Pat McCarthy over at ConversionRater has released updated blog rankings for “Web Revenue Blog Rankings“.

What’s a “web revenue blog”? Pat defines it as:

Blogs that focus on affiliate marketing, display advertising, contextual advertising, and actually helping people generate revenue in these ways by running their own site

Pat’s compiled a list of 28 blogs and as an inaugural participant, landed in a #10.

The top blogs include the usual suspects like:

• ProBlogger Darren Rowse
• Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker
• JenSense
• JohnChow
• Linda Buquet’s 5 Star Affiliate Blog
• Shawn Collins

As well as other notables like WickedFire malcontent Jon “aojon” F, Jon Warass, Scott Jangro, Carsten Cumbrowski, Sam Harrelson, TylerCruz, Andrew Johnson, Stuart (Earners Blog).

Awards are nice, though I don’t place much emphasis on going out to land them.

The publicity always helps if it bring more people who might get something from the content I post.

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Having a policy like requiring blog registration prior to posting comments can reduce your blog to a one-way web publishing medium.

While not as extreme as banning blog comments altogether, it can severely reduce the number of comments you receive in your posts.

Let’s face it, we already deal with a multitude of usernames and passwords, and blogs are designed to be an easy communication platform to set up, publish to and for readers to access.

By adding additional layers of registration, and requiring users to login each time they’d like to comment, you’re increasing (more…)

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