Blogging Success Comes With A Purpose

Without a purpose, your blog is nothing. It doesn’t matter how much you know about search engines, optimizing and meta tags.  The foundation of your blog is it’s purpose. A successful blog is a blog that is optimized to communicate to a mass audience about it’s purpose. Again, without a purpose, your blog is nothing. Once your blog has a purpose, you will then have something to market and something that will grow into a success.

The MyBlogLog Avatar Contest!

Here is a fun contest that I am hosting. It’s called The MyBlogLog Avatar Contest. The contest is actually very simple and very fun to play! Everyone who is a MyBlogLog member is welcome to play (also if you haven’t joined MyBlogLog you can register for a free account and then join in on the fun). If you don’t know what MyBlogLog is, you can visit Kyle’s Cove and read his post to learn more about it. Here is how the contest works:

• The goal is simple. We want to to see who has the best MyBlogLog avatar.
• To participate in the contest, all you have to do is submit a comment on this post. I have installed a plugin called myavatars which will display your MyBlogLog avatar in your comment block here on the site. When you leave a comment, tell me that you are in and want to participate in the contest and maybe drop a line or two about how your created your avatar, how you found it, or why you use it. Basically, give us all just a real quick short story about your avatar.
• All other comments (chat related comments) will be removed. Please only comment if you would like to participate in the contest. I am only accepting comments that state participation into the contest. All other comments at this time will be removed.
• Depending on how quickly this contest hits off will determine the cut off limit on the contest. We will have to just play that by ear. I may only accept 25, 50, or 100 participates into the content. Naturally if it takes a month to get 25 participants, then the limit will be set to 25 and we can move onto the next stage of the contest… Voting!!!
• The voting process is equally as simple as the participating process. Once we have our 25, 50, or 100 contest participants we will begin the voting process. To vote, you have to place one more comment to cast your vote. The only rule to voting is that you can NOT vote for yourself. When you place your vote by comment, you are voting for which person’s avatar you feel is the best. It’s that simple… nothing complicated.
• Once the voting process begins, you CAN NOT update or change your MyBlogLog avatar. If you do so, you will be automatically disqualified from the contest. Immediately after the voting is open, I will be capturing copies of the participants avatars and keeping them on file. Again, if you modify or change your avatar during the voting process, you will be disqualified.
• After all contest participants have voted, I will tally up the votes and crown the winner.
• I am the host and I am not allowed to participate or vote.
• In the situation of a tie, I will be the deciding vote. This is the only situation where I will have any ability to vote or participate in this contest in any way.
• My role in this contest is the host. I am the moderator and my job is to make sure that the contest runs smoothly and stays clean and fun!
• If you should have any questions about the contest, please do not comment here, but rather contact me directly, or find any post on the site to comment on to get in touch with me.
• This is NOT required, but requested: I am requesting that you add this page to your blogroll and title it MyBlogLog Avatar Contest. Again, this isn’t mandatory. It is just a small request. By adding this page to your blogroll it will help speed up the process of finding participants. If you would be willing to create a small blog post about the contest, that would be great also. Whatever you can do to help would be greatly appreciated. If you do add this post page to your blogroll or create a post about it, contact me directly and I will add your site to my blogroll or create a post about your site.

NOW LETS TALK ABOUT PRIZES!!!!

• First Place (Winner of The MyBlogLog Avatar Contest) will receive a $20.00 PayPal.com payment directly from me! * I will send you a $20.00 payment. I am not sure what fees PayPal.com charges, but my payment to you will be in the amount of $20.00. (example: If PayPal.com charges $1.00 fee, then the amount you actually receive will be $19.00)
• Second Place (Runner Up of the MyBlogLog Avatar Contest) will receive 10 months of advertising on Bryan’s Rants (assuming his price for advertising doesn’t increase. Bryan provides banner advertisement service for $1.00 per month. I will pay $10 dollars towards advertising on his site for the second place runner up!
• Third Place will receive a banner advertisement free on my site for one month.
• * First, second and third place all receive an Alexa.com site review and a Technorati Faves add.

Again, if you should have any questions, comments or suggestions, please contact me directly… or find another post to comment on. Enjoy… have fun, and lets see who we can crown the winner of The MyBlogLog Avatar contest! Also, check this post page, because I imagine that I will be adding updates to the bottom of this post.

Best Regards,
Garry Conn

Alexa and Technorati Trade

My site is only a few month old, yet it receives in the area of 200,000 page views per month now. The site still has a Google PageRank of 2; however, prediction reports are indicating that this will update to a PageRank of 5 (hopefully).

