About a month ago, I received an email from the Fuel My Blog team about their idea of publishing a book of bloggers who are on Fuel My Blog. I thought that is a pretty neat idea but I am publicity shy and always prefer to keep a low profile.

Anyway, this book is taking shape right now so if you would love this chance to talk about your blog and show the real human side of yourself behind the blog, all you have to do is register with Fuel My Blog, if you aren’t already, and submit a photo of yourself and a short write up about your blog, why you blog, what inspires you, bla bla bla… you get the drift!

Here is a screenshot of how the book will look like.

From what I understand, the book is only about US$20 per copy inclusive of delivery and you can buy as many copies as you like. 15% of the proceeds from each sale will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

Now, if you would like to get into the book, act fast. The idea is to have the book published and shipped in time for Christmas so that you can show if off to your guests. The book makes a great gift as well, particularly if you are in it. Don’t you think so?

I know I mentioned that I would rather not register multiple accounts with EntreCard because I have so many blogs and managing that many different user IDs and passwords would be overwhelming. I know that they are working hard to allow members to submit multiple blogs under one account but tat would not be so soon.

Seriously, is there anyone STILL with only ONE blog? Haha…. mot of my blogger friends have at least two blogs. Hard core bloggers will have at least five! *gasp*

Anyway, I changed my mind because since the day I registered my blog with Entrecard, traffic has been phenomenal. I know they came just to drop their card but some spent time to read my blog as well.

The advantage of having multiple accounts with EntreCard and registering different blogs means that I could better categorize my blogs in their respective categories, which I would not be able to do so should I use only own account and the same widget on all my blogs. That would be rather self-defeating.

So I will be setting aside some time later to register my blogs one by one lol

I was checking an article on how to increase traffic to my blogs and to take the URL out to more people to improve my readership when I came across this free service called shared Reviews.

According to the website, once we are registered with them, we get to submit our blogs to their database and we would be open to reviews from other members. I did a little tour and we could sort the blogs by page rank, Alexa ranking, age of the blog, etc, and just select one of the sites or blogs to review and I am sure, we have to throw in a couple of “no follow” links into the review.

I am not sure, though if there is an understanding of who should review our site after we have done reviews for other sites. I even see Yahoo! in there so how shall Yahoo! review us in or link back to us in return? This is what I don’t understand

However, I think this is a wonderful concept. I would totally be involved in this if my blogs were not already as they are now. This would be a great way to build back links naturally.

If you have read one of my earlier posts, I was seriously thinking of paying one of those directory submission companies to help me submit my blog URLs to all those high PR directories.

I did some research lately and found that some people got fleeced. Off hand I don’t remember the company name but I expect that when a company says tat they are able to submit X Links to Y number of directories within a stipulated time frame, I would expect no less.

Anyway, I also read that the main directory’s homepage may have a high PR but that does not mean that we will get any of the juice since some are already nofollow and inner category pages may not even have any rank to show. And even then, there is no guarantee that their PR will not fall.

So, yeah, I will be doing that later by myself.

I’ve been thinking that since my blogs have tanked, I might as well move my content to DOT COMs. I have been meaning to do that but have not gotten around to it because each of my blogs, free hosted and on sub-domains, has more than a thousand posts published.

I heard that we could just import our posts to the new domains but I am such a perfectionist, I would want to take the opportunity of migrating blogs to check for dead links and images. Wooo… that would be so much work, wouldn’t it???

I don’t know if I am up to it or not or if I may give up mid way. This is also the time for me to consolidate my blogs and also revive my old niche blogs which are currently free hosted. I am thinking that by the time I am done migrating, merging and reviving, I would have about 7 blogs. I wonder if I will have the stamina to upkeep them and for how long.

What do you think? What’s the ideal number of blogs to maintain if we do not monetize them?

It is surprising what some people want for their money. Sure, I understand that people look for the most bang for their money but I read once that a guy wanted a blogger to bake a cake, take high resolution photos of it and scan them for him so that he could make a book!

A blog post, buzz and contents for a book, geddit? I think he paid $50 for that.

And then just a couple of days ago, a friend received an offer for $30 for a post and she has to refer ten friends and family members to sign up to the site. Tell me, does this sound like selling the email contacts of your friends and family? That doesn’t sound too right, if you ask me.

Some people may not mind being sent registration invitations like this but we never know what the company will do with the growing mailing list.

One word: Ridiculous!

My blog buddy found a website that is based in Singapore which matches blogs with businesses who would like to try blog advertising. Businesses, usually ecommerce sites, will place a button banner on the sidebar of the blog and the blogger will receive SG$3 for thirty days that the advertisement is live.

Placing banners like this is much like the local ad company, Nuff…nang… except that for the local company, we have to place a script on our blog at all times. The similarity is in the assignment of ads based on Page Rank, traffic and what not.

However, do they realise that SG$3 per month is too low? I don’t know, blog real estate is pretty expensive if you ask me and it’s a banner and not a text link.

The thing that amuses me is that with so many blogs scrapping bottom, they do not really reflect their true value anymore.