Top Visited Posts:

1. FollowFriday Helper, a Great Twitter Tool
2. How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc
3. Using MyLikes Has Helped Me Pay For My Web Hosting
4. The TimesOnline has “vanished” from Google!
5. How to get traffic to your blog

Top Referring Websites:

1. Twitter – 65
2. The Daily Meme – 38
3. Stumble Upon – 35
4. BlogEngage – 34
5. CMF Ads – 20

Top Search Terms:

1. how to select all friends on facebook
2. tunecore vs cdbaby
3. itunes complete album
4. ez combs
5. followfriday helper

Search Engines

1. Google – 514
2. Yahoo – 94
3. Bing – 23
4. Ask – 3
5. AOL – 2

Top Commentators for the Week

1. Onibalusi Bamidele – 12 Comments
2. Dennis Edell – 5 Comments
3. Chuck Edwards – 4 Comments
4. john – 4 Comments
5. Emm – 3 Comments

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

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Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

1. How to customize PayPal payment page
2. 10 Videos from My You Tube Channel – Extreme John
3. Auditor From Hell – Metallman’s Reverie
4. Do You know why Your Site is Generating Less Traffic? – Blogging Junkie
5. Dear Future Me – Write An Email To Yourself – John Chow dot Com

Top Visited Posts:

1. Weekly Round Up – LadyGaga, Facebook Tips, Twitter Websites
2. Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland – The Review
3. How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc
4. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby
5. An Introduction to the Guest Bloggers on Blazing Minds

Top Referring Websites:

1. CMFAds – 65
2. The Daily Meme – 38
3. BlogEngage -  34
4. MyBlogGuest – 28
5. Twitter – 27

Top Search Terms:

1. twitter websites
2. tunecore vs cdbaby
3. itunes complete my album
4. famous bears names
5. twiends

Search Engines

1. Google – 368
2. Yahoo – 61
3. Bing – 10
4. AOL – 3
5. Lycos – 1

Top Commentators for the Week

1. Anthony @ Party Help – 10 Comments
2. John – 7 Comments
3. Dennis Edell – 6 Comments
4. Ryan – 4 Comments
5. Dragon Blogger – 3 Comments

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

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Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

1. Valuable Comments, Link Building & Comment Spam – Kikolani
2. Lady Gaga’s New Video Telephone ? Nut or Genuis ? – Comment DROP
3. Say it Quickly – Ohhh…. K!
4. How One Guest Post Made a Difference – MaxBlogger Stories

Top Visited Posts:

1. How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc
2. 3 Reasons Why Blog Comment Spamming Is Not Good SEO
3. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby
4. Getting The Best Out of FollowFriday on Twitter (Update)
5. SponsoredTweets and TweetRoll in One Handy Widget..

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Top Search Terms:

1. tunecore vs cdbaby
2. twitter websites
3. select all friends on facebook
4. itunes complete my album
5. how to select all friends on facebook

Top Commentators for the Week

1. Dennis Edell – 13 Comments
2. Ileane – 11 Comments
3. Klaus @ TechPatio – 7 Comments
4. chandan@work at home jobs – 5 Comments
   Extreme John @Blogging Ceos – 5 Comments

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

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The Blogger Interviews are coming to an end, but if any of you bloggers out there would like me to continue with the interviews then please contact me, so I can get some questions out to you.

Also many of you will have noticed that there have been Guest Posts on Blazing Minds, my big thanks to those that have taken the time to become Guest Bloggers and for the well written and informative posts that you have written. More on the way soon

Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

1. Get a Gravatar – Extreme John Blog
2. How to break the ice and make new blogging friends – Tycoon Blogger
3. Dynamic Sidebar Plugin: Certain Widgets for Certain Web Traffic and Pages – iWoodpecker
4. Friday Flick Find: High Speed Car Chase In Google Earth — TechPatio
5. Hootsuite Tutorial Video – The Podcast Blog

Top Visited Posts:

1. How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc
2. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby
3. The Google, The Buzz and The Ugly!
4. How to find Complete My Album on iTunes V9
5. How to put the Blazing Minds Bloggers DoFollow Search Engine on your Blog

