Kamila's Thoughts On Alexa Targets and Competitions

Kamila has now has entered five competitions and waits for the results. They are all free and easy to enter with prizes ranging from hard cash to air miles. She thinks it won’t be long before she gets some sort of reward for her efforts if nothing else the law of averages dictates that if you persist and never give up something will come her way.

It is some surprise to know that many people just don’t bother with competitions and this give a greater chance for those who do make the effort. Opportunities for competitions have increased tremendously over the last few years especially online and blog competitions, this is good news to bloggers fro another avenue of traffic and earnings.

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On another front it seems that Kamila has now settled nicely into a Google PR0 but her Alexa rank stands at 137457. Her aim is to get it under 120,000 over the next few months and under 100,000 by April next year. This will take a lot of work, not least more links can communication with blogging friends and regular posts.

Needless to say spare time in Bulgaria is now increasing with most of the harvests in and food and fuel stocks stored for the coming winter. Come November there will be three months of mega time to kill and that will be spent blogging on these cold and freezing months with plenty of good food and drink on the kitchen table.

“Hope you are all in a cheerful disposition,” says Kamila

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Kamila Not In Blogging Second Gear Yet

Kamila is back to work having just taken a paid post job for more than $1! She was up writing it to gone midnight as you can’t choose when these jobs come along. Well it was done and hopefully it will be accepted and Kamila will be paid for something she loves doing.

It is funny how tired you get when you come back from holiday. Kamila has found it hard to get into the fast lane of blogging since getting back as her mind is still in the sand it seems. That just shows how much of a lovely time she had I suppose.

Lots of new things happening with Entrecard so Kamila now is now accepting EC members’ ads automatically as this was one of the changes made over the last few days. If you aren’t a member of Entrecard Kamila suggests you should think about joining, you can just have a passive role and you will get traffic, which isn’t bad at all.

It might take a few more days for Kamila to get into second gear, but she will eventually as the memories of the holiday become more distanced away with time.

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Entrecard Credits For Top Ten Droppers From July

Kamila has decided to make an offer to Entrecard users and after much deliberation decided that the most loyal of droppers should be rewarded for their time, kindness and thought.

As from the coming month of July and every month thereon Kamila will be awarding 100 ECs for the top ten droppers and a gifting a whopping 300 ECs for the blogger in the number one spot. She is basically giving away 1200 ECs each month.

In addition to this she will be adding the top ten droppers to her favourites (unless they are already there of course) and subsequently plan to drop on them every day. This is something she does already with June’s top ten droppers anyway.

Kamila is very happy to do this, as she is not only a caring camel, but also a generous one.

Here are Kamila's Entrecard Dropping Heroes for June:

Dropper	Number of drops
Entreblogger	28
Winesworld's blog	28
Anything Goes W/ Pahn	27
Bulgarian Scrapbook	26
Doing Business	25
Daisy the Curly Cat	22
West of Mars - the Meet and Greet	22
Septagon Studios Indie Comic Blog	22
The Sewing Mom	21
Split Rock Ranch	21

"Have a good July everyone!" says Kamila.

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Kamila Remains A Blogspot Blogger

Kamila has decided to remain under the blogspot banner. This wasn’t an easy decision and it was based on the fact that she has seen many other esteemed bloggers happily running blogs on the same format. At the end of the day a re-run of building up her PR from scratch and looking many back links is a step too far and she does intend to become a blogging empire. She just wants to earn a few dollars a day to help out the Bulgarian family she lives with. What she should have done was get her own domain when starting up, that is the advice that comes out loud and clear from more experienced bloggers.

So, Kamila is not changing anything right now and is quite content with that.

On another front, Kamila tried out the ‘Entrebar’ system where you can drop from a menu bar without having to go into the Entrecard site. She found it useful but there were little bugs in the system that caused the bar to mix up with the existing navigation bar when not actively in use. Also she couldn’t drop on cards that had been dropped on her from the day before. As the new day starts at 7:00 in the morning in Bulgaria, Kamila likes to do her drops just after the day kicks in and there are only a couple of droppers for that new day. She doesn’t like the idea of dropping in the evening as she joins the Bulgarian family outside each evening. With this in mind she does not use the system, but feels it would be good for others who have different routines.

