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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I’m sorry, but this post is not about anything special, just some thoughts I got in my head right now.

First of all;

I have taken away the Money Magnet widget, and realised that the service where nothing else then a kinda pyramid scheme. I haven’t sold one single widget. (which tells me I got readers that are smarter then my self! Hehe) So I consider my $20 lost, but thats totally ok.

Wheres the update?

I haven’t updated so often latly, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not active on the net, in mather of fact, I have never made so much new sites in one week before. Hehe, but, since so much of my time are used to do that, VikingBlogger got neglected this week.

Mixed thoughts about PeyPerPost

I got some mixed thoughts about me joining PeyPerPost. So far I haven’t written a review for them yet (if you don’t count the “I joined PP”-post.) and I’m not sure if I will either. First of all; to get a decent amount paid to write the post your blog need to have an high PR. A lot of people saying that Google slaps peoples PR if they use PayPerPost. That way, this blog with no PR will never get a decent PR, and then never make any talkable (my word!) amount of money. Thats an evil circle to be in. Hehe.

What I think will save PPP is to make all the links no-follow, and don’t sell themself out as an link building service. Instead it should be a service thatthat people can use to get buzz around their new sites/products)

I know it’s partly this way now, but I think it should be a fully buzz/review site with no-follow links. And for craying out loud, get rid of all the low paying ads. Who in their right mind will give away their time, blog space, and link juice for $5?

Hmm, not sure if that makes any sence for you, but hopefully you know what I mean.

Some link love

Well, thought I could be nice to show some link love in this post. My first spray goes to my 5 top commentators.

• Chetan (6)
• Caren (4)
• Living on Adsense (4)
• Ian (3)
• Mattaw (3)

As you can see, right now you only need to write 3+ comments to get a free link in the sidebar. Don’t know if it brings any traffic, but hey,it can’t harm you, can it?

The second, and last spray goes to a couple contests which I actually have sponsored:

Thewwwblog.com ($350 worth of prizes)

The University Kid (Kinda big contest)

And of course my own, where you can win thousands of Entrecard credits!

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Today I have spent $20 to buy myself a Money Magnet, which you can find in the sidebar.

It is a 125×125 widget that you place on your site/blog. Other people can then buy the widget with your refferal url, and the great part about it, its not possible to get one without using an refferal url. So, to be allowed to sell these widgets you have to buy one yourself. Based on how much you pay you can earn up to $50 each time you sell one. I paid $20 for mine, and earns $10 each time someone buys on with my link. So, have to sell 2 widgets to breake even, that should be possible right?

As you can se on the table I can not sell widgets that costs $10. That way I secure that I earn $10 per sale instead of $5. Do as me, buy a $20 widget. sell 2 and start to earn some cash! The money comes to your paypal instantly!

Click here to get a Money magnet Widget.

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Update 1. mai 2008: I are no longer using PPP services. I want my PR!
As I’m looking after ways to monetize this blog, getting paid to do reviews are a natural way to make money. Today VikingBlogger.com finally got approved at PayPerPost. Long story short they provide bloggers with reviews, where they pay them (the bloggers) between $5-$200 per review. (Usually in the $10 range)

There are several houndreds of offers avalible to get rewied, but you can’t pick them all. The advertisers that makes the offers can set some terms which your blog have to meet. The most used one is page rank. If you don’t have x high page rank you don’t get paid to review the product.

Since VikingBlogger.com don’t have a page rank yet I’m not looking on a high income stream from PayPerPost yet, but it might get alright with time. And don’t fear, I’m not going to fill this blog up with paid reviews of all sorts. If I’m doing a review it’s going to be something that has to do with the theme of the blog, or something that I’m really interested in. (ex. phones)

$20 sign-up bonus (kinda)

When you get your blog approved you got at least one offer avaliable for you, and thats PayPerPost themself. Write a little “I joined PayPerPost” post at your blog, and get paid $20 doing so. (Like I am now!)

Are you selling reviews on your blog? Thoughts?

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My internet connection is still down, and it’s getting really annoying. Anyway, I grabbed dinner at Burger King today, and happily they got free wireless internet, which I of course will use to it fullest.

I thought it was on time I updated you guys on my little Viewty Forum project. Thing is, I haven’t done much with the site yet. I just don’t got time, but I have done something.

It’s not easy

One thing is for sure, it’s not easy to start a niche forum/site. Where to advertise it? There aren’t that many sites that I know for a fact got users with a LG KU990 Viewty mobile phone. And since my site/forum only attracts these people I got an advertising issue. So far I have used about $20 on PPC, and got around 60+ clicks for it. Which no one converted to members.

I think I started with PPC way to fast, since the forum almost don’t have any members, or content. So, lesson number 1; Have something to give your readers before spending your advertising money.

Make SEO-friendly sub-pages.

I have started to make some sub-pages outside the forum, the thought is to get these as SEO-friendly as possible. I’m applying standard SEO rules to archive this. The ones I have made so far are:

http://www.viewtyforum.com

http://www.viewtyforum.com/download-lg-ku990-viewty-games.php

Adding games each day

My tactic is to keep adding games to the forum, and the sub-page each day to get visitors come back, and check if there are some new games. I haven’t had time to do this yet, but hopefully I will.

How to get people as members

What is the best way to get people becoming an member on a forum? Now they only have to register if they want to post topics, or answer on some. I’m also thinking on making it so they have to be a member to read the topics as well, what do you think about that? Will that scare more members away, then making them register?

Getting some search traffic

I haven’t posted the link to viewtyforum on any other sites then this blog, but already it gets some small amount of search traffic. Yesterday the site reach a peak of 27 visits from google. Not bad considering I haven’t started on the link building.

If the amount of visits from the search engines keep going this way, I will be a happy champ. The quality is quite good as well;

Pages/Visit: 3.97
Bounce Rate: 27.66%

Thats where I am today, the forum have actually got 5 members, where two of them have written something. what I have to do now is;

• Start building up some links

• Make a couple more SEO-friendly pages.

• Make more topics in the forum

Comments?

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I’m without internet connections today, so got no time to update, but instead I’m posting a short summary of the most popular posts in February. If there are some of them you haven’t read yet, I recommend you do so today.

1. 20,000 Entrecard Credits Contest
2. VikingBlogger t-shirt has Arrived
3. Get Out of Here Spottt!
4. PC or Mac - What Does Bloggers Use?
5. Not Again Feedburner?!?
6. Why Do We Hate Affiliate Links?
7. The Upcoming Digg Effect
8. How To Hide Your Affiliate Links
9. Project Wonderful - A Great Way To Advertise
10. Adtoll introduce Peel Away Ads

Hopefully I will get my connection back up tomorrow. Can’t live without.

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I haven’t tried to get traffic from social sites like twitter, pownce etc before. But yesterday I finally made a profile on some social sites, and are going to update them with news about my posting on VikingBlogger. I’m not sure what to expect, but it could be fun to see if I get any traffic from this.

So far I have made a profile on 4 sites. They are as follows:

Plaxo

twitter

Pownce

Tumblr

If you got a profile on any of these sites, I would be really happy if you added me as a friend/ followed me:)

Add posts to all of them with one click

I found a post at BlueVerse, where he recommended a service called hellotxt. Short described you can send updates to your profile on different social sites with one click. You just provide them with the username and password, then write the post, and

click send. hellotxt will then automatic update your profile with the new post. I have tried their service with the four above sites, and it works like a

charm. In additional they support the following sites:

Do you get any traffic from social sites like these?

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