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One of the most important pages on your blog will be your About Me page as this is the page that will/should hold all the important information about you so that the reader can know who they are dealing with.

I believe that there are three main areas that should be addressed in any About Me page:

1. Who are you?

2. What expertise do you bring to the niche you are blogging about?

3. How can you be contacted.

Your About Me page is just as important to your blog as a sales page/letter is to someone selling a product online. If you produce a poorly worded About Me page then how can you expect your readers to stick around let alone take what you write seriously?

To see a sample why not have a look at what I have written?
http://ineeddiscipline.com/about/

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Updated: 11/02/09: I updated the amount I have earned with this network.

I have been part of the BlogToProfit network since February 15th 2008 which makes it one of the first networks that I joined, although it did take them a fair amount of time to evaluate my blog and they only did that because I emailed them to remind them about it.

When I was accepted I was immediately given five offers to be getting on with. Each one was to consist of about 200 words and include one single link, I would be paid $5.00 per review which meant I would earn a nice $25.00 straight off the bat.

Sadly I had to wait a further two months before they again offered me a group of five offers, each paying $5.00 and consisting of 200 words & 1 link. Since April 30th 2008 I have not received a single offer from them.

Payment is nice and quick. Some networks now pay monthly but BlogToProfit pay weekly so you are not left waiting around for any money you have earned. As long as you remember in put in your Pay Pal username then you’ll receive payment with no problems.

The topic of the offers might not match your blog topic, to be honest I’ll be surprised if you find an offer that does come close to your blog topic as most of the offers tend to be about various plastic surgery procedures and retirement homes.

Good Points

Bad Points

If you are happy to write about plastic surgery then I think you might like this small network.

Total Earned: $84.00
Rating: 4/10
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Are you having trouble getting Alex King’s Popularity Contest plugin to activate? You are not alone, almost everyone who has tried to use it with a version of WordPress over 2.5 has had a problem.

But there is now a solution.

1. open up popularity-contest.php.

2. Go to line 59.

3. Replace require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’); with require(’../wp-blog-header.php’);.

If you have your WordPress in a subfolder then simply add the subfolder name after the ../ part.

You’ll now need to create two MYSQL tables so log in and create the following two tables:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `wp_ak_popularity` (
`post_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`total` int(11) NOT NULL,
`feed_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`home_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`archive_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`category_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`single_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`comments` int(11) NOT NULL,
`pingbacks` int(11) NOT NULL,
`trackbacks` int(11) NOT NULL,
`last_modified` datetime,
KEY `post_id` (`post_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `wp_ak_popularity_options` (
`option_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`option_value` varchar(50) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

I’m assuming you use wp_ as your table prefix, if you don’t then change that otherwise it won’t work.

Then go and activate your plugin and if you followed these steps correctly then it should now work.