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  1. @Feabionsu: I believe if not for the Olympic, the whole world will be watching you NOW. But Mike will watch with a BIG smile if you don’t shorten the urls as I’m pretty sure it will not count as inbound links.

    Anyway, it’s your call to decide what’s good for you and what should be more good aka better for Michael.

    Yan

    Blog for Beginnerss last blog post..20 Possible Ways to Optimize Your Blog

  2. Feabionsu Says:

    Wow! That must be like the best compliment someone ever game to me! Thanks again for all your support Yan! :D It’s really appreciated… and yes, I’m starting to doubt the usefulness in the shortened links too - but perhaps they /do/ count in Michael’s stats? Michael - will you that question for us once and for all? :D

    Well, in any case, the shortened links still lead to Michael’s blog, so it’s not like they’re stopping the traffic, hey? I am wondering… how did YOU get a domain name Yan, since we’re talking about them so much because of the contest! :D Did you just pay for it? Do you have to renew it every year or do you have it for more. Perhaps for life?

    I’ll be sure to check out your blog as well, since it never occurred for me to look at it - I’ve been busy advertising THIS blog, so you can imagine… But I’ll be sure to take a look!

    @Michael: I’ve actually visited your other blog, Write From God or something like that, and I have to say, it’s pretty interesting! I discovered it through your Plurk profile - actually, I owe Plurk a lot of things nowadays! - and I read that story about the bamboo and the fern….

    But I can’t comment! I don’t know why, but it keeps saying something about anti-spam word… So you’ll have to excuse me from comment on that blog…

    Back to the topic of contests - I’m meeting so much new and interesting people since I joined in this contest! Spending all my time on this blog has certainly got me to know you Michael, and you Yan better and a handful of other people too! I’m really happy! :D
    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  3. @Feabionsu: LOL, yes it certainly points back to Mike’s site, thus driving traffic to his site but it will not be counted as backlinks. I think as webmaster, we are guilty of wanting the best of both, if you know what I mean….

    I begin to realize why you have to win this contest. I check on your site and it’s hosted by webs.com. I wouldn’t say that it’s a bad idea but you are serious about preserving your online profile, get yourself a domain (www.feabionsu.com is good) and keep it for life if you can. After all, it won’t cost you anything more than $10 a year.

    Good luck, pal. Though I’m in the contest, I think you deserve it more than me…unless I know how to write comment as long as yours…:-)

    Yan

    Blog for Beginnerss last blog post..20 Possible Ways to Optimize Your Blog

  4. Feabionsu Says:

    Ah yes, I know what you mean about wanting the best of both! Though, since I haven’t been running a blog for years like Michael or you probably have, can your remind me the advantages of backlinks or inbound links or both, and what exactly they are?

    As for the website that my username links too - I kind of gave up on it. Fans of the book series it’s based on still check it, and I do update it now and then, like with the contest - but you get bored of book series. And anyways, I have much better plans for the free domain name I hope I can win.

    http://www.feabionsu.com is good, but preserving my online profile? Meh, I’m not too crazy about stuff like Facebook, YouTube, and other networking social sites - and I’m not as interested in letting people know who I am and my interest and everything, as I am in sharing the content I plan to write.

    You’re right about the http://www.yourdomain.webs.com - it’s actually Freewebs, and it works if you’re just doing a small fansite about something or maybe a blog (though for that, I’d choose blogspot) - but for something big like I’m planning, that not only a few fans of the series will visit but a bigger, more general audience, you really need to represent yourself with a official .com. Or at least a .net. No .orgs for me! I’m not an organization!

    And the new .me domain name? Urggh - definitely not! It’s good if your domain name is taken, since with a .me you now have the opportunity to register practically any domain name you always wanted, since it’s still new and not everything is taken… But obviously the other choices are much better!

