the reason you entered the trade disappears then so does your reason to remain in the trade. If you think you’re at a low and it breaks through, get out, then reevaluate and decide once more.

Let your profits run: Do not be emotional about a trade, you will lose some and win some – just know it. Know the reason why you entered a trade and stick to those reasons. The less emotional you are the more successful you will be. Stick to your game plan, move your stop loss as the market moves in your favor and let your profits run. During times of extreme volatility it can be difficult or impossible to execute orders.

Forex-Affiliate.com – Earn thousands of $$$ per Referral !!!

Thousands of affiliates cannot be wrong! The Forex (currency trading) industry is the world’s biggest market on earth, with a daily turnover of 2.5 trillion dollars! Forex-Affiliate.com joins forces with Easy-Forexâ„¢ Trading Platform, a world leader in online currency trading. We have affiliates that are making over $100,000 USD per month why not join it’s free and easy we will guide you every step of the way.

Since I earn part of my income online, I require an easy and reliable way to ensure that there will be money coming in every month.  Sure I dabble in Adsense and sell private ads, but that has only brought me part of the way of where I need to be.  To supplement my income I diversify as much as I can and nurture each income stream until they are producing a reasonable profit.  What is considered a reasonable profit you ask? . First off its getting more out of it than what you put in, this means for every hour I spend working on a project, I expect to get paid at least for the time spent.  In most cases this realized profit does not happen immediately, instead my financial rewards come months later or within a year.  Sounds like a long to wait doesn’t it?  Once you have enough projects under your belt that are making money, your income will be perpetual and this post is dedicated to showing you how to do it.

In order to build an income online its going to take some serious work on your part.  If you believe making money online is easy and that anyone can do it, then you are in a fantasy land.  Now that we got that out of the way we can begin.  Making money online begins with a self assessment, determining which skills you have.  I’ve put a list of things that I consider to be very valuable for those looking to make money online.

Which Skills Do You Have?

• Web Design
• Graphic Design
• Programming
• Writing

Which Traits Do You Have?

• Resoucefulness
• Intelligence
• Hard Working
• Willing To Learn
• Relentlessness

Yes, these things appear to be generic but they are essential to get the job done.  So you think you have the majority of these things or perhaps you have them all, does that mean you are going to make money?  Hell no, that’s just the beginning, you also need to have reliable knowledge to apply these things to.  Without reliable knowledge, you will be like the vast majority of wannabe online income earners. 

Reliable Knowledge Is Essential

Let’s talk about what constitutes reliable knowledge for a few moments so we are all on the same page.  “Reliable Knowledge” refers to knowing the information that you are using to get to where you want to be is absolutely sound and solid.  I bring the topic up about “Reliable Knowledge” because there is so much misinformation on the Internet that it has created a laberynth of dead ends for the majority who try to make an income online.  Imagine that, there are hundreds of thousands of people who want to make money online and the majority are going about it blindly while those in the ”know” just sit back and rake in the cash.  The message here is don’t put your time, effort and skills into anything online unless you know it will work.

So how do we distinguish what is reliable knowledge and what is not?  Yes, that’s the million dollar question…I like to think that the successful folks develop a sixth sense for it.  Picture someone wakes up and says, hey making money online sounds like a great way to make a living….and so their journey begins.  They start visiting money making forums and blogs to find out the most lucrative ways as they start to build their arsenal of tactics.  They do extensive “make money online” searches in their favourite search engine and take notes diligently.  Then finally they put together a game plan and start executing what they think is the way to make money.

Global Domination Shortfall

Their Adsense pennies start to flow in and they are overjoyed as they continue their quest for complete global domination.  Several months later they take a step back and look at all the work they have done and say “gee, I’ve barely made enough to fill my car up with gas, what am I doing wrong?” At this point they feel wiser and more focused and change their strategy only to end up in the same place time and time again.  By this time, they believe making money online is either a myth or requires magical powers that only “John Chow” and a few other extremely blessed individuals have.  Unfortunitely for these people, they have wasted a large amount of time and resources using an uncomplete plan that lacked reliable knowledge.

You may also enjoy reading: Blogging For Profit |  Make Money On Your Blog

Ok, all that sounds depressing and by now you think I’m an asshole for painting such a truthful picture of the majority of people who try to make money online, possibly even including yourself.  Let’s change things up and talk about how I am making money to brighen things up a little.

How I Make Money

I make money online by providing something original to world, including this hybrid blog that features product, service and website reviews.  Is getmorereviews.com the most original concept ever to hit the Internet, well not exactly, but since I believe in it and its making money….I think I will stick with it for now.  So this website is just one of many that I have that are currently making money.  How does it make money you ask?  It makes money because of monetization and content synergy.  What are these big words that I speak of?  Monetization refers to how I make this website make money and content synergy refers to how everything I write here complements everything else on the website. Let’s take a closer look at the details so you understand and recognize the true diabolical nature of how I do business online.

