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Contest Comments

I made a mistake. I am so used to looking in the Akismet spam folder and just emptying it. It's an OCD I have, I always want the Recycle Bin emptied too (and the Sent items and Deleted items in my email). Weird I know. But here's the thing... I believe by default Akismet will scoop up comments that have multiple links in them...and during this contest those are the types of comments I will be getting! So, I very well may have deleted some non-spam comments. I spotted a couple in there today that shouldn't have been considered spam so I'm sure there have been others. I hope that those of you who have entered still come by the blog now and again and hopefully you will read this post.

I'm really sorry for the inconvenience but can you do a quick check in the contest posts comments to make sure I'm not missing anything. Or, check the entries to be sure that I have all your entries counted. As of this post (1:30 pm EST) I believe that I am up to date.

60 Additional Entries

I wrote a post explaining how to get additional entries for the contest. One easy way to get 60 entries is to write a post about the contest AND link to the contest post AND display the prize list. To make things really simple you can just copy and paste the HTML from this text file.

That is a quick and easy way to get 60 entries. Once I see your post I will add it to the list of links on the additional entries post that can be Social Bookmarked for extra entries. Talk about viral!

Please post only on blogs that are not brand spanking new. I don't want you to setup a blog specifically for this contest and then abandon it afterwards. You can post on as many blogs as you want. There is a prize for the most entries as well.

Quick Money Making Tip

Some people have varying opinions on this method but I disagree with ALL of the arguments. Whenever I setup a site or a blog I have a certain type of audience in mind and 99.5% of my content will be geared towards that audience. But occasionally another marketer will be browsing around my site. Not necessarily to steal ideas but to learn some tricks of the trade...learn what other marketers are doing. They may genuinely like what they see and want to see how they can do something similar themselves.

You have a footer area on your site that a lot of marketers will scroll down to. Your other audience most likely won't. What are the marketers looking for? Could be several things and if it fits, link to it with your affiliate link. I know for a fact that this works because I have been on both ends. Here are some examples:

	What the marketer might be looking for?		What you can link to		Example
	This site loads fast, who's the host?		Use your hosting affiliate link.		Hosted with: GoDaddy
	Was this site created with some sort of tool or program?		If so, tell them where to get it.		Powered by: BANS
	This blog theme is awesome. Who made it?		It's nice to link to the theme designer even if they don't have an aff program.		Theme by: Theme Spinner
	Who designed this site? I want one just like it.		Link to the designer or your own site.		Designed by: Keith James Lock
	Who's the merchant or affiliate network? I want to sell this product too.		If the affiliate you are dealing with has 2nd tier or a referral system link to them.		Affiliates

Use Full Paths When Writing Posts

I've written about this before but I think it's worth mentioning again. When adding an image or a link to your blog post you should use the full path. Your posts will be seen from other sites and from RSS readers, etc. If the full path isn't there the links won't work and the images won't show up. You might not realize the problem if you only view your posts from your own site. Which reminds me, you should always subscribe to your own feed by email and in a feed reader so that you can see how other people are seeing it. It might not always be what you think.

If you have ever designed sites in the past you might have got into the habit of not using the full path because it wasn't necessary, but believe me, it's a good idea now. What I mean by full path is entering the http part and the domain name before the image or link path.

For example:

Good: http://keithjameslock.com/images/keith.jpg
Bad: /images/keith.jpg

I used to see it a lot where people would use the path to an image on their local hard drive. It would look fine to them but only on the machine that they created the web site on. Thankfully that is no longer a concern for WordPress users.

Related posts:

1. Contest: Win A Money Making Blog And Domain Name
2. RE: WordPress Images – How Do I Show Images In A WordPress Post?
3. KwikStart MMO Contest Is On!
4. KwikStart MMO Contest Entries
5. Gain Additional Entries For The KwikStart MMO Contest

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