Just now I noticed the new tagging feature added in mybloglog and it is great. I have added the tags related to my sites. Also I have noticed that mybloglog is a good tracking tool not only for your blogs but also for your websites. So I have added two more sites of mine to see, if they can be tracked better using mybloglog
I like the webstats feature wherein you can see your visitors count, the keywords and also which section, the visitor clicked.I am experimenting a few more things on it.
We have added all the entries received for the baby model contest may-jun 2007. The home page will be updated soon with the new model Harry's photgraphs. Please keep checking the site.We will accept the baby model contest entries till 25th June 2007.
Voting for May 2007 - Free baby photo contest is started. Voting will continue for 10 days till 31st March 2007. Parents can invite friends and families to vote for their babies. You can vote for the babies, by giving them a rating from the drop down box and you can also add in your comments.
The contestants list for the free baby photo contest - May 2007 is up. Voting will start on 20th May 2007. We will have voting for 10 days.
There were 150 contestant entry and out of them we have selected 38. In most of the cases the photos did not reach us in time, they were not in the specified file size limit, the filenames were not as desired (that was in most of the cases though!, so we have not really considered this factor). In some cases, the images were blurred and also the images were showing the parents rather than the baby. Please make sure that, the photos sent meets the required criteria.
Also we would be soon starting an age wise competition seeing the number of entries we get every month.
Accepting entries for Baby Model Contest - May-Jun 2007
We are accepting entries for the baby model contest for May-Jun 2007. The entry fee is only $3 per snap. You can send in as many snaps as you wish. Fill the contest entry form and send it to us alongwith the baby attachment. Payment is to be done from Paypal. Once we recieve your payment, your baby's snap will be uploaded in the baby model contestants list.
The grandsupreme winner becomes our KidsandBibs baby model for the next two month. These are our past baby models.
This was a cool baby video I came across in youtube and I must say their laugh was infectious. It is good to see such videos after a tiring day. If you know of any good baby video, feel free to share it with us.
KidsandBibs #1 on Google, Yahoo and MSN for "Baby Topsites"
KidsandBibs ranks number 1 on Google, Yahoo as well as MSN for the keyword "baby topsites". So if you own a baby/mom related website then KidsandBibs Topsites is the right place to get your site listed. It is free for non commercial personal homepages and we charge a one time fee of 5$ for all commercial baby sites.
Recently we have seen that most of the website owners remove the tospites code once the site get listed. So to avoid these check we are discarding the voting button concept. We will list all the sites and their rankings will keep on changing so as to give equal weightage to all the websites. We will add your websites, after we receive the payment from paypal. All websites will have an outgoing link pointing to their homepage. This will be a great way for all the site owners to reach to a large audience of KidsandBibs.com .
The wait is over now. The contest result for Free baby photo contest and baby model contest is announced. Please check the contest winners page on kidsandbibs.com
Accepting entries for Free Photo Contest -May 2007
We are now accepting entries for May 2007 - Free Photo Contest. Please goto the entry form and submit the form.
Before sending in your entries, please make sure that you read the contest FAQs
We will only accept photos in .jpg format. Please keep photos within 100k. Please make sure that the photo name is the firstname of your child. We will not accept the photos if the name is not proper. Photos should have names like this megan.jpg, emily.jpg , daniel.jpg etc , which means firstname.jpg.
The voting result will be annouced soon. Confirmation emails have been already sent to all the voters. From this month, we plan to get all the voters registered before voting so as to eliminate the confirmation email round.
I would like to inform everyone that recently there was a very funny incident. Well, it is a very serious issue though, but I found it funny to see how the Keycode people cheated me.I had applied for keycode affiliate program in september 2006 and quickly, I was approved for the same.
Here is the email sent to me on 29/9/2006- "Your application for Keycode's Private Label Program has been approved and your account has been activated. You can log in to your account as follows:
If you have any questions/comments/concerns please email (affiliatesupport@keycode.com) or call (714) 556-8866.
Regards, The Keycode Affiliate Team affiliatemanager@keycode.com "
I was happy with the performance as many parents used the coupons and last month I saw that I had earned around 97$. And I was searching for a link to request for the payment to be sent. You can request payment after you make 25$ only. And I started writing to these people asking them how I can request for the money. And to my surprise, in reply to that email, I got and email from them saying that "We have received your affiliate application and your application is under review." And then on 1st May 2007, I got this email
"Your application for Keycode's Affiliate Program has been denied.
Regards, The Keycode Affiliate Team"
I have written many emails to them but no response in reply to my problem. So I really wonder if we should trust this affiliate programs or not. So many parents have benefitted using those coupons and I have the screenshot also saved. Here it is, when it was active ;)
I don't trust any other affiliate program now. For me Google Adsense is the best way to make money. I have been getting my monthly cheques regularly. So guys if you support me, please digg this story on digg.com.
KidsandBibs.com has reached the 7K mark on compete.com.It is not exactly 7k, but very close.And traffic is growing every day. Our total hit for the month of April 2007 was 461929. As per compete.com- " Compete has developed a unique methodology created by experts in the fields of mathematics, statistics and the data sciences to aggregate, transform, enhance and normalize data in order to estimate U.S. Internet traffic.Based on the daily web usage of more than two million members (and growing!) of the Compete community, Compete calculates and estimates total traffic and rank for nearly every site on the web. We use rigorous statistics to make sure our estimates balance demographic and connection factors that match the entire U.S. Internet population. Currently, we're calculating the number of people in the U.S. that visit any given Web site each month (international usage calculations are in development)."
So I am eagerly waiting for the international tool as well. It will be a good way of measuring traffic, which can be viewed by your sponsors and advertisers. You need not do much of the talking but your figures can talk for you. I am sure all your marketing guys will agree,how important facts and figures are!!
It is much easier to let your advertiser check the traffic of your site with the competitor and then decide on whether they wish to advertise on your site or not.
KidsandBibs will soon announce the result of Baby Model Contest march-april 2007. And the winner will become the baby model for two months and the winner's photos will be posted on the homepage of the site as the "KidsandBibs Model". If you want to see your baby as the nest baby model on our popular website, then send in your entries soon. We will soon start accepting new entries for the month of May-June 2007. Baby Model Contest is a bi-monthly contest. We have some lovely sponsors sponsoring cool prizes. We are always looking for sponsors. We accept cash money as well payable from Paypal. Sof if you feel like donating some prizes, feel free to contact me.
The voting for the free contest is closed and results will be announced in a few days. Keep checking the site. We will soon start accepting new entries for May 2007. But before that I am planning to shift the db to SQL Server as the db size is growing every month. Currently the application is running on Access database. Well there are many limitations to using Access, so I always prefer SQL Server.
The paid baby model contest is also closed for judging. It will be judged by a selected number of parents who will judge the contestants. I find it good, to make the site more interactive.So keep checking the site for updates!
We will be adding many more baby articles to the site soon. The article section is very popular with our parents.
If anyone is looking to donate prizes to my contest which can be in the form of cash as well( from paypal), I am happy to accept it. Please write to me if you wish to contribute a prize.