    As for simply buying a domain - I know it costs only 10 dollars a year, but the problem is, I don’t have a PayPal account! Well, actually, I did register, but I have no idea how to connect my bank account to it yet, and anyways, I’m not too trusty when it comes to giving your debit/credit card numbers…

    So yes, http://www.feabionsu.com would be awesome indeed - but what would I share with the world that people would want to read and keep reading the next day? Of course, in a sense, it might be more useful than anything else, cause I would be able to post anything I want, rather than sticking only to one subject. But I’m not planning to write a blog, and like I said, if you ARE sticking to one subject, which I prefer, rather than having just an online profile where you stick everything together; then you really need to represent that subject with it’s own domain.

    You’re in this contest too? Sorry for being surprised, it’s just I ddin’t realize that, since I don’t see any comments saying how you helped “spread the word about this contest” as Michael puts it! And also, I knew that you already had a domain name, so it never came to my mind that you might want another domain.

    Well, of course every one wants a free domain - it’s free, and you have nothing to lose! But not everybody has the content, and it really does take work to keep two websites running! And also I didn’t realize that, because you kept commenting how /I/ should win it! :D
    Oh, and my posts are long because I love responding to people who give their honest and thoughtful opinions on a subject, rather than just writing one line. My friends ALWAYS complain that I write emails too long - because obviously, they care more about using smileys and chatting…

    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  5. Feabionsu Says:

    Oh man - today’s scoop is a good one indeed! From one point of view, it might seem short or like no work at all, but really - you have to imagine how much time I spent on this. More than five minutes I can assure you that! :D

    Today’s luck number is ten - that’s right, ten Yahoo questions about getting free domains answered, ten of your most interesting blog posts buzzed up on Yahoo Buzz, and ten questions answered at BlurtIt.com, a service similar to Yahoo Answers - but with more people, and more questions about domains of course!

    Now I understand the buzz thing isn’t exactly related to the contest - but if people find your blog, there are big chances they’ll find your contest - and if not, at least you’ll still have another loyal commenter perhaps, another loyal subscriber! :D

    The links! Coming up first is Yahoo Buzz… Oh, by the way, I have to tell you about something I don’t like about Buzz - perhaps you could blog about it Michael? It’s the history - you don’t get your own page where you can see all your diggs, you just get your “Buzz Activity” - the last 20 things you did with Buzz.

    So some of my more successful buzzes about your blog have dissapeared from my username. Of course they’re still there, but that’s just a sucky thing I found out about Buzz. And practically the only sucky thing! :D Okay, now the links:

    Get Your Gravatar - http://xrl.us/buzz01
    Stop Hotlinking - http://xrl.us/buzz02
    Cool Icons For Free - http://xrl.us/buzz03
    Don’t Install WinRar - http://xrl.us/buzz04
    Private Advertising - http://xrl.us/buzz05
    Need A Quick Poll? - http://xrl.us/buzz06
    Digsby Review - http://xrl.us/buzz07
    Introducing iRing - http://xrl.us/buzz08
    System Mechanic 8 - http://xrl.us/buzz09
    Photoshop Tutorials - http://xrl.us/buzz10

    As you can see, there’s some pretty old posts in there - that’s because I practically read your whole blog looking for worthy buzzes - for the best of the best of blog posts! :D I commented on many of them too - oh and I also buzzed your newest blog post, about Video to MP3 website converter - http://xrl.us/buzz11 - I guess that makes 11 hey?

    Okay, onwards! Now with the Yahoo Answers! Mind you, Rjani did a pretty good job of cornering many of those still open questions - but I managed to get ten good ones answered nevertheless! :D Here they are in all their glory:

    http://xrl.us/answer01
    http://xrl.us/answer02
    http://xrl.us/answer03
    http://xrl.us/answer04
    http://xrl.us/answer05
    http://xrl.us/answer06
    http://xrl.us/answer07
    http://xrl.us/answer08
    http://xrl.us/answer09
    http://xrl.us/answer10

    Question 10 made me laugh - look at it will you? :D Oh - glances at his bookmarks - and I guess I did some extra work!

