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My Comment Policy

June 27, 2007 by Tricia

In an earlier post I discussed the fact that all of our blogs, my own and my husbands, are do follow blogs. This means that you’ll get a real link when you leave a comment.

I’m doing this because I’d like to build up my readership and give a little something back to those who leave comments regularly.

Each comment takes a tiny piece of my sites Page Rank with it though so I appreciate getting decent comments. Comments that look spammy or look like someone is just advertising their own sites or products are not appreciated.

By decent comment, I mean that if you are taking the time to reply to a post on any blog please don’t say “nice post” or “Nice blog” or “Nice picture” or “Funny ha ha”. Yes, sometimes comments like this are real, but most of the time when someone leaves such a short comment they are just commenting for the sake of commenting.

Since I’m giving away free links- each one taking a tiny bit of my sites PR with it – please don’t make me regret my gift to you. I can tell when people are following the do follow blogroll or other do follow lists that are out there because these people will hit all my sites and leave similar comments on each one.

Write a comment that adds to the post. Did it touch you in some way? Do you have a similar experience to share? Have you used the site or product that I’m discussing in my post? If so what are you thoughts on it? If you haven’t used it does it sound like something worth trying?

If you really don’t have anything to say about a post don’t feel that you have to comment for the sake of commenting. Everyone loves getting comments but I enjoy getting comments that are little more than “Hey there, nice blog, come and visit mine.”. I bet you do too.

If you leave extra links in your comment do they really relate to the post or are you advertising something?

I’ve taken to removing extra links if I don’t feel that they contribute to the post or that the person is taking advantage of my dofollow policy.

I’ve also deleted comments that do not add to the conversation.

This may sound harsh, but if I feel that someone is abusing my blog to get backlinks why should I allow it. Would you?





Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, Linky Love, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology Tagged With: abuse dofollow, blog, Blogroll, blogs, comment, comment policy, comments, decent comments, delete comments, delete links, Do follow, do follow blogroll, free, gift, good comments, harsh, link, linkylove, my sites, page rank, post, post conversation, PR, Spam, spam comments, visit, write

Real Estate as an investment

June 27, 2007 by Tricia

Almost all my life I’ve heard people talk about real estate as being an investment. Some thought of it as a personal investment, while others were interested in real estate as a business related investment. It just depended upon who I was talking to and what year it was, as to which form of real estate investment I heard discussed most often.

When I worked in the jewelery trade, with people that had money to invest, real estate was discussed as a way to earn extra income. Whether it was to be in the form of purchasing houses or condos as rental properties, or because of the real estates location.

For me, investing in real estate is personal. I took the steps to purchase a house because I knew I would own something that would grown in value with time. I also invested in property because I wanted to have more space and the freedom to do what I wanted, rather than living by someone else’s rules.

I lived in an apartment for over a decade before we purchased our house. All that time I was paying rent for a space I’d never own. A property that I’d never have a say in how it was run or managed.

If you’ve been considering purchasing a house or condo you might want to use this site to compare mortgage rates. I think it’s always a good idea to find out how much you’ll be able to afford to pay for a mortgage each month and what the current rates are before you start looking for a property.

If I were going to invest in another property I’d likely buy in an area that I’d want to vacation in and one that might also be popular for others to vacation in so that I could rent the property out whenever I didn’t want to use it.

I’m not sure where I’d look for such a property at this time, but I keep hearing about Ashevile Real Estate, and how Asheville is a growing community in the Blue Ridge Mountains area, so I suppose that that might be a great are to look into as far as real estate investing goes.

Have you invested in real estate? If so, was it for personal use, or a business related purchase?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Real Estate, Sales and Marketing Tagged With: Ashville, business, community, house, investment, Money, mortgage, owning a home, property for rental, Real Estate, real estate investment, vacation

If this heat keeps up I’ll be at the beach!

June 27, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

ballonbeach

We’re having a heat wave here in Toronto. Yesterday it got up to about 41 Celsius with the humidity … that’s about 105 F. Today is supposed to be just as hot, but we might get a thunder storm too.

When it’s this hot in Toronto, when we get thunder storms they are always severe! The last big one we had a week and a half ago knocked down trees all over my neighborhood. Actually my neighborhood was the worst hit in the city! You can read what I had to say about that if you’d like.

Anyway, I was thinking, if this heat keeps up I might just head to the beach. It’s usually several degrees cooler down by the water, and of course if I took a dip I’d cool off.

