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In my opinion there have been three generations of blog networks so far in the industry. The first was when Gawker and Weblogs Inc. made huge names for themselves and their sites. This was the first generation, and woke up millions to the potential and possibility of making their own network of content rich blogs.

The second generation included a huge number of networks including the original 9rules, b5media, 451press, and hundreds of others. These blog networks were all very young, but they all had great potential. The problem was that there were so many entrants into the second generation of blog networks that many eventually died due to the high competition.

The third generation is here and still developing. One network that stands out more than the rest as a third generation network is Splashpress Media. They have come in with a few decent sites, and bought their way into the RSS readers, and bookmarks of thousands.

I am only going to talk about five blog networks today. Mentioned above, these networks are ones you will want to join if you want to become a problogger.

The order is not from best to worst, but instead it is alphabetical. I think that the best and word is highly subjective, but all of these networks have been and continue to be huge successes in the blogosphere.

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With at least one blogger thinking about trying to monetize in a different way than banner advertisements, I thought I should point to a great post from Bootstrapper about launching a revenue producing membership website.

Here is a snippet from the post:

The pessimist might think this is a nice ploy, because now hundreds of people are going to try, and they’ll flood the market with services - obscuring the few truly good subscription services that might follow Yaro’s Blog Mastermind. The optimist will note the one clue Yaro gave that will clear all the competitors away: establishing your presence online, which is the first step, and takes the blogger “with potential” six months to two years.

My own opinion on the matter is that if you haven’t built at least one PR (Google PageRank) 6 site on your own (or are not associated with having done so), you haven’t established enough presence for a subscription service to succeed. PR is a much reviled measure of a website/ blog’s success, but it’s a ballpark measure of how much linkage you’re getting from elsewhere and thus recognition.

I agree that it can be difficult to build up a level of authority that would allow a person to make a revenue producing membership site, but I think that the level of difficulty is a good thing, and will hopefully help people decide which program, or website is right for them.

Check out the full post on Bootstrapper.

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Welcome to the first real episode of the Xfep Podcast.

The Xfep Podcast will cover just a few of the stories that interested me from the top 50 making money online blogs as listed by 45n5’s top 100 list.

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Now that I am working on compiling a list of all the probloggers in the world, I have been getting questions in regards to “what is a problogger?”

A problogger is someone that makes an income from blogging. This income could be a few dollars a month, all the way up to generating a steady income to support a family. People like Darren Rowse and John Chow are people we normally associate with probloggers but they are special examples, and not the more general reality of problogging.

If your goal is to pay for your internet connection every month, and you make that goal, in my mind, you are a problogger. Your efforts in regards to blogging are generating income that is paying for a goal you have.

For my World Problogger List, you don’t have to be a full time problogger, but I do ask that you only apply to have you name listed if you make a fair income from blogging. If I added every person that made more than ten cents to the list, my fingers would fall off.

Again, if you want to be added, I ask that you send your full name, blog URL, and location through to me via the comments on this and other World Problogger List posts, or through the contact page.

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One thing that I have been wanting to do for a while now is create a list of the world’s probloggers. If you have made your living online through producing content for a blog, I want to hear about it, and add you to the list I am creating.

The list will be hosted on the Problogger page of the Million Dollar Wiki. I bought a page for this purpose. I think it will be a fun project to take on, and other than the list of Probloggers and their sites, I hope to list some great blogging resources for people wanting to get to the point in their blogging career to join the list.

So if you would like to be added to the list, please comment on this post, or head on over to the contact page, and let me know your name, your blog URL, and where you are in the world.

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