    http://xrl.us/answer11
    http://xrl.us/answer12

    And finally, for BlurtIt! Note: BlurtIt only allows people to answer once, and since there wasn’t any open questions left, I simply commented below - they still get a notification about comments!

    http://www.blurtit.com/q391766.html
    http://www.blurtit.com/q649105.html
    http://www.blurtit.com/q690135.html
    http://www.blurtit.com/q663139.html
    http://www.blurtit.com/q415017.html
    http://www.blurtit.com/q212946.html
    http://www.blurtit.com/q101953.html
    http://www.blurtit.com/q650847.html
    http://www.blurtit.com/q970569.html

    For the tenth one, I actually managed to answer an open question - the only open one I could find! - but unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be able to open. You can see the proof though under my “Achievements” in my profile, located here: http://www.blurtit.com/who.php?username=Feabionsu.

    And if that isn’t enough, I plurked to all of my 30 friends about your blog (sorry, I already plurked about your contest - but that was when I had 20 friends, not 30!), but you probably already know that, having received the plurk yourself. Oh, and I also dugg that Stop Hotlinking post, cause I saw the “digg this” thing and though “great!”.

    Hope all these answers, buzzes, and diggs suit you well! :D

    Your friend,
    Feabionsu

    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  6. bloggista Says:

    Done. Dugg, subscribe to RSS and more. :-)
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  7. Feabionsu Says:

    Michael, you forgot to update the prizes list here! People will think I’m lying if I tell them now you’re featuring THREE free domain names! :D
    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  8. rjani Says:

    Feabionsu, you really know some useful things to promote a website, I haven’t even heard about the things you use, next week I launch my new blog, maybe you can do some advertising there too, if you have some freetime :D
    So today I stayed with old Yahoo Answers, and since the contest is almost over, I thought I send people to other areas of the site that I found useful.
    And I liked Mike’s entrecard guide, so I made some suggestions to those who wanted to increase their blog traffic. Since the quesions are almost the same, I gave the same answer except some modifications here and there.
    By the way, I really don’t understand these people. They rather make a question than search and choose from the hundreds of other best answers from the previous same exact questions. omg, omg, omg! But it’s none of my business. I’m happy I could help them :D

    So here are the links in case you would like to check them:

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtNQqFYss2IkWNv.uD3qbWIjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080814153140AAvuN3l
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApN_gkW3WRX6HOkD_LdpbKUjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080820235549AAiAr23
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao2qO0SCvFmE31AVh7uzCtIjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080822001946AAuokVd
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au.wmhRDEu1wg4E8VpkSKmYjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080818213403AAZYSRc
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080822032838AAdMTCN

    I saw some post about 3 domains above, but first I wanted to post this, now, I’m off checking if the news are true :)

  9. Feabionsu Says:

    Thanks Rjani! I guess I do… though I knew about BlurtIt a long time ago, when I was trying to find a similar Yahoo Answers,but without registering a Yahoo Account. I’ve given up on it - simply because I don’t like spending all my time answering people’s questions just to get more “karma points”. I’d rather simply check Yahoo Answers to see if anybody answered my question before - like you recommended - cause somebody probably has!

    But I’m not gong to do free advertising for you - I /don’t/ have the time, you see! Well, I might help you out - but only if there’s another free domain name contest in store for me! :D By the way, sending people to other areas of Michael’s blog is a great idea! (I’ll send my own scoop, for yesterday and today, this evening Michael - I was too busy yesterday to post it then. Sorry!)

