This is a 2-part post. Please read thoroughly.

Part 1: January Winners!

OK as I mentioned several times, I cut off the contest around 10pm when I logged off. As I feared, it does simply reset with no tracking thereafter. In the future, I may use a database trick that Nick showed me, modifying a query showed here.  This should return an accurate count right up to midnight…in case anyone slips in .

I say may because messing with databases, querys, SQL, and all that nifty jazz is never on top of my to-do lists. LOL

Anyhoo without further ado (does anyone really know how to spell that??)…

Top Commenters!
1. Nick (42)
2. Sherry (Broken link) (41)
3. Ben Pei (38)
4. Mitch (27)
5. Sire (23)
6. Matty Byloos (22)
7. Shirley (21)
8. Commentluv (Yan) (19)
9. Mirjam (19)
10. Donny Gamble (12)

What?!?! You’re not interested in $100 CASH or a TON of prizes??

OK today’s post is not JUST a brag post about reaching the 200 mark (small dance, woohoo!) but a lesson for all, including myself.

You may recall the happy dance we did together when I hit the 100 subscriber mark on November 5th 2008. This post may be a wee late, but I first noticed 202 subscribers on January 7th, this year.

If you really want to break it down, that’s approximately 12 subs per week…not to shabby, eh? Although I never really looked that closely. What’s my secret formula? Well, unless you live in a bubble I really shouldn’t have to tell you, but I will .

An important question awaits on EasyCashContests!

Now here’s a post MANY of you have been waiting for! As discussed before, I was waiting so patiently for WP 2.7 to arrive for it’s integrated threaded comment capability…so I wouldn’t have to add an unnecessary plugin.

However, due to personal preferences and paranoias I decided I will not be upgrading for a bit; so the search was on! A big thank you to John Collins from Affiliate Money Tips for turning me on to this Threaded Comments plugin.

It was a toss-up between this and Brians Threaded Comments, which appears to be the most popular. My main selling point for this one was no theme tweaking, just upload and activate. (Brians requires an upload of a new comments.php file which was not attractive to me.)

I haven’t fiddled with any of the really cool settings, features and options yet, but I wanted it announced ASAP! I know you’ve been patient .

YES a special super-duper treat for my regular readers and especially email subscribers. A Top Commenter plugin prominently displayed and cash contests (possibly more) every month!

A bunch of you have wondered and asked why I haven’t installed the plugin before now (especially since link love seems to be my thing). The fact of the matter is, I’ve held off for a while to be sure I had what I consider to be consistent/decent traffic.

Seriously, top commenter contests are a little, well…..lame, with 20 subscribers and 50 visitors per week; don’tcha think?

I will be having a top commenter contest every month starting on the 1st of each month, starting Thursday, January 1st. Just easier that way, ain’t it? Makes sense to me .

Lucias Linky Love is installed!

For those that have no clue what I’m talking about, please read the rest of the post and leave me your thoughts.

For everyone: No, I’m not going to tell you what the magic number is! Muahahahahahaha!! (But the highest number I could pick is 10)

If anyone thinks they have an issue here, please lt me know.
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Now I realize this post and especially that header comes completely out of the blue. The reason for that is it all came to me just a couple hours ago.

I read a post on thoushallblog in which Yan discusses a conversation he had with Garry Conn.

The part that really caught my attention was Garry’s take on the effects of do-follow/no-follow within Google… it went further then the usual yadda yadda you read on the subject ALL OVER THE NET. LOL

You see People all over the net frequently asking the same questions:

How to get going on their business, how they can make money online or what products they should sell. Etc, etc.

You can only answer those questions to a certain point; at least with most, unless you get really involved with them.

Most don’t have time for this, unless perhaps you charge for coaching.

You don’t know their experience level. You don’t know what they may have already tried and how much effort they put into it, or what they did right or wrong with it, and so on.

One thing is for sure, many of them need to FOCUS on doing one thing at a time and then TAKE ACTION instead of being indecisive.

Otherwise they’ll end up frustrated and get nowhere, which unfortunately, we see that much too often online.

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?

This isn’t another sales tip on how you should follow up an initial sale with a back-end off. Nope, this is more important and more personal.

Honestly, I wasn’t even going to post today; so much to do ya know.

However, I received an email today (Nov. 4th) that nearly knocked me off my seat…and a big bang that woulda been!

The following email is from Nick at romandock dot com, and that’s all the lead in it needs. Read the email and quickly see why I think Nick truly has what it takes…..

“You may or may not remember this, but on October 11 you left a comment on a post of mine inquiring about subscribing to romandock dot com via email. Well, I finally got that set up and the option is now available.

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

As most of you should know by now, I’m always on the look out for ways to share the love with my readers and contributers (commenter’s) using different link strategies. And of course ways to help in the education of said readers.

This is after all Beginner Marketing Tips.

I’ve decided to combine the two in (what I think is) a unique way. Lets call it Knowledge Link Love (look for that in future subject lines).

It’s very simple. Every so often, I’ll post a question, Ex: What’s your favorite technique for…..and why; and you leave your response in the comment section.

Ya cant get much simpler then that, and you get upwards of 3 links for it!…

1. URL field (Do-Follow)

2. CommentLuv link if your URL is a blog.

3. Your URL + a brief site description in a separate post after each Knowledge Link Love round.