This will be my first contest on this blog. The prizes are quite simple:
- The winner gets a 1 year free of domain name (your choice of .com/.net/.org) and a 1 year web hosting Standard plan from think411.com.
- *UPDATE* Another winner gets a 1 year free of domain name (your choice of .com/.net/.org) and a 1 year web hosting U.S based Starter Plan from HightekHosting.com.au.
- *UPDATE* Another winner gets a 1 year web hosting Basic Plan from Lunarpages.com (and a domain name of .com/.net/.org). Refer to my latest update about the contest post here.
- The 4th winner will get a 2 week of free advertising on my sponsors area (125×125 ad).
So what do you need to do to get the prizes?
I’m not going to use a point system on this contest (where you get points on doing certain tasks which will increase your chance in winning).
However, to be eligible for this contest, you have to:
- Subscribe to both my RSS feed and Email subscription.
- Help spread the word about this contest on any social networking site of your choice (Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Twitter, etc)
- Comment on this post that you’ve done above.
- Simply be noticeable on my blog throughout the contest!
- That’s it!
The winner won’t be random, but I’ll select people that I notice the most during the contest period!
The contest will end sometime in August and the winners will be reported on my post 
FAQs:
Q: How can I be noticeable?
A: Many things! Good quality and frequent comments on my posts, by writing a post about this contest, by bringing referring traffic to this post, and many more – be creative!
Q: Why do I have to subscribe both your RSS and Email feeds?
A: RSS – so I can keep track of the subscriber numbers easily through the counter. Email – to make sure that you are not just subscribing to an RSS feed reader that you’ve never opened/read!
Q: Why aren’t you telling us when the contest will end?
A: This is to make sure that you’ve been reading my posts throughout the contest. I’ve found a few favorite blogs because I’ve been forced to read their posts through their email feeds before. I hope by reading my posts throughout the contest, my blog can be one of your favorite too!
If you’ve been loyally reading my posts throughout the contest, then you’ll know when the contest is going to an end
That’s it! Good luck!
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Mike,
I am in. I have subscribed and also stumbled
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Do you know? I’m learning some good ideas from your contest
thanks. That’s cool!
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Already Subscribed by RSS, subscribed by e-mail, and stumbled.. Will Twitter it later today..
Awesome contest!
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Done,
Subscribed by RSS, e-mail subscribed , and spread the word about this contest on my friendster post bulletin .
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Cheers!
Not so many contestants to the contest. You guys have a good chance to win then?
Cool.
Subscribed by email and google reader.
Blogged at:
http://www.indocontest.com/2008/08/05/win-domain-1-year-web-hosting/
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cool
I will subscribe it
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Cool! Free domain name, that’s what I want and need for now.
Anyway, I’ve subscribed via google reader and email.
Blog it here: http://myearningcorner.blogspot.com/2008/08/win-domain-name-1-year-web-hosting.html
Digg it: http://digg.com/tech_news/FREE_Domain_Name_and_1_Year_Web_Hosting_Contest
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i think i did everything this contest asked for
the feeds are sure to be helpful with plenty of info on technology
plus my blog and site n blog is also on gadgets n gizmos….looks like ur blog is sure to help
neways i an a amateur webmaster/designer n looking 4 a new domain for my new startup..(for upgrading 4m subdomain to a cooll domain).
digged it With a COMMENT (user name calldown11)
hope i win this award…
my site is gadgetguru.110mb.com
blog is: http://the-techie.blogspot.com
as a bonus i have added a link to ur blog on my blog(http://the-techie.blogspot.com) under InTeReStInG LiNkS
email: calldown11@gmail.com
PS: i really liked ur blog. its one of the blogs that is not cluttered but still has plenty of extra features….
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Great one, Michael. I’ll keep you updated with my entry.
Yan
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hello, i subscribed to your rss and also email subscriptions. Nice competition.. i hope I win!
ok then, you can see it also in my blog post here http://roffi.akuatika.net/2008/08/06/win-a-domain-and-1-year-web-hosting/
Thanks michael!
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Hello michael I also did everything I you said. I want to participate in this contest please. Thanks. I previously sent a comment but it didn’t show up. sorry if I double comment. Nice competition! hope your traffic increase even higher. Thanks!
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I subscribed to your email subscription list, though I often visit you so I can leave a comment too. Good luck to the contest and to the winners too ;0
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Michael, you know you are the best blogger of all time. Remember i even wrote you a tribute once. Remember, http://www.bligblogblag.com/journal/2008/6/11/a-tribute-to-michael-aulia-the-friendliest-blogger-in-the-wo.html
I Will dedicate an entire section of my blog to this competition. Yes. A whole page that will say Michael Aulia, i Doubt if anyone can out do that! And obviously i will comment,Digg,Stumble,reddit and subscribe by xml,rss, or whatever you want me to subsribe as.
whatever happens, i will get your attention. And you will never forget me, or my blog. Amen.