Even with the low Google PageRank, ReviewMe.com has still approved my site and feels that my personal posts and reviews are worth $60. In my opinion, that is really not bad for a blog being only a few months old.

The reason why my site got approved on ReviewMe.com despite having a low Google PageRank I believe is because my Alexa and Technorati rankings covered the difference. I am not too sure how ReviewMe.com determines which sites to approve and which sites to decline, but I do now that there are three important factorizations: Google PageRank, Technorati Ranking, and Alexa Ranking. Luckily for my site, the latter of the two were high enough to get approved. Maybe ReviewMe.com also can get a general idea of a site’s traffic?

Anyway, I wrote this post because I would like your help. In exchange for your help, I will help you in return. I am looking for people who will visit Alexa.com and write a review for my site. In exchange I will do the same for you on your site. Secondly, I am looking for people who will add my site to their Technorati Favorites… and again, I will do the same for you.

Write A Review On My Site At Alexa.com

Visit Alexa [click here] and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Look for the “Write a Review” link towards the bottom. Please write a nice review about my site. It doesn’t have to be a novel… just something short and sweet. After you write an Alexa review for my site, just drop me a quick comment using the form below to let me know. From there, I will do the same for you.

Kyle, at Kyle’s Cove has recently offered to write Alexa site reviews too. If you would like a second review written for your site, take a look at Kyle’s post.

Add My Site To Your Technorati Faves

If you add my site to your Technorati favorites, I will do the same for you. [click here] to add my site to your technorati favorites.

Drop me a quick comment and let me know that you have adding my site to your Technorati favorites and have written an Alexa review about my site. Once you leave a comment and let me know, then I will do the same for you.

My goal is to continue to grow my ranking with Alexa and Technorati and also help you in the process as well. If you review my site and add it to your favorites, I will do the same for you! I look forward to exchanging these services with you!

Best Regards,
Garry Conn

Who Wants To Exchange Links With Me?

Garry Conn dot Com is a blog site that delivers blogging tips to thousands of readers. The site is listed as one of Technorati’s Top 10,000 Blogs out of 83.5 Million and currently is one of their Top 100 Most Favorited Blogs.

And WOW!!! Who would have thought that an individual post page about exchanging links would gain a Google PageRank of PR4! That just goes to show you how effective and beneficial it is to exchange links with me!

My site is designed to help bloggers find success with blogging. Whether you want to make money online or simply just have a very popular blog. My site is here to help by providing you with hundreds of creative and useful articles and sharing my traffic with you. The bigger and more popular my site gets, the more I will continue to give back to you.

Garry Conn dot Com officially launched on January, 1st, 2007 and continues to increase in popularity, reader interest and and traffic. The blogosphere is recognizing that Garry Conn dot Com is the number one spot to go to learn about being a successful blogger.

If you would like to get more traffic to your blog, exchange blogroll links with me and I will add your site to my blogroll. It doesn’t matter how big or small your blog is, it doesn’t matter how much traffic or lack of traffic your site gets. If you have content that my readers will enjoy, I will link to you!

Instructions

1. Your blogroll must be site wide, meaning it appears on the sidebar on every page within your site.
2. You must add my site to your blogroll using one of the following anchor tags:
   - Blogging Tips
   - Make Money Online
   - Successful Blogs
   - Successful Blogging
   - Creative Thinking
   - Innovative Ideas
3. You must add my link exactly as follows:
   http://www.garryconn.com/
4. If your blogroll allows you to add a description please add the same anchor text you chose above as the description.
5. Use the comments form below to contact me and let me know that you have added my site. From there I will review your site and add it into my blogroll.

About Garry Conn dot Com’s Blogroll

Garry Conn dot Com maintains one of the most extensive site wide blogrolls online. Exchanging links with me will get you traffic. Add, “Blogging Tips” or any of the other anchor tags above to your blogroll. Drop me a comment below to let me know that you have added me and I will add you!

Reivew of Dave Schoof

Dave Schoof Author of Disquiet in Men

a Washington D.C. based international consultant who has helped executives and leaders communicate more effectively, build trust, work with cynicism and resistance, navigate transitions and improve personal effectiveness. Clients include: Fannie Mae, NASA, Booz Allen Hamilton, The Central Intelligence Agency, The National Security Agency, The National Reconnaissance Office, Gettysburg College, ARIN, NRTC, US Department of Veterans Affairs, OPM, the Department of Justice, and the US Department of Health & Human Services. I found Dave Schoof after I discovered that he was a client of Dawud Miracle. Here is a list of Dave Schoof’s most recent articles I found on his site. Some pretty good reads and with such a level of knowledge and experience, this is a site that I can’t pass up.

 

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