For every article I write on this website, I already know its going to attract readers because of the content.  Review websites tend to bring in new and repeat traffic, I know because I check my stats regularily.  Did I know this before starting this website, not really, but I went with my hunch.  OK, so I’ve chosen a website content theme that gravitates well with the masses and apparently search engines adore, so I’m off to a good start.  Secondly, I ensured that this website is well monetized by adding in those pesky Adsense ads.  Every page of this website displays ads in a tasteful, unobstructed way as to not overshadow the content.  Since I get new and repeat visitors here daily, even if I did nothing else, this website would more than pay for itself through my Adsense ads which by the way…are clicked on by most visitors who come here.  I’m not sure why my clickthrough is so high, I guess Google is really doing their job with these ads for content because they appear to be irrestible to visitors, they just keep clicking, clicking clicking.  All those clicks put money in my account which encourages me to keep writing. 

Paid Product, Service and Website Reviews

The second income stream here is paid reviews.  People who have a product, service or website that want additional exposure for visit this website, they click on my Get Reviewed page, then they contact me to do a paid review for them. My prices vary for reviews, depending on the length, etc. My clients who choose to purchase a review get additional exposure and increased sales, I get paid and everyone is happy.  Now that’s a fine piece of work if I do say so myself.  The third income stream here involves affiliate programs, basically I write reviews about products that I like (but not until I’ve joined their affiliate program).  Once again, folks looking to learn more about a product or service that I have written about visit my review article then click the affiliate link and make a purchase.  I get my cut of 20% or more of the purchase price, customer gets their product and everyone is happy once again.

Don’t Forget To Read: Top 50 Article Directories Revealed  |  Bloggers Don’t Quit Your Day Job 

So I’ve just shared how I have 3 distinct methods of making money off of this website that are as clear as day.  Each one is reliable, profitable and completely do-able.  As you can see, my methods are well thought out and are competely above board. Take my knowledge and use it for yourself if you feel inspired to do so….But remember, the teacher doesn’t tell everything….

So you are still determined?  You’ve diversified your online income?  You have multiple streams of income?  In my opinion, anyone who can run an online business that is creating positive cash flow from diversified sources successfully, can probably make a much better living in the real world.  If blogging was to die tomorrow, bloggers making a $100 per day could easily get a job that pays triple that because of their unique skill set, is this you?  Or are you another dreamer?  If you cannot make a generous amount of money in the real world, then chances are you are not going to do any better on the Internet.

I’m not writing this to hurt your feelings either, instead its a wakeup call to the legions of losers who think they are going to make a living online.  If you are serious at all about making a living online, pleeeease make sure that you know how to produce a sustainable income that will replace the benefits from your current job.

My final tip for today is for those who still insist on trying to make a living online.  If you know how to make a website that can produce $1 per day, each and every day, you should make 100 of those websites to make at least $100 per day.  This method does work if you do it correctly.  Now imagine if you could only build sites that could make $2 per day!

This post is dedicated to why John Chow is failing to connect with regular people.  I mentioned John’s blog to several people over the past few months and encouraged them to check out his blog.  Most people I referred to his website went there on their own to explore what made him so popular.  The majority of feedback I recieved was as expected, they didn’t get why he was attracting a loyal following.  They could not relate to the majority of topics that John talked about and felt he abandoned them all together when he talked about how to make money.  For those of you who don’t know the theme of John’s website, it is based on “how to make money online”. 

You would think with “how to make money online” as your main theme that you would write compelling articles that communicate to both entry level and experienced visitors alike.  That certainly was not the feedback that I received, and after exploring his blog over the past 6 months, I agree, he is catering to a mostly advanced crowd of bloggers.  While this has earned him a sizable audience, he is neglecting a larger part of the population. 

Another oddity about his blog is the overall lack of actual meaningful “make money tips” that he offers.  For every one good money making tip he offers, he puts his visitors through about ten of his useless articles.  For me, this is a waste of time since my time can be spent more valuable elsewhere.  To top off wasting a lot of his visitor’s time, John also insults our intelligence by embedding his affiliate link into everything he touches.  I’m not against making money, and I think John does of fine job of making money, but frankly the only money being made is by John himself.

So if the paid reviews were not enough, he also litters his blog with more than its fair share of advertisements.  The main lesson his visitors can learn is to ignore his writing (if you can call it that) and pay attention to how he has monetized his blog.  John will never provide you his behind the scenes techniques for gaining hoards of traffic, instead you will get phrases like “don’t put your eggs all in one basket” and encouragement from him to click his affiliate links that he embeds into all of his posts.  Pigeons I say, haven’t you had enough?  For those of you who read his blog regularily, and are waiting for the answers of how to make money online to be revealed, I’m sorry to say that you only continue to line John’s pockets with more money.