    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  10. rjani Says:

    Feabionsu,promoting my site was just a joke of course :)
    But I’m glad to see you take it so seriously :D
    Well, I don’t have any money for such a contest, but I’m sure there will be other ones, and why do you need another domain anyway? :D
    By the way, I like to do my promotion, so don’t worrry ;)
    And looking forward to see what you’re going to do with your site
    (oops, so many smileys, this must be a happy day for me)

  11. rjani Says:

    And although I think it’s a very good idea to promote the site through such contests, it’s kinda sad that Michael offers 3 domain names+hosting now, and there are so few contestants, but the most surprising for me is there are only 18 diggs so far on the post… :o

  12. Feabionsu Says:

    Exactly - that’s barely worth anything on Digg! And the only two active contestants I see right now is me and you, Rjani! (Unless there’s people who just secretly email Michael what they did, cause they don’t want to share their techniques!)

    I /did/ take it as a joke - I’m just bad at letting people know I understand their jokes… so everybody usually thinks I’m the last to catch on, though that’s not true! :-( Why do I need /another/ domain name? I never said I even had a first one!

    Well, if you count the seekersfan.webs.com thing - but that’s not a real domain name, just a fan website! And like I said, I’m pretty quits with that website, so it’ll be one domain after all! As to why I need it - to build a website I’m passionate working on of course! Something that’ll be updated regularly, and that’ll keep my visitors coming back every time!

    Yep, I got ideas, that’s for sure! But you’ll have to wait to find out - it’s going to be a surprise. To you, to Michael, to everyone! :D And yes, that is a bit too much smileys! :D Though I shouldn’t talking really…

    Back to the tiny number of Diggs though - really, Digg isn’t important to me, as much as before, anyways. I used to value it for the number of visitors it could bring to my site, but since Yahoo Buzz recently launched, I found much more advantages in it, than Digg.

    For one thing, more people have a Yahoo account than a Digg one, no matter how popular a social networking site Digg might be. Secondly, I saw a buzz submission in the Top Content (basically on the front page of Yahoo Buzz) and it only had 9 buzzes! Would Digg ever feature something with 9 diggs on their home page? I don’t think so!

    And then of course, if getting your content on the front page of Yahoo Buzz isn’t good enough, then there’s the huge possibility that, with enough buzzes, your blog/website might be featured on the front page of Yahoo.com, simply because many people buzzed it!

    And yet, there’s even less buzzes than there of Digg’s about this contest - so it /is/ a bit disappointing, I agree Rjani…

    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  13. rjani Says:

    Hehe and some funny stuff at the end: one of my free domain+hosting answers was chosen the best answer at yahoo! :D
    So it will be seen by other searchers for a long time :)

  14. rjani Says:

    Oh, and Feabionsu ! I understood that you had understood that was a joke, it’s just your comment had some serious tone or something, so I said that as a joke, uhhh, it’s difficult :D, I think we’re in the same boat.
    And about the domain, I meant : why do you need a second one after you win one here.:)
    And thanks for opening my eyes, I didn’t give much attention to Buzz, and I didn’t know that I only need only a Yahoo account to use it, so I’m going now Buzz this post, then on my way to the highschool-camp! See you soon!

  15. rjani Says:

    I almost forgot to mention: I saw that even subscribers’ numbers decreased by 22 or so, I can’t imagine why :S
    I could understand if the contest was already over, but why now?
    And one last correction: the best yahoo answer might be because I voted on my answer and nobody else voted, I really don’t remember, but it succeeded anyway :)

  16. Oh Michael, if these two guys are not winning anything for what they have done, they are gonna kick your ass…..:-)

    Yan
    PS: It was a joke.

    Blog for Beginnerss last blog post..I’m in the Top 100

  17. rjani Says:

    I don’t really like kicking asses :) but you might win one hosting, cause you seem good at threatening people and pretending it was a joke :D
    P.S.:it was a joke

    I’m going to the camp in 10 mns, but I couldn’t resist to put it here:
    oops, yahoo answers is currently down, but I thought it might help if I vote on my answers there, and it seems to work, cause nobody else votes, and I’ve got another best answer linking to your blog, and I’m sure there are more yet to come!
    Have a nice week!

