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Linky Love – Toil

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Alright!

It’s time to give a few sites a little lovin’. I think I’ll make this a regular feature on the site. If you want in please read “Want a Link on my site” for more information.

Ever since I joined Pay/perp0st in early October I’ve been meeting some great new people, and I’ve gained a few new readers too. It’s great! Not only am I and finding some great sites to visit regularly myself but I’ve been earning some extra money – although if you’ve been reading this site for a while you know the money is more needed than extra.

I think I’m going to write a separate post for each of the sites that I’d like to introduce you to. I can be a little wordy at times and I can only imagine how long this post would be if I put all the sites in one post!

The first linky love site of the week: Toil: Things you need to know

Toil:Things you need to know – This site is written by snuzulooz. Now that’s an interesting name isn’t it? I’ll have to ask where that came from.

This site really lives up to it’s name. The other day they had a sick baby in the house. Toil didn’t just write about it, she also gave some tips on how to bring down a babies fever. Great info. She’s also got some good info on her site for those that want to work from home- particularly Work at home moms. There’s a whole list of sites in a recent post that are worth visiting for ideas on how to start earning some cash at home.

Snuzulooz has been busy creating some new blogs too. The sites are just beginning but I think they will be sites to watch for in the future once she starts filling them up. One is called No Average Mom, another is Candid Quips – judging by the domain name this one will probably be a fun read, and the final site in her new line up is SEO This, which I presume will be a blog that discusses optimizing your site for better rankings on search engines.

Visit Toil and let Snuzulooz know that Tricia sent you!





Want a link on my site?

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How would you like me to link to your site in a blog post? My site currently has quite a high rank on Technorati – it’s 990, which I suppose is pretty good considering that Technorati is said to list something like 50 million blogs. Tricia’s Musings is also listed in Truth Laid Bare with a rank of 60. My sites page rank is a PR4 on Google, but I expect that it will increase when Google updates page ranks in February or March.

What I’m offering is a link in a blog post, however it comes with a small catch.

I’d like to get more links for my new blog Celebrity Scoop, and for what has now become my husband Chris’ blog Odd Planet. Both of these sites desperately need some linky love, and of course the best way to link to others is to have a link in an article or a blog post.

So here’s the deal:

1. Include a link to Celebrity Scoop and Odd Planet in one of your blog postings.

You can discuss the sites, or simply mention them in passing in a post – I don’t care which you do. Feel free to mention Tricia’s Musings as well if you’d like as that will help increase this sites rank as well, and when I link to you that will benefit your site in the future.

2. Once you have written a post that includes links to Celebrity Scoop and Odd Planet let me know and I’ll include a link to your site in one of my posts. I may do a post linking to several sites at the same time if a lot of people decide to help me out, or I may write about each site in it’s own post.

What do you say? Help me out?

Here’s a little bit of information about the two sites that I’d like you to link to:

Celebrity Scoop http://feverishthoughts.com/celebrity/ This site is fairly new and I’m still working on the best way to write the celebrity gossip articles. Celebrity Scoop discusses the latest celebrity news – read about what your favorite stars are doing,and where they are going- celebrity hot spots, night clubs, movies premieres, award nominations and award shows. I also hope to have regular articles about the latest fashion trends, and favorite products used by the stars.

Odd Planet http://feverishthoughts.com/oddplanet/ Odd Planet is a humor/ entertainment blog that brings you odd new stories, stories about dumb criminals, and strange people. You’ll also find a good number of funny pictures and videos on the site as well.

My Single Mom Life

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I’d like to tell you about a blogger that I’ve recently met on the Pay/perp0st forums. Her name is Kat. last week when I was busy hunting down puzzle pieces for the contest that pay/perp0st was holding I kept running into her site, My Single Mom Life, as I searched.

Just as I did with some of the other blogs that I came across as I feverishly went from site to site in search of elusive puzzle pieces, I’d stop and read her posts. Yes, the writing and the content of the posts were interesting enough to make me stop and read even as I battled to win $1000.

Now, since I’ve only just discovered her site I don’t know all that much about her, but I’m sure that will change as I plan to continue visiting her site. What I do know is that she is a single mom caring for two teenaged boys. She’s stuck at home like I am, recovering from spinal fusion surgery, and doing her best to provide for her family on a fixed income.

I believe that she mentioned in one of her forum posts that she’s been blogging for 10 or 11 years! That’s a long time to have been blogging. She’s moved her site around a few times, so her blog, My Single Mom Life, only goes back to 2004.

She’s quite active in the blogging community from what I can see. She’s participated in the Crazy Hip Mamas Blogging Carnivals, The p0stie blog carnival, and memes like Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt and Thursday Thirteen.

Kat also writes about a wide variety of topics – one look at her categories and you’ll see that she’s discussed everything from family to movies and music, politics, religion, food, customer service, and quite a number of posts about Hurricanes. I suppose the hurricane posts are only natural seeing as she lives in Florida. She must be happy that this past year wasn’t quite as bad as the last few years.

I think you’ll enjoy Kat’s site. Why don’t you go visit her and tell her that Tricia sent you.

Site of the day

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Hey, I just discovered that I’m the site of the day over at Payperp0st! I should feel special but I think they’re just randomly picking sites from their list of bloggers. Well, whatever the reason I do appreciate the extra exposure.

I guess December is Tricia’s Musings month. The site was featured on Bestest blog of all time as a blog of the day, Mr. Joes Blog in an interview that I did for him, and just this past Friday I did an interview on Blog TO, a Toronto related blog.

I wonder if this is it for the month or if some other interesting thing might happen to highlight my site?

Thanks for the visit if you’ve come from P, Bestest Blog, Joes or BlogTO. Welcome.

Crack me up Friday

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Tomorrow you should to go over to LifeCruiser and participate in her Crack me up Friday event. She’d love to have you come visit. Bring some funny jokes, hilarious stories and comments with you, or point her other visitors towards funny pictures and sites.

Have you been to a blog party before? I have and they’re lots of fun. Visit and see what it’s all about. I’m sure you’ll like it, and if you’ve never been over to visit LifeCruiser before you’ll find a great blog and blogger that I’ll bet you’ll want to visit again and again.

Oh and she’s up for a Weblog award for best diarist. Did you do me a favor the other day and go and vote for Mrs. Lifecruiser? If you didn’t you still can. Once today and once tomorrow- then the awards are over for another year.

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