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Hi everyone, I recently started a soccer blog less than 10 days ago, and have had pretty good traffic (much better than I had anticipated) of about 3,000 pageviews per week. I feel as though what I write about is a niche that has potential for even more viewers, and I think joining Yardbarker would help me rank up in Google, give me better Pageranks, increase my viewership, and allow me to get sports photos for my blog. The question is, does anyone know how stringent they are? Do I need more pageviews, would they not accept me just because I’m new? Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.