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It’s simple really, there are four ways of winning one of the prizes below. You can do one of these or a choice of them it’s entirely up to you.

1. Follow Me (@BlazingMinds) and then Tweet the following to go into a random draw:
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2. Subscribe via email to my RSS Feed to go into the second random draw.
3. Become one of the Top 5 Commentators.
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List of Sponsors and prizes offered in the Blazing Minds Competition

1. $25 via PayPal from Dennis Edell
2. A copy of 3×0′s debut CD “Silver” – IMISound
3. A month of Ad space on http://msileanesblog.blogger.com from Ileane
4. A $100 ten-year advertising spot on my blog’s pixel ad page from Custom Dream Homes
5. A Mobile Phone from Dalekcat
6. Comedy Coaching Session (1 hour) from Not A Pro Blog – $75 value from Not A Pro Blog
7. 5,000 entrecard credits and one month free widget posting on Random Thoughts
8. A 250×250 banner Ad on Work At Home Blogger from Chandan
9. One month of advertising via a 125×125 spot on KnewThis.com from Anand
10. A pen, a button and a month 125X125 Ad space on my blog to offer from Arie Rich (KMP Blog)
11. 1 week Adgitize ad (value 7$) from Cornymans Money-Blog
    1 week Adgitize ad (value 7$) from All about babies and kids
    2.000 EC + 10 CMF SPIKES (value 2$) from Cornymans Blogreviews
    2.000 EC + 10 CMF SPIKES (values 2$) from The One Minute Guide all from Cornyman’s Money-Blog
12. A 160×600 ad space on my website @ http://www.my-digital-photography.com.
13. Free FEATURED link on the directory located at http://113dir.com. From 113Directory.

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<strong>List of Sponsors and prizes offered in the <a href=”http://blazingminds.co.uk/win-amazing-prizes-blazing-minds/”>Blazing Minds Competition</a></strong>
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<li>$25 via PayPal from <a href=”http://www.directsaleswebmarketing.com/send-me-your-best-articles-ill-send-you-my-best-traffic/” target=”_blank”>Dennis Edell</a></li>
<li>A copy of <a href=”http://imisound.ning.com/profile/3×0″ target=”_blank”>3×0′s  debut CD</a> “Silver” – <a href=”http://imisound.ning.com” target=”_blank”>IMISound</a></li>
<li>A month of Ad space on <a href=”http://msileanesblog.blogger.com/”>http://msileanesblog.blogger.com</a> from Ileane</li>
<li>A $100 ten-year advertising spot on my blog’s pixel ad page from <a href=”http://www.pix2brix.com/” target=”_blank”>Custom Dream Homes</a></li>
<li>A Mobile Phone from <a href=”http://dalekcat.blogspot.com/” target=”_blank”>Dalekcat</a></li>
<li><a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://notaproblog.com/comedy-writing”>Comedy Coaching Session</a> (1 hour) from Not A Pro Blog – $75 value from Not A Pro Blog</li>
<li>5,000 entrecard credits and one month free widget posting on <a href=”http://jenaisle-candidthoughts.blogspot.com/” target=”_blank”>Random  Thoughts</a></li>
<li>A 250×250 banner Ad on <a href=”http://internetjobscams.blogspot.com/” target=”_blank”>Work At  Home Blogger</a> from Chandan</li>
<li>One month of advertising via a 125×125 spot on <a href=”http://knewthis.com/” target=”_blank”>KnewThis.com</a> from Anand</li>
<li>A pen, a button and a month 125X125 Ad space on my blog to offer  from Arie Rich (<a href=”http://kmpblog.com/” target=”_blank”>KMP Blog</a>)</li>
<li>1 week Adgitize ad (value 7$) from <a href=”http://cornys-moneypage.blogspot.com/”>Cornymans Money-Blog</a>
1 week Adgitize ad (value 7$) from <a href=”http://babyandkidsworld.blogspot.com/”>All about babies and  kids</a>
2.000 EC + 10 CMF SPIKES (value 2$) from <a href=”http://cornymans-blogreviews.blogspot.com/”>Cornymans  Blogreviews</a>
2.000 EC + 10 CMF SPIKES (values 2$) from <a href=”http://theoneminuteguide.blogspot.com/”>The One Minute Guide</a> all from <cite></cite><a rel=”external nofollow” href=”http://cornys-moneypage.blogspot.com/2009/12/adgitize-secret-of-getting-ad-paid-by.html”>Cornyman’s  Money-Blog</a></li>
<li>A 160×600 ad space on my website @ <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.my-digital-photography.com/”>http://www.my-digital-photography.com</a>.</li>
<li>Free FEATURED link on the directory located at <a href=”http://113dir.com/”>http://113dir.com</a>.  From 113Directory.</li>
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Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

