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Any Blogroll Experts out there?

October 23, 2006 by Tricia

I need help!

Yes I know, you probably already guessed that I need help, but I mean I need assistance in helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls.

I’m managing four different blogrolls that people are welcome to join.

The trouble is- I’m having a problem helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls. Some of the people are using:

Free WordPress.com
Typepad
LiveJournal (I don’t think this one hasn’t come up yet, but I bet it will)
Blogger

I think I’ve got the blogger instructions mostly figured out – ie make a post, put the blogroll on that, then link to it in your sidebar. But the others? It seems impossible to put blogroll code on Free WordPress.com. Has anyone done this correctly?

If anyone can help out by sending me some simple easy to understand instructions on how to add the blogroll code to a Typepad, wordpress.com, livejournal and or Blogger blog I’d really appreciate it. What I’d like to do, if and when all of these are figured out is create an “Adding a Blogroll to your blog” FAQ, that in the end will be beneficial to everyone.

Please help?

Finally reviewed!

September 26, 2006 by Tricia

A very long time ago, ok maybe last May, I submitted my site to be rated over at Bloggy Award. Now, several months after I changed this blogs domain to feverishthoughts.com my site has been rated.

My site was apparently rated last Thursday, if you’d like to read the article and tell me what you think you can find it here.

I thought it was pretty good as ratings go. He must have gone to the original site of this blog (http://triciaswaterdragon.com/blog ) and didn’t pick up on the fact that it had changed domains when “it took him to a new domain when he clicked on a link”.

I can’t find any kind of link on the Bloggy Award site to e-mail him and let him know that the link should be updated to my new domain, and that my sidebars roll up now, so they hopefully look a little less cluttered. I just did that last week, don’t you think it looks a bit better?

If you read the article of my site come back and let me know what you think of it.

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I’m being stalked! No, no it’s not my old lady neighbor Sofie this time. Well, yes she still continues to stalk me by knocking on my door or calling me each day if she doesn’t see me at least 5 times a day. No this time it’s another blogger!

Shelli from Shelli’s Sentiments has fixated on me this week. I don’t know if I should be honoured or scared? I think I’ll go with honoured and pleased since she’s saying such nice things about me over there. You should check out her site if you haven’t been there recently. She’s really sweet and I love her site. She’s also the winner of the Compassionate Award from the Blog Emmy’s. She deserved the win!

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Another person you should go visit is Doctor Mom. See that square thumbnail of her site in the left upper corner of the page? yep, she’s my renter this week. She’s renovating her cul de sac – thanks to someone called Mr. Fab who wants a bigger lot on the street, and she need a place to stay. The idiot of the week has been chosen. Go on over and see who it is, I’m sure you’ll get a laugh when you do, the photos are Hilarious!

It also turns out that she likes baseball – the Minnesota Twins I think. Speaking of baseball, my hubby and his dad when to the Blue Jays game last night. They beat Boston!

So go on over and vist Doctor Mom at You’ve got 2 B Kidding would you? Let her know that her favorite landlord sent you. I just know you are going to love her site.

Win up to $3000

June 22, 2006 by Tricia

Yes you read that correctly!

I was surfing on bl0gmad today and I came across a site with a similar post as to what I’m currently writing. Unfortunately I can’t remember who’s site it was that I was visiting at the time otherwise I would link to them. If I figure it out I’ll link. Anyway, the posting led me to another site created by John Scott. His site is called Internet Marketing Bl0g and back in March he decided to create a contest that would encourage other sites to link to and write about lesser known bl0gs. His post is called “Clean up on aisle three”.

You can enter his contest by making a comment on the Clean up on aisle three post. If your site qualifies you could win up to $100 just for entering and playing along. The winning site will win $3000! He plans to give away a total of $10,000 between the $100 winners and the $3000 winner. To qualify you need to link to, and write about other bl0gs that are not in technoratis top 100 sites.

Easypeasy for moi! I’ve been writing about and rating just about all the sites that have bid to rent my bl0g for several months now. Not only here, but on Odd Planet as well. Just look at my latest posts on this site and on Odd Planet. Ha! I’m in! 🙂

John’s contest officially began March 1st and he plans on announcing a winner and awarding the prizes 6 months after the start of the contest. So I think that would be about August 1st.

Since March 1st I have done mini-articles or added links in my posts to 163 sites. That’s only Tricia’s Musings total. On Odd Planet I’ve rated or linked 55 sites, plus another 17 in the one contest I ran over there. For a grand total of 235 site articles and links NOT counting all of the “Mr. Linky” Links on the Memes.

Have you been rating sites that you like, ones that bid on your site, or talking about sites that have interesting posts on your own bl0g? If you have you might qualify for this contest too.

Update – I removed the links in this post because I was unable to find a post about the winners of the contest so I’m not certain that this was a true contest. Might have just been a link baiting scam.

Interactive Jerry

June 22, 2006 by Tricia

Finally, it’s rent time again. I’m playing multiple choice again as well because so many of you want a spot on my site.

On to the business of the day:

I chose The write Jerry to stay with me for the week. I’d like to know if there is a “wrong” Jerry?

Jerry says:

In many ways, I’m like a lot of other people: I’m married, have a kid, I’m sometimes serious and I sometimes joke around. In other ways, I’m like nobody else. Read my bl0g to discover how different I can be.

Jerry’s site is fun, fresh and interactive. You could spend a lot of time there reading his latest posts and interacting with them. I particularly like “Twist my Words Thursdays”, but he’s also created Inkblot Wednesays which is always kind of fun as well. His other posts cover a variety of thought provoking topics and ask for his readers thoughts and opinions. Visit this site and engage your mind.

