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After a long wait round the google circles it’s updated now, good for some and not so good for others. For me it was so so! My personal blog and students’ resources blog remained there where they’ve been before the update, my writers’ blog and this one along with the main blog directory got 2 points of PR. To some extent it was good, when I see problogger being hit.

The PR fever according to some experts is loosing it’s essence but if you’re involved in selling ad space on your blog or link selling thing, you’ll still find the majority of buyer PR geeks. Well whatever the PR results I got from this update, I’m not sad (probably I didn’t improve or didn’t make the effort till the level it was needed), but I really liked google’s policy for keeping the sites with good content at top.

Monetizing a blog has always been the hot issue for bloggers. Adsensing served good for sometime and is still profitable if done effectively. Adsensing is, however not the only way to monetize the blog. There are many other ways, including selling links, banner space, and contextual links.

Out of the above mentioned monetizing strategies, one I believe more profitable is ‘selling contextual links’. Others may also be, but as I’d good experience with such and there’re some sound reasons for this as well. These reasons may be as follows:

• More you sell the contextual links, more you increase your content through daily updates that Search Engines love to visit.
• Your readers do not feel boredom as they find a new link to explore with each post.
• Link in context doesn’t harm your Search Engine reputation, as other forms of link selling may do.

Though much attractive but selling too many contextual links at very low prices also harms your paid link market. Pay Per Post, Review Me and some others also provide a good platform for bloggers to get some advertisers, but they keep a major portion of the price of the link and to make a good amount from blog, b

loggers just rush the paid posts irrelevant to the niche of their blog and ultimately blogs either lose readership or just get messy.

Getting in direct contact with advertisers is the most suitable strategy in this regard, but some contextual networks I’ve worked with like, Smorty, v7n Contextuals and Dewitts Media are really very good.

The good thing about them is that they give you the opportunities only related to your blog niche, fast payment, and a good amount for a link as well. SO if you’re on the way to monetize your blog in a decent way, do try these three.

A burning debate at blogosphere now a days, is the ‘do follow’ movement. Almost all bloggers are much aware of the no follow/do follow links, but still many things are confusing in it. Mostly people take ‘no follow’ as a link not followed by search engines, and hence they avoid it considering it useless. But in actual the function of no follow varies in different search engines. All the search engines follow this link but google doesn’t index it while yahoo and some others do index the page as well.

With this reference the do follow movement now a days is the hot topic to discuss. Many bloggers are removing the no follow from their comments and are letting others to share the PR juice. This is good for new blogs to develop their readership, content via comments and of course popularity, but what if they again put the no follow thing if they get decent PR.

I’ve been round the do follow blogs for a week or so, and almost all are happy following others, but I didn’t find any of them talking about the future perspective. I’m in search of few answers in this regard, but still not sure who’ll answer them. I asked some of do followers but didn’t get the point or either they didn’t understand what I meant.

Anyways, the do follow buzz is hot now a days, let’s see if the no follow comes to happen again. Any views will be highly appreciated.