It’s that time of the week again. This time we’re ready to go on the right day of the week. Let’s jump right into it!

In cased you missed it, PageRanks should be updating for the Google Toolbar. Also, Matt tells us that penalties are expiring, so any of you blackhat SEO wizards out there can keep your fingers crossed. Right now, Blogging Addiction is still at PR0 — disappointing, but not surprising, because we haven’t put any time into links so far.

I’d be surprised if you’ve missed it, but Yaro Starak recently interviewed one of his first blogging “students”. Alborz Fallah has created one of the most popular and successful blogs in Australia, having earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. The interview is definitely worth the listen or read (a text transcript is available).

Will we ever see an college degree available for bloggers? Probably not, which is why Bontb explains his definition of professional bloggers.

Professional bloggers definitely run their blog like a business. SmallFishBigMoney has a guest post with five important suggestions for you to consider.

The very-monetized Rockfuse takes an unusual stand on monetizing your blog. Our argument (in agreement): if you’re ever going to put ads up, get them up early. Let your readers know that you plan on using ads, instead of one day turning your blog into a flea market without warning.

If Bryan of ThatBlogSite reads your blog, here are the top seven reasons why. There are a couple obvious ones, and a couple you probably haven’t considered.

Smashing Magazine has an extremely useful resource analyzing the designs of popular blogs on the web (via Blog Tipz). While every blog should have it’s own style, it’s always good to see what has worked for other people .

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