There’s a very accurate review of TheMoneyBlogs on BusinessWeek’s site. But if you want the real story, take a look at Howard’s post about theMoneyBlogs from August. And be sure to read the raging discussion in the comments where yo…

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This is Brice, one of the editors at TheMoneyBlogs. This thread came to my attention and I wanted to chime in, give you my two cents and clarify a couple of points:

Responding to Howard’s “there ARE NO LINKS BACK TO THE ORIGINAL BLOG SITE” comment, this is simply not true. There are and always have been links back to the original blog site. Second, in addition to being a blog aggregator, we also host blogs. Here is the list that was posted at the beginning of this thread, with the breakdown:
7 Stocks You Need To Know—from TradingMarkets.com, no link
A Global Perspective—we host
Discovering Undervalued Growth—we host
Financial Wisdom w/Gabriel Wisdom—we host
Setups I’m Stalking–we host
The Swing of Things–we host
Trade It or Fade It–we host
Almost Trading For A Living–we host
Blue Collar Trading–we host
Commodity Option Selling–we host
Emini Technical Alerts–we host
Forex Project–we host
Fresh Fish Daily–we host
Fx Technical Research–we host
Netto’s Numbers—we host
Swing Trading the Forex–we host
Technically Speaking–we host
Techno-Fundamentalist–we host
The Amish Connection–we host
The Essentials–we host
The Professional Daytrader—we host
The Weekly Woof–we host
Underground Trading—we host
What does it take to be a successful trader?–we host

(“we host” means there is no other location for this blog)

Alpha Trends–linked
Canajun Finances–linked
ClearFish Research–linked
Crowder Investment Research—linked
DayveJohnson on the Markets–linked
Finance Professor—linked
Financial Skeptic–linked
Gualberto Diaz—linked
In The Money—linked
Invest2Success–linked
Investing Intelligently-linked
Jaloti–linked
Let’s Talk Volatility–linked
Master Limited Partnerships–linked
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis–linked
Rally Monkey–linked
SirChartsAlot–linked
Stockblog.com–linked
TaylorTree–linked
The Average Joe Investor–linked
The Confused Capitalist–linked
The Corner Office Blog–linked
The Mess That Greenspan Made–linked
The Prudent Investor–linked
TheFlyOnTheWall.com–linked
Ticker Sense–linked
Uncle Jack’s–linked
Value Discipline–linked
Wishing Wealth–linked
2d Trading–linked
Commodity Trader–linked
Global Gold–linked
Investment Ideas—linked
Live Options Trader–linked
Market Gnome–linked
O & F news and views for futures and forex–linked
Random Roger’s Big Picture–linked
Research Lab Trading–linked
Roberto’s Nasdaq Trader—linked
Trader X–linked
TraderBlog.com–linked
Trading Quotes–linked
The Bull Trader–linked
Technicator.NET–linked

To Mike, who said: “…I asked him what level of traffic the site gets. He never responded that that question.”
I honestly thought I sent an email back to you with the traffic details, but I could well be mistaken; it could have slipped through the cracks. Here they are:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=http%3A%2F%2
Fthemoneyblogs.tradingmarkets.com%2F&url=themoneyblogs.tradingmarkets.com

TheMoneyBlogs is a part of TradingMarkets.com.

Also to Mike, who says “his site, like other blog aggregation sites, is likely to have higher PageRank than the blogs of the contributors.”

I think the key phrase in the sentence above is “like other blog aggregation sites.” This means we’re no different than the other guys doing this.

To Larry, who says: “I find lots of technical issues with their site”
We’re still in beta and debugging the site daily. Coming out of beta after Labor Day.

To Jake, who writes: “Too bad they aren’t offering revenue sharing,” and Jeff, who writes: “The bloggers who are doing all the work get nothing.”

Not in terms of ad revenue, that is true, but I believe TheMoneyBlogs gives exposure to bloggers that they may not ordinarily receive. Further, there is no additional work required to post on TheMoneyBlogs, as we use the feed. In other words’ bloggers are “doing all the work” already. I don’t know how much bloggers make on their ads–I guess in some cases it could be a significant amount, but my guess is that in most cases it’s nominal. There are many folks out there like Dave, who says: “But it’s not about advertising or revenue for me. It’s something fun for me. Nothing more, nothing less.”

To Trader X, who writes: “Brice pointed out there is a link back to my blog, and indeed there is…it appears at the bottom of the page and is not very prominent.”

I responded to you privately on this, but for the benefit of others, I explained that there was indeed a problem with that page–which we fixed within 15 minutes or so. The link back to his main blog is now in the proper spot, much closer to the top of the page.

Larry writes: “Within the body of every post I include my blog link.”
He’s being proactive here. You can, too.

As I mentioned earlier, TheMoneyBlogs is still in beta; the ‘official’ kickoff is after Labor Day. People seem to be enjoying the articles, already, though, as traffic is rising quickly, mostly from word of mouth at this point.

Thanks for letting me respond. Howard posted my phone number already, but if you have any questions, here it is again: 818.449.7461. My email address is brice@themoneyblogs.com.

Brice
TheMoneyBlogs.com

I bet you can test it and if it’s useless you can tell them to take it off no?
But it would have been great if there was some revenue sharing…