Top Referring Websites:

1. CMF Ads – 66
2. Twitter – 53
3. The Daily Meme – 44
4. BlogEngage – 32
5. ExtremeJohn – 15

Top Search Terms:

1. skechers shape ups reviews
2. tunecore vs cdbaby
3. itunes complete my album
4. how to select all friends on facebook
5. twitter websites

Search Engines

1. Google – 496
2. Yahoo – 118
3. Bing – 20
4. All The Web – 1
5. AOL – 1

Top Commentators for the Week

1. Ileane – 13 Comments
2. John – 9 Comments
3. Chandan – 4 Comments
4. Extreme John – 4 Comments
5. Dana @ Online Knowledge – 3 Comments

Posts you may have missed in the week

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

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Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

1. How to Use Spam as a Weapon Against Itself – SmartBloggerz
2. How to Write Quality Blog Posts That Engage Your Readers – Blog Godown
3. A Day in the Life of.. Episode 1 – Extreme John

Top Visited Posts:

1. How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc
2. SANYO Incognito, Nice Looking Mobile Phone and an Unlimited Plan
3. Free Traffic For Brand New Blog
4. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby
5. Wow Blazing Minds Has Really Grown!

Top Referring Websites:

1. CMF Ads – 100
2. Daily Meme – 59
3. BlogEngage – 34
4. Twitter – 20
5. Entrecard – 18

Top Search Terms:

1. how to select all friends on facebook
2. twitter websites
3. tunecore vs cdbaby
4. itunes complete my album
5. twitterfeed last.fm

Top Search Engines

1. Google – 374
2. Yahoo – 90
3. Bing – 16
4. Ask – 4
5. AOL – 2

Top Commentators for the Week

1. Latief -  14 Comments
2. John – 9 Comments
3. Extreme John – 7 Comments
4. element321 – 5 Comments
5. Dennis Edell – 4 Comments

Articles You may of missed

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

Weekly Round Up – Facebook, TuneCore vs CDBaby is a post from Blazing Minds

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So let’s get started on what has happened on Blazing Minds in November with the top commentators. A big thank you to everyone who has commented, but, for those that have been busy last month, here’s a little linky love

Top Commentators on Blazing Minds

1. Extreme John – 21 Comments
2. chandan@work at home – 18 Comments
3. Nehh – 15 Comments
4. Heather Kephart -  14 Comments
5. Klaus @ TechPatio – 14 Comments
6. Mike – 14 Comments
7. Anand Srinivasan – 12 Comments
8. ashok -12 Comments
9. Dennis Edell – 11 Comments
10. DragonBlogger – 10 Comments

Top Posts On Blazing Minds

These are the posts that have been read the most over the last month.

1. Music from the amazing show Monkey Dust! 164
2. WordPress Plugins I find useful for Blog Posting 148
3. How to find the missing iTunes Plus Upgrade option on iTunes v9 143
4. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby 93
5. The New Blazing Minds Blog Search 90
6. Avoiding Twitter Phishing Scams in Direct Messages 90
7. Is Google PageRank Really That Important Anymore? 84
8. How to find Complete My Album on iTunes V9 84
9. Updated my WordPress Permalinks with the Permalink Migration Plugin 78
10. How To Remove Loads of Direct Messages on Twitter! 77

Top Blogs That Have Been Referring Traffic to Blazing Minds

1. Trader’s Hub – 72
2. Extreme John – 37
3. P50 Blogger Alliance – 23
4. Voice Of Bragg – 13
5. Random Thoughts – 8

Top Referring Websites (EntreCard, Google, Yahoo, Twitter etc)

1. Google – 432
2. EntreCard -167
3. BlogEngage – 72
4. Yahoo – 34
5. Twitter – 31

Guest Posts on Blazing Minds

1. When Blogging There Is No Waiting Game by Dragon Blogger
2. Saturday Six – Famous Bears Names! by Slappy Bear

OK, there we have it my first monthly round-up, don’t forget to if you want to try to get listed on the lists over the next few months, then you can find a Blazing Minds page on the right hand side of this blog with the code to place it on your blog, also if you do find the posts on Blazing Minds then don’t forget to comment on them

