Hahaha nice start @ndalby 
Blogs
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IRONIC!!! Great minds do think alike 
I want to setup a Tech blog as well
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Yes indeed great minds think a like as I was just talking to my wife about setting up blogs for ourselves. Her with an artist blog and mine with all my reviews and items I test for other companies.
I have to say I’m glad the @k_pug2003 asked this as I have been looking to find a medium to host the blog. Many good suggestions on where to go so I will look into each one and see which will work best for our needs…mostly free haha
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That’s similar to what i do
I mostly use self hosted wordpress site. Its my personal site that is mix of photography, technology and reviews for technology, services and hiking trails/national parks.
Thae site reviews are located here
I also review most items I fully purchase over at Amazon and I do that mainly because vendors ask me to review their products on my website.
I prefer doing reviews on my personal site because not only do I get samples of products but I can also get a little extra money from being an Amazon Partner and Google Adsense.
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I’ve noticed on blogger that you can get Adsense but I think you have to meet certain criteria.
Did you have to buy a domain? That’s another thing that I’m unsure of - is it required at all?
You only need to buy a domain if you want something like www.kpug2003.com instead of kpug2003.wordpress.com. Domains cost about $12 per year.
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Do you guys think we should open a new category in the Community especially for reviews?
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Yes, I think that is a great idea!
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Yes totally should, this way all reviews can be compounded in one location that can be easy for anyone including newcomers to find
Yes! That’s the best idea I’ve heard in a while!
Yeah, we will do that!
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Certainly behind this idea 
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So they aren’t too essential then unless you are really wanting to build a brand. But at that price definitely something I could consider for the future as that’s not much.
@Element321 might sound like a stupid question but I’m assuming Adsense for blogs only works for when people click on the ad? Unlike on YouTube where we are now forced to watch before/during a video. Does it’s work in a similar way in that you must be getting a certain amount of views to be able to apply Adsense to blog?
Great idea 
I’m thinking of getting back using G+ and maybe putting reviews into a collection there. Getting fed up of amazon being stupid.
@Arwen I generally post my reviews here and then link to them on Google +, so far it has worked well for me. But I can see the appeal with doing just reviews on Google + vs. Tagging or hot linking then to a different site
It would be great so people can look up reviews faster.
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I mean do I really need to say I agree too?
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Mission tomorrow is to set up a blogger account for my reviews. Just gonna jump in with both feet and learn on the go, see where I end up lol
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