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Most of you know me from MeAndMyDrum. I also author a site called Family WebWatch, which is where I write about how families can protect themselves online and be more productive by reviewing tools I find.

I found this one site called Family Secure. This is a site that’s designed to help parents protect their children’s identity. That may sound strange, but identity theft has been on the rise over the years. Criminals are now turning to stealing children’s identities.

Just think that by the time your child is ready for applying for a loan to college or a car, they could instead be facing a bad credit rating before they enter adulthood. Identity theft is bad to begin with, but to have to fight a bad credit rating before you’ve even had a chance to use credit is a whole other world of hurt.

One of the things Family Secure does is alert you when someone opens an account or applies for credit in your child’s name. Plus, they’ll do it when there is a significant change in your credit report.

I have five codes that I want to give away. With one of these codes, you’ll be given one full year of FREE service to Family Secure instead of paying $19.95 a month. This means one parent and their child(ren) can enroll.

What do you have to do to get one?

Just leave a comment here and I’ll email one to you using the address you use in the comments field below. It’s first come first serve, so comment now. One code per family.

If you’d like to know more about how you can protect yourself and your children online, I’d appreciate it if you subscribe to my feed to stay informed. 🙂

First there were personal diaries, then online journals, then blogs, podcasting, and now vlogs. Some of the bloggers that I read regularly have explored vlogging, or video-blogging. This allows you to get even more personal with your audience and interact with them like you never have before.

DealDotCom’s deal of the day is “Video Blogging Made Easy“. I have not personally tried this but it sounds interesting enough.

“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.” Bold promises.

However, the Video Blogging Made Easy has a 30 day money back guarantee, don’t you love things with no risk?

The product is 27$, which is 10$ of the regular price. Not convinced? Find out:

• How to choose the right template and design for your vlog. This is a crucial step most vlogging guides leave out!
• The steps to getting indexed in Google so quickly. And how you can do the same thing, and get the same results!
• How to make a video using either free or paid software. So you can do this on ANY budget!
• How to keep your vlog running and creating profits for you. So it never has to be a hassle, just a profit-generating machine.

I’d love to see if anyone has used this or is going to purchase this product.

The finalists have already been decided for 2007’s Bloggers Choice Awards. With only a few days left until Blog World, the polls for this year have been closed. Blog about your Blog finished about 5th for the category Best Blog about Blogging.

New Voting

This year I hope to be able to compete more against the likes of ProBlogger and Lorelle. The voting is now open for all of the categories.

Vote for Us

I am sticking to mainly one category, but feel free to nominate us for anything else. We are currently displaying a badge where you can vote for us. Alternatively you can just click here, to vote for us.

I can’t settle for anything less than a top 3!

Comment for Votes

Make sure to vote for us, after you do so, leave me a comment so I can vote for your blog. Please link me to your blogs voting page, it will make things a lot easier for me. Support BAYB and we will support you!

In September we earned 307.23$. I think we will see an improvement this month. I also finally got my adsense check. It only took me a year to earn 100$! Remember I count money as earned in the month, not necessarily payed.

Traffic

According to statcounter, our traffic took a little dip having 8,826 unique visitors. Stumbleupon didn’t give us the usual traffic and we couldn’t get on the front page of sphinn until the end of the month.

RSS Feed

Our RSS feed count has been steadily increasing. Our biggest day in September reported 354 rss feed subscribers. When I announced our contest on October 17th, we had 364. November 1st we had 422 subscribers! 500 here we come.

Popular Articles

Our most popular articles for the month include:

• 10 Firefox Add-ons to Supercharge your Blogging
• Having Integrity While Blogging
• Getting ‘Scammed’ Got Us Mentioned on John Chow Dot Com
• 5 Things You Can Do With Your New PageRank
• Blogging The San Diego Fires
• Two Free Font Utilities You Should Check Out

Earnings

Now onto the good part, the earnings.

Google Adsense: 7.10$
TLA Referral: 25$
PayPerPost: 131.50$
Review: 32.50$
Private Ads: 120$

That brings our monthly total to $316.10. It has pretty much stayed the same these past few months. I am hoping to further monetize our blog.

Blogroll We are offering two more spots for 10$ per month

Feed You can also advertise at the bottom of the site feed for only 10$ per month. We have 434 readers! It’s a great rate.

Banner We have 125×125 banner space available. For one month we are looking for 25$ per month to get it started. The max will be 4 banners.

If you are interested in any of these please use our contact form and get in touch with me.

The traffic was down this month, especially for our authors. We had tons of contribution from Mark and a few from other authors, but the traffic was down. Seems that each month there are less bloggers contributing to BAYB.

Remember there is no minimum requirements, you can post one month, then 3 months later. We are just looking for quality bloggers.

One reason to blog is our incentive program. Our top bloggers will receive monetary compensation for their work. This month Mark contributed 8 articles and is a clear winner for the second month in a row. He will be getting another 20$ from me.

I was surprised that one of our most active authors Kinthehouse wasn’t among the top contributors. This month I am happy to give him 2nd place and 10$.

It was a fight for third but Ed came out on top with his article about Jiglu. It helped being ranked on the front page on google for Jiglu. He gets the third place prize of 5$.

A change for this month, hopefully to make it more interesting, the top 2 contributors will receive 15$ each.

Man it’s Friday! The end of a crazy month. Over the weekend I will have our stats and author prizes. Halloween was okay this year, but of course Matthew got sick the day before, after a while candy wasn’t enough to continue on the quest. Hope to get some pictures as well up over the weekend.

I love our comment friday, it gives me a chance to communicate more with our readers through our comment system. Each friday we give a lucky person who comments a free link on our blog. This last week our lucky person was Sweet Mummy. She didn’t get a shout out, but last week she left her first comment on our blog and sent me a contact. Want your free link? Get noticed, go above and beyond commenting.

I’ve been covering the sale of Blogging Fingers. No, it’s not over yet, I should have my last, final, follow up article about it soon. In the meantime I want to know if you would ever sell your blog? If so, what’s the right price? I could never imagine selling Blog about your Blog, because the offer couldn’t be right. However, selling any of my other blogs, would definitely be a strong possibility.

Diwali is a great Indian Festival of Lights. ShanKri-la is celebrating reaching 200+ RSS subscribers and Diwali 2007 by giving away some cool stuff.

What do I win?
2 winners will be selected randomly and each of them will receive one of the following:

• 1GB Kingston DataTraveller USB Flash Drive [OR]
• 1GB Kingston PhotoLoader SD Memory Card – comes preloaded with software to allow automatic transfer of photos to your PC & upload to Shutterfly.

How Do I Enter?
You can do any one of the below to enter the contest:

• Post about it in your blog with a link to the contest post. It doesn’t have to be a post by itself. Even speed linking would do. Just leave a comment or use our Contact page with a link to your post – 5 entries
  As a bonus, you get a free PR4 link back to your contest post in a post announcing the winner of the contest.
• Subscribe to our RSS feed. Before the end of the contest, you will get a secret word at the bottom of a post (it will appear only in the feed). Email it back to me to gain your entries. I will make sure it is easy to find in the RSS feed. – 2 entries
• Stumble our home page. Just leave a comment if you did and I’ll take your word for it – 1 entry

Do just one of the above or do them all and gain 8 entries! If you already read ShanKri-la in your feed reader, all you have to do is email me when you spot the secret word to gain 2 entries!

Contest Ends
We will randomly choose a winner from the entries on Wednesday Nov 7, 2007. So, get your entries in by midnight EST Nov 6th.

With a contest so easy to enter, what are you waiting for? Get your entries in today!