I mentioned the Cash For Comments blog in my Sunday round-up, and having now received my blog review will happily recommend them. The premise is simple: Leave him 5 genuine comments on his blog site. Despite it only being a few weeks old, this isn’t hard to do as there’s some good stuff on there [...]

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Do you use Text Link Ads? If so, do you use them to promote yourself for free? TLA currently offer three ways of making money, by selling text link ads on your site, within your posts and within your feed itself. An example of a basic text ad is the offer of a ‘Free WordPress [...]

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This week, I have mostly been reading: Madhur Kapoor brings us the news that Apple’s previously Mac only browser, Safari, has been released for Windows, and so far he seems to like it. It’s apparently the fastest browser out there, and may be worth a try. I’ve no doubts personally that Firefox is better than [...]

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At least as far as Social Networking goes. It is of course possible to add friends in all of the major social networking sites, and while it’s good to build up your networks, the immediate benefits to your blog are few, certainly in terms of decent, targeted traffic. However, making friends in Stumble has instant [...]

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Totally unoriginal I know, but I thought I’d list my social networking profiles (as everyone else has!) so you can find me if you want to, and we can engage in some mutual traffic stimulation…. I think I have most of my regular visitors already, but if some of my many lurkers would like to [...]

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No.2 on my list of bloggers that make me think is Scott Adams. Scott is the creator of the Dilbert comic, but is also a prolific and deep thinking blogger who can veer from the absurd to the ridiculous, visiting sanity on the way, but always gives you a banquet-load of food for thought. If [...]

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Baxter tagged me about 10 years ago to write up a Thinking Bloggers award post, and due to a mixture of illness, real life and good old procrastination I simply haven’t done it. Sorry again Baxter. So I ‘m going to get on it now, and instead of doing 5 in one post, I’m going [...]

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Six months is a long time in blogging (to coin a phrase), and I’ve read a lot of posts recently from people making the 6 month mark with tens of thousands of hits, tons of RSS subscribers etc. Oh well. But what were people talking about 6 months ago? Lets see…. RT was professing his [...]

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Well, I can’t promise you that, but I can help you achieve a little more fame, through yet another Blogger award scheme. BloggingToFame.com is another site devoted to blogger awards, but with some serious cash prizes on offer. There’s $25,000 to the top rated blog, and $100,000 total prize fund along with the exposure that [...]

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Today, I have mostly been reading: K at Shankri-La has found a new site that might replace Google as his homepage and is a very cool way to start your searches. It’s called ‘Sputtr’ and with a name like that you’ll be unsurprised to learn it’s in ‘beta’ and has a very shiny ‘Web 2.0′ [...]

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