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A site to find or submit great gardening articles

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I just visited a website called Thoof for the first time. Thoof is a site that offers personalized news. By this I mean that it contains news articles, videos, websites and photographs from sources all over the world.

You can search through the site as a visitor for any topic that interests you, but once you become a registered member of the site Thoof keeps track of what you’ve been reading or searching for on the site and provides a personalized page for you that contains all of the stories that suit your personal taste.

I wanted to tell you about Thoof today because I used it to search for gardening articles and it returned three fantastic articles that I can use to get ideas for my own garden, or perhaps even write about in my own way on this site. Now I’m sure that the next time I log into Thoof it will show me any new gardening articles that have been added to the site since my last visit.

The article that I found most interesting was called “Beyond the Garden” and it discusses landscape architecture, particularly in the form of the green roof. This is something that has interested me for quite a while. I can’t create a green roof on my current home, but if I ever purchase a house where I might be able to do this you can bet I’ll be creating a green roof. Yet another area to garden in and it will help keep my home cool in the summer!

Since registered members of Thoof can actually submit articles either by filling out a short form on the site or by using a bookmarking tool in their browser I might submit my own gardening articles and those of any other gardening blogs that I find interesting and helpful.

In this way I can use Thoof to promote our gardening hobby and the authors who have written fantastic gardening related articles too. Would you be interested in doing something like that as well?

Of course you can go to the site and read any of the top stories or submit articles about pretty much any topic. Articles about Sicko – Michael Moores latest movie, seems to be the hottest topic on Thoof today. I just chose to focus on gardening because it can be hard to find excellent gardening articles – particularly on current news related sites.

Visit the site for yourself and see if you can find some articles of interest. Remember, you can always submit articles that you enjoy as well.






This site is now part of the Glam Network

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed but this site is now part of the Glam Network, as is my main blog Tricia’s Musings. This is the big deal I was referring to on Tricia’s Musings for the last couple of weeks.

This site and Tricia’s Musings are now listed in the Glam network, and I have signed a contract with Glam to show network ads in my sidebar. As you can see the ads in the top right sidebar are quite nice graphically, and they are for name brand products – Designer fashions, Revlon and other major cosmetic manufactures, shoe companies, jewelers and so on. I’m quite pleased with the ads and I hope that you enjoy them as well. I figured that if I’m going to advertise on some of my sites I might as well advertise quality products.

I believe the Glam network has listings for about 300 internal and external blogs that discuss topics that mainly would be of interest to women. There are a number of great celebrity, fashion, clothing, parenting and lifestyle blogs listed in the network. I’m pleased that two of my sites have been considered of high enough quality to have been included in this fairly exclusive network.

My main hope in joining this network is to increase traffic to my sites. I enjoy making new blogging friends and of course having my posts read by many. If you are here visiting from the Glam Network please stop for a moment and say hello.

My page rank went up!

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I was pleased to discover on Monday that the page rank for this site went up from a PR4 to a PR5. Yeahhhh!

I know some of you might not follow Google Page rank, but if you have a website you should know that Google assigns each site a certain level of page rank. This is a measure of the sites popularity. We all start out at zero, but as our sites age and we start to get some links from other sites Google takes notice and assigns a page rank to our sites. A page rank of 5 is pretty good.

If I keep working on producing quality articles for this site I could see it going to a PR6 or if I was really lucky maybe even a PR7. I think PR6 is a realistic goal. I’d have to do a lot of hard work to get it up to a 7 but of course, that’s possible too.

Right now this site is in a directory of my main domain feverishthoughts.com. What I’d really like to do is move this site to it’s own domain. Unfortunately, now that this site is gaining some good PR it’s a little harder to leave that behind to start all over again. I did however purchase a domain two weeks ago for this site. It’s called homeandgardendiva.com I haven’t even uploaded a blogging program to the site yet so it’s pretty much a dead site. I think I’ll work on that site for the next few months and hopefully the next time that Google comes around assigning page rank to everyone it will gain some PR and maybe I’ll move the posts from this site to the new one at that time.

What would you do?

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