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Giving A Bit Of Love To My Cool Blog Links Members

Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 7:29 pm

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It’s been quite some time since I did a post giving the top ten members of Cool Blog Links a little bit of link luv. Actually when looking back I was surprised to find out that the last post, Cool Blog Links Top 10 Coolest Blogs, was written on the 29th of May 2010. Weird that because I honestly thought it was only a few months ago. Just goes to show how time flies when you’re having fun

When I did that post the site had a whole 19 members and in just under two years it has grown to a whopping 20 members. Yeah, you can all stop laughing because even though the numbers are low the members are all proud to be a part of Cool Blog Links. Anyway, without further ado here are the current Top Ten Coolest Blogs.

Cool Blog Links Top Ten Blogs

Beach Theme Home Decor: This blog claims that you can find all your Beach Theme Home Decor in one convenient place. You can select from Beach, Tropical, Hawaiian, Palm Tree, Lighthouse and Seashell Decor and lets not forget the Gecko Wall Art to bring the beach theme straight into your home. It’s obvious that the blogger behind this blog is a real beach lover and you can read all about Petra by visiting her about page. Read the rest of this entry

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Getting The Most From People Who Copy Your Content

Sunday, February 12th, 2012 at 1:56 pm

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I hadn’t planned to write a post today but after reading Adrienne’s post How To Get Others To Build Your Links I got so exited that unlike Adrienne who waited a month or so to compile her data I decided to write immediately so my blogging mates could get in on the action now rather than after I ran my own tests. Oh yes, there will be a followup post, that’s for sure.

Adrienne’s post was all about the service offered by Tynt, yeah amazing isn’t it, that’s not even an affiliate link According to the people at Tynt they are ‘the world’s leading publisher toolset‘ and using them will ‘Improve your seo, keep users longer and measure your user engagement by leveraging the power of copy and paste.’ Let’s see what they have to say for themselves shall we?

Letting Copy And Paste Work For You

If the guys at Tynt have got their facts right we can then assume that there are way more

More Link Backs

people sharing our content than we ever realised! The problem is that when they copy and paste it into their emails to share it with their friends we’re not getting any benefit from it whatsoever! That is of course unless you use Tynt. Of course you guys know I wouldn’t recommend something unless I’ve used it personally, how I wish these guys had an affiliate membership I could join , so you can assume that I’m using them right now. Actually you can even test it. Go ahead, try to copy and paste something from this post, or any other, and paste it into your email, don’t worry, I’ll wait for you to come back…….See, it actually works. It even works if you paste the content into a blog post or into a blog’s comment form. Can you see the potential for having this on your site?

Making Scraped Content Work For You

Do you remember that post I did on scum bags scraping my posts, you know, the one

Email links to your posts

called Has Your Blog Been Stolen? It was because of that post that I now protect them with Digiprove! Digiprove doesn’t stop them from being scraped but now when I find them I can easily prove the content is mine making it easier to coerce them to remove the post.

The problem with scraped posts is that unless someone tells you about it or you stumble upon one of your own posts on another blog you’ll probably never know about them. With Tynt you will have a link back to your post. Sure, if someone scrapes it manually they can remove the link but most times the scraping happens automatically because of a script they’re using and if that is the case they may never know of it so at least now you’ll get a link back which will probably help you to find the culprit.

However, that is only an added benefit that I personally feel you will get from using Tynt. Don’t forget all the other benefits, the main one being the link back to your post or site every time someone copies your content, whether it’s in their email, FaceBook Tweet or whatever.

I won’t know about the SEO benefits, extra traffic, measuring user engagement or any of

And so much more?

the other benefits the guys at Tynt promise until I do my own tests over time, but don’t wait until then. Install it now and conduct your own tests. Even if the only thing that is true about it is that every time someone copies part of your content to email to their friends you get a link back, that alone should be enough.

So, what say you, are you going to sign up for Tynt, which is free by the way? If not I would really love to hear your reasons why you won’t use their services.

