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.com

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.

• Winningtheweb.com

A brand new 2008 H2 Hummer valued at over $56,000 - “Added” a Hummer in the prizepool of his contest. Right.

• Uberaffiliate.com

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)

• Johnchow.com

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.

• Shoemoney.com

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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Today Wordpress realeased the newest version of this great software that almost all bloggers use, Wordpress. The version is called 2.5 and there are a lot of new things updated. A new interface is the most seeable thing, but people that post pictures on their blog does also have something to be looking forward to.

As you can see on the image above, the dashboard has got an facelift. Looks good:)

Breakdown of new things:

• Dashboard Widgets
• Multi-file upload with progress bar
• Few-click plugin upgrades
• Built-in galleries
• Friendlier visual post editor

I think I will be waiting a week or two before updating, since there almost certain will come an update that sorts out some minor bugs that people report.

Ohh, i mentioned that bloggers that post pictures had something to be looking forward to, see this video where Matt is explaining a new feuture.

Download Wordpress 2.5 now!

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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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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

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.

• Chetan (14)
• Living on Adsense (9)
• Hugo Santos (8)
• Mattaw (8)
• Caren (5)

Check out their sites, some of them are actually quite decent.

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Here I am, sitting in my bed with my laptop. Thought it would be a good thing to write a little post before I call it night. Most probably this will be a more personal post then before, hope you don’t mind.

When I started this blog, my goal was to keep it updated regularly, and post at least once a day. For about one month that worked out just fine, and I had more then enough time to write, and the ideas of topics kept coming.

If you have been with me from the start in January you might have noticed that I haven’t updated this blog so regularly the last week or two. Thing is, it takes time to make good content. A lot of time. And then I have to answer on emails, and try to market this site. It all takes time, and sadly it’s only 24 hours in a day.

Latly I have started up a couple of big new websites that needs my attention, and then this blog don’t get what it deserves. Anyway, I have tried to keep it updateded, but not as much as I would like. I just got to many things in the air at the same time atm. I need to take a couple of them down. (Just for the info, this blog is not one of them!)

Not only have I quit postpone my school, I have also got a day job, so then I have to focus and use time on that as well. I guess.

So, what happens to this blog then? Well. It will not be updated daily. Most probably I will try to post a couple times a week. I have also been thinking on video blogging. It would take a lot less work, and might be a good step to take this blog “to the next level”. Not sure about it yet though, just an idea I got.

How the blog goes

So, how does this blog go actually? It’s sunday, and I got some numbers for you.

(Last time in parentheses)
Alexa: 142,058 (215,825)
Technorati: 80,591 (126,758)
Authority: 86 (46)
RSS readers: 87 (60)
Posts: 70 (59)
Comments: 679 (547)

Alexa is climbing downwards to the 100k mark, but it takes sometime. Finally this blog is among the 100k top blogs according to Technorati. Currently with a rank of 80,591. When it comes to the RSS readers the blog will soon cross the line of 100 people. Right now it stays on 87, which are the top day.

Not looking so badly considering I haven’t been writing so much. The big contest is over, so the rss count might fall a bit the next days. I guess we have to wait and see.

Wellwell. Thats it for today. Now I got to get some sleep. Have a nice day/night, and remember to subscribe to this blog if you aren’t already!

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My big Entrecard credits contest is now over, and I got the winners.

I’m on easter holiday right now, so don’t have so much time to write a long post, but instead I just announce the winners.

In total 29 people have entered the contest, but only 5 can be winners. And the lucky ones are:

So, these are the persons getting some nice amount of credits.

Indocontest gets 10.000 credits, Chetan gets 5.000, Shrihari gets 3.000, Bendz gets 1.000 and Living on Adsense gets 1.000.

Contact me via the contact form, and write down the mail you used when entering the contest. (the comment) That way I know right person gets the credits. Let me also know your entrecard email.

Thanks for all people that joined this contest! If you diden’t win; better luck next time! Have a nice weekend guys!

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Guys, It’s only 1 day left of the contest I’m running here on VikingBlogger.com! If you haven’t joined yet, make sure you do.

The prizes

• 1st - 10,000 credits
• 2st - 5,000 credits
• 3st - 3,000 credits
• 4st - 1,000 credits
  
• 5st - 1,000 credits

Check out how to enter in this post.

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On my daily reading round, a post over at The University Kid got my attention. Basically, he got an post featured at digg, and received some traffic, and a nice amount of RSS subscribers. (87 of them) Anyway, thats not the most interesting part. I noticed that he had a really nice chart displaying the stats, and I wondered where he got that. Kind as Jason is he told me, and I found the service really cool.

It’s called Feed Analysis, and it makes a really fancy chart of your RSS data. To generate this you only need to feed them your feedburner link, and they arrange the rest. So, basically you can check out how others are doing as well.

This is how they describe their service:

By the use of Feed Analysis, the number of subscribers for each month is neatly shown on the column chart. You can also view the number of subscribers, hits, views and clicks for every single day from the line chart. The best/worst day of the week is also available which is displayed on the pie chart. And also, Feed Analysis can give you an estimated value for your blog / site according to the number of your subscribers.

Above is my chart, and as you can see today I hit a new peek and got 81 subscribers.

Other then that, it does also calculate your growth rate, and can predict your subscriber count 12 months ahead. If you got a fairly new blog this prediction doesn’t need to be as accurate as when you got an older blog. Anyway, the more stats, the better.

Based on my data, VikingBlogger.com will have almost 4k of subscribers after 12 months. Hmm, sounds good:) I guess we just have to wait and see if its accurate.

Check out Feed Analysis

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I have never used facebook, but I’m still tired of it. I thought this was cool song, and since it’s an viral video, I thought I could post it here.

BTW; I have been without net the last couple of days, but will write an update post later today tomorrow, probably. Stay tuned.

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