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The Daily Dump

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No, that’s not the name of a new regular feature on this site. Nope. It’s the title of a new site that I spent some time looking at on Sunday.

The site owner, Chris, stumbled across my site after he’d visited one of my landlords – Mscateyes. He took the time to stop and write a nice comment inquiring about renting on my site. His site is new and he’s not been accepted yet on BE so he can’t start getting his site viewed by BE members, and he can’t attempt to get a rental spot yet either. So he was trying to figure out a way to promote his site via rental and decide to write to me about it.

He was in luck! I was in a very helpful mood and I replied back with information about all the other traffic engines that I use to promote my own sites.

Since I’m in a generous mood I decided that I’d let my visitors know about this new site.

The Daily Dump is a site comprised of a number of regular writers. Their styles vary, but seem to mesh together well enough to make quite an interesting read. Considering that there are so many contributors to the site, each with their own style of writing and topics that they favor I’d say the Daily Dump has something for everyone.

Why don’t you pop in and take a peek and see if you like the Daily Dump? Let Chris and the rest of the gang over there know that Tricia sent you.





Va Va Voom and a way we go!

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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!

New Domain – Cheap? Contest

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I need some suggestions. Contest involved!


I want to get a new domain but I don’t know which company to buy one from. I bought my last two directly from my hosting company, but they charged me close to $15 per domain. I’m pretty sure I can get a new domain or two for a little less.

Any ideas?

I can’t use Go-Daddy either. My hosting company has some kind of problem with Go- Daddy domains. I think they don’t transfer properly from one host to another.

I want to move all of my bl0gs over to one domain. Which will mean moving Tricia’s Musings and perhaps Odd Planet over to the new site. I’m not even sure what I’m going to do with Odd Planet. I was thinking about re-designing it, but I think I’ll hold off and possibly move it first.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good domain name? Something easy to remember, and not too long?

Now here’s the contest part:

1. Give me some suggestions on where I can purchase a domain for a low price. If I decide to go with the company that you suggest I’ll give that person 250 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits. If the company is suggested more than once I may only give credits out to the first person to suggest that company.

2. Name the Domain

Suggest a short but memorable domain name. If I decide to use it (and can secure it!) I’ll give the winner 1000 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits.

3. I may choose to go with a designer, especially if I move Odd Planet. It desperately needs a re-design. I like WordPress so the two new sites and likely Odd Planet will be WordPress sites. If I decide to be too lazy to do it myself I might get a designer to help me out. Suggest a designer that does wordpress sites (not too expensive, we might be talking three sites here!) and I’ll give the winner 500 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits if I go with a designer.

Who do I choose?

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I put my site up for rent early this morning and when I checked there were 10 bidders! How am I supposed to choose?

Do I choose one of the youngest sites to promote it? I did think about doing that, but of the first 5 sites that I listed below one was created in May, and the other four in April! Arghhh.

Ok back to the old stand-by … who has bid here before and who has bid most often without yet being selected? Why that would be Noi from Voicing my thoughts, of course!

Noi has just finished redesigning her site and changing addresses too! She’s very happy with her new design so it would be nice of you to stop by and tell he what you think.

In her own words:
“You can call me Noi! From Singapore, this blog consists of thoughts I have chosen to share. Thoughts shape the person that you are and that is what this blog all about. Shaping myself under hot pressure so I can be a diamond. I am just a simple person with BIG dreams! I believe in the law of sow and reap and whatever you do you will get it back. So if you do good, good will come to you if not..u know what will come to you.”

I’ve found her site to be very thoughtful and inspirational and I hope that you will too.

Bad Rating?

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OMG! Someone gave my site a really bad rating over at BL0GEXPLOSION! All 1’s ??? Come on … only a site that either doesn’t load at all, or that’s full of racial slurs and hate deserves all 1’s. Really.

I don’t care all that much about my rating, but this is so out of whack. I wonder if there is someone going around on BE, like there is at BL0GMAD, giving everyone bad ratings?

It just seems so mean! It also makes me feel very distrustful of people too. Was it someone I battled against yesterday? (The rating occurred last night) Someone that saw my site in the BL0G rocket? Or even someone that I talked to in the SB? I’m trying to be friendly, perhaps make some friends and most of all have some fun, but someone doing something like this really makes me wonder about people.

Want to do me a favor and get my site rating back up to where it should be? BTW where it should be is for you guys to determine, I’m not begging for a high rating, just a fair one. Review my site on BE and tell me what you really think.

Thanks!

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