Win $1000.00 Cash
I’m writing about CrunchNow’s contest giving you the chance to win $1000.00 cash.
To join his contest go here to Join CrunchNow’s Contest here

It’s time I have another great, awesome and huge contest.
He decided that since it was his birthday on the 10th why not give back to his readers and gain some more readers also. He decided to give $1000.00 to someone in cash.
There is only one way to enter and thats to subscribe to my blog and write about this contest on your blog.
When you subscribe below each email address you enter gets you one chance at winning so tell your family and friends to go join his contest!
The other way to gain a entry is to write about it on your website, myspace, facebook, blog et cetera.
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100 Top European Marketing Blogs

The yearly AdvertisingAge list of the 150 top marketing and advertising blogs came out a few weeks ago.
This blog is not on the list. The original list was mainly American blogs. Sure, I’m American, but I live in France so I made a list of the top 100 European Blogs. This list is a couple days old as I hit publish, and the list changes as each site changes in their PR, Alexa or Technorati rank. The ranking will change.
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Asking For A Stumble
Here is an easy way to ask for a stumble by email or on a post.
I just published a blog carnival for a client and sent an email to each person that was published. I told everyone that that the carnival was published and I asked that they stumble the post for more exposure.
Using this type link: Asking For A Stumble opens a StumbleUpon window which looks like the image below (if the user is logged in).
Here is the format in case you want to reuse it:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://cheapkeywords.info/asking-for-a-stumble/&title=Asking%20For%20A%20Stumble
In case you don’t know:
the 1st part: (http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=) is the SU site.
the 2nd part: (http://cheapkeywords.info/asking-for-a-stumble) is your link.
the 3rd part: (&title=Asking%20For%20A%20Stumble) is the title you associate with your URL.
Stumble if you will. Use the link if you like.
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WordPress Translation Plugin
I use a widget that translates a website into any of the 24 languages that Google supports.
Just today made it was into a WordPress plugin that is free to install at http://getinternationalclients.com/translation-plugin/.
Once installed and activated it appears as an option in the widget panel so you can add it to your sidebar where you wish.
From the Get International Clients site:
“The GIC Translator is a free WordPress Plugin which automatically translates the present page your reader is viewing. This plugin is not intrusive, makes no changes to your site and opens a new translated window. This means your readers will stay on your website while they read your content in their own language and not somewhere else. All your foreign visitor has to do is click on a flag that they will recognize as associated with their language.
Easy Cross-Cultural Communication
The plugin uses the Google online translation service and translates from any of 24 languages (Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish) into any of the 24.
This installs like any other plugin, and takes advantage of the multiple sidebars that are common now in WordPress. Once installed and activated you go to the widgets section of the design. You decide where the most appropriate place to place is to install your plugin.
For sites not using WordPress, a script is available at Your Free Cross-Cultural Communication Tool - A Translation Widget that can be used on any website.”
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Win a iPod Nano and Chiropractic Gift card
How to Win a iPod Nano and $250.00 massage/Chiropractic Gift card
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All you have to do to have a chance of winning this marvel of modern technology and Free Gift card is Subscribe to This rss feed by entering your email address below Or Enter Here at Crunch Now Dot com The contest will last 2 weeks so tell all your friends and family to come subscribe to win this free gift pack From CrunchNow and BloggerNoob
You Will also need to write a blog post about This blog (on your own blog) and mention this competition(you only have to subscribe to Enter this just gives you 2 chances of winning Instead of one).
Once you’ve done that, come back here and leave a link to your post in the comments to this post. The winner will be chosen at random, so you can say whatever you like about CrunchNow -good or bad!-.
Note:
- This is a Rss competition against me and BloggerNoob
- One person who subscribes wins all the prizes.
- We can add more items as the competition goes on until Friday July 25th at 8pm.
- The more Friends you Tell about This the Greater the chance at winning.
250 EC credits to the 10th approved comment (excluding my comments)
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WordPress Automatic Upgrade
I just tried wordpress-automatic-upgrade.1.2.1 to upgrade CheapKeywords from WP2.5 to WP2.6. I suppose you can say that it worked because here I am, logged in a posting. The really odd thing is that I can’t sign in with the same login/password when using firefox. Opera, on the other hand, works wonderfully.
Here are some of the other plugins I am using right now.
Akismet checks your comments to see if they look like spam or not.
Better Comments manager allows you to view your comments post wise and to reply to your comments from within admin panel without you having to visit the site to respond to comments .
Commentluv Plugin links to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment.
Counterize II Tracks site visits showing timestamp, visited URl, referring URl and browserinformation in database, and can display total hits, unique hits and other statistics in WordPress webpages.
Crawl Rate Tracker logs every visit by search engine robots.
Google XML Sitemaps generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
Hello Dolly This is Matt Mullenweg’s baby. I got tired of seeing the lyrics to Hello Dolly, so I added in the lyrics from some Jimmy Buffett songs instead.
