8am PST Today You Can .me domains
So, in about 45 minutes you can register .me domains. There are for certain several thousands domainers sitting ready to registrer all the best domains.
I can think for many different domains that would be cool to get.
Ex. date.me, thouch.me, fu*ck.me etc.
All these domains will be taken within seconds for sure, so I don’t even bother to try to get them. An the price aren’t cheap either. Godaddy are going to charge $20 per year and you have to buy 2 years at the time.
Do you know of a place to buy a .me domain for a cheaper price?
What .me domain would you want?
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Page Rank Updated - How Did It Go For You?
So - it looks like big G have started updating the PR for the second time this year. As far as I can see VIkingBlogger.com haven’t got an PR yet, wich I find really strange, since we got tons of links pointing our direction.
- JohnChow got his PR4 back from his old PR 3
- Shoemoney got his powerfull PR6 back.
Anyway, how did it go for you?
(btw; Do you got some tips about nice sites to check the PR? )
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We Aren’t Dead Yet
So, i thought it could be cool with a little update regarding this blog again. As you already know I don’t have enough time to spend on it as I would like to, but it’s not dead yet. 
As far as traffic goes, I don’t have any numbers to brag about. Since I don’t update regularly, or try to get new visitors to the site, the numbers aren’t going up. The last 20 days almost 1.600 people have visited the blog. Not bad, but not good either.
The RSS subscriber numbers have actually keept itself quite nicely around the 80-ich. As you can see on the chart below the numbers tends to go a bit down, but nothing to be afraid of. It’s good to see that you guys aren’t jumping over board!
Every sunday I used to post my stats. Heres an quick update how it looks now:
(Last time in parentheses)
Alexa: 155,121 (215,825)
Technorati: 68,532 (126,758)
Authority: 117 (59)
RSS readers: 80 (60)
Posts: 79 (59)
Comments: 795 (547)
As you can see the numbers have actually gotten better, so if we look one month back the blog have actually been growing. 
(Not counting traffic)
So, there you have. Ohh, wait, maybe I should throw in some link love while we’re at it? Ok, here goes, the top commentators right now are:
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Buy Yourself an Account With 1.500 Followers on Twitter
Found a interesting post over at Shoe today regarding an eBay action. Apparently some guy are selling his Twitter account with almost 1.500 followers. And guess what, the bid is now over $500. That makes each followers worth aprox 33 cents. (Hey, my account is worth almost $2.50 then! :P)
The auction have over 4000 views now, and after the plug on Show (and here. heh.) it will probably gain a couple more thousands views.
So, is it worth it? Probably not, one of the ways he has got so many followers is by following many users himself. 1,395 of them to be correct. So, you could probably build such an account for a fairly cheaper price yourself. One method I can think of right now is buy hiring a guy on DP and tell him to log into your account and start following as many users as he can. This will for sure give you some followers.
Anyway, thumbs up for Andrew for being the first one selling is Twitter account. I have a feeling we will see some more accounts at eBay soon.
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Entrecard bugs - 262144ec for One Day!
Just a quick post today. I logged into my Entrecard account today, and was kinda shocked to see that it costed 2048ec/day to advertise on VikingBlogger. Usually the price is around 15ec. (I don’t drop anymore)
I guessed it had to be a bug, so I checked the marketplace, and saw some nice figures. The most expensive one costed 262144ec per day!
How much is the price for a spot on your blog at the moment? (Talking Entrecard here…)
Update 9. april 2008: It looks like it aren’t a bug, sort of. Since Entrecard is introducing a new pricing system these day, the price of ads are effected by that. Thanks for the guys commenting on this.
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New Function in Google Analytics
I logged in my analytics account today, to check the stats on my sites, and saw a new line added to the dashboard. Now you can choose to display the chart for either per day, week or month. This way you can easily check which week or month that did the best.
Above you can see how the graph looks if you choose monthly.
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Don’t get Punked Today!
So, 1. April, and it’s pranking time. I was actually thinking to pull one myself on this blog, but time just didn’t get to me. So, instead I thought I could post the ones i got in my reader. A couple of the blogs I follow did actually try to fool you guys, at least I think so.
