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Why i say this? well, i know im not updating this blog as much as i wanted, first because of the exams, but now for a different reason. I have passed all my exams and this week i have time to have fun. It is the “academic week” here in Viseu. I don’t know how it is in your country but i guess it is almost the same thing. It is a week with concerts and house sessions where all college students celebrate. Im going out every night to attend the concerts and the house sessions, with a sufficient amount of alcohol to make me “Happy”! lol

The festivities started Sunday with a service at the Viseu’s Cathedral given by the bishop. All finalists are present and receive the bishop blessing.

It was very hot that day and at the end of the ceremony i was almost dehydrated! lol

Tuesday was the day of the parade. All courses make some cars to participate in a contest, and are exhibited through the city, with a lot of beer in process :p It was really fun, but the weather wasn’t willing to help, so it rained.

I arrived in the morning to my bed at 7am… im totally exausted, but after writing this post im going out again. It will be like this until friday!

This will be a crazy week!!! I just don’t want to get an hangover…. lol

Some news? the new domain name of this blog has been indexed by google pretty fast, i managed to change the blog url in payperpost and socialspark, but payperpost wanted me to change how posts were shown on the blog, so i have to change some things. :\, i don’t totally agree with the changes i had to make but ppp is one of my main income sources for the blog, although i don’t do a paid review for over a month now.

With the change of domain my alexa rank has gone, but since alexa changed it’s algorithm to rank sites, the update isn’t happening. It’s been almost 2 weeks without an update in ranking, so that’s the reason this blog isn’t ranked yet…

Btw, have you noticed changes in your PR? The blog domain is showing a PR of 3!!! What the hell? a 2 week domain with a pr of 3? let see if it stays like this

It is the end of the month and it is time to give some links from the top comentators of this month. Thank you for participating and here are the top five commentators links:

• Nelson
• Health Tips
• mr.eims
• Joe Cole
• Vending Guy

It is that easy to get a link to your blog. You just need to participate and do some quality comments A new month is beggining

I decided to check google analytics stats for this blog and decided that it was time to give credit to some blogs that are driving traffic to my.

So here are some interesting articles from the blogs that kindly are bringing traffic to my blog :):

Vikinblogger recently joined Payperpost and he is having some mixed thoughts about PPP, see for your self what he has to tell.

is giving me some good traffic, but unfortunately i can’t read what they have to say because it is in a language i can’t read, Norwegian

bloggeries.com gathers a community of bloggers from all over the world. This forum may help you a lot in your blogging life.

JohnChow.com yeah, johnchow blog is sending me some traffic too. Jonh Chow is back with another post with food pictures… Some of you like and thin this is fun, others are tired of this kind of posts. You be the judge.. :p

dinheirooportunidade.comin this case i would recommend the english version of this blog from a Portuguese guru. Custodio in his english blog tells you how to have Cheap, quality traffic, and stolen from your competitors

And this is it. The are blogs that are sending me more traffic. For all of them my thanks, and keep them coming!

In this post you can read how payperpost faced the google penalization on blogs doing paid reviews. Until recently there were no  way to see a real rank for a blog on their database. But recently. Izea made the real rank public by creating the site http://izearanks.com

The site shows the top 100 real Rank sites, but you can search for a specific blog. After searching you can choose to display unique visitors,  page views, and off course the real rank for the blog.

nice too to spy on your rivals huh?

I think there is an option to make our data invisible to the general public, but i haven’t found where to choose that option.

Lately, the advertising opportunities available to me on Smorty, require that the blog does not have any Ad or review from payperpost.

As you may know google was on a penalizing spree to bloggers that used services such as text link ads or payperpost. This made a market change.

Text link ads is trying to hide as much as it can from google bot, and payperpost created Real Rank. PayperPost still require a disclosure of some sort, such a badge or a small text selling this post was sponsored by… Smorty advertisers want to keep their google ranks in good grace and don’t want nothing to do with payperpost.

I personally will stick with PayperPost because it is still my favourite Sponsored Reviews Site.

I received an email today telling that payperpost is now izea.com

here it is the mail i received:

I am very excited to present our new corporate name and identity, IZEA, Inc.
Going forward our company will be known as IZEA, with PayPerPost as its flagship product and other properties including Blogger’s Choice Awards, RockStartup, Zookoda and BlogInSpace under the IZEA corporate umbrella. These changes are the natural result of our phenomenal growth as a company and the continued success our user community is having with our social marketing tools and strategies.
This new corporate framework will enable us to further execute on our established mission statement: To empower everyone to value and exchange content, creativity and influence. We will be adding additional services over the coming year and I feel strongly that the IZEA brand will allow us to present all our solutions in a more complete and understandable way to our clients, users, investors and the press.
I know many of you have come to love the PayPerPost name. We love it, too. The company started a new era for bloggers and advertisers and will continue on as the brand name for the world’s largest consumer generated advertising network.
I look forward to seeing you all at PostieCon on November 10 in Las Vegas, when IZEA takes the next step forward with the release of our next generation platform, codenamed Argus. Argus will deliver an unparalleled collection of social marketing tools and features you will have to see to believe. The product has its own brand name that we are eager to share with everyone. The name and logo are awesome, so stay tuned!
Again, thanks to all of you for your continued support.
All the best,
Ted Murphy

New corporate name, i hope they continue to be as good as they have been till today