I posted right at the beginning of this blog saying that I was going on holiday to Fuerteventura and the fight happens to be tomorrow.
I had originally planned to write a string of posts to be periodically published whilst I was away, but nevertheless it didn’t happen.
I’ll be back to posting regularly as soon as I get back.
Enjoy your two weeks of peace from me, if you’d like to know when I’m back and posting again, be sure to sign up to my RSS feed.
Regards
Darren
In just two days my Alexa Rank has dropped again, this time by 1,404,767 points. This means that my site has overtaken just over 1.4million other websites in popularity. Some people will say that Alexa rank doesn’t mean all that much, but I believe it is slowly becoming more accurate.
Alexa ranking is calculated by aggregating statistics of websites visited by people who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their systems. The more of your visitors who have the toolbar installed, then the greater you will rank on the Alexa system. It is thought that ‘webmaster-related’ websites are the ones who achieve higher ranks easier as they will be the ones interested in increasing their own ranks and will have the toolbar installed.
Services such as PayPerPost (not in use in this blog) rely on a blogs Alexa Ranking in order to determine how much a paid post would cost for an advertiser. If you look at blogs with high authority within the community such as John Chow (Alexa Rank 29,534), Problogger (18,171) and Dosh Dosh (56,068), you can see that their Alexa rank is in-keeping with the popularity of their blogs and I am going to continue using it as a measure of this blogs popularity and continue to improve it in as many ways as possible.
I mentioned Dosh Dosh previously, and they have an amazing post which outlines many ways in which you can increase Alexa Rank. I’m going to be following their tips this week and I will let you know which items I believe have worked for me.
There are many contests appearing on a weekly (if not daily basis) that are offering prizes in some shape or form, take my mini-Entrecard contest last week, and the contest of John Chow’s that I wrote about previously that offered digital cameras to the winners.
One more contest that has caught my eye offers a whole range of prizes, not just to one person, but one prize to each of the winners. I count 32 prizes in total, and so that means 32 winners. You can check out the contest here, the prizes themselves range from 10,000 Entrecard Credits to a poem and even a painting.
It doesn’t cost anything to enter, all you have to do is promote the contest via your own blog (just like I am doing). I’m going to have to say I would like the 10,000 credits, there are a LOT of things you could by from the Entrecard store with that. I have pasted the exact details of all the prizes below for your reference.
Fantasy Baseball - 10,000ec — You can trade in 10,000ec for, like, Graham’s car or something.
Q3-n - 5000ec — Q3-n is selling their 1950s dinette furniture to finance this contest. They say, “You’re welcome.”
Øblog - 4000ec — Wow! 4000ec is going for like $30 on the Entrecard market. Thanks, Weird Oh.
Evil Woobie - 3000ec — Hey, maybe she’s not so evil after all! Or is she? You make the call!
Turnip of Power - 1001ec — He was going to go with 1000 then he found an extra credit in his couch. Thanks, Turnip!
Celebrity Pictures - 1000ec — Credits were acquired through legal means. Supposedly.
Evil Entrecard Kid! - 1000ec — Entrecard trivia: Evil Woobie and Evil Entrecard Kid are not related. Yet.
Modern Glam - 1000ec — With the 1000ec, perhaps you’ll buy an imaginary 1000ec pashmina and hang it around your virtual neck.
Dot Com Mogul - 1000ec — With this 1000ec, you might be able to buy back Q3-n’s dinette furniture.
Blabberwocky - 1000ec — It’s a play on Jabberwocky.
Looking For Scoop - 1000ec — Nothing says “I can buy one popular ad” like 1000ec.
Eyespi20.com - 1000ec — And she’ll teach you how she does that weird signature thing. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, look at her site.
Travelin’ Show - 1000ec — Message from the year 2012: Macy’s is now taking credits and a 1000 gets you one earring.
The Hypnotist - 1000ec — She will put you under a spell. Recognize!
Diet Pulpit - 1000ec — You can buy a lot of imaginary rice cakes with 1000ec. Side note, imaginary rice cakes taste better than real ones.
The Realtor - 500ec — You want insight. Listen to her write. It’s like magic beans growing in the backyard of your brain.
Romelo - 500ec — Romelo, Romelo, wherefore art thou 500ec?
WebATBP.com - 500ec — With gas prices soaring, it won’t be too long before 500ec goes for 501ec.
Inspire Emotion - 500ec — Almost pay for your favorite 512ec ad!
Sue Doe-Nim - 500ec — She’ll probably give you the credits then mock you for wanting them. That’s right — bonus!
Thailand Land of Smiles - 500ec — Actually, that’s 500 smiles.
FitnessLifeClub - 500ec — You’ll have to promise not to blow these credits on any fattening foods.
Lisa Cooking - 500ec — Surprise the whole family with 500 Entrecard credits.
JunkieYard Dot Com - 500ec — If you put these credits in a 401K, in 45 years you’ll have enough credits for a free e-card.
Movie Reviews - 500ec — You can’t buy a movie ticket with Entrecard credits. Yet. (Graham twirls his mustache. Contemplating world domination.)Aerten Art - She’s donating a painting. Seriously. Go look at her site and tell me you wouldn’t want a painting. Now. We’ll wait.
ImpNERD - 125×125 ad for a month — Let’s see, ImpNERD usually sells advertising for 256ec/day. You get this for a month. Um, yeah, you want this.
PoemsofQuotes - A cheesy poem about the winner’s topic — Win this and then ask them to rhyme something with, “Orange.”
Eyespi20.com - A custom made 125×125 card. Some of you need this. You know who you are.
Diet Pulpit - One week ad spot right below the banner and a personal greeting from Lady Rose saying, “Congratulations!”
JunkieYard Dot Com - Three blogroll links. Okay, the thing is, you can’t just get these. They’re prizes only won here.
The Hypnotist - A Hypnotic Audio - I don’t think this will simply be trance music. I could be wrong.
Good luck to everybody, I’m hoping this week to get several high quality articles written in order to increase the websites exposure. Have you seen the updated Alexa Ranking? It’s down to 3,243,660 now, slowly but surely it’s dropping! Thanks for checking this out.
On 28th June I posted a small contest dependant on people dropping their Entrecard’s on this blog. I said that whoever dropped their card the most in the week (ending today) would get their blog shown in my blogroll for the remainder of July.
Although the contest lasted seven days, two people have dropped their cards four times. Rather than use random.org and choose only one blog, I am giving it to the two winners.
Congratualtions:
FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game
and
Tha Cash
I have added you both to the blogroll and it will stay there at least until the 1st August. Make sure you sign up to my feed to find out what is going to happen this week.
I began posting on this blog on the 26th June (last Thursday) and have made 12 posts so far, within 7 categories and 34 tags. In this week the site has received a total of 148 hits, 58 of which were unique.
These statistics are very low, but I am happy with them, for now. Although I have been posting much more regularly than on my (now non-updated) ‘1 Man’ blog, I haven’t done all that much in the form of promotion. I have discussed using directories and Entrecard as means of generating traffic but haven’t used them to their full potential myself.
There is one place in particular I want to mention, who at the moment has brought more visitors to my site than any other and that is the Nicusor Do Follow List. Thanks. If you own a do-follow-list of your own, either let me know, or feel free to add my blog to it.
Checking FeedBurner, I also have two people currently subscribed to my feed. I’m quite happy about that, as I haven’t actually gone ahead and subscribed myself (as I’m sure many people have in the past).
Please don’t forget the small Entrecard contest I have going, drop your card to win - it’s that simple. Full details can be found here.