1. Boris Johnson bets £5 with us that Blair will never be President – The Daily Dust
2. Monday WOP: Does Twitter brings Traffic to your Blog? – Asswass Not Com
3. Have you read the “Who’s The Band” series on Blazing Minds? – Remergence Blog (Posted by JJ)
4. Plugin Review: WP Portfolio – Serradinho
5. Wednesdays You’ve Got to See This! – Nothing But Random
6. How to become famous in blogging world – BLOGTECHNIKA

Top Visited Posts:

1. EntreCard brings us Sponsored Ads! But we Don’t Want Them!
2. Review: Skechers Shape-ups, walking on air!
3. Music from the amazing show Monkey Dust!
4. Review: Infected Mushroom – The Legend of the Black Shawarma
5. Some Handy Twitter Websites (Twitter Tools)!

Top Referring Websites:

1. StumbleUpon
2. The Daily Meme
3. BlogEngage
4. FuelMyBlog
5. DragonBlogger

Top Search Terms:

1. twitter websites
2. lily allen
3. skechers shape ups reviews
4. entrecard
5. legend of the black shawarma review

Top Commentators for the Week

1. Nehh – 5 Comments
2. Compute Live – 4 Comments
3. Dragon Blogger – 4 Comments
4. Extreme John – 4 Comments
5. Klaus @ TechPatio – 4 Comments

Well there we are for another week, many thanks to the top 5 commentators

Blazing Minds Weekly Round Up – EntreCard, Twitter is a post from Blazing Minds

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Ok! Let’s cut to the chase and find out who has been keen enough to drop every single day on September to gain a place in the Blazing Minds Top EntreCard Droppers line up.

1. KMP
2. Yummy-as-can-be
3. moms….. check nyo
4. Life’s sweets and spices
5. BetterSpines
6. A Simple Life
7. The Way I See It
8. Mommy’s Little Corner
9. The Modern Mom
10. EzGreatLife

So there we have it for another month, many thanks also to all those that have been advertising on Blazing Minds through EntreCard…

Top EntreCard Droppers for September is a post from Blazing Minds

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Blog Posts I’ve enjoyed reading:

1. Big Daddy Nachos Recipe – ExtremeJohn
2. Kayne West straight up douchebag – Potpolitics
3. How to Increase Alexa Ranking – ExtremeJohn
4. High Friday Five? – Angelika
5. Twitteleh: Twitter for Your Jewish Mother [Parody Video] – Mashable!
6. Who’s on your blogroll – Potpolitics

Top Visited Posts:

1. Free online keyword tool that helps you to find good keywords
2. Reading Books Can Be Therapeutic
3. Review: Skechers Shape-ups, walking on air!
4. Tattoos! Are they still as taboo as they used to be?
5. Some Neighbours just don’t got give a f***

Top Referring Websites:

1. EntreCard
2. Not John Chow
3. The Daily Meme
4. Voice of Brag
5. Twitter

Top Search Terms:

1. tattoos for girls
2. lily allen
3. shape up reviews
4. legend of the black shawarma review
5. “free online keyword tool”

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So there you have it, the top 10 EntreCard droppers! A big thank to the top 10 and also to those that have dropped on my EntreCard

Top 10 EntreCard Droppers – August 2009 is a post from Blazing Minds

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What usually happens is when someone drops on your EntreCard you receive one EC and the dropper also receives one EC, great for both parties then, yes, up until now!

