Tue, August 30 2011
I recently posted about my exciting Alexa rank increase and, as I’ve watched the number steadily shrink, I’ve kept an eye on my website statistics. Namely, I’m looking at referrers to see just how you guys are finding me so I can make the best of these sites and put less focus on the solutions [...]
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Sun, August 14 2011
Okay, we’re not to final.. yet but I have been watching my Alexa ranking shrinking and shrink over the last few weeks and I am so excited! I put that badge up in hopes that my rank would increase and.. it didn’t really. The popularity of my giveaways, however, has really helped to boost my [...]
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Sat, July 30 2011
I have always tried to open my giveaways to as many participants as possible. I usually have no qualms about shipping to the UK, Canada or Australia if I am mailing the item myself. I don’t expect my visitors to jump through hoops just to join and I don’t use any scripts that will make [...]
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Sun, July 24 2011
I’ve been spending more time looking at my stats, referrals and figuring out how to drive traffic to Reviews by Cole. Hint: StumbleUpon works wonders and some of the contest listing sites give me a few hits. But I digress. I am still getting “hits” from people hot linking my images. For those of you [...]
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Thu, June 23 2011
or: these companies send me free stuff and I write about that free stuff. I also write about these companies so you can know where to get your own free stuff. One2One Network is by far my favorite source of products in exchange for review. Thanks to the service, I’ve reviewed several books, a CD [...]
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Fri, August 27 2010
Thanks to the folks at UPrinting, your source for all sources of printing services, I can give one lucky reader 250 stickers/labels from Uprinting. If you’re not familiar, this service lets you put your photos or graphics on a variety of items. Besides stickers, photos, posters, cups, calendars and postcards are on the menu but [...]
Tue, August 24 2010
and here is why: I have two Google accounts for a necessary reason that I do not wish to outline here. The one that I use the most has no associated Blogger account. I have no reason to create a Blogger account with it. In fact, I left Blogger for a reason (it sucks). Thus, [...]
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I'm Cole, a 20 something female newely returned to Central Wisconsin after my divorce. I review products in my free time. I also enjoy reading (fantasy), TV and movies (sci fi), music (mainly rock and metal), maintaining my numerous websites, chatting, and spending time with my friends and kitties... [Read More at Her Realm]