KeywordLuv allows users to comment and include both their name and a keyword to link back to theeir site. Appears in a link an “Mac @ CheapKeywords”
250 EC credits to the 10th approved comment (excluding my comments)
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Paid One Way Link Directory
Over at Traffic2MyPage There is a post on the Top 100 Paid One Way Link Directories Sorted By Page Rank. This actually saves me the effort of creating such a list, which was scheduled to follow the RSS lists that have just been posted. Be sure to visit Traffic2MyPage.
Traffic2MyPage says: A web directory specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links in the World Wide Web.
There are two relevant reasons why you will want to submit to directories. First is to acquire more targeted increase of web traffic to your site. Second reason is to construct link popularity in anticipation of building your search engine ranking and also your page rank. Getting your page ranked in search engines will assist you in increase your web traffic
Below i have provided a directory listing of the top 100 paid one way link directories that are sorted by page rank that you can submit your site to . It will help you build your links with only the best quality directories!
Page Rank 9
Page Rank 7
www.elib.org
www.business.com
www.thisisouryear.com
www.whatuseek.com
sbd.bcentral.com
www.excellentguide.com
www.looksmart.com
Page Rank 6
www.thelanka.com
www.sootle.com
www.chiff.com
www.complete-directory.com
www.informationoutpost.com
www.octopedia.com
www.relmaxtop.com
www.seoma.net
www.busybits.com
directory.v7n.com
www.platinax.co.uk/directory
www.searchen.com
www.edikkanet.com
Page Rank 5
www.americasbest.com
www.abizdirectory.com
www.192directory.co.uk
www.allestra.com
www.amray.com
www.click4choice.com
www.hoppa.com
www.netexposure.com.au
www.sezza.com
www.topicalbeach.com
directory.uquick.com
www.directoryrex.com
www.mojoo.com
www.searchtheindex.com
www.blastoo.info
www.stockmarket-directory.com
www.ecotourdirectory.com
www.cbravo.com/
www.abifind.com
www.easyfinddirectory.com
www.directoryworld.net/
www.clush.com/Dir
www.directoryy.com
www.spheri.com/d
www.joeant.com
www.tygo.com
www.all-linksite.com
www.slackalice.com
www.instant-info-online.com
www.rakcha.com
www.enquira.com
www.townnet.com
www.xo-id.net
www.lifestyle.co.uk
www.ruamnesty.org
www.macmillanonline.net
www.biz-whiz.com
www.savvica.net
www.mastermoz.com
www.skalinks.com/dir
www.squidlink.com
www.unabot.com
www.web10.ws
www.link-city.com
directory.dewittsmedia.com
www.megri.com/
www.seekzap.com
www.la-ma.org
Page Rank 4
www.worldwidesearchengine.com
www.sorve.com
www.ebusiness-directory.com/
www.clubspage.net
www.askfrank.info
www.allthewebmasters.com
www.xeit.com
www.agorafind.com
www.choicex.com
www.dalfind.com
www.eplanit.biz
www.lookforth.com
www.netvisits.com
www.smallbusinesso.co.uk
www.ru7.org
directory.kreationstudio.com
www.onlooks.com
www.webskyguide.com
www.deeplink.us
www.advantagecontent.com
www.urlcabin.com
www.webazaar.net/
www.hi-techdirectory.org
www.mydentify.com
www.bramptonlistings.info
www.leadingsolutions.com
www.linkfeads.com/
www.affiliatefrog.com
www.mysitehere.com
www.tranix.net
www.webs-best-directory.com
250 EC credits to the 10th approved comment (excluding my comments)
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Wrinkled Old Gray Guy
Something funny for the weekend
Paris Hilton sends an intelliget reply to Mccain
250 EC credits to the 10th approved comment (excluding my comments)
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More Places to Submit Your Blog
This is a continuation of yesterdays list. Places to submit your RSS feeds. I was really shocked when I started to do this because I easily found lists with places to submit, but most don’t work. There are loads of pages with nothing but advertisements. Darn shame, people couldn’t make a go of a legit service and turned to tricking people to their sites.
BlogIntro PR 2
BlogsByCategory PR 5 asks for backlink but not required
devASP PR 2 for developers - works, but I did not submit
BlogBurst PR 6
250 EC credits to the 10th approved comment (excluding my comments)
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RSS Feed Submission For Your Blog
I did some site submissions today and here is my list for today and the page rank that goes with each. These are sites that I actually submitted to, so I know that they worked as of today.
Submit your sites too.
ReadABlog PR 4 (maximum 4 submissions per day) RSS
Blogarama PR 4 Blog
BlogStreet PR 5 supports English and languages from India
Globe of Blogs PR 7 Blog (they say submit RSS, your call)
BlogRolling PR 5 I did not want to sign up because they require a widget on site and I have 5 sites that I don’t want to install a widget.
PingMyBlog PR 5 PING your site. Not sure if this one works, I tried with 3 sites and landed on an error page
IceRocket PR 6 PING your site
BlogHop PR 6 requires signup
Blo.gs PR 6 PING, recently acquired by Yahoo!
KnowledgeSearch PR 5
FeedMap PR 5 shows your location on Google Maps
BlogSearch PR 4
250 EC credits to the 10th approved comment (excluding my comments)
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