I posted this photo because I imagine that the beach will look like this later today as the storm starts coming in! I actually took this photo sometime last summer.

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If I don’t end up going to the beach today, perhaps I will later in the week when the temperature is supposed to be a little more comfortable. If I do I can always join in a volleyball game at one of the many volleyball nets that the city has set up for us to use.

How are you surviving the heat?

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Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, The Neighborhood, Toronto, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: beach, Canada, comfort, cool, cool off, cooler, dark clouds, hot, humidity, photo, photos, post, storm, Summer, thunder, thunder storm, Toronto, tree, volleyball, water, Wordless Wednesday

Medicine the way it’s supposed to be practiced

June 26, 2007 by Tricia

Living in Canada and working in the health care field I can’t complain too much about our health care system. Well … sure you can always complain about something, but considering that people in other parts of the world don’t have access to health care I really can’t complain much.

Now, having said that, I know that the US health care system is very different that my own. I know that you generally need to have health insurance to get access to services that you need, and sometimes HMO’s don’t allow their clients to see the doctors that they want to see, or to have the tests that have been recommended.

Now I’m not going to get into all of that as that would be a huge post in itself. However what I did want to tell you about does have something to do with the level of service you might currently be experiencing.

If you are tired of not being able to see the doctors that you think you should be seeing, or not being able to see your doctor as often as you think you need to then you might want to take a look at the services provided by MDVIP.

MDVIP provides a service that’s somewhat like having your own concierge doctors. Even doctors seem to enjoy working with MDVIP because they can spend whatever amount of time they need to with each patient, they can counsel their patients properly about diseases and disorders that they have, or that they are at risk of getting because they have time to sit down and talk with each patient, and they don’t have to worry about tests and other services being declined by outside HMO’s.

Think about it from the patient side of things. Wouldn’t it be nice to make an appointment with your doctor to talk over all the symptoms you might be having? To actually sit down and get a full understanding of a disorder that you might have recently been diagnosed as having? Instead of being handed a pamphlet and being told that you’ll hear from another service about treatment?

Physicians at MDVIP focus on preventative medicine which is why they take the time to explain things to their patients and discuss concerns so that they can better evaluate a patient, their progress and their risk for future ailments and try to prevent those diseases or disorders from happening.

The doctors limit their practice to only 600 patients so that they can devote the proper amount of care and time to each individual in their practice.

As a patient you’ll get the MDVIP yearly physical which is a complete physical, a personalized wellness plan, same or next day appointments that last as long as needed, and access to your physician through a 24 hour pager or cell phone.

To me, this sounds like medicine the way it’s always been supposed to be practiced.

Please visit the MDVIP site to learn more about their services to see if this is a service that would suit your needs.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Services Tagged With: 24 hour access, appointment, appointments as long as needed, Canada, clients, crohns, disease, disorder, doctor, Health and Fitness, health care, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Insurance, MD VIP, medical tests, pain, patients, personalized health care, Physicians, preventative medicine, talk, tests, time to talk

Want a link on a PR5 website?

June 26, 2007 by Tricia

I bet you do!

Well, one way to get a link is to leave a decent comment on any of the posts on this site. This blog is a do follow blog – as are all of the blogs that my husband and run. So whenever you comment you get a link that the search engines will pick up and count towards backlinks for your site.

Cool eh?

If you want to be a do follow blogger so that you can reward those who add to your posts conversation just visit the Do Follow Blogroll page. let me know you are are a Do Follow Blogger and I’ll add you to the list (adding blogroll to your site is a requirement).

Also, if you comment often enough over the month on this blog you’ll also get a spot in the Top Commentator section – see right sidebar.

Another way to get a link on a PR5 blog is to write a post and send a trackback to Kate’s blog Electric Venom. Every Tuesday and Friday she does a Bite Me post and welcomes trackbacks to her site allowing visitors to get not one but two links to her site. See, she’s a do follow blogger so just by leaving her a comment on any of her posts you’ll get a link too.

Kate’s blog is a really good read so you won’t regret visiting her site regularly, and as I said, she gives the love back with her linkylove trackback Bite Me posts.

Filed Under: Blogging, Linky Love, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: Bite Me, blog, blogger, Blogroll, blogs, comment, Do follow, do follow blogroll, electric venom, Kate, link, post, posts, PR, search engines, trackback, visit, visiting, visitors, write

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