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Top 10 Visited Posts:

1. Review: Skechers Shape-ups, walking on air!
2. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby
3. Some Handy Twitter Websites (Twitter Tools)!
4. Music from the amazing show Monkey Dust!
5. Review: Infected Mushroom – The Legend of the Black Shawarma
6. Review of the Fujifilm Finepix J250 Digital Camera
7. EntreCard brings us Sponsored Ads! But we Don’t Want Them!
8. Aveeno Lotions and Creams – Natural and Nice! – Review
9. How To Remove Loads of Direct Messages on Twitter!
10. Miley Cyrus Says Goodbye To 2 Million Followers on Twitter

Top Referring Websites:

1. EntreCard – 1,196
2. The Daily Meme – 154
3. BlogEngage – 123
4. StumbleUpon – 101
5. Trader’s Hub – 87
6. Twitter – 62
7. ExtremeJohn – 59
8. Not John Chow – 43
9. DragonBlogger – 30
10. FuelMyBlog – 27

Top 10 Search Terms:

1. lily allen
2. twitter websites
3. skechers shape ups reviews
4. tunecore vs cdbaby
5. tattoos for girls
6. legend of the black shawarma review
7. skechers shape ups
8. rhyl
9. hugh jackman
10. skechers shape ups review

Top Search Engines

1. Google – 1,263
2. Yahoo – 117
3. Search – 16
4. bing – 13
5. aol – 12
6. ask – 8
7. lycos – 1
8. msn – 1
9. najdi – 1

Top 10 Commentators for the Month

1. ashok – 15 Comments
2. Extreme John – 15 Comments
3. Nehh – 13 Comments
4. Hesham – 12 Comments
5. Blaine Bullman – 8 Comments
6. Klaus @ Techpatio – 8 Comments
7. mytheory – 8 Comments
8. bbrian017 – 7 Comments
9. Dragon Blogger – 7 Comments
10. Anand Srinivasan – 6 Comments

Well there we are for another month, many thanks to the top 10 commentators

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Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

1. Tips to increase comments on your blog – Blog Godown
2. 16 Reasons Commenting on Your Blog Sucks – Extreme John
3. Discount On Nespresso Coffee Makers Today At Gilt – Daily Shot of Coffee
4. Are Cartoons Getting too Sexy for Kids? – Metallman’s Reverie
5. New Twitter List Feature – Dragon Blogger

Top Visited Posts:

1. Who’s the Band – Electromagnetic Impulses
2. Spreading a bit of love to my blogs commentators
3. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby
4. Halloween Costumes, kids, sweets and everything else!
5. Blazing Minds Interviews Hesham from zebida.com

Top Referring Websites:

1. Google
2. EntreCard
3. Yahoo
4. StumbleUpon
5. Twitter

Top Search Terms:

1. tunecore vs cdbaby
2. twitter websites
3. rhyl
4. skechers shape ups reviews
5. delete twitter direct messages

Top Commentators for the Week

1. Hesham – 9 Comments
2. ashok – 4 Comments
3. bbrian017 – 3 Comments
4. Blaine Bullman – 3 Comments
5. ExtremeJohn – 2 Comments

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

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Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

1. GoodBye To 2 Million Twitter Followers From Miley Cyrus -Atniz
2. Striving For Four Billion Mobile Users, Twitter Strikes SMS Deal With Largest Indian Carrier – TechCrunch
3. Can You Do This? – LadyBanana
4. Internet Bumper Stickers – Crabby Bogging Lady
5. Put the Lime in the Coconut. – SpicyBugz World

Top Visited Posts:

1. Blazing Minds Weekly Round Up – EntreCard, Twitter
2. Why A Relationship With Your Blog Readers Is Vital
3. Miley Cyrus Says Goodbye To 2 Million Followers on Twitter
4. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby
5. Review: Skechers Shape-ups, walking on air!

