Lifes Like That

Back in February my husband bought me this laptop. My old one was running really slow and constantly jamming up all the time. My frustration level was over the top when I was trying to work on the Internet or work on all my blogs. So because he felt sorry for me, he decided to surprise me with a brand new laptop. For the past three months I have been seriously happy with it, but I have noticed over the past couple of weeks that it is running a lot slower than it originally did. I have tried cleaning it out to see if that was the problem, but that didn’t seem to help.

So I am wondering if I may need to do a computer memory upgrade on this thing. I really hope not, but if that’s what it takes to speed my machine up, then that’s something I’m definitely going to have to look into. I refuse to go back to the way things were on my old computer.

Last week I did a post requesting help from all you Entrecard experts and you all came through like troopers! Especially my good friend Tammy. Tammy gave me a link to a cleaner site (it’s free) to clean out all my cookies and stuff after I had done all my dropping from one of my blogs. Because I have several blogs in the Entrecard system I have to clean out my computer after each and every drop from one account. This is the only way it would work. But even cleaning out the system each time, it’s still faster dropping cards this way than it was the way I was doing. So thank you Tammy and thank you to everyone else for your sound advice. Now that I am aware that I need to clean out my cookies (that word makes me giggle), my dropping time has been cut in half!!

A little over a year ago, I created my first blog and set upon my journey into the Internet world. Now you all have to understand something. When I first started on the Internet the only thing that I knew how to do was to turn on the computer. I didn’t even know how to cut and paste. I have come a long way since then. I have learned so much such as creating websites, editing html, creating blogs and yes, even copying and pasting. So now that I have the basics down, I have been trying to learn about the different types of products such as the CAT5e that are available on the market for computers and Internet users. I am learning quite a bit, but I have found that I have so much more to learn. But give me a couple of more years doing this type of work, and I’ll be able to claim that I’m an expert.

OK  Here’s my problem.  I have quite a few sites on Entrecard.  So I downloaded the firefox toolbar so I would have a faster time dropping my cards.  And this part of my plan has worked out quite well.  But I have discovered another problem and for the life of me I can’t figure out how to get around this.  Maybe someone here can help me out with this.

The problem I’m having is after I drop my card for one site onto another it says “thanks”.  Yes, I know it’s supposed to.  But when I go to drop a different card from a different site of mine onto the same site where I’ve already been once that day, it gives me the message of “1 per day”.  I understand I’ve already dropped from one site, but this is a different card that  I’m trying to drop from.

Can anybody help me with this?  I hope I didn’t confuse you all.  Because I’m pretty sure that I just confused myself. lol

So most of you know that I do some paid posting for several companies. One of the companies that I consistently to work for is PayPerPost. I have been with them for well over a year now and am quite happy with the work I do for them. So, when I got wind that they were setting up another company called SocialSpark, I knew that I was at least going to try them out.

Well I have been with SocialSpark for a little over a month now. And over all I am quite pleased with what I’ve seen so far. Actually it’s a pretty easy site to join up with. Once you have signed up then you need to create a profile. In this profile you can list as many blogs as you want, name, age, marital status, likes, dislikes and employment history. The more information you provide, the better the advertisers can get to know you and decide if they want you to do work for them. If you would like to check out my profile at SocialSpark, my user name is kdarrell. I have decided to share my profile link with you so you can get a feel of what a public profile will look like. As you can see in my profile, I have friends (other bloggers and advertisers) and props (if people like your blogs or posts they can give you a prop). I don’t have a massive amount of each, but I do have enough for just starting out.

Then after setting up your profile. You can go into the system and start browsing the job market. If you like a particular opportunity then you click on it to be able to reserve it. If all the spots are filled, then you have the option of being put into a reservation when a slot becomes available. I really like this feature and have gotten quite a few opportunities this way. And while your waiting for opportunities to become available, you can go on in the system and start inviting people to be your friend.

My overall opinion of SocialSpark so far has it’s been a pretty good experience. Of course with this being a new program, there are still some kinks and bugs to be worked out. But overall it’s a pretty good company to be a part of. If you haven’t signed up for SocialSpark yet, then come on in and join us. Just let me know when you’ve joined so I can friend you. And if your in there and I’m not your friend, let me know and I’ll go in and friend you. See you all at SocialSpark.

