Launches: A Photo Blog and a Social Network for Real Bloggers
We’re proud to bring you two new site launches this Monday morning, The Photoblog of Justin Wright and Real Name Blogs.
Technically, Justin’s photo blog is not part of The 42nd Estate, but Justin is a member of our family and we highly encourage you to check out his pimp photos. The man’s got a great knack for captivating pictures, so if you’re looking for an escape from your corporate cubicle, click on over to Justin’s photo collection and immerse yourself in the imagery.
Justin Wright's Photoblog
The next site we’ll discuss is Real Name Blogs, a social network for bloggers who write under their real, actual name. In the never-ending debate about whether to blog anonymously or via your actual name, we side the the real namers and thus want to give back to the community and help promote the latest and greatest posts from real name bloggers. If you blog under your real name, send us an e-mail with a link to your RSS feed and we’ll add you to the site so your latest posts automatically get pulled. Head on over today and upvote (or downvote) the latest stories from real name bloggers.
Real Name Blogs: The Social Network for Real Bloggers
Let us know what you think of the new sites in the comments below.
Domains for Sale: Get Freaked!
A good friend of ours, Daniel at Daily Blog Tips, is selling freaked.com, a prime domain name. A good domain name should be short and memorable, and freaked.com passes both of those requirements. If you’re in need of a good very brand-able domain name make sure you give Daniel a shout. Freaked.com could easily become a big, big site. Daniel planned on making it a comedy site similar to cracked.com but alas just does not have enough free time in his schedule.
If freaked.com does not interest you Daniel is selling a few more domains, and The 42nd Estate is getting in on the fall cleaning session and offering a few domain names we own:
- 3rdpartydebate.org
- 3rdpartypledge.org
- zombieducets.com
- iLearnCode.com
- bloggerswithoutads.com
All domains are $42 each. Buy two get one free!
Send us an e-mail if any of these domains interest you.
Do you DoFollow?
Well do you?
Do you know what DoFollow is?
To explain DoFollow, we’ll begin with its arch-nemesis, NoFollow. Years ago blogs were overrun with spammers commenting in order to receive backlinks, which are used by Google to determine a site’s importance. To combat the spammers, a NoFollow tag was developed by Google to signify to web spiders to avoid any nofollowed links. It was designed to prevent spammers from getting importance passed to their links via comments on blogs.
Since then NoFollow has taken off and many sites use NoFollow on all their links, while some avoid NoFollow completely. Dofollow is a movement by bloggers to revert the flow of websites enacting NoFollow and reward real people for leaving real thoughtful comments by making their links DoFollow, which does signify to Google to follow the links, hence Do Follow.
Here at The 42nd Estate we use a mix of the two, but our comments are now 100% DoFollow. We appreciate the feedback you give us and reward you with some link love. We also use commentluv, which is a wordpress plugin designed to pull and post your latest article from your blog. Mr. Money over at My Last Name Means Money also uses DoFollow in combination with commentluv so go get some from him! While you’re at it, make sure to hop on over to Justin Wright’s blog and hit up his DoFollow Blog Directory, where you can list your blog, if you do DoFollow.
So, do you DoFollow?
We Demand Videos! Now Open for Submissions!
A month and a half ago we launched We Demand Videos!. Since then we’ve celebrated passing the 100 videos milestone and today we celebrate another milestone, open submissions!
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How to Apply to 9rules
Today, November 5th, is the last day in 2008 to apply to the 9rules blogging network. For those unaware, 9rules is basically a network of quality blogs, anywhere you see a 9rules badge on a blog it’s like a seal of [...] Continue Reading…
