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Have you ever wondered how much is your blog worth?

What if one day, some one (hopefully Google) wants to buy your blog and ask for your selling price, what price will you quote?

My blog is worth $11,290.80. Not too bad

What’s yours?

The phrase “make money online” is one of the most popular search term online. Here are some interesting facts:

1. Google returned 123,000,000 results for the phrase make money online. The quoted phrase “make money online” returned 1,310,000 results.
2. Yahoo returned more results than Google - 373,000,000 results for the unquoted phrase and 9,690000 for the quoted phrase
3. The phrase “make money online” is searched 44,151 monthly. This means that there is an average of 1471.7 unique search on the phrase daily or 1 search every minute.
4. More than 100 advertisers use this phrase for their Adwords campaign. The average cost per click is $0.76.
5. A search on Digg show over 2300 result for the phase “make money online” (excluding those that have been buried). Only 1 post manage to receive more than 10 diggs. The average number of diggs per “make money online” post is 2. (It seems that the phrase is not very digg-worthy after all).
6. The most popular bookmark found on the various social bookmark sites with the phrase “make money online” is Problogger.net
7. All the “makemoneyonline” domain name (.com, .biz, .net, .us, .mobi, .info, .org, .co.uk etc) are taken up
8. The domain http://www.makemoneyonline.com has a PR 6 and Alexa ranking of 308,164, but it is not in the top 20 of Google SERP for the phrase “make money online”
9. The number 1 ranking for the phrase “make money online” in Google is a blog belonging to a 14 year old kid.
10. There are 14,482 questions asked on Yahoo! Answer with the term “make money online”

Things have been slow here. I was down with a bad flu, which gives me a constant headache.

Now that I am getting better on a fresh new Monday (did I mention before that I LOVED Monday?), it’s back to blogging again.

To start the week, I would like to recommend the new product featured in DealDotCom.

In case you’ve been living under a rock (or don’t get on the internet ever, but then you wouldn’t be here) and don’t know, Video is in style. In a big way. YouTube was bought by Google for a gazillion trillion dollars. I rest my case.

Now you’re thinking, “That’s great, Copy Slave, but why is that important to me?” Here’s the part where I tell you. You can create your own video blog (aka Vlog) and get it indexed super fast and drive tons of traffic to it! You know what you can do with traffic, right? Make money!

“But I don’t know how to make a vlog, that’s all that technical, complicated stuff!” is what you’re thinking now.

Bullcrap! It’s easy! Cheryl Lester’s Video Blogging Made Easy can show you how to make your own traffic-pumping vlog in an hour. She will show you the exact steps she took to get her site indexed in Google within 24 hours. My mouth is frothing at the possibilities! And perhaps most importantly, she points out the common pitfalls that cause the failure of new vlogs. It is simply the best guide to creating a vlog on the web.

Deal is offered at DealDotCom.com and is only for today $37 $27.

Seomoz gives you 11 great reasons why you should blog. I just found 18 20 reasons that I should stop blogging.

1. I can’t write well
2. I fail my English in high-school
3. I run out of ideas of what to write, every time and every day
4. I didn’t learn the way to pitch to fellow bloggers from Darren
5. I have no money to hire famous bloggers.
6. I didn’t invent any new terms, such as SEO 2.0
7. No one stumbleupon my site
8. I am not making any profits from blogging
9. No one recognize me anyway (or is there?)
10. I suck at social media, because I didn’t heed Maki’s advice
11. Google hate me, cause I blog about how bad they are
12. I put no picture in my blog.
13. I have advertisements in my blog.
14. I have only Google PageRank 3
15. My Alexa ranking is only mere 619,760
16. No one ever review my posts at PayPerPost
17. I have 0 plugs for PlugIM
18. I have 0 Sphinn
19. I didn’t take up Alvin’s Atomic Blogging
20. I manage to come up with 20 reasons to stop blogging

On second thought, I think maybe I should continue blogging, because I know YOU are reading it.

For all my readers,
Thanks for making my day.

Google is throwing tantrum again. Yes…this time, it affected some of the popular blogs. Problogger, Engadgets, Andy Beard, Copyblogger are some of the few that suffered from a pagerank drop. It was rumored that this is the Google way to penalize blogs that sell links. No one has confirmed it.

While InternetStrategyBlog didn’t suffer from any pagerank loss, this issue does set me thinking: “how long do we have to suffer from the tyranny of Google?”

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