  18. Even though I haven’t replied to the comments, I was following them hehe

    The three of you should form a group or something with me. Seems that the four of us can be great friends :)

  19. Not a bad idea actually, so is this a joke or something? Pardon me for lack of humor in my DNA…:-)

    Yan

    Blog for Beginnerss last blog post..I’m in the Top 100

  20. Feabionsu Says:

    Not really following with all the joke things, but oh well… :D

    And thanks for letting us know that you’re still following this post’s comments - cause I was kind of sad you stopped replying to any of them…. Is this like your most commented blog post of the month? I bet it is! :D
    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  21. Feabionsu Says:

    At last, the HUGE scoop of three days worth - Saturday, Sunday, and today! :D Sorry if I made it seem as if I was getting lazy after all - I was still working hard on advertising the contest and your blog, just didn’t have those last few minutes where I could actually write the comment and tell you about it!

    I’m continuing with the number ten for each project I do, so for Saturday I decided to continue with Yahoo Buzz, plus adding Reddit and Digg to the pile! That’s three good and popular social networking services, and ten blog posts for each one of them - so thirty great back-links all leading to your blog! :D

    First things first - Yahoo Buzz. And seeing how you have added yet another twist to your contest, I was able to buzz your contest for the third time now, with the happy news of THREE free domain names! Of course with the rest of the buzzes I had to stick with just your other interesting blog posts and hope that people will discover your blog through them - I can’t buzz your contest more than once, that’s a job for other people! :D The list:

    Three free domains - http://xrl.us/ooeqy
    OurSwaps website - http://xrl.us/ooeq2
    Realistic animation - http://xrl.us/ooeq4
    Pic2Color website - http://xrl.us/ooeq6
    DealExtreme website - http://xrl.us/ooeq8
    Blogger to WordPress - http://xrl.us/ooera
    Vista Shutdown Timer - http://xrl.us/ooetv
    Re-seal Chip Bags Easily - http://xrl.us/ooetx
    LunarPages Review - http://xrl.us/ooet5
    Free Blue Screen Backgrounds - http://xrl.us/ooeuh

    And that’s it for Yahoo Buzz! I loved all of those blog posts and thought they were pretty interesting. I’m sure other people will find your blog through these buzzes and will enjoy reading them too! Now, onto digg… same blog posts, but the links are different, so don’t think I’m just copying and pasting the above!

    Three free domains - http://xrl.us/ooeva
    OurSwaps website - http://xrl.us/oofbi
    Realistic animation - http://xrl.us/oofbv
    Pic2Color website - http://xrl.us/oofcf
    DealExtreme website - http://xrl.us/oofch
    Blogger to WordPress - http://xrl.us/oofcw
    Vista Shutdown Timer - http://xrl.us/oofdg
    Re-seal Chip Bags Easily - http://xrl.us/oofdp
    LunarPages Review - http://xrl.us/oofd5
    Free Blue Screen Backgrounds - http://xrl.us/oofed

    And finally Reddit - some of the blog posts differ here, cause I started working with Reddit a bit before Digg and Buzz - the good thing though, is that I don’t even have to post but one link - my profile! Simply click on it and you’ll see all of them! Including a link to the contest of course… http://www.reddit.com/user/feabionsu.

    It was actually a bit annoying to use Reddit, to tell you the truth - you have to wait 10 minutes between each submitted item! How stupid is that? Nevertheless, I was determined to post 10 of your blog posts, even if it means in a time period of 100 minutes!

