I was planning on running a decent sized contest for my site to grow rss readers and get more traffic but it looks like I have been beaten to the punch by a few other bloggers. It looks like I will have to work on content and wait for the dust to settle from all of the contest craziness and then make my move. Now that my plans have been spoiled lets see how has wrecked my plans for the month.

The University Kid he is throwing huge contest with tons of prizes. He has labeled it the Ultimate Blog Contest and I have to give him credit it very intimidating to run a Read the rest of this entry »

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Yesterday I took a look at my goals for last month but did not set any new goals for this month. Because I did not break my all of my goals for the month I did not change them. I decided to focus on quality content and link building. My goals for the month are:

• 2500 Visitors
• Write 15 quality posts
• Get 25 subscribers
• Comment on 3 new blogs a week

I am thinking of running another contest for the month as well to try and boost my traffic and rss subscribers. I am working on the details and trying to figure out some prizes. If you are interested in sponsoring any prizes for my contest contact me through my contact page.

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It looks like Google decided to do another round of page rank updates. It looks like it started around February 27th. I was excited to hear the new because the last update was done the first week of January and my blog was too new to get an update.

I am very please to say that my page rank went from a PR0 to PR2. I went to multiple sites checking it because I was in shock, I did not think I would get a raise in page rank so quickly. I know page rank is not as important as it used to be but I will take it anyways. It does make me feel better after looking at my traffic yesterday. It made me feel like hard work does pay off.

Make sure to check you sites and see if you got any increase in page rank.

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I can’t believe we are in March already. It seems like yesterday we where just coming out of January. Since the month is over lets recap and see how I did on my goals for the month. My goals for Febraury where:

• Finish my blog design
• Get a better logo designed
• 2500 Visitors
• Write 15 posts
• Get 25 subscribers
• Comment on 3 new blogs a week

So how did I do on my goals?

• Finish my blog design - Almost done need one or two minor things but I don’t think I ever will be finished with it
• Get a better logo designed - Completed, I got that setup the last week of the month but I finally got that completed
• 2500 Visitors - I really missed this goal.I only had 873 Visitors for the month.
• Write 15 posts - I had 18 posts not including announcements so I managed to hit this goal
• Get 25 subscribers - Another goal that I missed I had around 11 subscribers according to feedburner
• Comment on 3 new blogs a week - I have been averaging 4 new blogs and commenting more

I started the month strong and was lacking towards the end and I know that had some impact. I am a little sad though on how low my visitors where. I realize I need to digg in and keep working hard to improve these numbers. So how am I going to work on improving the stats on my blog?

• I am going to write longer posts with more frequency
• I purchased 125×125 ads on winning the web and internet babel, and thomas sinfield
• I have started a campaign with Project Wonderful to get my ad on more sites
• Comment on more blogs
• I am also debating purchasing a review from a blog (just not sure which one)

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Another month has passed and it’s time to announce the Top Commenter winner for February. This month I was offering 500 Entrecard credits to the top commenter for the month. Thank you to everyone who commented and left some good comments. I feel this month was better comment wise even though I did not have as many comments. Without further delay the winner is Willhaynes.

Congratulations Willhaynes I know you just barely missed it last month so it was good to see you win it this month. Will please send me a email and I will send you the credits. Thanks again to everyone who entered. Don’t forget the top commenter contest goes every month so if you did not win this month it could be next month.

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I finally got a new header designed with a logo for my site. I also added project wonderful to the sidebar of my side. I added two 125×125 boxes under the entrecard widget.

I did a design like tylercruz and vikingblogger for the header and had myself animated. I also had a 125×125 designed with my logo integrated. Let me know what you think of the design and changes.

If you have wanted to advertise on my site now is the time. Through project wonderful you can advertise on either ad box for .02 cents. How can you beat a deal like that?

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