This is a guest post for MindBlogger, blogged by Mithila Mangedarage of Metal Cracker. Metal Cracker provides reviews, sneak previews, inside stories about metal music and it’s culture.

Ok, let me get this straight to you. How many blogs have you seen with something similar to the following posts?

1. A post on how awesome this new BlogRush widget is.
2. A post on why you should remove or why BlogRush hardly works.

But how many blog posts did you read that provide information on something you can replace your BlogRush widget with? Probably this is the first time you read something like that.

So what’s the cool widget?

I’ve heard this questions countless times on walkthroughs, blog posts and forums. Conventional SEO(Search Engine Optimization) tell us that it is really a fake PageRank that is being displayed in the Google Toolbar. I don’t think anyone had come up with hard evidence to prove or deny this, but a lot of conspiracy theorists(including me) support this claim. It it likely that Google develops it’s own ranking of a page, that is not disclosed, through it’s algorithms. A rank other than the one displayed in the Google toolbar.

Why it is likely for a Secret PR to exist and to be undisclosed

Google’s main intention had been and still is to serve the most relevant content to the millions of search queries submitted daily.

StumbleUpon, truly, is one of the greatest concepts of social media, ever! I’m not saying that because it’s been miraculous in building my blog. I’m saying that because I truly believe in it and had “stumbled upon” few of my sweetest finds on the net.

Unlike Digg, which doesn’t work really well for small and medium bloggers of my niche, StumbleUpon’s concept is very effective in bringing targeted, constant traffic to a blog or any other web site of any niche. And that’s what I like about StumbleUpon most.

So, here are 7 posts that helped me in a great deal to be benefited by this great service.

That’s right! No fancy rules, no fancy posts or reviews, MindBlogger’s third contest - “10-Second-entry blog contest worth over $250″ gives you the chance to win over $250 worth of prizes, for just 10 seconds of your time. So, I’ll try to keep it as simple as possible.

What’s up for grabs?

Four lucky winners chosen by Random.org will grab these four prices worth well over $250.

• Complete Blog branding package worth $75 containing
  • Custom Blog Logo Design
  • Premium Blog Header Design
  • 2 custom 125×125 Ad Designs
• Complete Blog Consultation Report targeted on the blog of your choice worth $60 containing advice on
  • Content Writing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Blog Design
  • Blog Promotion
  • Misc.

“Make Money Online”! The magical catch-phrase, and the thing that almost every blogger seems to know about; or at least claim to do so. How much of a cliche had that come to be? I know people had wanted to earn money since few second after the beginning of time. But, don’t you think it’s a bit unnatural having so many people who claim to make a living online? Don’t you think there’s too many people with make money online blogs and portraying themselves as pro-bloggers?

Quite frankly, my point here is that anyone can start a blog.

Well, since I had been talking about offering paid reviews through your blog lately, I thought of making Smorty a victim of my critique.

What is Smorty?

So what is Smorty? Well, the simplest definition would be: “It’s a network that connects advertisers and bloggers, and gives bloggers the chance to get paid to blog about the advertisers”. In another words, it’s one of those places THE place where you can get paid to blog.

Since 75% of the thousands of active independent bloggers are trying to blog for money and 7 out of every 10 companies believe that blogs would be more important in the next 20 years as a medium of information and are working constantly towards blog advertising, Smorty is the killer-deal.