This has been a sponsored post.

Here we go again. Another two weeks have passed and it’s time for me once again to give thanks to all my regular droppers from Entrecard. I try to do a post like this every couple of weeks just to give thanks and show you all the appreciation I have for your continued drops. So If your on the list, then a very big Thank You goes out to you all. But if your not on the list and would like to be, it’s really easy to get on the list. All you need to do is drop!!

1. The BenSpark
2. Karlonia.com
3. Pro Blog Reviews
4. Toltec Insights with Dr. Susan Gregg
5. Chica & Pumuckl
6. The Sewing Mom
7. Majik’s Thoughts
8. The Beauty Denominator
9. The Raging Tech
10. What Lies Within The Mirror

When I first started using Entrecard, I was so pleased with the traffic results that I discovered that I was looking for a way to give a little back to the top droppers of this site. The one way which I could do this was through a post done twice a month now to thank each of you who drop in often. So this is the post you all have been waiting for. If your on list, then a big thank you goes out to each and every one of you. And, if your not on the list but would like to be, then all you need to do is drop!

1. Karlonia.com
2. The Sewing Mom
3. Pro Blog Reviews
4. Michael’s So-Called Life
5. My Cornerstone Trio
6. The BenSpark
7. What Lies Within The Mirror
8. Superficial Gallery

Well I guess there is only eight today as two of the sites seem to not be in Entrecard any longer. But thanks to these eight and I’ll see you all again in two weeks.

In January of this year I heard about an amazing site called Entrecard.  This is a social networking site and after a few months being an active member of it, I have to say that it is probably the best social networking site on the Internet.  Not only do you get the opportunity to find and read new blogs that you probably wouldn’t have discovered on your own, but the amount of traffic that this site will give to any of your sites is amazing.  I have found this program to be so effective, that I have added it to all my blogs that I’m trying to promote.

So this is why I am quite excited to tell you about another way in which you can create more traffic through the use of Entrecard.   If you belong to Social Spark and Entrecard, you can get your blog(s) put on a blogroll that was set up by  Drew.  By getting your blog(s) on this blogroll, you can be assured that everyone on the blogroll will be visiting your blog while your visiting theirs.  I have been in this blogroll for the past week and have seen a lot of familiar faces on my Entrecard accounts from fellow social sparker’s. 

So if you belong to Social Spark and Entrecard and would like to pass around the “love” just give a shout out to Drew and I’m sure he will be more than happy to welcome you into the “Socialcardsters” family.

I have only been blogging for a little over a year now, but I have found the blogging world to be quite fascinating. I have really enjoyed setting up my blogs, advertising them and watching my page rank grow over the last year. That was until this past October when Google decided to play around with all my blogs and strip them from the hard earned page rank that I once had. If you a blogger then you completely understand all the hard work that goes into achieving a high page rank. I only had a couple of 3’s and one 2, but I was proud of these numbers and to lose them because Google decided that some things I do (like paid blogging) didn’t fit into their line of thinking, was quite a difficult pill to swallow.

That’s why I was so happy to see that PayPerPost (one of the companies that I do work for) decided to take matters in their own hands and come up with a unique ranking system of their own. This ranking system is known as Real Rank and it measures your real traffic. Then you are assigned a number in their system as compared to other blogs in their system. The reason why this ranking system is so effective is because they actually collect your stats and the number they come up with are your real traffic numbers. Although this is a fairly new system in the world of blogging, I honestly do think it’s a better measure of a blog’s worth and I am quite sure that it won’t take very long to catch on.

One of the great things about this system is that you don’t have to be a blogger of PayPerPost to find out your real rank numbers. All you need to do is go over to the IZEA site and claim your blog. Then they will collect your data for you and tell you what your real rank is.

I have a very strange hobby. When I get bored I have a tendency to spend a bit of time on different real estate sites. I love to look at different areas all around the globe and compare the different prices of their houses and real estate properties to my local areas. One area that I have discovered that has similar prices to my area is in the real estate Branson location. If I lived close to that area I would be able to purchase property that is quite similar to the property that is available in my area. This is good to know if I ever decide to move to Branson.