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It is rather easy to go overboard when you first have your blogs approved on the review networks. You see all those nice enticing offers waiting to be taken and you want them all and you certainly don’t want someone else gobbling them all up before you.

If you do go mad and start plastering your blog with too many review posts then sooner rather than later you shall feel the wrath of the mighty Google overlord who will smite you down with great vengence and you will soon find your pagerank has disappeared and lack of review offers will soon follow.

Truist me I learned this out the hard way. I did the whole posting review after review and eventually I lost my PR1 & PR2 status on this blog and my personal blog. That was over a year ago and even though I have mended my ways I am still waiting for Google to forgive my past sins.

But there are some steps that you can take to try and prevent Google from bitch-slapping your pagerank out of your hand.

Don’t Let Your Eyes Become Bigger Than Your Belly

Do you remember when you was a child and you would eat so much food because it was there and you would end up with a bellyache that seemed to last forever (but only really lasted an hour or two)?

When you harvest the the review offers from the networks you are doing the same thing as you did when you was a child. Only the bellyache is nowhere near as painful as Google taking your PR away from you.

Pace yourself. So what if you don’t get to write that offer about an Asian casino or the latest acne cream? it was only worth $5.00 and what is $5.00 if it means you can continue writing reviews at a steady pace for years to come?

Non Review Posts Are Just As Important

The general rule of thumb is that for every review post that you publish then you should also publish three non-review posts to help balance your blog out. It is thought that Google will not be so hard if you keep a decent ratio.

Mix Them Up A Bit

I always try and mix up the review posts and the non-review posts so that there is never two review posts on the front page nevermind next to each other. Having review posts next to each other will get you booted out of some of the big networks.

Try & Disguise Your Review Posts

Not many people can acheive it (I certainly can’t) but if you can write your review post and disguise it so that it is very difficult to tell if the post is a review post or a non-review post then this is something that will help you hold on to your PR.

If you keep some sense then you will be able to earn decent money by writing blog reviews. Just remember it is not how fast you run but how far you can run.

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Blogger’s Review is one of the smaller networks on the market, although I have been with them for about six months, and checked them out daily, I found my interest in checking in with them falling away so I was basically checking them once a week if that.

One of the the main problems with this review network is that they do not seem to have a huge amount of offers, in fact they seem to only have the same four or five offers from the some advertisers all the time – and two of them are to advertise Blogger’s Review themselves.

Another problem is the amount the network pays you, you will be lucky if you see any offers for more than $3.00-$5.00. I have been using pagerank 1 blogs though so a higher PR blog might fare better.

When I first joined I submitted two blogs and they were both accepted and I was given the opportunity to write a review for each blog (two reviews in case you can not count). That was in July 2008 and I have not received a single offer since.

Pay out was very prompt and was about two weeks after the review was approved. This is one thing that the network has going for it as some insist on paying 30 days later.

If they wish to compete then they need to get in more offers to entice people over and maybe jiggle their system a little bit. As I write this there are currently three offers that have been sitting there since October 2008 and nobody is eligable for them.

They also are not quick when it comes to approving/declining submitted blogs, I believe my first blog submitted took about a month and I added a third one which is still pending 6 weeks later.

Good Points

- Not a lot of people know about them yet.
- Pay very fast.
- They have a referral system.

Bad Points

- Not many reviews.
- Takes ages to approve/decline blogs.
- Offers are lowly priced.

If you have a high PR blog and wish to earn the odd $5.00 a post then this might be of interest to you but until they shake things up a bit then they will simply be a half dead fish in a very big and hungry pool.

Total Earned: $6.00
Rating: 2/10
URL: Here

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Plugins are seen as an essential part of blogging these days, whatever you wish to achieve on your blog you can bet your bottom dollar that there is a plugin on the internet that can help you do it.

Whether you want a plugin that can display banner adverts, a plugin that can run polls or even a plugin that can add a message board to your blog, it can be done with a WordPress plugin.

I currently run three blog with WordPress and I use the same 24 plugins on all of them. In fact adding these 24 plugins is the first thing that I do when I’ve installed WordPress, even before making a post or installing a theme.

So I thought I would list the 24 plugins that I use in the hope that you might find some gems to help improve your own blog.

