I’m in the Top 100

thoushallblog.com – A blog that helps Beginners to blog better has finally made it into the 45n5 Top 100 (#96) – the most popular of its kind that shows you how your blog rank against every other blog in the universe blogosphere. 45n5 Top 100 is sort of a benchmark to measure your progress against the others.

With Technorati Ranking standing below 40K and Alexa (on its way to) reaching below 140K, the month of August has been quiet a successful month for me. Traffic has averaged about 300 Uniques in a day and 1000 Page Views. It has surpassed all my personal expectations, except that I’m yet to reach my goal of 150 subscribers for the current month.

OK! I’m done with my not-too-shameless blog promotion. Is this the kind of post you write when you have nothing to write on a good Sunday? Probably. Weekends are those times when I take time off to connect with other bloggers on their blog and my family off the blog. I don’t usually write on weekends as I think it’s just a complete waste of time if you ask me.

However, you might have noticed the trend of writing link round up at every corners of the blogosphere on weekends. One notable example of this is by Jim @ The Net Fool, a strong advocate of Sunday Link Love Edition and one of my good friend, Peter @ Work from Home who just finished his Links Round Up No. 2.

Though this is the one trend that I haven’t been following but if you do notice, I make every effort to link out to other bloggers every now and then on my post. It’s a no brainer to count how many links I give out on this post alone.

Christmas Comes A Little Earlier This Year

None the less, there are just a couple of blog errands I need to do here. The first thing is the update on the participants’ entry points since ‘It’s Christmas in August‘ Contest is going to end pretty soon in a couple of days.

First thing first, thanks to all the contestants who have shown interest (in winning the prizes) and participated and secondly, thanks to all the sponsors who have helped me in making it possible. A big “Thanks” to everyone.

So without further ado, here’s all the contestants and their respective entry points. (Edited: I think I’m going to change my mind in publishing the names of the contestants here so what I will do is I’m going to comment and update it on the contest post itself.)

Plagiarism At Work

Jay from Datmoney.com wrote an interesting article, How to Get Free Content for Your Blog through the Art of Plagiarism and quiet unfortunately it was what exactly happened to me not too long ago. Someone probably thought so highly of my article and copied & translated them words by words into Spanish through the creative use of Google Translator.

Here’s the act of plagiarism for your reading pleasure

1. 20 Razones por las que yo elegí WordPress
2. 20 Reasons Why I Choose WordPress
3. 5 posibles formas de aumentar la velocidad de tu blog
4. 5 Possible Ways to Speed Up Your Blog

What an ingenious way of copying someone’s else article off internet and publishing it in different language as his own without much of a proper credit due to the original author. I guess this is one of those unavoidable thing in this borderless online world. Unethical? You bet. Inevitable? I doubt so..

Anyway, I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank Johan Mena and Pitonizza who have informed me of this creative work of Copy-and-Paste; without you I wouldn’t have been aware that “I was Plagiarized” but then isn’t plagiarism the highest of flattery?

Contest Around The Blogosphere

A buddy of mine, Michael from Michael Aulia’s Tech Blog is running a little contest over at his blog where you can expect to win some domain names and hosting plan courtesy of LunarPages, Hightek Hosting and Think411. All you need to do is to make yourself as noticeable as possible in his blog throughout the contest period. Stroke his ego if you wish too as some has successfully done so.

And…

Unique Blog Design, the creative people behind the likes of John Chow, ShoeMoney, Courtney Tuttle, Entrecard, and now, Yahoo! is celebrating its 1st Year Anniversary with a contest for the remainder of August (until Sunday, August 31st).

Grand Prize – Brand New 8GB iPod Touch ($299 value) and One (1) Copy of our New UBD Citrus WordPress Theme and three (3) runner-up prizes include copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme.

The winner will be randomly chosen Monday, September 1st, 2008 via streaming video from the UBD office. For more contest details on what you are required to do, click over to UBD’s 1st Year Anniversary Contest and shout it loud your best birthday wish.

The End

That’s it ladies and gentlemen and thank you for dropping in and taking the time to read my first weekend rambling. If you like it, please do let me know but I can’t guarantee and I’m not too sure if I were to do again the following weekend.

Anyway, if these are Darren Rowse’s Weekend Strategies, what’s yours?

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