My post yesterday was about Anchor Posts, about writing some excellent flagship content in a series of posts so as to immediately define your blog’s uniqueness. Now, a good blog is as good the number of visitors and repeated daily visitors. Otherwise, it will be like the world biggest diamond hidden somewhere in the vast desert somewhere deep down in earth where no one seems to be able to find it. Well, I am not elevating my blog to that status of a rare gem, but the idea is to have traffic to my blog. I stumble upon this interesting idea of linkbaiting. Matthew the creator of this linkbait got this creative idea attending a forum when one member asked the others this question “How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight?” Immediately he could sense that he had something that could produce viral effect. He whipped up some questionnaires, designed some graphic and submitted to all major social media websites. The result was this interesting linkbait website: www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com Shortly after that his site received more than 500,000 page views per day and even after two months later has 20,000 page views per day. A google search on this key phrase produces more than 2.5 millions pages only conclude the popularity of his creative website, which incidentally was created by borrowing the idea from someone else. My score is well below par perhaps because I have been known to be kind and gentle with children (any irony here?) Try out yours before you comment, won’t you?

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Leon of mythoughtsonstuff.com came visit my blog and left a comment which prompted me to visit his blog. This guy has a cool site and I stumbled upon this cute little widget. Upon testing of my blog’s reading level, this is what I get. Is it good, you tell me., but not until you check yours first. Hey, yours maybe primary level,

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One interesting wordpress plugin is the default Akismet plugin, which checks your comments you received for your posts daily against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.  When confirm, akismet plugin will show the number of spams and show on your blog if you activate this useful tool.  Judging from the number of spam I have since I started (656 to date), it would seem that I maybe quite “popular”.  Most of them are really spam, however, I was caught unaware with two of the recent comments. They were actually trapped by Akismet, but when I peruse the list, I thought that they should be genuine comments, in fact they have plagiarized my blog and stole it as one of their posts!

Content plagiarizers or blog scrapers as  Chris Garrett coined them, are becoming somewhat nuisance and annoying.  Chris even called them scrapers scum, to quote what he says:

A popular gripe of bloggers is the scraper scum. You know, the people who copy your content then slap ads around it or use it as search engine fodder so they can pimp their spam. It might be apparent that these gits annoy me too.

Chris’ recommendation is to install this plugin  WP_RssSticky  which works by adding copyright and download links into your RSS feeds and posts.  To quote what Chris says:

Why is this important? Well now when scrapers steal your content at least they will be linking back to you. The more they promote their copied and pasted spam, the more weight those backlinks will provide you. I’m hoping also it might hint to Google and co that your post is the original.

Maybe it is a blessing in disguise, I have two weighted back links to my blog!

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My last post was quite easily the shortest post ever, eh, well not quite really.  I was told that I can just copy the code and publish it on my blog and it will constitute 1 entry for the contest started by Thor Schrock for his  Secret Classroom Blog Contest.  So possibly someone has beaten me and did the same thing. 

Now if you will browse over to his site later, you will see that he has come up with a contest with three attractive prize.  First prize is US$1,000 payable to your paypal account, second prize is a Copy of Joel Comm’s Secret Classroom DVD Set worth US$497 and the third prize is a 22? Wide screen Acer LCD Computer Display worth US$300.   US$1,000 is too much to pass up.  I am definitely going to get in as many entries as poosible.  There are many different ways of getting entries, writing posts about the contest, link him in your blogroll, add John Chow, Gary Conn, Douglas Karr in your blogroll, blog about this in your other blogs, post your comments in other posts in his blogs, comments in forums and so on.  I think it wise for you to get there to read for yourselves.  For this tips, don’t forget to mention in your post that you heard from me.

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I am entering Thor Schrock’s Secret Classroom Blog Contest

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This guy Gobala Krishnan must be crazy for giving away such excellent gifts in sooo soooo easy way.  It has been a long time since I last received a Christmas gift.  Christmas has been always a joyful time to give gifts to people that we love, to family members, to some charity organizations.  Somehow, as we grow older, and being a man, it means that we think even less of getting any gift from others.  Do we wish to have gifts?  Do we desire that someone would take effort to get us some meaningful gifts?   Sure we do! I think Gobala has just struck a chord in me, and I am welling up with emotion.  Yes, I want a gift for Christmas, not because it’s free.   But because the gift makes me feel loved and it makes me feel that there is someone out there who cares. 

Now this is the time for you to win your gift.  Hurry up and go to Gobala Site here: http://www.easywordpress.com/labs/christmas-gifts-contest There are some uniques and crazy Christmas to give away from him.  The trick is to win the contest by writing a post on their contest.  You will stand to win one or more of the five unique crazy christmas gifts.  They have Yoda Plush Backpack that acts a fashion or a backpack for your laptops, books and what not,  a Sonic Boom Alarm Clock With Bed Shaker that sure to wake up any sleeping beauty, a Marshmallow Shooter that  spiced up some Christmas party fun, Spaceman Moppel LED light for Sci-Fi guys and USB Memory Watch with a 2Gb storage to make sure you always back up your data. 

You can even win a Wi-Fi eStarling Photo Frame that can help you send photos via email or RSS feeds within the vicinity of Wireless connection.  So hurry there to join in the contest, which last only between 12th to 24th December 2007.  So why are you still reading my post?

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