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Use FriendshipFinder to meet friends and singles

June 28, 2007 by Tricia

If you’re interesting in meeting new people, talking to others online and perhaps meeting in real life you might be interested in visiting FriendFinder. It’s always great when you can meet new people from the comfort of your own home isn’t it?

FriendshipFinder looks like it would be a great site to meet people in your area. Whether you are looking to date or just make friends.

Just for the heck of it I signed up and did a search for women in Ontario. Obviously I’m not looking to date! I just wanted to see how many other women in my area were looking for friendship and I was able to find a few from my general area of the province.

You can do a basic search on FriendshipFinder without signing up, but if you want to contact any of the members that come up in your searches you’ll have to sign up to send them a message or to chat with them using the FriendshipFinder chat system.

Considering that I’m stuck at home due to my illness I can’t get out as much with my friends and I’m not often in situations these days where I can make new friends so I can see how joining FriendshipFinder might be nice in that I’ll have a few more people to talk with if I do make any friendship connections.

One nice thing about a site such as this is that it allows you to get to know someone first before you perhaps take a chance and meet them in person.

Members make profiles, and can put up photos of themselves so you can get an idea of what they look like and what their interests are before you contact them. Then, as I said earlier, you can chat with them online as much as you want before making plans to possibly meet in person.

I’m sure that by the time you actually meet the person you’ll feel like you already know them if you’ve talked to them a few times online. I know when I’ve made friends with people on the internet in the past and eventually met them it always already felt like I knew them.





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Recreation, Socializing Tagged With: blog, chat, friends, friendship, friendship finder, Internet, life, make friends, meet, meet singles, membership, Ontario, photo, photos, pictures, profiles, search, singles

Still figuring out redirects for some sites

June 21, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been trying to work on my websites so that they will either redirect to an url with www in it, or without www. I’ve managed to do this for all of my sites but one. It’s a CMS site that runs on Joomla. A very old version of Joomla.

Looks like I’ll have to start brushing up on Joomla info as well as upgrade the site in order to find out how I can maintain the url with a www in it. Htaccess 301 redirects don’t seem to work.

Anyone else do an Htaccess 301 redirect on a Joomla run site? if so, how did you do it?

Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, Technology Tagged With: 301 redirect, CMS, htaccess, Joomla, upgrade, upgrade joomla, website

Calling it in

June 19, 2007 by Tricia

This is strange. In the past month I’ve actually been asked to do a few speaking engagements regarding my success with websites and blogging.

One business contact is holding a series of four seminars and they begin next week. The seminars are out of town so I can’t attend in person. He’d decided that perhaps he’d just do a phone interview with me and I suppose, hand out the interview to seminar attendees.

Now he’s changed his mind.

He wants to call me during the seminars and interview me via a conference call. He says the calls will only be 5 minutes. Somehow I doubt that … but $50 bucks for a short phone interview? I’m not sure yet. but I might do it.

Filed Under: Blogging, Finance, Internet, Make Money, Technology Tagged With: Blogging, conference call, interview, making money, multiple seminars, phone interview, Seminar, seminars, series, series of seminars, speaker, speaking engagement, success, website

People abusing do followers kindness

June 18, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been noticing a trend that disturbs me lately. I run the do follow blogroll and of course my sites are listed on it. In the past week there have been a number of people going around and leaving comments on all of my blogs and using website addresses rather than blog addresses in their signature.

Now, yes, I realize that no everyone has a blog, and some website owners do like to read blogs and leave comments. That’s not my beef. It’s people going around listing various different pages of their website in their signature and leaving comments that either don’t really go well with the post, or comments such “oh with the title of that post and your blog description I thought I’d find something like that here”. Maybe innocent enough, but when you see practically the same comment on a few posts on the same blog or on a few different blogs that you own you start to believe that people are just coming by to leave a link since your blog follows.

I love getting comments on my posts. However I’m starting to feel a bit used.

The do follow blogroll has been copied on to several sites and the people that are abusing the gift of links that follow are not members of the blogroll.

I set my blogs to follow because I want to reward my commenter’s for participating in the discussion and for hopefully being regular visitors. Those of us who have chosen to remove the nofollow tags from our blogs lose a tiny bit of our sites PR every time someone leaves a comment.

I would hope that those that leave comments can see why we want valid comments and not just spam to promote another persons site or to get a free link.

If you are following the blogs on the Do Follow Blogroll and leaving comments please only leave valid comments that add to the conversation of the post and don’t abuse our kindness.

Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, Technology Tagged With: abusing, abusing do follow, blog, Blogroll, blogs, Do follow, do follow blogroll, leaving comments, leaving links, promoting websites

This site just got page rank!

May 2, 2007 by Tricia

Amazing! I started this site at the end of February, and Google started doing it’s dance sometime around the end of April.


I haven’t been working on this site anywhere near as much as I work on all the rest, but since a few of the others went up in page rank I visited this site to see if it at least bumped up to a PR1 from a zero and guess what? It’s a PR3!

I’m sure it helped that this blog is in on the same domain or uh is a sub-domain of my oldest domain. The site that is on the domain triciaswaterdragon.com was started in 1995 on a non profit domain called icomm.ca and when they shut down in 2003 or 2004 I started this domain. So the sites been around for a long time, and the domain – well not so long but longer than any of my others. I guess that’s why this sub-domain picked up PR so quickly.

It couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that as soon as I start a site I list it in all the directories could it? 😉 Nah …

Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, Technology Tagged With: blog, Google, got PR, main domain, new blog, new site, old domain, page rank, pagerank, PR, sub domain, subdomain

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