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Hi Michael, your dedicated page is up and running on my site. You can Publish directly to this page, its all yours! just type up whatever you want to say as an email and send it to. post.icanblog2.Michael@squarespace.com, and we are in business! i am using this page as my front page for the next 24 hours!
All the best.
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SU and reviewed as :- mehulb
Dugg as : SecretLove
and will surely spread the word about the contest going on out here to my fellow frds for sure
Good Luck to me and ur blog too
lol I should have just used the random winner selection. It makes me feel guilty when I have to choose a winner from one of you
The more the merrier!
don’t have to be guilty, you can pick me..
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Done….rss and mail feed as **_windra@yahoo.com
blogged on http://www.houseofreview.com/get-free-domain-and-1-year-hosting-on-michael-contest/
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Very nice.
I want to involved in this contest, but many of my friends is already participate here. Maybe I’ll just wait the good news from one of my friends that won this contest
Great contest Michael.
It’s me again with different blog address
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I have subscribed to your blog long before the contest but I did it now via email so that you can verify it.
Stumbled and digg by fayans.
So you have decided to use randomizer to pick the winner, haven’t you?
Hi,
Really nice to see in the contest scheme … and i hope your contest goes all well…
I have made a post on my blog
http://roscontest.com/2008/08/win-domain-name-and-1-year-web-hosting.html
Digged and stumbled upon. Well i can see many really dedicated people around here . I wish all of them the best of luck…!
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Stumble and add to del.icio.us under wiehanne
Blog it here – http://wiehannecontest.blogspot.com/2008/08/free-domain-name-and-1-year-web-hosting.html
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Good contest. But I’ll give others a chance. I have domain and hosting both. And I can buy that ad if I want
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Dear Michael,
you know, when I saw this contest today on a blog, my first thought was a calm OMG OMG OMG OMG I can’t believe it, free web hosting just when I wanted to start my own blog!
This can’t be a coincidence, it’s my chance!
But when I saw that it’s been running for a while, I became a little angry, then I decided to participate anyway and do anything I can.
So here is what I did so far:
Subscribed through RSS and e-mail
I dugg it:
http://digg.com/tech_news/FREE_Domain_Name_and_1_Year_Web_Hosting_Contest/who
(I’m rjani) (with comment)
I stumbled it:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.cravingtech.com/blog/free-domain-name-and-1-year-web-hosting-contest.html
(i’m gettodoit + review)
I registered it with delicious:
http://delicious.com/url/d8203ee058ce4618625ce6a73ca7c6c1
(rjani again)
Cheers
I’m going to inform you as soon as I do anything else to promote the site.
P.S.: I took a look at your blog and though it’s not my best interest, there are some useful posts there, so I wasn’t wasting my time at least
Let’s go everyone!
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Ok, I’ve just posted about your contest on my blog, and although it’s a fresh new site, that 2 loyal visitors might take a look at here
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Ok, today I thought it would be helpful if I post the contest to a few forums, here are the first two:
http://www.bobsfreestuffforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=53275
http://freestuffpage.com/forums/showthread.php?p=25825#post25825
rjanis last blog post..Free contest! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
You are not too late rjani. Most people here were so excited in the beginning and impressed me, but none are consistent so far
I said on the requirement “THROUGHOUT” the contest
If you comment often, bring traffic often to my posts, etc during the contest period, you have a very good chance to win
I subscribed and I’m posting the info now,
Hi! Firstly, let me thank you for hosting this wonderful contest, where you have a great chance to win depending on how much effort and work you put into this, and not based on some random choice.
Before I get into how I advertised your blog, I have two questions. Firstly, I subscribed to the email feed as asked, but for the RSS feed, how will you know if someone subscribed if they use something like Mozilla Firefox with just an add on that notifies the person of a new blog post?
That means that you have to use one of the online services, like Google Reader, right? Well, in any case, I subscribed with Mozilla Firefox plus Google Reader just in case – happy?
And another question – what if we want to advertise more after we post in here – do we post another comment on this blog post or what?
And now for how I helped spread the word! Firstly, I’ve posted news of this contest on this popular forum, where a great number of people warmly responded to the thread. Simply read it here: http://xrl.us/advertisement01. Notice also that I changed my signature to advertise this contest.
Next, I posted an entire blog entry dedicated to your blog on my website, SeekersFan, which can be seen right here: http://seekersfan.webs.com. And no, I didn’t just make this website in five minutes just to post a blog entry – proof can be seen on the actual site itself!
Then of course, I obviously Dugg this blog post under the username Feabionsu, and, although unfortunately have no way to check this, sent an email to each one of my friends, spreading the word about this blog (and contest).
