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This “Free Blog review” campaign with reciprocal link swap, is catching on with bloggers as I’ve received a few review requests. It’ll take me sometime to clear the backlog but it is a happy problem I’ll gladly have, anytime.

Today, my free blog review adventure brings me to a beautiful blog titled “TERRI TERRI QUITE CONTRARY“. To start with, the picture of big red hibiscus shouted out for attention, but what leaves a deep impression on me is the wonderfully taken photographs that were generously peppered throughout the blog, and coupled with the catchy and infectiously hum-able blog title that keeps repeating in my head the whole time I was reading the blog posts!

Another notable feature of this blog that I must mention, is the absence of online ads! It is totally ad-free! In these days of monetization, where anyone with an internet connection wants to make money online (there are millions of blogs out there cluttered with ads), Terri has defied convention and stayed true to the original spirit of blogging. For that I APPLAUD you.

Terri’s blog is unique in that she blogs about her life, her work, her children, summer vacations, home improvement project (boy, I love those psychedelic colors!), and just about anything and everything under the sun. These are events only unique to her and her family, no one can copy (unlike the millions of copy-cat money-making tips readily available) , and no one can take that away from her.

Reading Terri’s blog afforded me the sanity I seek in this near-total monetized world of blog.
I’ve add the links to her blog on my side bar, to remind myself to apply that balance, and also to remind myself what’s most important in my life (my family of course).

Terri’s blog is so much fun and indeed a breadth of fresh air. Wait no more, don’t just base on hearsay from this review, see for yourself how Terri returns to the root of her ancestor! (Hint: picture tells a thousand words)

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My first free blog review goes to Kelly Cho, who’s blog title is “Catching a Falling Star“.
Kelly, who goes by Stargaz3r online because she likes looking at stars, is indeed a global citizen, with Japanese/Chinese blood flowing in her, born and bred in Brazil and now residing and working in Los Angeles, California.

I like her blog for being so neat and even with some ads on it, it gave me a clutter-free experience reading her blog. A very refreshing experience for me, considering tons of blogs out there are so cluttered and untidy, it gives me a headache just trying to read their posts!

Kelly started her blog way back in 2002 as a personal blog so that, in her own words “50 years from now, be able to see how I used to think“. The blog was only turned public and monetized only recently (just like mine). She blogs about her pet subjects, travel & real estate, and of course, how to make money online.

Do drop by Kelly’s blog and offer her a comment two. We blogger must support fellow blogger.

I posted my review of John Chow’s make money online blog on 17 Mar and waited in anticipation for some back-link love rom the master, in the hope of giving this humble blog some technorati ranking boost.

I waited,and waited, “Review My Blog – Batch 36” came but didn’t contain a link back to my review. OK, maybe the reviews of John’s blog were coming in thick nd fast and backlogs were pile up high, I consoled myself.

Then batch 37, 38, 40 and now 41 came and went, but still no linkback to my review in any of the batches! To say I’m disappointed is definitely an understatement. I must have done something wrong. Did I not follow his review rules correctly? Could it be the anchor text I used were wrong?

I read and re-read my review but still unable to find out exactly where goes wrong. So I decided to try again to review his blog and hopefully this time I get it right and catch his “highness” attention and be awarded with some back-link love…

On his blog, John said he did not start his blog to make money, but look how far he’d arrived since it was started in September 2006. In a short February month alone, his blog income hit more than $7000! Just imagine what he can earn if he’d started his blog with making money on his mind!

John achieved all these by diversifying his sources of income, not putting all his eggs in one basket. Having different revenue sources ensures he’ll not be over-reliant on any one source.

What’s a money-making blog without an audience? John’s maverick ramblings, coupled with his quality contents and insightful articles on making money online, helped him attract tons of unique visitor to his blog and it also manage to build up and retain a huge pool of loyal subscribers through his various clever marketing and customer-retention” programs like holding contests, rambling about his love for cars, and sharing his reviews for places that serve good food, just make sure you don’t lear his habit of “playing with his food“!

I devour John Chow’s blog for breakfast, lunch and dinner because I find many creative sides of him in his blog. One of his more clever vehicle which he pioneered is his call to the blogging community or anyone with a website to review his “make money online” blog and in turn, earn a link back to his subsequent blog posts, thereby boosting the reviewer’s blog’s technorati ranking! It’s a brilliant “you scratch my back, I scratch yours” idea and it has proven to be a very successful campaign.

Having posted a review of his “make money online” blog in my last post, and while waiting anxiously for a link back on his bog, I’ve decided to jump on his wonderful idea, but implement it with a twist.

Instead of asking for bloggers to review my blog and I in turn post a back link to theirs, I’ll scour the internet for interesting blogs and give them a review here, for free! All I ask in return is for the blog owners, whose blogs I’ve reviewed, to give a link to my blog’s home page with anchor text “make money online” and link to this post using anchor text “free blog review” in their subsequent post.

Bloggers who want me to post a review of their blog here please leave your url in comment page or simply email me. I’ll try to get in touch with you as soon as I possibly can.

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