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Submit posts to Thoof and then use the ThoofRank badge to measure your articles popularity

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Surely by now you’ve been hearing all the buzz about Thoof?

Just in case you haven’t I’ll tell you about it. Thoof is a site where you can read interesting current news stories, blog posts, watch videos or look at photos that have been submitted by Thoof members. It’s a great way to keep track of what’s happening in the world and you might even discover some websites or new blogs to read by viewing stories on Thoof.

The more you visit Thoof the better Thoof gets to know what stories you like. Each time you click on a story that interests you Thoof remembers that you were interested in that type of topic so the next time you visit the site you’ll see stories that might suit your interests based on your past Thoof visiting history. In this way Thoof can become your very own personalized news website.

Membership in free and once you become a member you can submit interesting articles that you’ve written, or posts from your blog or other sites you’ve visited.

I’ve heard from other bloggers and they say that once they started submitting some of their posts to Thoof they started seeing an increase in traffic to their site. So you could say that Thoof is another way to promote your website!

Once you submit a story to Thoof you’ll have the option to add a ThoofRank badge to the article that you’ve just submitted. When you add the ThoofRank badge you’ll be able to see at a glance just how popular your story is on Thoof.

You might even say that the ThoofRank button could give you an idea as to how well you’ve written a story that grabbed the Thoof members attention.

I’m going to submit this post and then I’ll put a ThoofRank badge on this post to see how popular my story is on Thoof. It’ll also give you an idea of what the badge looks like and how it works once you see it.

Why not visit Thoof today and see if there are any stories that interest you. Also, don’t forget to submit one of your own riveting posts to the site and watch the visitors flock to your blog!





Slacking on the Celebrity news front

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I just realized that I haven’t been writing in my Celebrity blog Celebrity Scoop at all! I used to write at least three posts a day there, but in the last few weeks I’ve barely written anything.

I think I’ve just been too busy with my other sites, and well web hosting woes. Actually I think the web hosting woes are the main cause of my not getting over to some of my blogs in a more timely manner.

Now that my hosting problems have hopefully been resolved I should be getting over there more often – daily I hope!

So if you like keeping up on celebrity gossip please do drop by, I promise there will be something interesting to read when you visit.

Back in business

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Well it looks like I got side railed on my getting organized plan. As you probably know my sites were unavailable through the weekend and for the most part until sometime Tuesday for most people.

I’ve still had a few problems with my sites – had to change web hosts since my previous web host did something totally nasty – so I’m only just getting started catching up on posts.

I hope to spend the next couple of day writing up draft posts for most of my blogs – in my spare time (what is spare time anyway?) as it really does make it easier to be sure that you are able to post at least once a day. Just pick from your drafts if you don’t have time to write a whole new post.

Hopefully I’ll have some interesting new posts over the next few days!

Sorry again that my sites were down. I’m very relieved that they are back up again.

Blogging – getting organized and Schmoozing

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As many of you likely know I have a number of blogs.

The majority of my blogs are well over a year old – so don’t be thinking I created my blogs to make money. No, I created them to divide up the various topics that I was interested in talking about regularly into blogs of their own.

When I first did that, and every time that I mention that I did that people think I might have cut my readership down by spreading out my blogs. I haven’t. I’ve increased readership all round because those that are only interested in particular topics can focus on the blogs that I created about those niche topics rather than digging from one or two main blogs that talk about ALL the things I enjoy or that I’m passionate about.

As my blogs have gained in readership I’ve been spending more time developing the sites and interacting with those who leave comments. This has actually taken time away from blogging and has made it harder for me to post in some of the blogs on a regular basis.

When I wasn’t quite as busy I’d take the time to write up a few extra draft posts on each site that I could use whenever I needed or set in advance to auto-publish so that the blogs always had at least one post a day.

I was to get organized and start doing that again. It really helps!

If this sounds like a good idea to you, I think what those of us with multiple blogs need to do is set aside at least one or two hours each day to write up a couple of extra posts on a few of our blogs. In no time at all you’ll have a stalk of draft posts just waiting to be published.

When most of your blogs have some drafts backed up you can then take a bit more time to get out and visit other bloggers sites or spend some time promoting your sites on directories.

schmooze.jpg One of my blogging friends, RennyBA recently gave me a Schmoozing Award the other day. I don’t think he gave it to me because I buzz around promoting my sites. I think it was more because I try to build communities with my blogrolls and make posts like this every once in a while with the aim of helping others with their blogging. Now if he’d given me this award last year it would have been for commenting because I think I regularly visited about 200 sites a day leaving comments on most!

Anyway, back to the point of this post. Help your self with posting and organizing your time by writing up some extra posts that you can save as drafts when you either have the time or when you are in a writing mode. Believe me, it will give you more time to schmooze and promote your site … or simply to relax!

In the old days before our PVR

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I was just thinking about something I used to do when people would call while I was watching a television show that I didn’t want to miss. I used to switch the TV over to closed captioning. Sure it distracted me a little bit from my telephone conversation, but I could still keep up to some degree with what was going on in the show.

Now of course we have a PVR. That’s like a TIVO for those of you who don’t know what a PVR is. We almost always record our favorite shows on the PVR because we don’t always watch the shows when they are on TV. We watch them hours later. One bonus to this is we can skim through all the commercials.

The PVR also lets us pause or even rewind a live program. I love this! If the phone rings while I’m watching something interesting or if I need to use the washroom or go cook dinner I can either just pause the program or let it run and rewind it back to where I’d left off when I’m ready to watch the show again.

I love it!

Who else has a PVR?

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