I revamped and changed the focus of the blog I was writing for LockerGnome. Now it's called Blogging Should Be Sexy. Is the neon pink too much? Just cause I like it doesn't mean anyone else will. :)

I wrote an About page for it:

Blogging should be personal, artistic and sexy. Innovative, original and imperfect web publishing for free spirits.

My first blog was on Geocities. Not an official CMS, just something I typed into a text file, added HTML to it and saved to my freebie Geocities pages. I wish I had saved those but I was also writing in my handwritten journal offline so it’s not all gone. Since then I’ve tried several versions and styles of blogs. I’ve stuck with Blogger longest cause it’s fairly simple and lets you focus on the writing and creating instead of figuring out coding and bugs. My current blog was begun June 2004. My first blog was started in 1998.

My blog style is imperfect, experimental and requires creative ingenuity. It’s also a lot of fun! That’s what makes it sexy. I make mistakes, I patch things up and find work arounds. I discover great new ideas and use them. I take risks with my blog cause at the end of the day I’m really doing it to hear myself type. I am pleased to have readers and comments but, I’ll let you know ahead that it’s only me you’ll find behind that curtain. Whatever I am; I am myself first.

There are a lot of sites to find out about SEO, monetization and professional blogging. This isn’t one of them.

You've won a raffle and have been granted a free block of ad space on the front page of Google for one week. If you wanted traffic, you found it!

So what do you use the ad for: your home business, your personal blog. a friend's online business or something you create on the spur of the moment?

Now write your ad. Make really efficient use of the word space you have. You only get 150 x 150, a bit bigger than an EntreCard ad. Your text or graphic has to be readable and eye catching.

Thanks to Annie for the award and the kind comments. I started reading Annie's blog through EntreCard. I've found other great blogs that same way.

Doodlage

One Old Green Bus

Sites that I have found for free traffic exchange. I'm not using all of these, I'm considering adding one of them. The trouble is making space above the fold for more than one. Also, not sure I want more cause they do look like ad clutter. But, I'm enjoying EntreCard and My Roomie is such a cheerful looking site. Likely some will stay and some will go, over time. I find the more stuff you try the more interesting things you find.

• EntreCard
• Spottt
• My Roomie
• BloggerSwap
• Blog 125
• Blog Explosion
• (Rent My Blog is currently offline, for maintenance they say but it seemed to be mothballed quite awhile).

If you know of others let me know.

Look at me, in the top row of the EntreCard personal blogs. I thought I had gotten as high along as I ever would. This was a real surprise this afternoon. Plus, I've gotten more blogs to advertise on my site. I was down to just a couple and feeling a touch blue about that. Had thought about just letting my blog drop out of sight and focusing my incredible power of becoming completely obsessed on something else. What a nice surprise today. Now I can get back to being obsessed on EntreCard again. ;)