Take a Peek at Entertainment Daily

I have never reviewed or critiqued a performer blog for TV/movie stars so bear with me as I step out on a limb here. I chose Entertainment Daily because of an article written about Bruce Willis titled "Facts of the Day" which talks about Bruce's movie career and his latest ventures.

Sponzai is a Wise Guest Blogging Buddha

IZEA has launched a new program for bloggers so if you haven't signed up, do it today! Get your Buddha belly full of guest reviews at a reasonable price. Have fun blogging for others and polish your skills for those big jobs.

Burn your Social Spark with Reciprocal Blogging

The title is a play on words emulating  one of my favorite paying blog companies that doubles as a social site.

LinkedIn is a great Resource for Bloggers

As social networks go, LinkedIn is like Caviar whereas other networks are French Fries. I'm not saying that it's for the elite, rather that it allows the members to present the best in their persona to the world. With this interactive social network, you can build a dynamic profile that displays your personal information including a small head shot photo along with business history, experience and connections. Other people can write recommendations for you that will display on your LinkedIn Profile for prospective friends and business associates to peruse. It's an interactive way to connect with others who share like interests in a professional format.

This Blog is a Proud Member of Izea's InPostLinks

It's March 13, 2010 and today is a wonderful day! The sun is shining as spring emerges in Central California. Cephas and I are hanging out in beautiful Yuba City, which is where this blog was created 1 1/2 years ago. It's taken a journey full circle to become an active blog platform for me. I'm finally satisfied with the layout and it's content niche. Since I'm so pleased with it, I am entering it into the blogging marketplace so I can use it as a voice for advertisers and private clients. Start calculating that jingle in my savings sock that is going to pay our way to the peace gathering in Jordan 2011.

Famous Celebrity Blogs

DAMN, I'm Cute. 

(Not me. The blog that is today's feature review.)

Okay. I'm going to take a gamble and step out of my comfort zone to review some famous blogs. DO NOT consider this a permanent personality transition for me. This is a temporary walk onto the catwalk of notoriety so I can share information outside of my normal realm...in all fairness to my readers. You have been forewarned. This is not the docile proper Midnight Writer. I'm in Hollywood zone now with Damn I'm Cute. (I just had to say that one more time. It's so out of character for me!)

Go ahead and click on the link to cruise Hollywood Boulevard with the star studded reviews this rank 4 blog features on its pages. I checked out the site info using this neat little gadget that I have on my browser. It pulls up page rank, whois info, a nice screenshot of the site which I pasted into this review, along with so much valuable information about the site. Find ranks with Google, Quantcast, Alexa, how many times it's been digged and so forth.

Damn I'm Cute is hot! It's got a lot going for it search engine wise and according to the social networks. But how is it for content and story interests? Let's take a look and see.

This is a no holds barred blog that relays celeb news and gossip in a blunt tell all fashion. I didn't find any restrictions on subject matter. The first article is about Lady Gaga trying to get past airport security. Read the article Lady Gaga's Glam Doesn't Stop at Airport Security.  The author's perspective about Lady Gaga's ordeal is witty and a little dicey. The most interesting part of the story is a reflection about getting through the security search with boots that were painted onto her legs. And no , she did not remove the wig and veil.

I scrolled down the website to get a feel for the celebrity tales on this cyber Hollywood Boulevard. I found famous names like Marie Osmond, Rose Ann Barr, Corey Haim's news of death, Jennifer Anniston, and Tom Hanks featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Wow! Jam packed full of hot stories and even hotter celebrities...this mag is worth a click or two of your mouse to pay your respects once a day. Subscribe to the rss feed so you don't miss out. And Billy Ray Cyrus, is your daughter Miley old enough to be dating that guy?

The Midnight Writer

This Blog made its Social Spark Debut Today

Hopefully Social Spark will approve this blog. I submitted it into my list of blogs on my profile at their site which brings my list to a total of seven blogs. When I am finished submitting my blogs, I will have over forty in the queue to write for Social Spark advertisers.

I hope to be very busy this summer as I'm saving to pay for a trip to the Middle East for a large peace gathering in Jordan 2011.  That means I have to earn some big bucks. Also, my husband and I are pitching a movie idea in L.A. in the next couple weeks. If the producer takes on the project, we'll be filming some of this event live for the movie. It's going to be an exciting year. I hope you'll join Cephas and me for the adventure.

Smorty Encourages Writers to Blog One Another

Smorty offers the opportunity to earn some money for writing paid reviews on your blog. As an incentive to improve the backlinks to blogs in their pool, Smorty encourages writers to blog about one another. In fact, they have a system set up to track the blogging reviews in your account set up when you join Smorty. After writing five blog you back reviews for others, Smorty opens up the paid review board to writers.

I Want to Share your Story if you Blog Me Back 2

If you have a story to share or if you want your blog reviewed, then email me at themidnightwriter1@gmail.com or follow/DM me on Twitter with your request. I will take on all reasonable requests with the exception of pornography, gambling or any illicit or illegal sites that defame any one culture, race or religion. Any sites targeting children in an illicit way should avoid contacting me because I will not review your site. Those are my only restrictions. Other than that, I look forward to reading the requests and to writing reviews about any and all interesting topics.

 

There is one requirement I have for any one choosing to participate in this project. I ask that every one write a review about one of my sites in return. I'll select the blog out of a list of 50 when you email or DM me. Some of my sites are listed in the sidebar so browse them. I will honor special requests to review a particular one of my sites if you express a passion for it.