Adman
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/adman.zip

Adman is my personal plugin of choice when it comes to displaying adverts in content on my blogs. You can ad any kind of advert from Adsense right down to your own custom advert.

Akismet
URL: None

This comes bundled with WordPress but a lot of people ignore it. This is possibly the best plugin for eliminating Spam that I have ever come across. It has stopped over 500,000 Spam comments on one of my blogs alone.

All in One SEO Pack
URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/all-in-one-seo-pack.zip

To get your blog high in the search rankings requires good SEO, sadly WordPress on its own is not very effective at this, but the All in One SEO Pack plugin can help by tweaking it and helping you obtain better rankings. Most bloggers who use it swear by it!

Breadcrumb Navigation
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/breadcrumb-navxt.3.0.2.zip

Produces a path on your blog so people can see how they got to the page they are reading (can be seen in action at the top of this post).

Brian’s Threaded Comments
URL: http://briansthreadedcomments.googlecode.com/files/briansthreadedcomments-1.5.20.zip

A plugin that helps to keep your comments in better order.

Buy Me A Beer
URL: http://www.blogclout.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/buy-me-beer_14.zip

A donation plugin where readers can send you donations via PayPal. I edited this plugin so now any donations are sent to a charity instead of my PayPal account.

WP-Chunk
URL: http://www.village-idiot.org/click.php?id=14

Ever had a link in your comments that is so long it has broken your layout? This little plugin stops this by shortening the link.

CommentLuv
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/commentluv.zip

When someone leaves a comment on your blog this little plugin also produces a link to the last blog post this person has done on their blog.

Custom Query String
URL: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/wp-content/downloads/custom-query-string.zip

This neat little plugin allows you to pick how many posts are viewed on each archive page.

GoCodes
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gocodes.1.2.6.zip

This plugin covers your urls so if you post an affiliate link nobody can remove your affiliate number. Also useful if you have long urls links as it shortens them.

Google XML Sitemaps
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.3.1.2.zip

The Google XML Sitemaps plugin is another way of helping you get ranked in not only Google but ask.com, msn.com and other smaller search engines. this plugin creates a sitemap.

Popularity Contest
URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.1.3b3.zip

This is a fun plugin that helps you see which posts are the most popular via a complex points system. Please note you may need to use this solution to get the plugin to work.

Robots Meta
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/robots-meta.zip

This plugin lets you tweak the meta tag.

RSS Footer
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rss-footer.zip

This plugin lets you add a some text to the bottom of the posts on your RSS feed.

Similar Posts
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/similar-posts.2.6.2.0.zip

At the end of the the post this plugin will display a list of similar posts that may be of interest to the reader. To use this you will need to install the Post Plugin Library plugin.

SRG Clean Archives
URL: http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/downloads/srg_clean_archives.zip

A plugin that helps to clean up your archives.

Stattraq
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-stattraq.1.2.6.4.zip

A plugin that keeps stats on how many people come to your blog, what they look at, which sites they came from and what search term they put into a search engine to find your site.

Subscribe To Comments
URL: http://txfx.net/wp-plugins.org/subscribe-to-comments/download/

This little plugin allows commentators to subscribe to a post’s comments so they are emailed when new ones comments are posted.

WordPress Automatic Upgrade
URL: http://techie-buzz.com/download-manager.php?id=2

We all know how annoying it is to update WordPress so this plugin is great as with a couple of clicks it updates for you.

WordPress Database Backup
URL: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/downloads/plugins/wp-db-backup.zip

Does exactly what it says on the it, it backs up your database for you.

WordPress Mobile Edition
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-mobile-edition.2.1.1.zip

Allow readers a choice of checking out a stripped version of your blog with this plugin.

WP-ContactForm: Akismet Edition
URL: http://www.bloggingexpertise.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/wp-contactform-akismet-1.1.zip

This is a good contact plugin as it uses Akismet to filter out Spam.

WP-Email
URL: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-email.2.40.zip

Adds an ‘Email To A Friend’ type feature on every post.

WP Grins
URL: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/plugins/wp-grins.zip

Adds smilies.

I hope you found these useful and I hope that they improve your blog a little bit more.