The other day I had a tweet from @benbarden asking if I had seen a new feature on CMF Ads, so I shot over to take a look at this new feature which I found on my dashboard, the new feature is called “Spikes”.

So I thought it would be a good idea to bring the readers of my blog a little bit of information about this new feature.

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I’ve just been doing my rounds and reading some of my favourite blogs on the net when I stopped by Dragon Blogger and this great post on Custom Twitter Signatures for your Site and Blog,  the site the DragonBlogger is posting about will allow to to have a banner like this one:

To add to your blog, forums, webiste any where you want really, so if you would like a tasy banner like this one then check out the Twitter Signature Styles for you own cool looking banner!

I can’t believe a month has flown by so quickly, it only seems like yesterday since I last posted an EntreCard Top Droppers list, a big thank you to all the droppers, so here they are, Top 10 EntreCard Droppers for February:

1. My note’s
   What I’m looking and thinking
2. Lainy’s Musings
   A blog showcasing my mutterings, random rants, raves and whinings on life’s daily manoeuvres.
3. my review
   My review about anything
4. What’s On My Mind Today
   Thoughts on current events spewed freely here. I’ve decided to join the herd and put my two cents out there for debate, and possibly ridicule. If you can’t make fun of yourself you’re just going to be upset when others do.
5. 60 Were Enough
   60 Were Enough blog about Music, Artists, Mp3 and 60 Were Enough News.
6. Picture to People
   Researches about Computer Graphics. New free software for graphics. Hot free graphic effects.
7. Online Social Networking
   Thought-Provoking Outside-the-Box Articles on a Broad Range of Business and Social Strategies
8. Spicybugz World
   Little bit of this and a whole lot of that. My daily adventures, joys, heartaches, laughter and tears.
9. The Way I See It
   My thoughts, opinions and personal observations on a wide variety of subjects, sometimes mixed with humour and including travel, retirement, opinion, politics, child sponsorship with Children International and life experiences. News and views from my perspective.
10. Gadget Spot
    The latest Gadget news

Just outside the top 10: Lola’s Diner, Scandinavian Ways – Winesworlds blog, Guilty Pleasures & Work At Home.

A big thank you to everyone dropping on my blog and I hope to see everyone dropping throughout March

Some time back it was always advised to get your website on a Website Directory and get your site linked and from experience this was great, not only for helping boost my sites but also boosting many others.

But these days do people still use Website Directories, it can be hard to get yourself listed in one of the top directories DMOZ, I have been an editor at DMOZ, MusicMoz and my own run Directory for many years and have noticed a decline in the amount of websites been submitted.

So what has caused this decline, is it that website owners now depend on other sites linking back to them without working hard promoting the sites themselves.

Or is it that these days people don’t like to pay or wait for the directory to approve their links, I’m not really sure, but there certainly has been a decline in links been added to most sites.

So, what do you think?

Ok this is the last list for this year of the Top EntreCard droppers to Blazing Minds, I would like to thank everyone who has been dropping on the site and here is Decembers Top 10:

1. 60 Were Enough
   60 Were Enough bolog about Music, Artists, Mp3 and 60 Were Enough News.
2. Small Town Mommy
   Small Town Mommy chronicles my day-to-day life.  I share my thoughts with my readers, hopefully make someone laugh, and ask for advice.  Stop by and get to know me and my family and friends, here in our small town.
3. 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…
4. Rants, Thoughts, and Other Things
   This is just my blog where I can get some things off my chest. Feel free to read and comment!
5. 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.
6. Lola’s Diner
   At Lola’s Diner we’ll be sharing recipes and sharing conversation across a virtual lunch counter. Topics will be varied and can include current events, politics, parenting, mental health, and glbt topics.
7. 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 favorites.
8. 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.
9. Lainy’s Musings
   A blog showcasing my mutterings, random rants, raves and whinings on life’s daily maneuvers.
10. 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.

And a big thumbs up to Orange Derange and avid dropper but hasn’t made it in the Top 10, but deserves a mention

Thanks everyone an Happy New Year

Ok, so I’ve mentioned this early in my last post, but now I have an update for you, I have just joined PayingPost, which allows you to take opportunities to review websites, products and much more and best of all you get paid for doing it.

I found the site while surfing the net and decided yesterday to join up, so, I simply filled in my details, name, blog URL, PayPal Address (to get paid) and then that was it and then just waited for my blog to be approved, now with sites like these I’ve waited up to and over a week to be approved, but, this morning I got an email letting me know that my blog had been approved, how quick is that, fast or what

The site is very easy to navigate and it’s quick, you select which opportunities you wish to do and then your off to type your review etc, this to me is probably one of the easiest and straight forward sites that I have seen for a while and is ideal to find a great selection of advertising for blogs.

So my advice would be to get on over to PayingPost and sign up your blog today and they even have a section advertisers so they can also Advertise on PayingPost blog network.

Now I’ve been using ping.fm for quite a while now since it was in it’s beta stage, but now it has come out of beta and is live.

First of all let me tell you what ping.fm actually does, once you join ping.fm you can add your social network websites such as Plurk, Bebo, Twitter, Myspace and many more. Adding this will enable you to update your statuses on these and other sites in one go, also you can create posts for micro-blogs and standard blog entries, enabling you to spend less time updating the many social sites that you may belong to.

So how do you promote your website using ping.fm?
Simple really when you update your website/blog make sure you use ping.fm to update your social networks this will add links to your website from your social networks and as most have a fair amount of friends on their social networks anyway, this will promote you site to them as well as people who may be browsing the networks, sending you new readers/visitors to your site.