Blogs are rated based on Google PR, Technorati blog rank, Alexa traffic rating and some other benchmarks.

In the addition to the Top 100 Money Making blogs 45n5.com have a list of “Upcoming” resources where you can submit your own blog if it fits the online money making niche.

I have submitted Web Income Stream to be included in the database few weeks back and now proudly found it in the position #354 (4th from the bottom…) One thing that seem not to work properly is a page rank – pages with PR0 and without any PR will display PR: “N/A”. Also I know some sites have changed page ranks during last Google update but those changes were not reflected in 45n5 statistics…

I understand – there is nothing to brag about being on the bottom of the list but this is just an interesting challenge for myself climbing up that list and see where you are standing compared with well known internet marketers. Just recently I finally found time to get this blog of the ground and let’s see where it will take mew few month down the road…

Another positive thing I realized about 45n5 Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs – it DOES sent some traffic to my site even though my Web Income Stream is all the way near the bottom. According to the Live FeedJit Traffic Statistics I get at least one visitor a day from 45n5.com.

If your website or blog is discussing affiliate marketing or online money making opportunities you should definitely submit it to 45n5 list – inclusion is free and you may get some additional traffic from it. Also you can have fun watching your standings compared to industry leaders…

I will call it Blog Income Stream.

Probably easiest and fastest option to get started with new blog is to use free Blogger account from Google.

Why Blogger? The answer is simple – it’s easy, it’s fast, and most important – it’s free! Wouldn’t you like someone offering you fully equipped store to use rent free? That’s exactly what Blogger gives you – fully featured online store.
You still want to personalize the blog to make it unique and attractive to the visitors. Building online business image and brand recognition probably even more important that for a regular off line business.

There are many other portals that offer free blogs as subdomains on their servers, but if you decided to go with “free” blog option I would suggest to stick with Blogger or WordPress hosted blogs.

Sure there are more professional options like using your own domain name, hosting servers, more advanced publishing software (like Subrion CMS for example), but you can get back to these options after you get initial presence on the web and become more comfortable with working on your blog.

Now most important questions:

- Can you make money with blog? – The answer is Yes!
- Will you make money with your blog? – It’s entirely up to you…

There are tons of advertisements who promise to make you an Internet Millionaire working few hours a week – forget about it!
As any new business your new online business (and that is exactly what your blog will be – online business) requires hard work and dedication.

Lets use the same example I was giving before – the store. In the beginning your blog is like a little newsstand on the middle of nowhere with no customers and empty shelfs.
Your goal is to turn it into a Designers store on the Park Avenue in New York City…

The competition is very high and new blogs are started every second. Only few of them will survive and prosper. Will yours be one of them?