And finally, I signed a few popular guestbooks of my favorite fan sites, one of which can be found here: http://xrl.us/advertisement02. Look for the green logo with the letter S. And that’s it for now! I’ll be looking for more creative ways to get your contest publicized – until then!
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Hi again Michael. How you doin’? Yesterday you said you need traffic, and I realized my blog is not the best option for that
But I thought: “if Michael needs traffic, I’ll give it to him, that’s the least I can do for the free hosting ”
So I went to yahoo answers and answered 2 questions, hope it brings you some traffic, at least you won’t wonder where it came from…
Here are the link in case you wanna take a look:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsTsRnY2.3ygkzzAN29frnPsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080815224031AAHYse7&show=7#profile-info-dbad55adcdc070738755c0c26859216daa
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap5SzF.xstkgYmbS2lQNoQXsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080816115113AAr2UCD&show=7#profile-info-tk4Zg8lYaa
Best,
Jani
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Ok, and here is my last action for today : I posted your contest in the stevepavlina forums(very good site btw
) it certainly will give you some traffic too.
Here’s the post, for the sake of completeness:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/business-financial/21498-host-site-choose-vs-stay-away.html#post228126
rjanis last blog post..Free contest! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
I will be emailing everyone I know about this contest with this shortened url: http://xrl.us/onxhr. That way you’ll be able to see from where your visitors are coming!
Feabionsus last blog post..Fantastic Contest Gives A Free Domain Name!
Today I launched my new blog dedicated to such contests as yours, and other giveaways, sweepstakes, free i-pod, notebooks, whatever you want
So I posted here too:
http://winmoneyandstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/michael-aulias-fantastic-free-domain.html
And I also came across a site that contained some tips on how to generate a great deal of traffic in just a few days, so I’ll do my best to popularize the site!
Have a nice day,
Jani
Appreciate all the effort, guys!
By the way, there is a nice twist update to this contest. Check it out!
All right, another scoop on me “helping spread the word” about your contest!
This is for both today and yesterday, since I worked on the articles yesterday evening as well. What articles you ask? Check them out!
http://xrl.us/advertisement03 – A Knol article, Google’s new thing!
http://xrl.us/advertisement04 – And the same article on good old Squidoo!
It took me half a day to put that all up – partly because I worked pretty hard on them and had to learn a bit of Knol and Squidoo along the way. And partly because in the middle of my Knol article, my computer went crazy, which resulted in the deletion of my entire article in progress.
But anyways, I got it finished didn’t I, and that’s the important thing! Hope you like them, but most importantly, hope other people find them and like them enough to visit your blog! I also put up another Digg about your second blog post about this contest – the one that announces we now have THREE prizes!
You can check it out here: http://xrl.us/advertisement05. Hope some of you digg it (perhaps you could put it up in the blog post please?) so that other people may find it!
Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance
@Feabionsu: You are the most enthusiastic contestant I have came across so far in any contest. I’m sure you will get noticed by Mike’s radar easily.
Just one question though, why do you shorten all the url and does it count as backlinks to this site?
Yan
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lol He’s definitely keep me impressed so far. I even remember his nickname on Plurk yesterday (and I have like 91 friends on Plurk). Keep it up, buddy
I don’t think the URLs will be counted as backlinks to my blog because the URL is not pointed straight to my post/blog’s URL (I’m not sure, though)
Huhh! I’ve answered five questions about free web hosting on yahoo answers, hope you’ll get some traffic:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080814143903AANIECY
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080819155250AAJlPQr
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080819200107AAFxrHX
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080819223920AAxPaGE
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AowOXOG33tS7xAu4LXF14OYjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080819223918AAcF0ZV
I also posted it on 3 forums, but I plan on posting it on others, so I’ll list it together tomorrow. I’m sure that will get you some traffic too, cause the views for such posts were between some hundred to thousands
Huh! I’ve answered five questions about free web hosting on yahoo answers, hope you’ll get some traffic:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080814143903AANIECY
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080819155250AAJlPQr
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080819200107AAFxrHX
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080819223920AAxPaGE
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AowOXOG33tS7xAu4LXF14OYjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080819223918AAcF0ZV
I also posted it on 3 forums, but I plan on posting it on others, so I’ll list it together tomorrow. I’m sure that will get you some traffic too, cause the views for such posts were between some hundred to thousands
Thanks Michael (and Yan too)! And you know, you were right when you said you discovered some of your favorite blogs by having to read through them, Michael. Not only to I get all the cool tech news, I got to know YOU better too – but we owe that to Plurk as well, hey?
And well, I /do/ try to get noticed – I mean, it’s not like I’m going to deny that I really want that domain name, because I do! xD It’s a great contest, the best of all the free domain name contests I’ve looked for and gave up on – and I gave up on a lot of them – so it’s worth to be making such an effort for me if I actually do win.
