Nothing to See Here…

 

Some of my favorite bloggers could pass gas and click publish and 37 seconds later, there would be 105 comments to that post telling them how wonderful their farts smell. Don’t get me wrong- they are wonderful farts and they are passed in a very entertaining manner! I am one of the many fart-admirers they attract. I’m not sayin’ anything bad about these bloggers. In fact, I’m envious of their ability to spin a fart and draw a crowd. It’s very admirable! Some of those darn farts are truly works of art!  

Me - I can turn cartwheels in a loose fitting skirt with no underwear and I still can’t get my OB/GYN to look unless I make a co-pay first. OK, well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the picture (now, the trouble is trying to get rid of the picture haha). My point is, some of us bloggers, particularly us newer ones, put a lot of effort into getting noticed. Those that came before surely put the effort in way back when as they were building their presence and are able to enjoy the benefits of their hard work and the momentum they created.

For those of you like me who are trying to build some interest, there are tools out there meant to help. Now, to be honest, I do this blogging thing because I enjoy writing and having readers is just the whipped cream on top and having commenters, well, that’s like a big, fat, juicy cherry to make it all perfect (I was going to call my commenters a sprinkling of nuts, but then I didn’t want to chase them away). And since I like banana splits so much, I want more whipped cream and more cherries and, yes, even more nuts (and when my next post laments about my lack of Weight Watchers success, please don’t remind me of the whipped cream and cherries and all the nuts, OK?).

One of the tools meant to help generate traffic is BlogExplosion. If you’re not familiar with it, read on… If you want to find other interesting blogs and give people a way to find your blog, this might be of interest to you. The way it works is this: you sign up, for free, and you surf the blogs of other members. You earn credits as you surf and you can ’spend’ those credits in various ways. You might use your credits to have your blog in the surf-queue so others surf on by or you might spend your credits to place a banner ad on BlogExplosion’s site. They are even doing this blog renter thing using credits.

It’s kind of cool. It might not be cool if you didn’t care about browsing through many other blogs or if you aren’t trying to increase traffic to your own. But if those two things are of interest, this might be something to take a peek at.

Now, getting to the Amway thing — I can also earn credits if you sign up by clicking through from my site. How cool is that? If I dupe convince all you chitlins to sign up, I might just be able to sit back and watch the credits roll in.

I plan to be a CREDIT MISER… I’m not going to spend them, I’m just going to let them pile up. I’m going to get millions and stash most of them under my mattress. I’m going to put the rest into high-yield bonds and just live off the interest. I want to die with MORE Blog Explosion credits than anyone else in the blogosphere. They’ll be talking about the Legend of JustLinda for generations. Or at least for 13 or 14 minutes.

But in order to do that, I need your help. Sign up! Get your friends and families to sign up! Call upon your neighbors! Send the link to the PTO! If your kids have a play date, have their mommies and daddies sign up! ISN’T THIS EXCITING? (Shut up!)

OK, well, only do it if you want to.

Oh, also - my kid is selling premium chocolates and nuts, a variety of wrapping papers, and magazine subscriptions. If she sells $450,000.00, she will get a free Pizza Hut personal pan pizza (retail value: $1.99). Do you want to order something from there, too?