We have noticed that the total number of Entrecard credits in the system has grown rapidly. This has been due to the fact that more credits are being created than credits are leaving the system. If this inflation continues, Entrecard credits will be worth less and less. To ensure a stable credit economy and reduce the outstanding credits, Entrecard will no longer give Entrecard credits to the person receiving a drop. In other words, instead of awarding 2 credits for each drop (one to the dropper and one to the blog site owner), only 1 credit will be given to the dropper. This change will be effective September 1, 2009 and will last until further notice.

So will this affect drops on your EntreCard, maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but it will certainly affect the amount of ECs that you can earn, everytime someone drops on your EntreCard you will NOT get any credits, so from September your EC earnings will half.

I suppose only time will tell, to see how this all goes…

EntreCard has even more changes for droppers! is a post from Blazing Minds

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So there you have it’s last months droppers, many thanks to everyone who has been dropping with EntreCard and to those EntreCard users that have also taken the time to comment on my posts , you know who you are

Top EntreCard Droppers for July is a post from Blazing Minds

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Dear Entrecarders,
It is with great excitement that I announce Entrecard.com, Inc. has
been acquired by Los Angeles based ZipRunner Inc.

ZipRunner has the resources, vision, and dedication to Entrecard that
will allow it to grow in pursuit of the vision I laid out nearly two
years ago.

Moving forward, my relationship to Entrecard will be that of an
adviser, and I will help the good folks at ZipRunner take the whole
project to the next level. Expect a follow up communication from them very soon.

ZipRunner Inc. was chosen out of a number of potential suitors because
of the resources they can dedicate to the project, their exciting
vision for the company’s future, and their understanding of social
media and the blogosphere.

I urge you all to look forward to a bigger, better Entrecard, and I
couldn’t be more proud to bring it to this point before passing the
torch. I’ve heard first hand all the great things that are in store
for the company and it’s members, and needless to say it has me quite
excited.

If you would like to keep in touch with me in the future, your can
find me at my new blog Ontrapranore.com where I look forward to
sharing my stories of entrepreneurship and starting/running internet
companies.

Whether you love or hate the decisions I’ve made for Entrecard in the
past, I always did the best I could to move the company forward given
the resources I had, and I always had the best interest of the members
in mind. Now, with new management and ownership stepping in, I urge
anyone who has left the service to give it another chance, and I urge
those who have been loyal members for days, weeks, months, or years to
look forward to a brighter future, a reliable and stable service, and
great new features and strategic direction.

Signing Off,
Graham Langdon
Founder of Entrecard

So what will this mean to users of EntreCard, well I can just imagine a system coming in where we will have to pay subscriptions to use the service and free users having less access to options than those paying for a service, I may be wrong, but usually this is what happens. Just look at Last.fm when the take over happened there, users outside the UK and USA started getting charged a subscription for the radio services!

Anyway time will tell and it will be interesting to see what happens to EntreCard now that they have been acquired by ZipRunner.

Entrecard.com, Inc. has been acquired by ZipRunner Inc. is a post from Blazing Minds

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So before I get on to this, I’ll just give you a quick bit of info about bounce rates, a Bounce Rate is when a visitor lands on your blog and then leaves straight away without spending time looking around your blog and EntreCard is a terrible culprit for making you have a high percentage on your bounce rates….

So as mentioned by EntreCard they intend to implement a system that will decide if the dropper is a “drop and run” visitor, this is someone who is only there to drop on your ECard and then zip off to another blog, to get in as many drops as they can in the day without even reading your blog, shame on them! As mentioned in the EntreCard Blog:

Up until now, we’ve always allowed the “drop and run” phenomenon to take place. We figured if someone was interesting to the visitor, they’d stop and read, and it was best to let everyone go at their own pace. But now we are taking a slightly different approach, in an ongoing effort to increase the quality of Entrecard traffic across the board.