“Have a lovely weekend,” says Kamila.

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Thoughtful Widget Placements For Entrecard and Adgitize

As Kamila drops on fellow Entrecard and Adgitize members, she notices that many are doing the sensible thing by place both respective widgets in the same frame. This make thing so much smoother for droppers that is a partisan to both parties.

Kamila does the same thing herself as she is a thoughtful camel and wants to make it easier for her friends that drop in. Beside she only has one post on her home page so an added bonus is that droppers don’t need to scroll down at all. She does wonder why others put the widgets in separate segments of their blog home page and wondered if it was because they wanted dropper to linger longer on their sites and avoid the ‘bouncing’ affect.

Then Kamila thought a bit more, if droppers are going to bounce their drops they wouldn’t bother wasting time scrolling up and down in search of the elusive second widget. Kamila like many other bloggers that drop will browse the site as well as drop and if something holds their attention they will read on before moving on. Surely this is the beauty of Entrecard an Adgitize, you get rewarded for reading many blogs, which is what you’d do anyway.

Without wanting to sound like a fusspot, Kamila will always drop on those who have dropped on hers before she does anything else. Then she can go on to choose other interesting blogs to browse, whether they have the widgets together or not.

This is all fun for Kamila who seems to be growing in blogging stature now as each week goes by.

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Adbrite - Wait A Month For Accurate Stats

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Adbrite has been running now for about a week and Kamila has just made 6 cents, actually roughly the same as she would have got for Adsense in recent history so she will pursue them for a while longer. The statistics that advertisers see don’t really show the true traffic until the traffic stats have been running for at least a month.

Kamila is still looking at other options for banners, even widget swaps from other bloggers if they wish, but she has been a but too shy to approach those that might want to do this. I won’t bring in any funds, but will get in more visitors for the sharing parties. Kamila guesses that she would have to find a blogger with a similar PR and hit rate to strike any exchange deals. Maybe she’ll get something in the pipeline later this week.

In the meantime Kamila was glad to see that Entrecard offered double points yesterday for all droppers. Unfortunately Kamila was out partying last night so couldn’t take advantage of it, if only Graham had given warning in advance rather than telling Entrecard members via a personal email halfway through the day. Maybe next time.

Kamila wishes you all a good blogging day now that Monday has passed, yes even camels don’t like Mondays.

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CMF Ads For More Traffic - Now Under Kamila's Belt

Kamila has now joined up with CMF Ads. The prime reason in deciding to go with them is to get more traffic onto here site. Kamila know that ads on other bloggers' sites will keep here in the limelight. And of course she will oblige with taking other blogger she chooses to on her site as well.

The good thing about this is that it won't cost a penny as long as she is on someone else's site. Kamila likes doing thing on the cheap; she has learnt that now with having lived in Bulgaria for a year now.

Kamila looked at all the advantages of joining this scheme and just loved the simplicity of it.

CMF Ads gives low cost, (or no cost), no-nonsense advertising.

Ad space sharing is the name of the game here although you can pay $1.25, for 30 days if you haven't built up credit.

Kamila liked the idea of being able to set her own ad price that is set at a minimum of 1 credit (equal to $0.25). The other beauty that Kamila found was that she will earn 100% of the credits for ads placed on her site and these credits can be used to advertise or be sold back to us at 50% of the purchase price.

Thee is also a blogging forum to exchange tips and get help and for a beginner like Kamila she will find this very useful and meet new friends.

If you are already with CMF Ads and want to advertise with Kamila just click on the CMF Ads widget on the left column or on this link -> CMF Ads With Kamila The Camel

If you aren't registered yet, you can do that right here -> CMF Register

As Kamila has said before, let’s see what happens. Hopefully she will get a few takers and then she can use the credits to put here widget on other blog sites.

Kamila sends her love to all. X

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