And now that Michael’s giving away TWO free domain names, to two winners – it just makes it all the better. It just means that there’s another winner, another person who’s not going to be disappointed by whoever wins the first domain and will be also jumping on his bed!
Anyways, about the questions – there’s two reasons why I shorten the links. For the ‘advertisement01′ and ‘advertisement02′ and so on – that’s just because it just makes it easier to read the post, rather than pasting super long links that break halfway through the post and go on forever. And it only takes me a second (Metamark’s the best shortening link website!). And it just looks nicer on the comments than an extra long link!
As for the actual link that I give out to people, the one that’s also shortened (http://xrl.us/onxhr) there’s the first reason of course, that when I paste it in an email or anywhere else, it just looks nicer and it saves characters when there’s a character limit.
The second reason is that I /am/ hoping that it counts as backlinks – the url is a direct link to this blog post. It redirects yet, but Metamark doesn’t take you to their own page where they say “WARNING: this url redirects you to http://www.cravingtech.com/blog...”.
I don’t know, but when I use StatCounter for my freewebs sites, it always says if the visitors use http://website.webs.com or http://freewebs.com/website or a shortened link like website.tk or .co.nr. So in a way, I’m hoping it does the same for Michael, so that he can tell where his visitors are coming.
And again, it’s just because it looks nicer and I love Metamark!
By the way Michael, did you like my article on Knol/Squidoo. Like I’m not talking about how much visitors find your site through it, just talking about the actual article itself…
Oh and about my username on Plurk and over here – since you mentioned it – want to know how I got it? From the verification code I used to sign up on YouTube!
Well, I /did/ want something original, and Feabionsu sounded like a cool nickname… so there you go!
Sorry I write so much, but I can’t help it… Hope that answers all of your questions anyways!
Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance
OOps, very sorry for the duplication, it didn’t displayed anythign, I thought I misclicked…
Okay, time for another daily scoop. Since hearing the news today that Yahoo Buzz finally opened up it’s beta to everyone, and seeing how each one of your blog posts has a “buzz” button, I thought I’d buzz as many recent blog posts as possible – considering that their offers aren’t expired or that they aren’t just your blog statistics!
All in all, I’ve submitted seventeen of your blog posts to Yahoo Buzz, and all of them can be found in my “Buzz Activity”, right here: http://xrl.us/advertisement06. Some of them didn’t get buzzed up yet at all, but two of them, one about your Gmail skins, and the other about the ALT attribute got buzzed up five times already!
Which of course compared to other people’s buzzes isn’t much, but seeing as I only posted them today… And anyways, I hope as time goes by and more people visit your blog, they’ll take the time to buzz up your posts as well. Which is the whole point of this thing – to make your blog and this contest more known, so don’t worry, one of those 17 buzz submissions IS about the contest…
I also submitted your entire blog as a whole to Yahoo Buzz as well, as well to Digg.com. You can check it out here… http://xrl.us/advertisement07! Submitting individual blog posts is good as well as spreading word about the contest, but telling people about simply your blog and what it features I thought was a good idea too.
Lastly, I made little cards on the computer that told people about your contest – a screenshot of what I did can be seen here: http://xrl.us/advertisement08. As you can see, I duplicated the cards, then printed three copies (that’s 30 small cards) and cut them out.
So where I did I put these cards then? Did I hand them out to people on the street?! Of course not! I’m not THAT desperate! But I /did/ go to my public library, believe it or not, which ten minutes walk away thankfully, and put them out in visible places for people to see – on the keyboards of free computers, on the tables where one reads, on the armchairs where people sit – and even on some of the shelves where computer books are put!
It might seem crazy, but hey, it actually works! You have to see with your own eyes how people notice the piece of paper lying on their computer keyboard and pocket it after reading it! Maybe not every one of my cards had such attention – but I tried!
Now that I think about it, I should’ve taken a picture with me at the library and one of those cards at the shelves! Maybe tomorrow – I have lots of ink in my printer left, so nothing’s stopping me from printing and cutting out more of them!
And as you can see, this is one of the cases where my link shortening actually helped me!
Like Rjani, I too plan to use some more social sites like digg and facebook, paste the link in some more forums, and answer some yahoo questions – but for now, I’m focusing on my more creative ideas, since I have inspiration at the moment!
Yep, creative ideas like cutting up little cards… xD
It’s actually fun coming up with all these new schemes to popularize this contest and your blog! I hope it’s actually helping you at least a bit – I doubt you get hundreds of visitors because of my little cards or me posting your blog on Digg; but I do hope it does get you at least a little bit of traffic!
Until tomorrow’s scoop then!
Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance
@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
Wow! That must be like the best compliment someone ever game to me! Thanks again for all your support Yan!
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? 
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!
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!
Feabionsus last blog post..Another Domain Name, Another Chance
@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
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!
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…
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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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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?
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!
Your friend,
Feabionsu
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