Traveling Abroad

Traveling abroad, for most people, is a once in a life-time opportunity. And for a lot of people they want to make the most of it. Searching online looking at different places around the world I found four star hotels.

Christchurch Accommodation was the first that I found. Christchurch is in New Zealand.

I also found Glasgow Accommodation. Glasgow is in the UK. I would assume looking online for hotels would be cheaper, or even best for last minute accommodations.

Fabric Tension

With the introduction of the dye sub fabric tension systems we will slowly see the replacement of the traditional pop up trade show displays. The traditional pop up displays of yesterday consists of four or more laminated panel displays with frames and channel bars that you see in many trade show events today. The advantages of the new fabric tension booths are; that they pack smaller and setup quicker. The booths weigh nearly a third of a traditional pop-up displays, saving you time and money. They are also seamless making it easier on designers while still providing a professional look. The days of setting up your display in 15-30 minutes is over; with this new system you can literally setup your display in 3 minutes or less. Best of all, the fabric tension display now comes in a curved version or table top display size and cost just a fraction more than its pop up counterpart. You owe it to yourself, and your company to at least look into the benefits of owning your very own curved fabric tension system. Contact the helpful representatives at exhibe portable.com

To tweak or not to tweak your blog?

They say, if you stand still in business, you die. A bit demoralising to think that you have to keep pushing and can’t rest on your laurels. Not that natural-born entrepreneurs ever think of resting easy. You have that ache in your stomach to tweak what you already have, dump what isn’t working, and invent the next big thing. And natural born bloggers are the same too, I suspect.


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Written by Ed

Ashleys Boutique

Now if I had to buy my girlfriend a gift, and she wanted an expensive purse, I would be coming to Ashleys Boutique. From what I gather, they sell replica and knockoff handbags. Therefore instead of spending thousands of dollars on a purse, your getting the exact thing for a lot cheaper.

Their handbag designs range from Louis Vuitton, Prada and Gucci. Their products include Purses, Clothing, and Sunglasses.

I love this the most about their website though, in their about us section is a disclaimer. Seems like their motto entails "What you see is what you'll get".

Optimize your Website

I've recently explored having a SEO company optimize Blog about your Blog. Since it's a little tough to market, I figure having another look at it might provide some insight, as well as build some backlinks and seo.

The latest company I have looked into, is SEO Toronto. They specialize in internet marketing and seem to have a nice page layout. They have 3 different packages, so I am inquiring how much one of them will cost. I'll keep you updated.

Auctions

The other day I was surfing the net looking for a digital camera and found free auctions. Personally I was amazed at how free online auctions can impact the final price of a product. The prices seemed cheaper, and shipping less expensive. Especially compared to others that seem to put their own shipping fees in the sale price. I find it a nice business model and could be prosperous for future online sales.

27+1+1 Blog Tips

Whether it's on a forum, or around different blogs, many bloggers want more traffic. They want more readers to their blog, that will increase comments and participation as well as monetary opportunities.

27+1 Tips for Building and Maintaining a Blog Audience is a good start for a newer blogger to understand how to build their blog readership.

This article offers the obvious tips, originality, niche, and consistency. You can also find some of the basic tips such as RSS Feeds, using Digg and other social bookmarking sites, and responding to comments.

Don't forget you have people reading and that will either come back or not. One important tip the sponsoredreviews blog left out was, set yourself apart from the rest. Offer something the other blogs aren't. A new fun contest where you can give away something. Adding different features or offering giveaways are a sure way to grow your readership.

If you like this review, feel free to purchase one from me here. We are also offering reviews on Blog about your Blog, which might be more enticing to advertisers.

Comment Friday

We do a fun thing on fridays at Blog about your Blog. It's called Comment Friday and we basically just encourage people to comment.

The rewards are traffic to their blog and possibly a free PR 4 link. The winner will also be featured as our Comment Friday Blog of the Week.

Last week we gave a little link love to Polliwogspond, but this week it could be you.

Star Wars Costumes and Accessories

Being a huge star wars fan, I was excited to find out that EasternToys.Com wanted me to write about Star Wars! Well, not so much star wars, as the costumes and masks they offer. Obviously the best thing has got to be the Darth Vader Helmet. Remind me to do my Halloween costume shopping there!

It looks like they haven't missed any of the characters. They feature the more popular ones such as Jango Fett and Darth Vader, as well as Sebulba, Watto and Ki-Adi-Mundi. If your not an avid Star Wars fan, these names may mean nothing to you. Even if Star Wars is uninteresting to you, these realistic masks will definitely catch your eye.

Just Say Hi

Everywhere I look, I find JustSayHi.Com promoting and advertising their dating site. Obviously, they must feel they have found their niche, and people need them. Just Say Hi prides themselves on being one of the only "truly free" dating websites there are.

I wish they would have taken my advice when I wrote about them before. They still feature their newest members on the homepage. Many of these members probably won't be back again, and it gives a terrible impression on a first time visitor. From typos to bad pictures, they need to feature their quality members.

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RSS Feed Subscription Contest!

Our RSS Feed Subscription Contest at Blog about your Blog has been a success. We've managed to double our Feed Readers to 90. That's only halfway to our goal.

The contest will run until we get 200 (maybe sooner) so we need more subscribers! The sooner we get there the better! Then we can run our next contest, which should be MyBlogLog related.

Did I mention our prize for the Feedburner Contest? It just so happens to be this mini fridge! That's right a free mini fridge, just for subscribing to our RSS Feed!

Make sure to leave a comment at Blog about your Blog so you can be eligible in the drawing!

Subscribe to our Feed Contest

All you need to do is simply subscribe to our feed. Read us through a reader, email, whatever you want. After you subscribe to our feed, comment that you have done so in this post.After we get 200 subscribers we will be giving away the mini fridge! (we currently have about 60 subscribers).



