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Sad News: BloggerVenue.com is for Sale!

Posted by admin On May - 20 - 2009

It is Sad news indeed. Bloggervenue.com is for sale on sitepoint!

I have been thinking about this in the past month. I no longer have the conditions to give the attention this blog reserves. I will soon start my career abroad as a nurse and i wouldn’t be able to update as i should.

So this is the main reason i decided to sell Bloggervenue. It is sad for me because i really like this blog, but no longer can maintain it. So i am hoping that a serious blogger take’s this opportunity to bring bloggervenue.com to the next level.

I put the auction on sitepoint with an initial bid of $100. All the necessary info is on the auction page.

The sale will last for 15 days.

If you are interested in bidding or have a friend that might be interested please lead him to this post or to the auction directly.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to get an established blog.

Visit the auction page.

Stuck in the Snow!

Posted by admin On January - 11 - 2009

Well, last Friday was one hell of a day!!! Negative temperatures in the majority of Portugal, wind and snow!

I was heading to my parents house when weather conditions worsened. I was in the highway traveling at about 20km/h. It was dark as hell, the road was icy and very dangerous.

After a few hours travelling in these conditions, i reached a traffic jam zone. The trucks and buses had a terrible time and were forced to stop on the highway. But with the ice they couln’d pull over efficiently to let the other drivers to pass, making some impressive traffic jam.

Meanwhile, there i was… Inside my car, waiting… but enjoying the snow falling, listening music… After all…There wasn’t much more i could do… lol.

After 5 hours i managed to arrive home, barely feeling my ass and thinking i had enough snow for 10 years!!!  lool

Have you ever had a similar experience like this?

P.S - I noticed that my RSS subscriber count as reached 101 readers! This is a new record high! :D

Did i just got Slapped by Google?

Posted by admin On December - 3 - 2008

Today i received an email about an advertising offer that i was negotiating in the past days, and in the mail the sender alerted me for the fact that Bloggervenue.com lost its Page Rank! I said “what the hell!?!?” and immediately checked my page rank and it was true!!!! Holy crap!

Many of you don’t give a damn about page rank but i learned to value my page rank 3 (at first) and the page rank 2 until recently.

I really don’t know why i lost my PR…. well, maybe i do know, but there is no way to prove what was the reason. Perhaps google bot detected link ads? i really don’t know.

Well, i lost the page rank, but i investigated a little more and saw that i lost almost half of my backlinks! Bloggervenue.com had almost 10,000 backlinks but now it is little more than 5,000 backlinks! This is a major difference!

This never happened to me so i am a bit lost. How can i loose almost 5000 backlinks so fast? Does any one have an explanation for this?

Have this happened to you before? How did you get through all of this?

No Link Love this week

Posted by admin On September - 21 - 2008

Finally i am back, after a really bad week.. I just recovered fully last friday, but i was able to attend school in wednesday.

I just had a gastroenteritis + vomiting + fever. This lead me to some degree of dehydration, and surprise or not i didn’t went to the doctor. lol That is my problem, i don’t run to see the doctor when im sick (well, im a future nurse, and we are, along with doctors, known to be the worst patients that can exist lol). I just knew what i had to do, drink water and get eletrolites from salt from the small amount of food that i could ingest. The next day i was better, so no need for the doctor happily :)

To worst things up, i had an exam friday, so i had to make a choice, and left the blog a bit alone.

No link love?

Sorry guys, there is no link love. I haven’t had the time to read a single post yet, so i prefer to skip this weeks link love post. sorry guys.

Plans for the week

Ok, im not making any plan for the week, because every time i do plans, something comes up to screw them. But im thinking to do 2-3 posts (the usual), hopefully to i can finish the create a forum series.

I need to catch up with the comments on the blog. I have a few dozens to respond :)

One thing that can mess my blogging week is friday. I have an exam (again), that will hopefully be the last before i graduate :)

Monday Link Love

Posted by admin On September - 15 - 2008

Again for the second time in a row im giving the link love on Monday instead of Sunday. I can’t make a habit out of this lol

Week In Review

I started the past week by giving you a simple tip to make your posts look better. Followed by a post about wordpress themes. This time, it was about themes that we should runaway from. 7 themes were mentioned but some more were mentioned on the comments.

