Since I’ve already posted this in SocialSpark, I might as well announce it here.

As part of a link exchange campaign I’m running, I am looking for personal blogs that are willing to do a 50-word review on any of the posts I have in WebGrrrl.net, with a link back from your blog to that particular post. Your post should look something like this. Once done, e-mail me and let me know of the URL, or if you have a SocialSpark account, accept the Spark. In exchange, I’ll return the favor and do the same thing to one of your posts in your site.

Please make sure the link back is NOT a no-follow and is not published under any sort of sponsored review category. Your review on my site will stay in my site permanently and has a DoFollow so that you can get some link juice back. Take this opportunity only if you own a personal blog. Commercial blogs, or blogs with adult or gambling content will NOT be entertained.

Interested? Then start now!

No, not on this blog. He actually set up a campaign on my other blog, the one that talks about money making stuff. No, I’m not going to tell you where my blog is, at least not yet. It’s an experimental blog to see whether I can make money off free blogs such as Blogger.

I just find it interesting that he would select a newly established blog such as mine to promote his site via Entrecard, that is all

I plan to move my blog to BlueHost as soon as my hosting account expires next year. But as for the rest of my blogs, I’m currently quite content hosting it at 000webhost.com for free, since I’m currently on a tight budget after the birth of my son, and those blogs of mine aren’t receiving any serious traffic anyways. Blog of Rugrats is currently hosted there and so far the access to the site has been as good as the paid hosting I’m on now.

I know I’m taking a pretty risky choice of hosting my blogs on a free hosting. Would you be willing to do the same thing? Under what circumstance would you choose a free hosting over a paid one?

1. Before my mobile phone conks out, I should store my favourite ringtones. In case you like them, here they are for your Nokia phone listening pleasure. (note: works on Nokia monotone mobile phones)

Harry Potter Theme (tempo: 112 BPM)
8b1 8.e2 16g2 8#f2 4e2 8b2 4.a2 4.f#2
8.e2 16g2 8#f2 4d2 8f2 2b1 8-
8b1 8.e2 16g2 8#f2 4e2 8b2 4d3 8#c3 4c3
8#g2 8.c3 16b2 8#a2 4#a1 8g2 2e2 8-
8g2 4b2 8g2 4b2 8g2 4c2 8b2 4#a2
8#f2 8.g2 16b2 8#a2 4#a1 8g2 2e2

Winter Sonata (a Korean hit drama) (tempo: 90 BPM)
4d2 4e2 8e2 8f2 8f2 4f2 8e2 8d2 8c2 4b1 8-
8b1 8c2 4d2 4e2 8f2 8e2 8f2 8e2 8d2 8c2 8b1 2a1 8-
8a1 8b1 8c2 8c2 8d2 8d2 4d2 8c2 8b1 8a1 8#g1 8-
4#g1 8a1 4b1 8- 4b1 8b1 4b1 4c2 2.a1

2. I am having a BLAST with this site: The Advertising Slogan Generator is one wicked tool. Type in any word you fancy, and it’ll generate a slogan for you (obviously). The slogans are ridiculously hilarious!

I cringed when I read Eric Giguere’s recent post on how to build high PR back links to your site, one of the steps being that you find a DoFollow site and commenting on them. It reminded me of the keyword spamming I faced on this blog’s comments a while ago, and it irked me to no end. I tried to moderate the comments as much as I can, but at the end, I surrendered and removed DoFollow from my site.

The flip side of the coin is that having DoFollow on your comments does increase comments, and thus, traffic, to your site; new blogs can definitely benefit from removing NoFollow from their comments if they are just starting off and building a community around their sites. Having a Top Commentators list can achieve a similar effect, especially now with the hijacking issue fixed. Both the DoFollow and the Top Commentators options cannot address the issue of getting quality comments; I still have to moderate, and in small instances unfortunately, delete one-liners such as “I like your site,” “I agree,” or “it is beautiful.”

When I think about it now, I still feel that it’s a shame that I had to disable DoFollow on my site, because I really didn’t mind passing out juice to other sites that needed the PR. However, I spent too much time moderating comments, and decided my time was better spent posting on my blogs instead of filtering comments.