Nope sorry, I’m not looking to buy one. I’m here to give you the awesome advice that was given to me when I first started blogging…..get rid of them NOW.

I’m sure you’ve seen it, you may even do it yourself (and some of you I know do it). Those blogs that have anywhere between two and TEN 125×125 ad spots that simply say, “ADVERTISE HERE“, right out there for the world to see. I’ve even seen some use FLASH!

Aye Curumba.

Do you know how it looks to potential advertisers? BAD. Real bad. Amateurish in the least, but D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E at it’s worst. I’m not saying this to make anyone upset or angry with me, this is the honest to goodness truth as told to me those many moons ago. They are not doing you any good.

This is definitely one thing that falls under whether or not advertisers judge your design.

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Two new posts on DennisEdell.com, an EASY $300 contest on EasyCashContests.com and I’m still looking for contest sponsors here .

You may recall back in mid-October, I wrote about how I was finally and slowly beginning to Blog Monetize, with the Scratch Back widget. When I first installed it, I had the “awesome idea” of charging $5 per week instead of the “auto bump” method which I HATE (read first link to see why).

Things have been pretty emotional (for lack of a better word) for me since then…

I had my first link sale in ONLY two weeks, and I was ECSTATIC! Trust me, when you don’t have Lynn Terry type traffic, two weeks is really good. (I’ve never seen her widget with an empty spot.)

Then a couple weeks later (with no more link sales) I had a good back & forth with both John Dilbeck & Mitch on Johns blog; or was it Mitch’s blog. Perhaps both, I don’t remember.

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First a comical disclaimer - no matter what the grumpy Feedburner chiclet says on any particular time or day, it’s 102! LOL

OK then, who wants to tango!

A huge THANK YOU to all those who actually think I have something useful to give, and trust me enough in their readers and/or email boxes…a precious commodity indeed!

So I guess I’m doin’ ok, yes? Thanks! This is very good news for me as I’ve only been seriously blogging (on this blog) for a few months.

Those that have been following me for a while know the ups and downs, my losing focus more then once, changing up the blog, etc etc etc.

Now I think i really do have it where I want it and running along smoothly…as smoothly as we can that is; y’all know what I mean.

What’s coming up?

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We’re back in business baby!

As it turns out, it was my Social Bookmarks plugin that did the dirty deed! Apparently it uses the scriptalicious library which is known to interfere with jquery.

I installed that just one day before installing the other 2 plugins I mentioned. After hearing this, I did go back over the comments in between and noticed only a couple had CL links attached.

I suppose it started failing immediately and ended completely around the time the other two were installed. Oops, but a good assumption at the time.

I’m not sad the other two are gone though, they were giving me issues on their own as well.

Now I have to look for another social icon plugin that does not use either scriptalicious or effects.js.

Any ideas? Ah well, I’m just happy as a clam to have my comment baby back! (I know you are too )

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Hello everyone,

By now some of you have begun to notice that my CommentLuv plugin is out of action. I’m sorry, I was really hoping to have it working before too long.

This is also why I haven’t responded to comments in the past day or so, which I’m going to get to right after this post; here’s what I think happened…

I installed one plugin that was meant to clearly show backlinks of what blogs were linking to what post within this blog.

Very cool I thought as it is much clearer then looking at trackbacks. I also installed a 2nd companion plugin who’s sole purpose is to help the first plugin work.

As far as I can tell, one or both of these did a serious screw job on my inner workings and took out CommentLuv…..so far I don’t see any other problems, which I suppose is a really good thing.

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Well, there’s not much to add to that, except to ask several followers - happy now? I am!

Also to any other 4yo techies - get this plugin, oh my god is it super simple and works like a charm!

I have mine set to back-up once daily, as I figured every hour was a little TOO paranoid LOL.

In conclusion to what’s probably my shortest post ever, I ask…Do you back-up your blog? What do you use and how often do you use it?

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

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OK so it’s not FREE link love this time, but there’s plenty of time for that you know I love to do it.

No no, now I’m talking about probably being the last blogger on the net to give a go to the scratch-back “top spots” link tipper dohickey (I think that’s the official name), which you can find on the left side bar.

How do I consider mine a wee different? I’ve seen them for $5 per day, which isn’t too too bad, and more often then not I see them for $5 while using the auto-bump feature…..

What this means is, your five dollar link is there only until the next person buys one. To me this is a double-edged sword for the buyer, and a little greedy on the bloggers end…sorry but it’s personal opinion.

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Hello all, just a brief note today about what my new pal Danny Cooper over at the LinkersBlog is about to unleash.

He believes he can show you how to do amazing feats with blog commenting and I think he might be able to do just that with his new Blog Commenting Blueprint.

The man is all over the place and has done EXTENSIVE testing in the area of blog commenting. The best part is, hes giving away a few promotional copies to random interested parties before he goes live with sales.

Be sure to head on over and check it out for yourself!

Also let me know below what you think of it all

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

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A quickie post today, but one that raises a pretty good question I think.

Mark Sierra from MeandMyDrum.com recently changed his theme design. It looks great, it really does, but it was one of his comments that really caught my attention…

BloggerContests commented, and I quote ” I think you will have more requests to display ads in your site from now on.”

Hmm, interesting. I know that’s something that I never really thought of before. I mean, I do know they look at traffic numbers, readership/subscriber numbers, etc and so forth.

But design? Really? I dunno. I’ve seen some pretty fugly blogs with some pretty serious numbers, haven’t you? (Unless of course they’re faked, which is a whole ‘nother article )

What do you think. Could design attract or repel an advertiser?

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

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Hello all, it’s been about a week since my last post where I discussed merging blogs.

At the tail end of that post, I hinted to the fact that I would have to spend a little time playing catch-up from my sudden 2month disappearance.

Well here we are. I’ve been home a little over 2 weeks and madly catching up. I think I’ve done well so far with lots of internal touch-ups complete (you may or may not notice those), and three new pages I needed to do!

I’m still not “done” (are we ever?) but going along reasonably smoothly.

Now it’s those three new pages I would like to point your attention too…

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