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Off topic ads?

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I have the strangest thing happening on one of my blogs lately. One of the advertising companies I use to supply ads has been showing some totally irrelevant ads – at least on my end.

It’s on my gardening blog. I’m seeing ads for weight loss supplements and oddly enough one that says moving companies Los Angeles. Odd.

It’s especially odd when you consider that I talk about my garden, give gardening tips and discuss specific plants on that blog. Nothing close to the ad topics that have been showing up!

Do you use advertising on your site? If you do, have you noticed that occasionally your ads just don’t fit with your sites main topics?





Comment spammer hitting my blogs heavily today!

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Wow, my blogs are being hit heavily by one comment spammer today! This guy has hit two of my blogs leaving 35 or so comments on each of them!

It’s not like there good comments either … he’s copying the comments of others or a line or two of my posts and creating his comments that way. Hitting one post after another as he goes!

I’ve marked his comments as spam, but he got smart and changed his email so I got flooded with comment moderation requests on his second go round! If I’m lucky he’ll stop hitting on my blogs this evening or won’t think to try another email address. LOL

Well I guess I’m glad that he’s not leaving links to vulgar sites, links for products or malignant Mesothelioma or make money info. It could be worse, he’s just copying other peoples comments. I’m glad I have a good memory and I can pick out familiar comments that I’ve read before on my own sites.

Does your blog ever get hit by serial comment spammers?

Lots of new Twitter followers today

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I can’t believe how many new Twitter followers I got today. I normally get about 10 to 15 new followers a day, but I think I’m up to about 40 or so today! Strange … I have no idea why I picked up so many new followers today.

Do you use Twitter? If you do and you want to follow me just click on the link in the sidebar or look up dragonden (my Twitter username). I usually follow fellow bloggers back and or people that are interested in some of the same topics that I am such as gardening, photography, blogging, dogs, humor and so on.

I don’t tend to follow people back who have zero updates in their Twitter profile or those who are trying to sell anything from web hosting to tv stands. I’m interested in real people. I’ll bet that you are too.

Getting free stuff is cool

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I seem to be on a roll lately. Over the last two weeks it seems that at least every second day there’s been a delivery of promotional products from a variety of companies. It’s kind of neat getting stuff to try out.

My husband and I both have several blogs. I think the total between us is at about 18 right now. So I guess it’s no surprise that Marketing companies are contacting us via some of the more popular blogs that we write and offering us products to try and possibly write about on our sites.

In the past two weeks we’ve received two cans of coffee, a promo for eggs, granola type bars, really cool earphones to use with an MP3 player or smart phone, two DVDS for a TV show about UFOs and the unexplained, a razor and a pair of jeans.

It’s not always this way of course. Sometimes we go quite a few months without being offered anything neat to try, but we seem to be on a run right now.

Do you have marketing companies contact you through your blog offering you free promotional items?

Starting to get back into a routine

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Well … about a week ago I told you guys that I was going to change my whole routine -from how I sleep, to how I blog right down to getting some regular exercise.

So it’s only a week but I have made some progress. No major changes on the sleep front unfortunately, that’s still messed up, but I have gotten into a little better routine with my blogging and I pulled out the elliptical machine and started using it for 30 minutes each day. I do hope to build up to an hour or so of doing ellipticals each day or at least most days, but that will take some time.

Now if I can only get our dog Midnight to stop pretty much pulling me off my feet every time I take her outside we could start taking longer walks again. Earlier today she got excited when she saw a woman walking two dogs and at first she obeyed my command to sit and not bark, but I don’t know if one of the dogs made some kind of move when I wasn’t looking, but all of a sudden Midnight stood up and started running towards the other dogs with me dragging behind. The leash slide through my hand so fast that three of my fingers on my left hand still hurt. Boy was I mad at Midnight!

That’s what I’m dealing with on that front … but she’s pulling less and less each month so maybe walks with her can become part of my fitness routine again soon too. And of course, hopefully I start to sleep better again too.

Are you working on any goals to improve your health?

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