You are welcome, that was a great post (Hey, I only feature great posts here!).
I am in the finance business and was thinking about working on something dishing out my finance and travel/miles&points advice as they are clearly my two passions. I decided to keep them completely separate.

You make a GREAT point!

If you ever see FTG here, it will always be Frugal Travel Guy.

Yes I scanned those posts. I don’t do ANA miles because of the fuel surcharges too and have plenty elsewhere. I thought about featuring it and then I saw the Top 10 posts about mothers and…changed my mind;-)

FTG is advertising in f2b. That is all. For now

Maybe they use an app to tweet old tweets. I usually see their headline blog posts in Google Reader, hardly ever click on them to read more.

FTG=Frugal Travel Guy
Always will be.

Got it, saw the clip, poor poor guy. Hope someone gives him a 2nd chance. Unbelievable

I single out FM for the killer content and very welcome way of doing affiliate links, yes. I single out MMS for the CLARITY of his writing (yes you need some talent to do this!) and much better disclosure practices compared to many bloggers. That is all. Don’t make it out more than it is.

I have a good list and a bad list. I do not want to explain my reasons for making it in both lists as I will take a lot of crap from the ones who felt have been included unfairly in the bad list. The last thing I need at this time in my life is more crap:-) Do you think just throwing it out there as is without my (incendiary) commentary would be fine? I will do it one day. I am just trying to keep it all together. Taking a week off to travel has put me way behind, I need to catch up first!

I have never said that bloggers should take a vow of poverty (like I have done so far). But providing and focusing on good content should always be paramount. Then must find a decent way of doing it. I highly prefer FM’s way but he does have the Boarding Area umbrella comforting him. And whatever way is done bloggers should always adhere to “you shall do no harm” (do not push inferior deals) and, for god’s sake, provide adequate and full disclosures!

But once you start going down this path…the mud may suffocate you. First of all, you focus on editing the darn cc links all the time to make sure you are “in compliance” with the affiliate companies/middlemen…

Someone tell Travel Summary, he will change the links…At least I hope he does so. I think he is at FTU.

For the record, I do not suck up to anyone or anything. Yes I do have biases, I am human! I have not sold out yet, give me a break por favor. Am I thinking about it? Yes, but I want to do it in a DECENT way and do it MY way. Is it possible/feasible? I am not sure, I am trying to figure it all out myself while keeping my family and main business intact. It is a little challenging:-)

MMS stuff is perfect for newbies, come on admit it. The way he writes is so clear even a Caveman can follow and do what he says:-) I can think of one blogger in particular whose writing is just painful to read!!

Cheers,

Matt from Saverocity