Only 11 More Hours to Join The Party

First off, I just want to thank the people who’ve took the time to sign up for this contest. With all the entries I was able to find some interesting blogs out there. As you already know, the contest entries will be closing as of midnight tonight (Monday Dec 24th). So this is your last chance to take part. If you haven’t already go to the contest post, and claim your entries. Please do note that I will check for the Entrecard widgets to be displayed on your blog as part of the entry. Anyways its been a wonderful ride so far, and I just wanted to tell everyone thank you for coming along with me.

Now on to today’s winner, out of the 84 entries listed.

With a roll of 61 that points us to Allen @ Silkenhut’s World. Allen please verify that you have received your credits.

Good luck to everyone for tomorrow’s contest drawings.

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Today’s Winner – Also What’s up With Alexa Today? Google PR Update Incoming?

Does anyone know whats going on with the Alexa ratings lately? I’ve been running about the same traffic for the last two weeks or so, but yesterday my daily Alexa rank dropped to 69,000. Today I’m sitting at about 89,000, like I said all with the same amount of traffic. This makes me wonder how many people Alexa users it actually take to break the top 100,000 level. Apparently less than 150 visitors a day, because that was yesterday’s visitor count.

When I was receiving closer to 300 visitors a day earlier this month posting about the Van Dame commercial, the rating didn’t even show up in the top 100k. I guess the people who play World of Warcraft don’t use the Alexa bar that much, and many of the Entrecard users do.Also there’s been some worry over at the Digital Point forums regarding Google de-indexing many sites. One thread I read had their site traffic drop from 50k – 20kday. Many of these same threads popped up back in September about a month before big G updated its Page Rankings. Is this the start of Google getting ready to do the PR updates again? I wonder how many PR complaints we’ll see this time around. Like I’ve mentioned before I don’t like to pay too much attention on getting PR. Especially when the Whypark test site received a higher PR than my blog did. Page rank has no relation to traffic. Although now when I move this blog to the domain name I’ll get a higher PR rating thanks to Whypark. So that’s a good thing right?

Well that’s enough rambling for today, let’s get on with the winners for the Entrecard contest. I sound like a broken record now, but just reminding everyone to drop off your cards for more entries daily. And leave a comment in the contest post that you did so I can give you credit for it.

Of all the times playing World of Warcraft, and rolling for loot I hated rolling 1 out of 100. This time its a good thing hrmm? Congrats to Movie Cat for winning today’s drawing. I’ll be sending you the credits shortly after this post. Please confirm that you have received them from me. Grand Prize drawing is up in 2 more days so get your entries in while you still can.

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Winner of Day 5 EntreCard Contest

I’m sure the Holiday season crunch time is upon us all. Good luck with the last minute shopping if you are a procrastinator like me. As for me I’ve finally found most of the Wordpress plugins I need, but still looking for an adequate theme to switch to after this contest is done with. Anyways on to today’s winner:

The winner for today’s Entrecard Contest is Egon from Contest U. I’ll be sending the credits after I am done with the post so please do take a moment to verify that you have received them from me.

The next two weeks I have quite a busy work schedule in addition to porting over all the blog posts from blogger. Hope it can all be imported in a day or so. Have fun, and don’t forget the grand prize drawing is on the 25th. Enter now if you haven’t yet, and don’t forget to drop off a card/comment to claim your entry.

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Took a While, but I Finally Hit 20,000 World of Warcraft Gold

It took a little longer than I thought to reach this next goal, but I was finally able to reach 20,000 gold again in World of Warcraft. Real life work has been burning me out by the time I get home so I haven’t even been logging in for the 30-45 minutes daily to rack this amount up.

The Season 3 patch was quite a big sales day which raised the World of Warcraft auction house prices by quite a bit. The prices of some items have still not come back down since that patch was released, so that’s great for people playing the auction houses. With school/college out there will be more people playing, so a greater demand of goods to be sold this winter break.

Back at the end of October I had hit 14,000 before Sparter increased its commissions. I thought that with the commission rates doubling to 20% the gold rates would go back up to compensate. However if you look at this widget below you’ll notice, that the World of Warcraft gold to dollar rate has been steadily decreasing. You can click on the full graph link to see a larger version of this graph.

So after hitting this amount, I decided to drop my rates to try to move some of this WoW gold inventory before the year’s up. I plan to move about half of it, so roughly 10k. Maybe I’ll pick up a Nintendo Wii or something for my kid before the new years.

With Blizzard planning the release of the expansion Wrath of the Lich King, and even more levels/quests. The price per 1,000 gold is just going to drop more so I’ll need to cash out while the rates are still high. Its either that or buy some friends their epic mounts for Xmas.

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I Just Realized That I Can’t Count – Day 4 Contest Winner – Entrecard Meme

It seems that I have become too dependent upon using a calculator that I can’t do simple additions in my head anymore. Anyways for those of you who didn’t catch my error, my contest started on a Tuesday, and ends Tuesday. This means the I was actually 8 running contest days for a total of 1,100 points and not 1,000. So that’s good news for the contest participants. The winner of which I’ll announce shortly.

Its been a hectic day today at the office so far, so I’ll be jumbling everything today in one big post.

It looks like there is an Entrecard meme going about now. I had first heard about it while returning a dropped card from Buzz Bop. I left a comment there joking about how long it was going to take before I get hit with it. Low and behold a few hours later I get tagged by that very meme from Alan. I found it funny that Colin also had that same experience happen to him the day before it looks like.

Alan didn’t post the instructions so I’ll pull them from the Buzz Bop post that I saw it on.

Entrecard Meme Instructions

With the full realization that these Entrecard meme instructions are being read by some of the most brain-fogged, weary net travelers known to mankind, I am going to keep this VERY, VERY simple. Btw, I say “brain-fogged” for the fact that ever since Entrecard “dropped” onto the scene, it’s a fair bet that each of us is seeing, at least, 2-3 times more blogs per day than usual. I would even venture 5-10 times more.

So Here They Are, The Simple Entrecard Meme Instructions

Read these instructions twice;

Drop your EntreCard at this site;

Drop your EntreCard at the 5 EntreCard users’ sites listed below;

Choose 5 other EntreCard users;

Copy these instructions to your own Entrecard meme article and tag (link) those 5 people;

Include a link to the Entrecard meme article of the person who tagged you;

Link to the original article “Sam Freedom’s Drop Squad – the First Entrecard Meme Known to Bloggers“;

Notify the people you choose that they’ve been tagged;

Comment below so even passers-by can drop their card at your site, too (it shows you are active and will likely return the favor)

(optional) IF you tag your blogs , use both “entrecard” and “entrecard meme” as tags so that others can find them AND so that we can find them all later as this grows. (If you don’t know what tagging is, don’t worry.)

Hard part now is finding people I know that haven’t already been tagged with the meme already. So I’ll tag some recent contest subscribers as my prey.

Buzz Bop – I’m going to put the blame on you for this meme so you get a tag =).

Abhijeet @ Life is Colorful – You’re the winner of today’s Entrecard Contest so I’m going to also tag you with this meme as well. Please verify that you get the credits after I finish posting this.

Clyde @ The World As We Know It -

The two lucky or unlucky people who got tagged from this are:

The 30 Day Man – Slightly Mordant

I hope you guys are enjoying this contest as much as I am. I’m getting quite a bit of card drops every day, and finding new/interesting sites to read from. It still perplexes me though that out of the 70 people who stop by to drop off cards, only a few people actually want to enter the contest. They’ve already done the requirement, but haven’t left a comment.

Here is the screen shot from the random draw today in case anyone was wondering. Now back to the office I go!