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Posted by Tom | July 13, 2008 | Posted in: Sunday Questions |

Hey guys, has been a great week with a fair few of my July goals already being crossed off the list.

Namely:

Increase RSS Feed Subscribers to over 100 (Currently 30) - 101 - 11/07/2008
Decrease Alexa Rating To Under 200,000 (Currently 267,978) -186,815 - 12/07/2008
Have A Technorati Rank Of Under 100,000 (Currently 150,025) - 81,315 - (10/07/2008)

I still have 5 more to go, so we will see how the rest of the month pans out.

Carl got back to me about the amazing prizes I won from his birthday competition. 2 of them I plan on keeping but I am in contact with one of them to see if I can give the most expensive one away to one of my loyal readers - so stay tuned (and subscriber so you don’t miss your chance!)

This Weeks Stand Out Bloggers!

I got some great posts for you this week from some of my commenter’s. I am sure you will love them!

If you have been reading this blog for more than a week you would know that setting and keeping track of your goals is one of my favourite topics. Well ProTycoon has a great post about ‘Analysing Your Blogging Goals.’
Rajaie shares ‘5 Points To Consider Before Sending An Email‘
Melvin touches on another of my favourite subjects in his post ‘Providing Something, That’s What People Love’
This last one is just a little bit of fun, but AboutCoolness.com shares a picture where R2D2 is found in The New Indiana Jones Movie.

Pro PSD Blog Design For Sale

One of my active members Jug from Zigtur.com emailed me offering a fantastic psd blog design for purchase. I had no need for it as I had just recently purchased a PSD blog design from him (Current theme at ThomasSinfield.com), so I thought one of you might me interested in it.

Here is a preview: (Click here for full size preview)

blog theme

He is looking for $35 for the theme but feel free to contact me with any offers or comment below and I will make sure that he receives them.

Indepth Blog Review Winner Announced!
Thanks for the great response guys! 33 entries shows me that you are all committed to making your blog better, but as always there can only be one winner and the winner is:

BlogBadly.com with his comment:

Review my blog because it’s an innovative twist on the ol’ blog-about-blogging niche. I also donate all of my profits to my “keep-Max-off-the-streets” fund, which I assure you is a 100% legitimate and government-approved organization.

In addition, my name has the same amount of letters as yours (three). If that isn’t a good reason, than I don’t know what is.

I mean, think about it. On one hand, you can review the blogs of the other people who commented on this post… but on the other hand, you have five fingers.

Also, this comment has exactly 100 words in it.

It was a hard decision and I feel bad only being able to review one blog, which is why I would love to make myself available to all my readers, so if you have any questions for about your blog feel free to contact me and I will do my best to answer you as soon as possible (with the possibility of making a feature post of it if I think it will bring me traffic!)

Thanks guys you are all awesome! Remember to vote for me in Blogging Idol by subscribing via rss feed or via email updates!

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16 Responses

Jug (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Hey Tom, thanks so much for posting the design here. BTW Protycoon.com isn’t loading right now so I can’t check the post out…
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Xavier (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Hope you are able to reach your goal!

Xaviers last blog post..Playing a video game? No, it’s health therapy
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Dave (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Cool Congratulations to the winner
and thanks for mentioning my blog :p

btw protycoon is down I’m getting an error so if anyone wants to read it here’s a cache of google..

http://tinyurl.com/5mql7y

Daves last blog post..The Great Office War
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G (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Honestly, when I first saw this blog, I thought its just another one of those money making websites. Well I was wrong.

Good job man!
Gs last blog post..The Most Retarded Guitarist Ever
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Max Miroff (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Dude, sweet! Thanks for picking my comment =D

I’ll give you some link love when the review is up.

Just one thing to note: I’ll be gone until this Friday, so if you try contacting me and I’m not there… that’s why.

I still do have posts on the way for this week, though.
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Jagdesh-OnlyTechStuff (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Great post.I hoped to win the contest but there will always be next time(I hope :D).I will check the links you provided.Again a great job and post.
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Tom (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 8:17 am
max - no problem. I will have some questions ready for you when you get hack
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Melvin (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
if i’m tom, i would also pick blogbadly…

Melvins last blog post..Blogote vs TechTreak, Clash of Two Tech Blogs
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Rajaie AlKorani (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Thanks for the link love and congrats on achieving all your goals
Rajaie AlKoranis last blog post..What I Think Of Blogging Idol And Its Contestants
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Suzie Cheel (Who am I?) July 13th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I think you are doing a fantastic job with this blog, Congratulations.

I am having some real challenges with my blog’s seo and think it needs a total design. Grop by when you have a moment as i like what you are doing

Suzie
In abundance

Suzie Cheels last blog post..The Self Employed Entrepreneur
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Hussein (Who am I?) July 14th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Great design Jug.

Tom, I envy you. Your blog is new yet you already have a great stats. what’s the secret? HAHA.

Husseins last blog post..Free Premium WordPress Theme From UBD
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Siddharth (Who am I?) July 14th, 2008 at 10:57 am
you progressing at a huge rate
also congrats to blogbadly.com
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Nick (Who am I?) July 14th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Congrats on your goals. I just got another site launched so can get back to promoting and posting again…for two sites now instead of one so it will be a bit more intensive….hopefully I can pull this off
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Mo (Who am I?) July 14th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Congrats! I struggle with RSS but was doing OK for Alexa - but I think their “adjustment” awhile back just hit me. I used to be around the 160k mark but am around 200k now… time to work harder!

Mo

Mos last blog post..Web 2.0 Websites
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Duane Brown (Who am I?) July 15th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Your posts are very informative, I’ll read most of them eventually. I checked your theme display on thomassinfield.com and it appears it still needs a bit of optimization for display in IE7; at least in the areas of start of each days posts. Things seem to overlap badly, when I’m viewing it anyway.

I just subscribed be email, and may as well get added to your subscribers sites list if offer is still there.
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Max Miroff (Who am I?) July 18th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Alright, I’m back from the camp I was at - ready and waiting for any questions you might have. E-mail me or talk to me on AIM - my SN is “TehMaxM”

Max Miroffs last blog post..Write Long Posts And No One Will Read Them
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