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Displaying your RSS Feed Count: What is the Big Deal?

Recently I’ve read a few articles on Displaying your Feedburner Subscriber Count. I never really saw the problem. I thought displaying 40 or 50 readers was good. I mean think about it, on top of the average 200 unique visitors we get per day, that’s about an extra 40 people just reading our content, per day.Good right? Wrong.



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Should You Register Your Website in Directories?

Amwart.Com has purchased a review, not of their website, but they want me to discuss why you should join web directories. I've been reading about them recently, and have considered creating my own. I hope you agree with my thoughts on the benefits of joining directories.

Website Directories seem to get a bad rap when it comes to bloggers. They seem to feel it's not worth their time, because there is no traffic to prove it is beneficial. Many have written off directories all together, including me until recently, but there is something to gain from them.

A web directory gives you a free link to your website or blog. The more you have the better, right? The best way to build traffic to your website, is by creating back links to it. By doing so, there are more websites pointing at your website. Not only does that favor for search engines, but it also builds your page ranks. The best directories to join are ones with a page rank. Currently Amwart.com has a page rank of 3, which should also go up the next google page rank update. So by registering to their directory, I will get a pr3 website linking to me, all for free.

The best, and last, thing about directories, are that they are manually edited. This blog is now under review to join amwart, and should hopefully be approved. They do this, so spam sites are excluded, and they will only include quality websites.

Text Message Your Bids at Bid4Prizes.com

Bid4prizes.com is definitely an interesting website. I've heard of websites like these, but never really took them that seriously. Basically they offer you a chance to get 'free gifts' and cash prizes simply by having the lowest unique bid. Unique bid just means that no one else can bid the same amount as you. So if you are the only one to bid 55 cents, and thats the lowest 'unique' total, you win.

They offer prizes like HDTV's, IPhones, etc. What bothers me about this site are two things. First, you must text message your bid. Second, you can win a car for 1.75$. Until I would actually win, with no strings attached, it seems to good to be true.

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Ghost Afterlife

I am going to try a little something different here. My blogs have been far from personal. Just about blogging, earning money, other blogs, you get the idea. I have been mulling over the idea of a new website, featuring my old poetry, song lyrics, and other bloggers poetry as well. To try to test out how good the response is, I am going to post a few poems here and on Blog about your Blog.

Comments are encouraged. Thank you.

Ghost Afterlife
3/25/04

Like a ghost
You see right through me
Invisible to your sight,
but I’m here

Like a ghost
You walk right through me
I’m undetectable from your touch,
but I’m here

Like a ghost
You can’t hear me
My words have fallen deaf to your ears,
but I’m here

Like a ghost
You can feel my presence
but your not sure if I’m real
I’ve been overlooked, but I’m here

Like a ghost, you can reach through my body
Which you've already done
And pull out my non-existent heart
Which you've already broken

All I am now is a ghost
Trying not to disappear
Piece by piece I start to vanish
Trying to hold on, to my afterlife

By Matthew Henrickson

Just Say Hi Dating Website

Just Say Hi emphasizes that their one dating website is free. Many other websites require, credit cards, yearly or monthly memberships, etc.

On their web page it reads:
Meet thousands of fun, attractive, men and women in your area on our totally FREE online dating site. No gimmicks, no tricks. Stop paying for online dating now. Join our site and browse online personals from thousands of sexy singles who've discovered the benefits of free online dating and matchmaking. Why wait?

What I also found on their main page was a sample of their newest members. What was even worse was that these members had several typo's. If I was looking for a date, I would want someone who could spell. Not JustSayHi's fault, but a turn-off nonetheless. I would suggest featuring quality members, or really active members instead. It might give it a better first impression.

Their competition is with other dating websites, like eHarmony, but they feel they are the best.

I've noticed many other bloggers posting about this, they are really trying to get the word out about their site.

Insurance Portal Online

Insurance seems to be a big deal for anyone, especially in the United States. Personally, I am not insured at the moment. Blogging definitely hasn't provided me enough income to buy insurance, and I don't have a full-time job to qualify.

If you are like me, but financially more comfortable, you can visit a website like Insurance Portal Online for your insurance. They sell all types of different insurance like Life Insurance, Auto Insurance and Homeowners Policies.

Just like any other site, they guarantee the best rates. All I can say is see for yourself, tell them we sent you, and have a look around!

Almost all those holding financially stable situation prefer buying insurance for one thing or the other. Generally all of them do hold auto insurance and perform an annual research to find the most cheap auto insurance. A majority of them go for home insurance also and find the online means of instant home insurance quite affordable, less messy and more reliable for any likely home insurance claim.

BAYB's Blog Competition

Blog about your Blog is hosting a blog competition where the reviews will be voted on. The best review will receive 10$ and 2nd and 3rd place will receive 5$ each. The money will be payed via paypal at the end of the competition. There are very few requirements so get started today. After a few reviews are done, the voting can start! Nothing to lose, and 10$ to gain.

Don't forget to participate in comment friday!

London Advertising Directory

Directories seem to be in full overload these days. There are tons of directories. I think the more successful ones may be the specific ones. I found one that is just for London Advertising. They have 1020 links in 58 categories all related with advertising in some form or another. You can find websites that are advertising agencies, offer photography services, and marketing.
What I found that I didn't like was that it would cost money to add your website to their directory. When you try to "suggest a link" you are prompted with the information and the box is checked for a 'sponsored link'. However, they do have things that can get your website found easier within the directory. Top Links and Popular Links are just two of the ways to be noticed in this directory. If this is your niche, this directory may be worth consideration.