Using the free Back Link Analyzer 2.0, you can see the positive results of the contest so far.  A whole bunch of links using the term “Social Networking” pointing to Turnipofpower.com have appeared since the start of the contest. 

Remember, you can vary the words “Social” and “Networking” in your sentence so each link isn’t exactly the same.

New Prizes!  While I was not looking for additional sponsors, several readers have stepped forward and offered to donate prizes.

• Debbie from Wisdom Hypnosis is offering a Living The Lucky Life audio mp3 download, a $21.77 value.
• Foolsville 2.0 has pledged 10 bucks paypal and 5000 ec’s (Ed. Note: I think he means Entrecard credits)
• Fragileheart.com is donating a prize package consisting of 5,000ec and two blackberry pearl skins. One is red, the other is a coffee (with milk) colour.

Let’s not forget the original Prizes.

1st place: A Maxtor ONE TOUCH 4 Mini External 80gb Hard Drive. New, never opened, still in the box, It’s been sitting around my room for over a year. Backup or transport your data. Comes with USB 2.0 cable, Maxtor Safety Drill Recovery CD, and the Drive itself. Windows and Mac compatible. A $40 value on eBay last I looked.

2nd place: 10,000 Impressions on the CMF ADS Network donated by Stan at Fantasy Baseball Advice. A $25 value now, in November this will have a $36 value. Get your site or product noticed on over 20 quality websites. Ad must fit in with the CMF AD guidelines to be approved. Banner size is 123x125pixels.

3rd prize: A Turnip of Power T-shirt available in the size of your choice. Normally a $15 value when I offer them for sale. Expertly printed by East Side Tees. Each shirt is 100% pure cotton, Gildan brand. Black short sleeved t-shirt, printed in 2 colors, featuring the Turnip logo on the front, with the words “Turnip of Power” below.

The Rules:

1. Subscribe to my RSS feedand create a new link on your blog linking to any page at turnipofpower.com, including this contest page. The anchor text must contain the words “Social Networking”. For example: Turnip of Power writes many posts about Entrecard and social networking. Notice how the above example links to http://turnipofpower.com/category/social-networking/. By varying the page linked to, I’m hoping to spread pagerank over the entire site. Blogroll links are allowed, as long as the link mentions social networking. For example: Turnip of Power | Social Networking
2. Post a comment in this thread or below this update post with a link to the page containing your back link. One comment per entry, one entry per blog. If you have more than one blog, you may enter more than once.
3. Winners will be chosen at midnight on November 20th 2008 using random.org

Right now the odds are very good considering how few people posted in the last thread.   I will count entries posted in this thread as well when I hold the drawing.

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I had forgotten how much fun it is to start a new blog.  Choosing a theme, installing WordPress and all its plugins, then customizing the hell out of it to get the website functioning exactly as you envisioned it.  It’s like being a kid in a candy store.  You want every feature from every blog you ever enjoyed reading.  Below you can see the efforts of my work.  The theme used is a highly customized version of Box-Tube Theme By Dezzain Studio.

Previously located at this domain was my tech blog Computer Tech News.  I have now officially retired that blog.  For those who didn’t know, that blog was my proof of concept auto-posting blog.  It pulled in the feeds of several tech sites, posted the excerpts on my blog linking to the original, and then automatically deleted the posts after a certain number of months.  It was good for like $5 a month of advertising income.  In theory you could make one of those sites for 500 different niches, and then sit back and collect the revenue.  Almost…  It represented no challenge, was boring as hell, and just added to the spam of the Internet.  That’s not entirely true.  Once my blog was set up, I never had to visit the other 10 sites that I pulled feeds from unless the article was really good.  So in a sense, Computer Tech News was like a personal RSS feed reader that earned me some advertising income as well.  I loved it for what it did, read it myself daily, but now it’s time to move on.

Now, back to The Electric Car Blog.  It’s been in it’s current state for 4 days.  Traffic went from 6 visitors the first day, 27 the second day, 255 the 3rd day.  I’m hoping today’s visitors top that even.  I promoted it the real way by announcing it in the Entrecard introductions forum, reciprocated all Entrecard drops, and stumbled it once. (yes, I stumbled my own post  )  Today I advertised on every single site in the automotive category, costing a total of 6k credits.  Then I followed up each ad with a visit to every site in the auto niche and dropped a card.  Just my way of saying “hello”.

What I found dropping cards was a mess.  I guess I’ve been spoiled by using my own droplist all these months.  The automotive category claims to have 260 blogs, but in reality there were only 114.  I reported four more dead links in that category, so subtract those too.   So much spam!  It dawned on me that if Entrecard would charge a dollar a month for a premium account, where only select blogs could join, I would gladly pay for that privilege.  Today Graham announced he had a plan to monetize Entrecard in the near future, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

I hope you all stop by The Electric Car Blog and check it out.  It’s far from finished, but go ahead and give me your opinions.  You all know how well I take the slightest criticism.