I am sure everyone noticed that the blog took a day off yesterday, and more than likely you will be getting this post late in the evening if not the next morning. I have been polishing some things up on the site, removing dead ad’s as well as debunk blog advertisements. While I take great joy in making money from this passion I do not take great joy in linking to paid for or not to a blog which the author is no longer staying regular with his posting. Thats my pet peeve for this month. I did somehow manage to have some pretty decent content for the last month and not even have a normal and reliable means of connection with the rest of the world.
Yes thats right the move is over and I am officially online and settled in the new place. I will say I went from a captive audience telco to a mainstream provider. Essentially 1mbit to 8mbit. I am not complaining as the cost is 50% less than before.
Moving along. We saw an outstanding post with some interviews of what I consider some of the top blogs that you can learn from and grow with. I want to thank everyone who participated again just in case I have not already.
Their are still quite a few prizes from the contest extravaganza that are unclaimed. This is partly my fault due to the unexpected and abrupt downtime from the net I had to experience. If you have not claimed your prize already please Email me direct webmaster@benjaminpatton.com I have an extra surprise for those that had to wait as well
Unfortunately due to some unavoidable day job related training I will not be attending affiliate summit east this year. It brings me great sadness to say this as this was going to be a primary focus and project for this blog and for myself for the next couple of months leading into it. Their is always next year. I want to thank the wonderful folks at Affiliate Summit for issuing pass credentials to Big Ben Patton’s place and I look forward to next year.
EntreCard is cracking down as most of you already know. Power droppers with pages full of the drop applets that are still left up will be banned permanently as of the first of the month. I am interested to see if people with landing pages with just their applet will be banned as well as this has been a popular way to enjoy the positive impact of EC without the 90% bounce rate which usually comes with the rest of it. I still believe this is a viable and fun way to network, but may be crushed by its own success/failure.
This brings me to twitter. I was quite excited about it when it was initially taking hold of the blogosphere. I even went so far as to add a twitter flash friends badge in my sidebar. It would display the lastest 10 tweets from myself and whoever I was following as that people could join in the conversation from the page. This unfortunately is no longer supported and judging by the scalability problems the people at twitter are having at the moment I do not see it coming back. Their is still hope with swx and custom building a flash duplicate of it, but I am no programmer. Instead I have removed twitter and replaced it with the twitter follow me buttom which will take you to my twitter page. I look forward to the day that twitter gains sponsorship or donation so that it can match its super high potential microblogging platform with equipment that can handle the demands that this type of stuff aparently needs.
Also Our Top Commentators for the week are:
JK Swopes (32)
Nathaniel (4)
egk (2)
IronBlogger (2)
Riyanne (2)
The Smile Guy (2)
Tom – StandOutBlogger.com (4)
Abby Park (1)
Affiliate Money (1)
You will also notice I added a Featured Post section so that you do not have to search through my ever growing archive. These should be changing every refresh to ten different posts. I had pondered adding a page, but as of this moment I have not accrued enough outstanding posts to merit a dedicated page. Enjoy and let me know how it is working for you.
I will be signing up for an aweber account very soon. At that time I will be offering my ebook again to the public. As you know tracking these things is very important. I have left my former auto responder as it had become completely ineffective.
On a side note before closing I have been having issues with any google ad’s loading with my new isp. Mostly I notice this on my adsense bar above the content here. If it is not displaying will you please let me know in an email, IM, or comment. Thanks!
Tomorrow should be a double content post day for me taking the previous day off. I look forward to another week of blogging and I hope you do too!
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