If you really want to learn about making some money, start pissing with the bloggers who choose to tell it like it is.  I only read a few blogs on a regular basis, because the majority of make money blogs are complete crap, including www.johnchow.com.  My only recommendation today is to read a blogger who I think tells it like it is and provides meaningful information is ????????, visit and learn, then come back to thank me.

Learning the who, what, where, why and how of blogging is a pretty big task if you dig as deep as I do.  Frankly, until 6 months ago I didn’t even really know what a blog was.  What I did know is that they were creating a buzz and those who knew how to make it to the top were making tons of cash if they knew how to monetize their blog.While many would be bloggers have done the same as I have, what separates the bloggers who are making money from those who aren’t still boils down to how much homework you did.  I studied the blog model for approximately 20 hours a week for 6 months before I really knew what was going on.  Sounds rediculus to some that I would spend that amount of time over a 6 month period, but the fact of it is I’ve still only scratched the surface.  My theory is learn as much as you can, put a plan together that utilizes the most valuable information and be persistant.  Those are my core key factors for almost every project I take on.  By breaking down your way of getting things done will provide you a solid blue-print to use over and over again.

Researching blogs took me so long mainly because there is alot of inaccurate information floating around.  For ever 1 truth I learned, I had to comb through 10 half-truths or lies.  How do you find out what is true and what’s not?  After enough time spent analyzing successful blogs, you develop a 6th sense for credibility. Every blog you visit, you should ask yourself a handful of questions to understand the motivation behind it.  I’ve put a quick list of things I instinctually ask myself while visiting any blog.

• Is this a money driven blog or a hobby blog?
• How much traffic is this blog receiving?
• How much time and effort went into this blog?
• Is this blog up-to-date?
• What level of professionalism is used on this blog?
• Is this blog SEO optimized, and to what level?
• What marketing methods does this blog use?
• How much money is this blog making?
• How much money could this blog be making?
• Where is the blogger is located?
• Does this blog belong to a blog network?
• Does this blogger have other blogs?
• What platform (wordpress, etc.) is being used?
• Text to graphics ratio?
• Keyword density?
• How is the blog monetized?
• How much is advertising on this blog?
• How many outbound links per page average?
• Does this blog have multiple authors?
• How original is this blog?
• Does this blog use original content?
• Do I feel compelled to return to this blog?
• What are the core topics?
• How wide is the niche for this blog?
• Does this blogger have other online businesses?
• Who are the linking partners?
• Does the domain name match the theme of the blog?
• Are there any errors on the page?
• What is the color scheme of the blog?
• Page loadtime?

And the list goes on, to understand where a blog stands on the Internet stage, all of these questions are relevant.  I left many other factors I analyse off the list because they are very advanced and will be saved to publish in another post.  Nonetheless, if you learn to analyse the factors in this list in a blink of an eye every time you visit someones blog, you will soon start to understand where they stand.

Knowing who you are in a crowd with makes it much easier to know how to stand out.  If everyone is wearing “red” and you want to stand out, then perhaps you should consider wearing “blue”.  This simple example illustrates the concept of being distinguished, an absolute must if you are going to succeed.  The bigger the crowd, the more creative you need to be in order to stand out. 

So what’s unique about GetMoreReviews?  It looks like many other blogs or news post sites out there and does not appear to offer anything substantially unique on the surface.  Sure it looks organized, professional and well monetized, but does it actually make money?  Sure it makes money, in fact profits are growing everyday.  It makes money because every aspect of GetMoreReviews is geared to drive profit.

First off, the concept of GetMoreReviews is to provide an additional resource to folks browsing the Internet looking for more information about a product or service that they were considering buying.  Typically, users will head to the major review sites to get the “review benchmark”, which is essentially a review that they will compare to all others they read. 

Secondly, once they read a few high profile reviews, they will continue to search for another authoritive opinion.  That’s where I come in, by providing a fresh look at the product.  Once they read my review, they are further prepared to make the purchase.  A few strategically placed price comparison charts and embedded affiliate link to each each vendor who carries the product or service and you can soon see how GetMoreReviews makes money. 

If the reader is not prepared to buy, perhaps they will stay and read other product reviews here or click one of my ads.  This is often the case, thanks to Google Adsense.  In any case, I’m making money!  While this whole process seems straight forward, it does have its pitfalls, but continues to work great for me.

The main lesson here is that GetMoreReviews is not really a blog at all, although it uses a blog platform.  I’ve taken some of the virtues of blogging and combined them with affiliate marketing.  This hybrid approach is what makes this website unique and effective. 

I will continue to pepper this site with insightful articles like this one amongst the reviews I will publish here.  This will attract bloggers who really want to know how to make money online and regular folks looking for more information on products and services.  A happy and profitable co-existance.