    For Sunday, I thought it’d be good to focus on your contest again - these past few days, all I’ve been doing is just advertising your blog and interesting blog posts - which is good, but there’s also a time to focus on the actual contest. Seeing the “Share” button on the contest’s post, I decided it’d be cool not to just Digg, Buzz, and Stumble this contest but use all those other services too! Furl, Mixx, Pownce - there’s loads of them! And so your contest went up on…

    Mixx - - - http://xrl.us/oohji
    Furl - - - http://xrl.us/oohkf
    Pownce - - http://xrl.us/oohkq
    Delicious - http://xrl.us/oohk4
    Digg - - - http://xrl.us/ooeva
    Buzz - - - http://xrl.us/ooeqy
    ShoutWire - http://xrl.us/ooh3s
    Faves - - - http://xrl.us/ooh4a
    CiteULike - http://xrl.us/ooh4n
    Diigo - - - http://xrl.us/ooh4t

    And that’s that for the links! It might seem small, but registering on each of those sites was no easy 1 second task! I’m proud that your contest is now on so many social networking sites and I hope more people find it now through my efforts! (I understand that some of the above, like Digg and Buzz, were done before, but still, they count nevertheless, so I thought I still ought to include them!)

    And finally, today I decided was a day for forums - another blog recommended some really good do follow forums that are popular, organized and very resourceful (or so the blog said), so naturally I went ahead and posted your link on each of those forums! Plus I added a signature with a link to the contest too! I’ll post the links tomorrow however, cause it’s already really late here where I live and I really do have to get some sleep!

    Till tomorrow then - for another great scoop! And so see, I /was/ working all this time! Just didn’t have time to write such a long comment as this! Hope you’re happy with all these new efforts! :D
    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  22. I wonder what will happen if I extend this contest for another month… *evil grin watching Feabionsu doing all the marketing work for his blog* lol just kidding, I’m not that evil

  23. Feabionsu Says:

    No! That WOULD be so evil! If you would, I’d probably just leave! Seriously. That’s why it’s kind of a good for me that the contest is ending pretty soon - I do work hard on those “scoops”, but it’s time I got to work on my own website, domain or not! I wouldn’t even mind even if the contest ended today! My previous “scoops” should count for something and I’ve given as much effort and work to this contest as I possibly could, at least for the time period since I joined.

    Another evil idea would be that Michael just hosted this contest so people like Feabionsu advertise for him, when really, he doesn’t have any free domain names to give away and plans to pretend to give the prizes to imaginary winners! I don’t know if that’s being done before (probably has been) but that would be evil indeed for Michael.

    Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance

  24. Feabionsu Says:

    So, time for another little scoop! What have I been doing for these past two days? Well, there’s the forums of course that I was talking about - those required some effort. All that registering, confirming your email address, then trying to find the right category to post about your contest - well, I’ve learned that you can only post on so much forums.

    Here they are:

    Castanet Forums - http://xrl.us/oono6
    Domain Name Forums - http://xrl.us/oono8
    Warriors Wish Forums - http://xrl.us/oonpa
    Warriors Forum - http://xrl.us/oonpc
    Digital Point - http://xrl.us/oonpg

    And then of course there has to be some buzzes, right?

    Free Image Resources - http://xrl.us/oonpr
    Windows Live Messenger Beta 9 - http://xrl.us/oonpt
    Make Money With Empty Advertising Slots - http://xrl.us/oonpv

    Only three, but I’ll do more, just didn’t have much time yesterday. And plus, I got your newest blog posts on buzz, so I can’t just make MORE new blog posts out of thin air! I did submit your WLM 9 Beta post to Digg and dugg all the other new blog posts that others have already submitted: http://xrl.us/oonp7

    And of course, good old Reddit agreed to help out:

    Free Image Resources - http://xrl.us/oonqj
    Windows Live Messenger Beta 9 - http://xrl.us/oonuy
    Make Money With Empty Advertising Slots - http://xrl.us/oonqf

    And that’s it for now! I’m running out of ideas here! Tried practically all the networking social sites, answered all those Yahoo Answers and BlurtIt, went on forums - whatever next? I’ll have to come up with a genius idea, that’s what…

    Feabionsus last blog post..Two free domain names? I’m sorry, I meant THREE!

  25. Desserts Says:

    Awesome post, way to go =)

  26. Pregnancy Says:

    Thanks for the post! Great

  27. divorce Says:

    this contest sounds great i think i want to enter it any more info?

  28. this sounds like a pretty interesting contest

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