And finally, i ended the week by showing you how to create unique content in seconds. This post created some unexpected buzz on a social media site. More about that below.

Link Love of the week:

Sadly, this was a week that i haven’t had the pleasure of reading as many posts from blogs i visit, as i wanted. But still i managed to read some cool articles. Here is my selection:

Sire from Wassupblog made a useful post to all the blogger community that uses comment love plugin. The author of Comment Love, as made a new cool feature to his plugin. Visit sire’s blog to see what it is.

Syed from Balkhis made a case study to find Which Blog Posts get the most traffic?

This i had to mention. lol The Tragedy stroke Johncow TV. The cow was “cownapped”!  Pretty funny! hehe now serious…. poor cow… it must be terrified!

Yan from Thoushallblog made a list of 20 things we should do after installing wordpress.

The Buzz about Create Unique content post

On the first paragraph i said that the “create  unique content in seconds” post generated some unexpected buzz around it. Unexpected and negative buzz.

I have submitted that post as i usually do, to several social media sites. One of the sites was sphinn. After a few hours i started to see traffic arriving from sphinn to that post.

I logged in, and saw the post was “desphunned” 6 times, and a discussion started.

A few comments were made (some very ironic) such as:

well, it’s sucky advice, a sucky attitude. if i need 50 more characters, i thought it sucked.

Let’s make scraped and copied content OK by moving around words and “giving credit.”
this made me throw up in my mouth a little. it’s this sort of thing that ruins the internet for all.
and a some more.
There were also some discussion on the comment area, again, in a negative way.
Those who read this article through Sphinn, didn’t liked it at all. For them, using this technique is a complete abomination.
Although i can understand their side, i think some of them may have misunderstood the point of the article.
The method in fact does generate unique content. It does in fact need some modifications to make some sense, and to express what the author wants to say. I in fact, endorse users to give the credit to the original author. Some of the comments surprised me because of this. Some of them “laughed” , Like if this was made to smooth the “anger” of the authors. Like if giving credit was just a lame excuse to rip the content of an author.
A member even said this was a plagiarism. I wrote the definition of plagiarism:
Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.
If we mention the author, where we can access the original article (AKA: giving credit), where is the plagiarism? Now, if some one does not do what i say about this, and/or have the guts to put in the end of the post :Author: his own name, then yes it plagiarism.
I even gave essays from college and school as an example. We take some articles and use them on our work. We can paraphrase the author, or write the content in a different way.  I don’t know how it is with you, but i have some rules to obey in these works. In each paragraph, if im not writing “ipsis verbis” what the author says, then i have to put this in the end: (author’s surname, year of publication). Im giving credit to the author, but the text is different from the original article… What is the difference from this and doing the same online (apart from the automatic process)?
Another member even said that to write good essays we need to bring something new! How untrue that is. I have made several works about anatomy and physiology (just to mention these) where i wrote several theories from several authors, but i haven’t brought nothing new (how could i dare to do that?). The work was evaluated as excellent.
If you want to take part in this discussion, sphunn or desphunn the topic, by all means feel free to do it :)
You can access the discssuion by going to this address: http://sphinn.com/story/72093

Conclusion

If there are users who don’t agree with this method, then it is up to them. I can understand, but first they should think a bit about it before saying something. They have read the words “create” “unique” “content” “translate” and assumed that it was a really bad advice… They should understand that i condone the use fo this technique to take an article as their own (i thought i cleared this in the post!). But in the end. What one of my readers do with this, is completly out of my hands. It is their responsability to act in the right way…

I don’t really care that i got a negative buzz out of this. Really. I don’t care. In fact, im loving it. The reason? im getting some exposure and traffic to my blog, and has many say good or bad, what matter’s is they talk about us. lol

Sony is one of the most commited companies to eradicate piracy of the world, but it is also on of the major creators of CD-R and DVD-R, used in a large percentage to record pirated products. Ironic? (Santos, 2008)

P.S. - Santos it is my surname in case you are wandering who the hell is santos. And don’t get me wrong about this quote. It is just a little thought to take the right conclusions….

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