After adding another new gold-making blog to The World Of Warcraft Gold Blog Directory (as well as updating the activity levels on the directory) I had to stop and take a bit of time to write a little about the tremendous blossoming of gold-making blogs we've seen over this last year.

There has never been a better time to be a player looking for information on how to make gold in World of Warcraft. Frankly I'm often overwhelmed by the amount of new information coming out of gold-making blogs (both old and new) on a daily basis. Keeping up with my RSS reader often feels like trying to take a drink out of a fire hose.

Read on after the jump for a few of my thoughts about where gold-making blogging has been and where it's going.

Today's guest post was written by Croda (twitter: @marketsforgold) from marketsforgold. If you would like your guest post included on Power Word: Gold feel free to contact us at [email protected].

Today I have launched Croda’s Inscription Gold Guide.  It is free and it can be found at my blog marketsforgold.

This guide represents my experiences with the inscription profession that took me to over 1 million gold.  It is an aggregation of the posts on my blog marketsforgold and very little, if anything, is in addition to those posts  (actually the blog posts are a disaggregation of this guide).

Episode 022 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Faid along with guest Eluniar bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies.

In this week's episode we discuss making gold with Leatherworking and Valor Points, take a look into a for-pay gold-making guide and much more. And now on with the show!

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Today's guest post was written by Keelhaul (Twitter: @DEazeroth). If you would like your guest post included on Power Word: Gold feel free to contact us at [email protected].

When transmogrification was announced I was really intrigued.  Obviously. Right? I mean I ended up starting a blog and noodled on the subject for about six weeks.  It's just a fantastic topic and one that is going to remain a stable area of interest and intrigue for a lot of players.

While I'm no longer able to maintain the blog (due to time constraints with our newborn son who's not sleeping more than 2 hrs at a time btw - ugh) I am still in and out of WoW as I try to complete various transmog sets for my 8 toons.

I'll tell you what. Sitting there on a chair from 2-4 in the morning with a baby on your shoulder offers plenty of time to sit and watch the market from the mobile armory on my iPhone.  I've begun a little project in this way and I mentioned it to flux and he asked me to write a post about it.  So here goes. (After the jump of course.)

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Below are the blogs that participated in today's show of support.

• Power Word: Gold - [White Ribbon] - Heart Of Gold
• WarcraftEcon - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
• Capped By Cata - [White Ribbon] - Heart of Gold
• Cold's Gold Factory - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
• Altos Goldish Advice - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
• Gimps Gold - [White Ribbon] - Heart of Gold
• Fighting Coin - [White Ribbon] - Heart of Gold
• Wragstoriches - [White Ribbon] - Heart of Gold
• Break the Bank - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
• Auction House Addict - (White Ribbon) - Heart of Gold
• The Gold Queen - I give up. NSFW White Ribbon
• Fortune and Fighting - White Ribbon Campaign-Unite, One Voice
• The Revenge - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
• Dented Armor - White Ribbon Heart of Gold
• Cazmia's Ramblings - [White Ribbon] - Heart Of Gold
• The Golden Crusade - White Ribbon-Heart of Gold
• The Consortium - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
• Caffeine, Smokes and Auction House Fees - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold

• Theronie's Gold Exploration - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
• Too Many Annas - You Receive: [White Ribbon]
• Flavor Text - Glass Houses: On Alyzande and Rape Culture in Azeroth
• The 'mental Shaman - That sickening feeling
• Apple Cider Mage - When Blogging Imitates Real Life Rape Culture
• Troll Bouquet - [TW: Mentions of Sex Assault] Stand Together, Stand as One, Never Be Silent
• Need More Rage - Blog banner.
• Mommy Jenkins!! - One of Our Own: White Ribbon
• Bibliotech - Heart's Blood, White Ribbons (Trigger warnings for rape)
• Official White Ribbon Campaign Twitter - Tweet recognizing the gold blogger campaign.
• Amerence Love WoW - White Ribbon: Please Support TGQ!
• Better Off Dead - Guild Webpage
• Meet Ohnekase - [White Ribbon] - Heart Of Gold
• Wow or Gold - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
• Lion Gaming - Violence and World of Warcraft

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Watch as Faid (from Nerf Faids) completely obliterates the credibility of this for-pay "gold guide". (Also check out Faid's corresponding blog post.)

All I could think after watching Faid's video was get 'em a body bag.

Unfortunately there will be people out there who will be suckered into buying guides like this. Thanks to Faid's hard work I know I won't have to worry about any of our readers falling into such a trap.

If any of our readers have felt ripped off by a gold guide that they have paid real money for be sure let us know via email ([email protected]) or in the comments below.

If any of our readers are new to gold-making and are looking for a good solid starter guide be sure to check out our 100% free guide "The Power Word: Gold Guide - Free".

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Episode 021 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss the introduction of the bind-on-equip Guardian Cub pet available from the Blizzard Store, cooperating with glyph competition, low level gold-making and much more. And now, on with the show!

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Below is a reader email we received outlining the changes they found on the PRT related to new quests for switching your alchemy specialization. While it looks like the travel involved in switching specializations has gone down the costs for changing have gone up by a significant amount. Read on after the jump for details.