The other bidders, spreading the love:

Modern Princess – A very nice looking site. Love the header. This site is written by a pregnant mother to be and it contains information about raising children, advice, and interesting tales – not just about kids and pregnancy. It’s an interesting read, go visit.

Tiny Voices in my Head – I’m not that familiar with this site but after reading the first page I’m pretty sure that I’ll be going back for regular visits. What I saw was a number of humorous and interesting posts. Check it out for yourself.

Scottorama – interesting read – rants, humor, current topics with a leaning toward gay rights issues.

Dear Me – A variety of topics to be read here. Great photo’s, stories about rock climbing etc.

Just Dawn – Dawn writes about life, day to day happenings in her world and ours too. Posts hold the readers interest. Great site.

Grand-Pa – A humorous site with several jokes, interesting stories, the occasional interesting news story is discussed as well. I enjoy visiting this site as I almost always come away with a laugh.

Full Metal Photographer – I love this site. Kelly takes some great photographs. I make a pointed of visiting this site daily to see the latest beautiful picture. You should too!

My Life in Italy – She’s been living in Italy for 4 years but she’s not enjoying her stay. Visit her site to find out why life in Italy isn’t turning out as she thought it might. Oh and she’s also trying for a Guinness World record for the largest number of donations.

Long Slow Beautiful Dance – Always an interesting read. Laci writes about her day to day life, her job and career in a manner that holds the readers interest. Often humorous and entertaining. Go see.

Finding Fruit Cake – This site is fairly new on the scene. I enjoy Jenna’s writing style. I haven’t looked over the whole site yet but I like what I see. She talks about the goings on in her life – read her latest post about the three types of men she wouldn’t date.

Dark Marcy’s Attache – This is a brand new site. So far the writing is about current sports play-off’s such as the Stanley cup (next time Oilers!), and the latest soccer matches, and some hot topic news stories such as Korea’s missile testing. The writing is good and I’m sure this site will develop well as time goes by.

Recommended- This site discusses interesting computer software and interesting websites, she also recommends which bl0gs are good to rent from too (I think I’m included in that list. wink, wink ). Her latest articles is about a fast image rotation engine that sounds fantastic. Check it out.

Va Va Voom and a way we go!

May 27, 2006 by Tricia

As I said recently on my other site I hate this part of the week. I dislike having to say no to so many people who bid to have a spot on my site each week.

I had an amazing 15 bids to choose from today. Just out of curiosity, why do you guys bid on my site? I know it’s not only because of the price. I charge 50 credits but I do work for them by making references to my new renter frequently. Is it because I have half decent stats in my past rentals history? Or because you get permanent links on my site as a bidder and the chosen renter? Just wonderin’.

I had almost decided to pick the new option to accept the first bidder, but I’m a little afraid of that option. I usually like most of the sites that put bids in, but what if the first bidder turned out to be a site I don’t like or that I would have a hard time thinking up things to promote them and get my readers to visit? With the luck I’ve been having this week that’s probably what would have happened.

After much thoughtful deliberation I’ve decided to go with Va Va Voom as my renter this week. I’ve admired her site since I first came across it. I love her writing style, and it turns out that she’s a wonderful artist. All the graphic images on her site have been created by Ms. Va Va Voom herself.

She’s recently discovered that she has a fascination with Big Butts. You should visit her and find out how she came across this recent discovery about herself. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed when you visit her site. It’s lovely to look at and use and her writing style keeps you entertained and interested in reading more.

Amazing site!

I’d really appreciate it if my visitors would take some time to visit a few of the sites that put bids in this week.:

Recommended: Recommends interesting products and software that can be found on the net.

Useless Advice from Useless Men: Ask your question and the Useless Men will answer, often in a humorous way. In the latest post a reader wants to know if it’s better to be Hot and lacking in other areas, or smart and lacking in the Hot department. Check out their answer.

Winged Emotion: A site by a fellow Canadian. This site often has weekly contests, and in fact has one going on right now.

Life is Fresh: Appears to be a new site. This site has some great gardening and herb growing tips.

Long Slow beautiful Dance: She has a great rant about the lady who caused her to get into a car accident the other day. Producer chick also holds contests now and then.

Paranoia and other pleasant things: Check out the recent story about her experience with Pepsi Gold.

Winsome Gunning Art Walk: I enjoy the art work on this site. Such talent. Take some time to go through the pages and view the paintings.

Clusterfook: I enjoy her writing style. This great lady recently did a writing marathon to raise money for cancer research. How can you not admire someone who does something like that?

Musings of a Juggling Mother: Her most recent post talks about the irony of it being the first official Drought Order day in England, yet it’s raining and has been raining for days on end.

My Corner of the Web: Suzannes trying to find some writing ideas so she’s opened up her site to her readers. Ask her some questions and she’ll find the answers and write about them in her latest posts.

The Writer Jerry: I really enjoy Jerry’s writing on this site. Check out his latest post “Potty Mouth” regarding auto-flush toilets.

The thirty year old college idiot: Must be a brave lady! She’s submitted her site to IT2M. I’ve thought about doing that, but I’m not sure I’m that I want to hear their opinion.

One writer’s rambles: The personal blog of an aspiring fiction writer.

Scooter McGavin’s 9th Green: His latest posts are some great articles of popular television shows and new records by musicians.

And that’s all Folks!

Finally reviewed!

Win up to $3000

Interactive Jerry

Va Va Voom and a way we go!

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