 

Some sites that I am hoping to have reviewed are listed below:

 

The Midnight Writer

The Midnight Writer's Journal

The Midnight Writer's Freelance Quest

Blog Day Planner

Mountain Spirit Productions

The Twitter Files

Elite Blog Reviews

Join the Matrix

Revolution Matrix One

Angels for Gabriel

Blog U Back Info

The Midnight Writer's Network

 

I'll post occasional updates with blogs that I want targeted for blog me 2 reviews. Anyone who reads this can look over the list above. If you have a passion for one of these blogs, then contact me and request it. Otherwise, I'll choose the blog to be reviewed.

 

I'm waiting for the requests to pour in and I'm itching to read your site.

The Midnight Writer

Social Spark Offers Blog U Back Opportunities

Are you a professional blogger who writes advertisements for clients on your blog through companies that pay you to blog?

I can speak from personal experience about “sponsored conversations”, which is what some professional sites call advertised blogging for clients. I belong to over one dozen companies who offer bloggers pay for writing sponsored conversations on their own blogs. Not all of these companies keep me working on a regular basis. Some of them do not have work for my blogs because I have not achieved some level of qualifications required by them. (that can be a whole other topic to post about).
A few companies give me work on a regular basis on several of my blogs. One of those companies is Social Spark. I just recently achieved enough page rank with this company to write several posts a month. I have four blogs listed with them titled The Midnight Writer, Blog Day Planner, The Midnight Writer’s Journal, and The Midnight Writer’s Freelance Quest.
Since I don’t receive as many paid posts as I would like from Social Spark, I have begun to check out one of the other options they offer in their program. Aside from paid sponsored posts, they offer affiliate programs, cost per click offers and causes. An additional feature is their program called “Sparks”. With this, advertisers choose to list offers to allow bloggers to accept the opportunity to blog about them and they in turn agree to “Blog U Back”. This concept will help you in several ways.

• It will give you blogging practice writing reviews.
• You will help other bloggers and advertisers while adding pages to your blog with interesting and versatile content.
• It will help diversify your blog.
• You will increase your page rank by driving more of an audience to your blog since the blog u back offer will bring readers from the other person’s site to yours. Usually, in a Blog U Back offer each site puts a reciprocal link to the other person being reviewed.
• You will gain back links.
• You will accrue good karma by writing for something other than money to help others out.

Have fun blogging and if you email me, I’ll Blog U Back.
The Midnight Writer

Today this Blog Makes its Entrecard Debut

Image by Aldon via Flickr

Yes, I am entering yet another blog on Entrecard and hoping that it will be approved. I am working on a system to tie all of my blogs into one huge network, but it will be a few months before more details are released. In about three months, I will start utilizing this network to the benefit of fellow bloggers and freelance writers.

Blog Me Back 2 will be used exclusively for writing reviews and promoting this action among other bloggers to help connect us together in order to promote more content. It will also help with driving up page views and to encourage more visitors to this host blog and to other blogs who write a reciprocal review for me.

The image to the left shows a typical Entrecard traffic bar when someone is an active dropper on other Entrecards. This is an area that I need to work on. So I'll need your help by encouraging me to come review your site and drop on my widget. It will look like the image below.



You might be asking why I chose this image. I'll tell you. I love silhouettes and I always have been fascinated by them. Tonight as I was choosing which image to use for Entrecard on Blog Me Back 2, this one reached out and grabbed my attention. It reminds me of a down home version of my Midnight Writer silhouette image that I use in my profile. Instead of heels, the woman is barefoot and that is how I like to be, barefoot walking in the grass in a beautiful meadow. The wind is blowing her simple country style dress and a ribbon is visible in the back at her waist. She's playing with some flowers it looks like and that is what you would find me doing on a mountain campout. the shadow is Mysterious and that is my middle name.
Any more questions, just ask me. And be sure to visit Entrecard. You'll see Blog Me Back 2 over there, I'm sure of it. I'll probably be clicking away tomorrow dropping on your widget.
The Midnight Writer

Let’s Get It Going on with the Blog Me Back Concept

Are you ready to take the plunge? I am and my fingers are hot and ready to tap those keys as I write about you, or your blog, or your website or your company or a service or product that you provide. I want to experience the art of writing reviews about others like you for several reasons. We can count them here.
First, it will help me polish my writing skills and I will develop a better eye for physical and grammatical layouts in both blogs and websites. Blogging about others,or writing reviews, will help you polish your skills, too. That is very important for a freelance writer.
Second, it is not always about the money! It’s really not! Sometimes it’s about recognition. Get your name out there by writing as many reviews as possible to help you get noticed as an author. The beauty about writing reviews about others on your blog is it builds pages that are cached in google and other search engines.
Third, if you write reviews on your blogs, you gain page count to help increase your blog rank while you build some quality content on your blog. The first year is sort of proving grounds for any blog to figure out if the subject matter is readable and if it will carry both an audience and your interest as the writer. If both happen, it’s a good blog and I say promote it.
Finally, reciprocal blogging builds back links to your site and the for the person you are writing about. Include some hyperlinks to help bring attention to other pages deep within your site and theirs to really increase the view value and page value of a blog.
There is one major point that I almost forgot to mention- you retain the authorship of your work right on your own site. In freelance writing, that is what I call having the best of both worlds.
So have fun and Blog Me Back Too! What are you waiting for?
The Midnight Writer


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