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Hey guys, sorry I couldn’t tell you, my family and I made an unexpected trip up to Orlando this weekend to stay with my sister, I will be here a week. over the weekend I had no access to a computer, but now I’m good, so don’t worry, tomorrow will bring aome great tips you all can use in your blog.

In other news, the voting for the MonkeyBlogger’s first challenge has ended, and it seems that the choice “Create a blog and sell it for $500 profit”, has come back to win.

So that will be our challenege, and we’ll get that underway in just a few days, so stay tuned! So sorry for the content delay folks, didn’t know I was coming up to Orlando, but I’ve alotted time for my blog, so no worries! :)

Just a little rant that’s making me a bit angry.

If anyone read about it, John Chow screwed Shoemoney’s team in Top Affiliate Challenge. He went into their account, made a post on their blog saying that they were going to lose, and then changed the password so they couldn’t log in.

What the heck man? That’s so cheap, not even funny, and very immature.

Does a guy who makes over 30k a month just from his blog really feel that threatened? Jeez.

And on the other hand, look at Bill Gates. Quits Microsoft, (sort of) to commit his life and money to malaria and other diseases and charities. Wow. That’s just great! I’m very proud of Bill for doing this, and at the same time John Chow is pulling stupid stunts like this and buying useless tech things and dinners at fancy restaurants that he doesn’t need.

I know I may sound like a “crazy” here, but it just urks me how some people with so much money can be so cheap, stingy, and selfish, when people accross the world need that money just to survive. I can tell you right now, if I made $30,000 a month plus like he does, I’d donate 1,000s a month to different things.

Well, I guess that’s it, tomorrow we’ll have some great content, so stay tuned for that.

Alright well, no real post today, just some news and updates I think are useful.

For one thing, the Alexa is dropping, which is awesome, as of today we are down to 239,024, we’ll be in the 100,000s very shortly and under 100k as well! This is a great feat, and I’m looking forward to that day.

Also, the votes are coming nicely for the first MonkeyBlogger Challenge. So far, the “Create a blog and get it earning $100 a month” is winning, and the voting will end in a few days, so get your votes in quick! Once the voting ends, we will start working on the challenge. I will cover my process in choosing a niche, domain, theme, customizing, content, promotion and monitizing. I will post updates more than once a week on the blog’s progress and we will see where this takes us.

In other news, my shoulder is healing well, doctor says in 8-10 weeks I’ll be recovered fully so that’s good news. Also, I will be going out of town in a few days for a week or so, but I will make sure to take my notebook with me and keep the blog running and start on our challenge. I think that this will add a new level to the challenge, showing that it can be done anywhere.

I want to thank all of you for sticking with me and the blog during my hard times, and rest assured, once this challenge starts, you will learn more about blogging and running and promoting a blog than you ever had. Why? Because it will be real. It will be a case study. And best of all? You will be involved. You’ll have a say, you’ll know what’s going on, and why, and I think it will be great.

In the world of blogging, professionalism is key. If you want anyone to pay attention to you or your blog, you 1) need a domain, and 2) need a quality domain. If you pick a bad domain, not only are you stuck, but you discredit your blog big time.

When I first started blogging, I made some bad choices, and some good choices, when it came to choosing domain names. Let’s talk about the consequences of each a good choice, or a bad choice.

Bad Choice

When I made a few bad choices pertaining to domain name choosing, it effected my blog more than you’d think. I got many complaints, many lost readers, and a lot of confused readers who thought that it made me look like an unprofessional jerk. The blog eventually fell apart, and I believe the biggest reason was the bad choice of names.

Good Choice

Ah, time for the good choice. Well, for one thing, MonkeyBlogger.com is a fantastic domain if you ask me. But besides that point, the good effects you can get from a great choice in domain name, or business name for that matter are endless. Publicity is one thing. When you have a good name, it gets around. And fast. When your domain name is brandable, you build a brand on and off the internet, and it adds an extra hint of professionalism in your blog and/or business.

So that’s it for today, just thought I’d talk a bit about this, I’ll be talking more about professionalism in other things in my upcoming posts, and you should fine it very interesting, so don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS to stay updated.

Well, the time has come. I am officially starting my first MonkeyBlogger Challenge! What is this crazy MonkeyBlogger Challenge I speak of?

Well, basically, in each Challenge, we will set a main goal, something to achieve. Then we we take all the neccesary steps and mini goals to reach that destination. Think “Make $500 a Month” but for real. But in this particular Challenge, it will be related to blogging. I will give you three options, and you all must vote. Whichever has the most votes in 7 days from the point I make this point, will win. Than we will try and achieve that goal together. Now, this is not just a case study. I will need your input every step along the way, and we will get this done! When the goal is achieved, all my readers will get a nice surprize. Here are the options.

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Once it has been chosen, every other day, I will write about the progress in much detail, and you will all learn how this is done. Now remember, I am not an expert, and I will make mistakes, and I will need your help, but together, we can all learn together and put our minds together and learn.

Well, how do you all feel about this? As another note, If I can see 15 comments on this post, (Very possible, we have more readers than that. :-P), than every reader will get yet another prize!