My problem with the drop and run phenomenon is that you are spending time writing an interesting post only for someone to stop by, drop on the ECard and bugger off! I write these posts not just for me you know but for others to read and show some interest by posting comments, not visit and say, “ok I’ve dropped, I’m off!”

So what will EntreCard be doing about this, well this is what they have said on their official blog:

Starting soon, “dropping and running” will no longer give you credit. We are developing a proprietary algorithm to determine whether or not you engaged in the blog you visitied in some way. If you did not engage in the blog, you will not get credit. We won’t be disclosing exactly the algorithm we use, so that people can’t game it easily.

So it seems that something is been done, but will this cut the amount of view to a blog showing the EntreCard widget? Probably, but isn’t it better to get a few less visits and gain visitors that actually appreciate your blogging, only time will tell when the new system is finally implemented.

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Well my decision has finally been made by the continous issues that EntreCard seems to be having, for example I had no way of knowing who had dropped on my site yesterday and couldn’t return the favour by dropping back due to some error on the EntreCard system where is wasn’t showing the droppers!

I would like to thank everyone who has been dropping on my site and taking the time to read posts and comment on them, your efforts are very much appreciated, all I would ask is that you please subscribe to my RSS Feed and keep your comments coming on my future posts.

So, hopefully I’ll see you all commenting on my blog….

If anyone has a good enough reason to talk me out of leaving then I would love to hear it..

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There has been some up and downs lately with the discussions about if I was going to continue with EntreCard or not and to be quite honest I’m still undecided, but, that doesn’t stop me from dropping and reading some great blogs that I have discovered with EntreCard.

So who are Aprils Top 10 Droppers

1. 60 Were Enough
   60 Were Enough blog about Music, Artists, Mp3 and 60 Were Enough News.
2. Picture to People
   Researches about Computer Graphics. New free software for graphics. Hot free graphic effects.
3. New Dilemma
   Looking for a musical breakthrough!
4. A Simple Life
   A 40 year old mother of two who likes to write just about anything. A baking enthusiast, a crafter and a hobbyist. This is about me, my views, my interests and my favourites.
5. Mommy’s Little Corner
   A blog that talks about my adventures of being a wife and a mom. This blog also focuses on food, nutrition and health.
6. Lainy’s Musings
   A blog showcasing my mutterings, random rants, raves and whinings on life’s daily maneuvers.
7. Life’s sweets and spices
   A work-at-home-mommy who loves to cook, bake and read. A frustrated chef, now a dedicated blogger. Blogging makes me happy and this is where I share my thoughts, ideas, [sometimes] feelings, my love for food and then some…
8. The Modern Mom
   Moms like me are becoming more and more housekeeping savvy.  From stretching the family budget to diy’s, smart solutions and more.Being a wonder mom is now no sweat with all these wonderful alternatives.
9. The Way I See It
   My thoughts, opinions and personal observations on a wide variety of subjects, sometimes mixed with humor and including travel, retirement, opinion, politics, child sponsorship with Children International and life experiences. News and views from my perspective.
10. moms….. check nyo
    I’m a 40ish year old mom of two. I love to bake, cook, plant herbs (in pots cause i don’t have a garden), cross stitching, hardanger embroidery, bowling and just like any typical pinay moms i love watching telenovelas.

Many thanks to everyone who has dropped on my blog and commented and become part of my little blogging community, see ya all next month

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So I recently stopped accepting paid for ads at EntreCard so that those using their EC credits to display ads get 100% on my blog. If you have stopped taking paid ads at EntreCard then check out LadyBanana who is making a list EC sites that “DO NOT ACCEPT paid ads on EntreCard”.