Top Referring Websites:

1. EntreCard
2. StumbleUpon
3. The Daily Meme
4. BlogEngage
5. ExtremeJohn

Top Search Terms:

1. twitter websites
2. skechers shape ups reviews
3. tunecore vs cdbaby
4. online keyword tool
5. does orange network have twitter

Top Commentators for the Week

1. Anand Srinivasan – 6 Comments
2. Extreme John – 6 Comments
3. ashok – 5 Comments
4. Mytheory – 5 Comments
5. Nehh – 5 Comments

Comment numbers may differ as this post has been posted earlier than usual..

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

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1. Hugh Jackman yells at audience member with a ringing cell phone, in the middle of his play – Celeb Fickle
2. It’s Friday, Lets Play a Game of EntreCards – We’ve Got A Full House How Bout You ? – EntrePod
3. Blog Engage, Our First Official Year End Contest 2009 – BlogEngage
4. Extreme John is having a $250 Fan Sign Contest – Potpolitics

Top Visited Posts:

1. Improve your RSS with Feedburner and Comment Luv
2. Review: Infected Mushroom – The Legend of the Black Shawarma
3. Tattoos! Are they still as taboo as they used to be?
4. Top EntreCard Droppers for September
5. Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby

Top Referring Websites:

1. EntreCard
2. StumbleUpon
3. The Daily Meme
4. DragonBlogger
5. BlogEngage

Top Search Terms:

1. lily allen
2. legend of the black shawarma review
3. twitter websites
4. skechers shape ups reviews
5. fujifilm finepix j250

Top Commentators for the Week

1. ashok – 5 Comments
2. Extreme John – 4 Comments
3. bbrian017 – 3 Comments
4. Andy Bailey – 2 Comments
5. Blaine Bullman – 2 Comments

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

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So what’s this “On Demand” all about then, well to put it simply, TuneCore now has he option to have Amazon.com produce a physical copy of your album when it is needed, so you don’t have to have a mass of CDs produced, when someone orders a physical copy from Amazon.com a CD is manufactured and dispatched, yes it’s that simple.

How much does it cost, well that’s the great thing, just select the option of Amazon on Demand when you select which stores you would like your music delivered to and then just select the type of template you would like for the release, don’t worry your cover art is used for the release, so try to match the template to the colours of your cover art.

Then you have to select your pricing for the On Demand release which you can chose from t lowest value which is $8.98 (you receive $3.59) to the highest value $19.98 (you receive $7.99), then just wait for the release to go live and that’s all there is to it.

I have just used this for the Remergence release of Probably [Single], so hopefully this should be available soon at Amazon.com using the On Demand..

So it’s a case of time will tell to see how this works

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First of all lets start with CDBaby, now I have used CDBaby for three of our releases and have found them very easy to deal with, there is an initial one off cost of $35 per album and then $20 for a barcode for your release, so that’s $55 (£37), but then you post off five physical copies of your CDs to them for to catalogue which will cost you postage, but, CDBaby has now started a Digital Only service so now you only have to send one master to them.

Your music should get listed with several Digital Distribution sites including iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic and more. CDBaby will take 9% of your earnings from your music, so you get 91% of your earnings from sales, which is really good.

Now on to TuneCore, now the difference here is that you upload all your work to the website and no CDs are needed to send to them. With Tunecore you pay and annual fee for your releases a single is $9.99 and an album is $19.98, also you have to pay $.99 per track and $.99 per store that you album is listed in.

So as an example if you release a 10 track album to all the stores it will cost you:

• $12.87 for all 13 stores
• $9.90 for all 10 tracks
• $19.98 for the annual fee
• Total of  $42.75 (£29.04)
• You Keep 100% profit!

As you can see it’s still cheaper than CDBaby, but, remember that you have to pay an annual fee, where as once your release has gone with CDBaby there are no more costs for you to pay.

So which to go for, hmm, I would personally say that if you are planning or wishing to sell a load of downloads than I would say TuneCore, but if you are looking in to the long term for your music and like your fans to also have the choice of buying a physical CD then I would go with CDBaby.

As I mentioned earlier we have used both for our music and have found that both are worthy of each other, we use CDBaby for our major album releases and use TuneCore for our smaller single and EP releases which we only release for a short period of time. But at the end of the day it’s your decision to make and I hope that this little bit of info has helped in some way or another

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