ProBlogger Launches PayPerTweet - Get paid for tweeting. Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.
A brand new 2008 H2 Hummer valued at over $56,000 - “Added” a Hummer in the prizepool of his contest. Right.
I’m Closing This Blog Down - Just a quick post about him closing the blog down. The the next sentecens contains the word “not”. Heh, i guess he’s following KISS. (Keep It Simple Stupid)
The Official Blogger Drink - John Chow, Inc., publisher of John Chow dot Com and The Coca-Cola Company, maker of the number 1 selling soft drink in the world, has entered into a licensing agreement to produce John Chow Cola, The Official Blogger Drink. Nice graphic though.
Making 1,000.00 in 1 hour - Posted a video where he apparently where going to tell you hw to make 1k in just one hours. Yea, and the video is about 1 minute long, and contains noise, so you don’t hear clearly what he says.
So, thats what I found in my reader, do you have any good ones?
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Back Home From Prague
Finally I’m home from my vacation in Prague. Actually, I have been home 2 days now, but there have been a lot of things to do. On Monday I start in my new job, and really looking forward to that.
Anyway, it looks like this blog have manage itself pretty good without new content. With a steady readership above 80 I’m happy. Actually, last week we had a peak day of 89 readers. Since I’m not doing much updating, I’m not expecting the numbers to go up either.
Some pictures of Prague
Nice little building. Prague is a really old down, with loads of nice buildings.
Just a boat in the river in the sentrum of Prague.
The view from our hotel room.
Picture of the a famous building in prague. A must see.
The contest
There are still a couple people that haven’t got back to me regarding the contest prize. If you have won, and still havent recived the prize, pelase send me an email and I’ll sort that out.
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Don’t be Fooled by the Scammers!
Alright, I think this is an important issue that all bloggers need to know about. Lately a new form of scam has been used to take the hard earn money from honest people. This time it’s not regular people, but bloggers. It works like this:
- You as an blog owner get an enquiry about advertising on your blog. The subject are usually something like Partnership Enquiry and Website Partnership Enquiry. The names of the senders include Richard Thompson, Edward Johnson, Daniel Lee, Jason Miller, George Nelson, etc.
- If you response they will start to negotiate the price. Usually they are paying way over market price, and as a website owner you should not be blended by the high amount of dollars they offer.
- If you get to an agreement they will send you a check with an amount above the sum you agreed to. (ex. if you agreed to $2000 they send you a check for $3000)
- The people behind the scam will then claim that a mistake was made and ask that you refund $1000 via money transfer.
- If you send the money before the check clears you cannot stop the transfer and you will find out that you have lost your money since the check is fake.
This could possibly work, but since bloggers are quite good to keep contact with each other, and of course they use their blog to tell other people about this scams it shouldn’t take of like other scams. Have you got an email like this? Please leave a comment.
BTW; after reading about this I think they have tried to scam Darren over at Problogger.
What Other Bloggers Write About the Subject:
Beware of possible ‘Nigerian*’ Online Advertising Fraud
Bloggers Beware - Phishing and Scams
Bloggers Beware: Nigerian Fraud Has Evolved Into Display and Text Link Ad Solicitations
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White board, Prague and Some Link Love
White Board
My latest purchase is a white board. I have always been wanting one, and yesterday I finally bought one on my local store. I also bought a pack of white board pens and some sponge to remove what I write. I got the board sitting on my desk, and every time I get some cool idea I can grab a pen, and write it down. I do also going to use it like a note board, where i write down things I have to remember. If you don’t already got one, I recommend you do! Price? Around $25-$30.
Vacation in Prague
On Saturday I and my girl are going to Prague for some vacation. We are going to be there for 5 days, and there will most probably not going to be any updates on the blog. If you have been in Prague before we could use some tips about what to do, and where to go.
Link Love
Alright, I guess it’s time for some link love again. As last time, the 5 top commentators are getting their link featured. Other then that they always got a link in the sidebar for as long as they stay in the top 5.
Check out their sites, some of them are actually quite decent.
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