Images added using Andy’s IM Graphics plugin

Friday Funnies #2 Living In Australia And Buying Your First Condom

Friday, February 10th, 2012 at 4:12 pm

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Hey guys, welcome to the second post in my weekly series of Fridays funnies. I’m actually really excited because the first post went really well and I want to personally thank everyone who left a comment or sent me that special email telling me how much they enjoyed it. I had a few saying how I should also do one on Monday being the start of the week so as to put people in the right frame of mind but for now I reckon I’ll just leave it for Fridays. Anyway, as a special treat for all my video fans I decided to produce a new video and have just uploaded it to YouTube, but before we get to that I want to share my joke with you. It’s a pretty long one but I assure you it’s well worth the read.

DIARY OF A POMMIE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

August 31 - Just got transferred with work from Leeds UK to our new home in Karratha, Western Australia. Now this is a town that knows how to live! Beautiful, sunny days and warm, balmy evenings. I watched the sunset from a deckchair by our pool yesterday. It was beautiful. I’ve finally found my new home. I love it here. Read the rest of this entry

Having Troubles Downloading Large Files

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 9:54 am

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I’m writing this post in the likelihood that someone else is having the same problem that I came up against the other week. It all came about when I was trying to download a free graphics package as part of my freebies for purchasing Andy’s IM Graphics plugin. Speaking of which I’ve written a couple of posts praising it’s unique properties, one a review of the plugin and the other was a post about increasing sales which used it’s properties to place certain graphics with rich keywords embedded into them, great for getting the readers attention as well as for the search engines.

But I digress, this post is not about how great Andy’s plugin is, it’s about why I couldn’t download a file that was a little over 40 MB in size. Not a huge file by any means but for some reason it wouldn’t download.

Why I Can’t Download A Large File

As I usually do with files that take longer than a few seconds I walked away from the computer so that I could do something else. When I came back to the computer and tried to open the file it told me it couldn’t because it was corrupt. I figured something just went wrong with the download so I deleted the file and tried again. Nope, same result. I emailed Andy telling him of the situation and after checking the file and getting someone else to download it he told me it was fine on his end and so the problem was caused by something on my end. I hate that.

OK, now I had the crappy task of trying to work out why it would download a simple file. The first thing I did was to make sure I had enough room on the hard drive. Yep, I had about 6 gigs left but just in case I deleted none essential files to free up more space and tried again. Nope, same problem!

I deleted that file and tried once again, but this time I sat in front of the monitor and watched the whole process. Like I said, it was only a little over 40 MB but for some reason it was going to take up to 20 minutes which I thought was a little slow. Anyway, after getting about half way through the download it finished the remaining 20 odd MB in a second. That was weird Upon checking the file I wasn’t at all surprised to find out it also was corrupted. Because of the way it downloaded the last half of the file so quickly I checked the size of the file and discovered it was only about 20 MB which told me that it only downloaded half the file.

By now I was getting a little frustrated. For the life of me I couldn’t understand what was causing the problem. It was late and I decided to go to bed, it was either that or I was going to drop kick the computer. I figured maybe it would work better once we all had a break.

I discovered the next morning that it still wasn’t working. But being the first thing in the morning and having a good nights sleep behind me I was able to think of trying something new. I don’t know why but I decided to change browsers from FireFox to Googles Chrome. The first thing I noticed while downloading the file was that Chrome was doing it in less than half the time and not only that but the download itself worked perfectly.

So, if you ever come across this problem, just try changing your browser to see if it makes any difference. Perhaps you’ve had this problem yourself and found another solution? If so I would love to hear about what you did to fix it.

Friday Funnies At WassupBlog

Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 12:14 pm

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They say that writing regularly on your blog is probably one of the best things you can do, which is why I try to post at least twice a week. There was a time when I used to post three times a week and then I cut back to two because of a lack of time. One thing I noticed after cutting back to two posts a week was that my Alexa ranking started to creep up. As most of you know Alexa basically monitors the amount of traffic to your site and so one can assume that more posts leads to more traffic, although I’m sure you can overdo it and too many posts could drive your readers away.

To test the theory I’ve decided to go back to three posts a week to see if it will improve my Alexa ranking. As I’m still pretty strapped for time and because I get a lot of funny emails I’ve decided to a series of posts called Friday Funnies, and yes I will be posting every Friday, which will probably the most regular thing in my life