My problem with whether or not to drop EntreCard is my blogs traffic, as I was reading over at The Junk Drawer recently it made me think, most of my traffic does come from EntreCard and I would be losing a chunk of traffic from my blog, so I can’t decide to stay or go.

I know that I do have a good following with over 1,500 followers on Twitter and a good amount of RSS subscribers via readers and email subscriptions, so my blog would possibly stand on it’s own, but I really don’t know what to do.

So I would really appreciate any feedback on my dilema and anyone that dows comment, please let me know how you found my blog originally, thanks everyone

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An interesting discussion is going on at the entreblog.

Graham: (The BOSS)

The plan is to give members with the highest ratio of paid ad approvals first dibs on cashing out their credits.

Well, I don’t know the word dibs, but I understand the meaning here.

I feel the efforts of the droppers are completely neglected.
And I also feel the loyalty many have for the ads which were approved before the paid ads were introduced is not respected.

Maybe it’s a good idea to chose a day we don’t drop, so Graham can get an idea how much we mean for the system.
When there are not enough droppers active he can’t do enough with his paid advertising.

I’m calling a strike of entrecard droppers!!

Maybe friday is the perfect day for that.

To show the importance of droppers for the entrecard system.
To show we’re no second rate entrecarders.
To show we want to have complete control over our own site.
To get equal respect for EC and money paid advertisers.
To prevent the decay of the system.

Get your graphic here.

To be clear: I’m not against contributing towards the continuation of the system. Not at all.
And I’m not against paid advertising.
In fact I’m all for two sided widgets, or even two widgets.
But that someone sees it fit to break an agreement and displays advertisements on my site without my consent really makes me mad.

When we want to keep the system going and all have a good time droppers need to be respected to (by someone in his twenties who’s in it for the money. Let’s be clear about that.)

Come back on friday to see links to alternative activities. (No ads. LOL!)

update:

This morning I had a different ad in my widget than should be there.
When reloading I got another one; not the one that should be there.
Right now I’m surfing with blogexplosion. Bit of music, cup of coffee.
I’m even able to drop now and then.

STRIKE! – It’s EntreCard No Droppers Day! is a post from Blazing Minds

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The trouble with speed droppers is that they land on your site hit drop and then bugger off! Which is not really good for your blogs bounce rate, ok, I may be sending this right over people heads right now, so I would recommend reading the Wiki about Bounce Rate to find out what it is, but to cut a story short, bounce rate is the amount of time a visitor stays on your blog before moving onto another site etc.

The aim is for you to try to analyze and reduce your Bounce rate, but with EntreCard dropping this is a hard task, due to the problem with speed droppers, there is not much you can do about the EntreCard droppers that just drop and run, but there are ways to improve Bouce Rate with other visitors, so it’s a matter of a little work to get a better Bounce Rate for your blog.

So the question is will a bad Bounce Rate affect your Google search ranking etc? Well some say yes and some say no, so I’m too sure myself, but it is a thought that you have to take with you when blogging or even building your home page on your website, will the content cause your viewer to stay or just shoot straight to another website, before giving you blog/site a chance.

I personally am considering the thoughts that EntreCard is damaging my Bouce Rate and overall search engine rankings, but then again, it helps my Google Advertising with hits etc, so I’m 50/50 at the moment, it’s a “time will tell” situation, so I think I may wait to see how the next Google Page Rank goes and how the searches are coming in before I do anything major..

Do EntreCard Visitors Cause your Site to Have a Bad Bounce Rate is a post from Blazing Minds

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This was all due to my very busy schedule, I have been working on the SEO and website design of the Remergence website and the release of a Best Of album, so this has taken up a lot of my valuable time, the SEO work is now complete and now it’s just a wait for fans to choose their favourite tracks.

So hopefully now I can get back to my usually blogging, the Saturday Six will be back next week, so remember to suggest a them via my Twitter and if you are an a EntreCard user then the chosen EC user of the selected theme will get 200 ECs.

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