Blog It and Earn It: Fact and Fiction about Blogging for Money

Welcome to the April 24th edition of the “Blog It and Earn It” blog carnival! Initiated by Jane Chin, at BlogItAndEarnIt, the carnival has now a different host every week. This edition, it is my pleasure to be the proud host of Blog It and Earn It: Fact and Fiction about Blogging for Money.

To make it easier for all of YOU to find blogs that are using Do Follow (a plugin that removes the No Follow tag from comments links), Colleen Caldwell at GeekySpeaky, officially starts a challenge called Do follow the “d list”, which can increase links to your blog and boost your comments.

What can you possibly do with a SOAP? Wash yourself? Not this time. It is a concept called the SOAP (Scratch One Another Program), initiated by Business Wire and presented by Shamelle, together with an example of Using Constructive Feedback To Polish My Mirror, posted at Enhance Life.
The SOAP program is now closed, but you can participate in the next program, so keep an eye on it.

If you want to start a blog without investing any money, Jim Dorey (also known as ‘Two Story Dorey’) at Monthly Check, presents you easy to follow, ILLUSTRATED, free instructions on how to set up and make money with your FREE blog from mainly Blogger.com. Many updates weekly. In this update, you can learn about Settings: Basic and Publishing.

Life as a professional blogger, the way Anthony from The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune is presenting it can be very rewarding. You will find here a review of all the Pay per Post reviews Anthony did in his life as a professional blogger. The portfolio is quite impressive! Anthony must have earned a lot of money out of those reviews.

Joe Caterisano from Make Money Blogging, introduces you to AdSense marketing and secrets. All you need to know about AdSense: how to set it up, what channels are and why they are useful, and many more hints to help you get the most out of this contextual advertising program from Google.

Favicons (a.k.a. favorites icons) help promote your brand and create an identity for your website. Find out how to get one for your blog, from Joshua Dorkin, who presents What is a Favicon for Your Website? How to Create a Favicon.ico file? posted at TimeForBlogging.

Many thanks to all participants and to Jane Chin, who had the great idea of Blog It and Earn It: Fact and Fiction about Blogging for Money. Enjoy!