O:9:"MagpieRSS":19:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:10:{i:0;a:11:{s:5:"title";s:23:"The BIG contest of 2011";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://comluv.com/news/the-big-contest-of-2011/";s:8:"comments";s:56:"http://comluv.com/news/the-big-contest-of-2011/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:12:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Andy Bailey";}s:8:"category";s:48:"NewsNewslettercontestprizestraffic generationwin";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://comluv.com/?p=4529";s:11:"description";s:8627:"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/contest-banner-11.png" alt="" title="contest-banner-11" width="600" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4530" /><br />
We are nearly ready to launch the BIG contest of 2011 where YOU will have a chance to win massive real cash prizes by doing what you normally do and that&#8217;s blog! yes, imagine getting a wedge of cash for blogging! and it&#8217;s not going to require you to pay 97$ for a bloated video course, it&#8217;s not going to require you to follow some questionable practices using an even more piece of questionable software. This is a fair contest where everyone has the same chance to win.</p>
<h2>The Organisers</h2>
<p>Who&#8217;ve you got to thank for this amazing opportunity?<br />
<a href="http://comluv.com"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2010/06/ComLuvNetworkIcon.png" alt="Gain traffic, increase comments and build community" title="Gain traffic, increase comments and build community " width="281" height="109" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-928" /></a><a href="http://www.famousbloggers.net"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/famousbloggerslogo.png" alt="How to blog and make money blogging" title="How to blog and make money blogging" width="364" height="83" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4536" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.iblogzone.com/"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/iblogzonelogo.png" alt="Home based business resources" title="Home based business resources" width="393" height="90" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4537" /></a><a href="http://myblogguest.com/"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/myblogguestlogo.png" alt="Community of guest bloggers" title="Community of guest bloggers" width="288" height="144" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4538" /></a></p>
<p>You have four great and well known websites to help promote the contest and ensure that things run smoothly, I&#8217;m sure you know all the sites above. If you don&#8217;t, I highly recommend you give them a visit!</p>
<h2>How it will work</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>This contest is similar to the last one in that you submit an article to Comluv.com and the exposure it gets with comments, tweets, mentions and more will count towards your score. Above all, first and foremost, your article will be judged independently for it&#8217;s content and then the tweets etc points will be used to further refine the finalists positions.</p>
<p>There will be opportunities to score more points by writing reviews or other tasks that will add value to the contest sponsors, more information on that to come as and when it is available.</p>
<p>All contestants will be required to make a post on their own blog listing the sponsors along with their keyphrase/keywords and logos if appropriate. This, like the last contest, is a requirement to enter. No money can be given to any blogger who hasn&#8217;t published the sponsor list. It&#8217;s how we can collect so much money to give away!</p>
<p>Your article will be reviewed, approved and finally, published to one of the participating organisers blogs.</p>
<h3>The Steps Required</h3>
<p><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/3steps.png" alt="" title="3steps" width="257" height="219" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4531" /></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Register to Comluv.com</strong><br />
This is required so you can add your entry by using the custom plugin. </li>
<li><strong>Write your article</strong><br />
Instead of having to request to be a contributor, wait to be upgraded and worry about if you got the email right or not. This new plugin will allow any subscriber of Comluv.com to submit their entry to the dashboard of this site and the contest organisers will either publish it to this site or copy it to their own for publishing there.</li>
<li><strong>Promote your article</strong><br />
Once your article is published, you are free to promote it to the world! You will even be given a helping hand by the contest organisers who will also publish it to their twitter following and (if available) their newsletter subscribers.</li>
</ol>
<h2>What to write about?</h2>
<p><a href="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/web-traffic.jpg"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/web-traffic-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="web traffic" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4547" /></a><br />
This time around, the subject of your article is traffic generation. It can be a tutorial on how you generate traffic or how to use a particular tool to bring more visitors to your blog. You can recommend plugins that you use or SEO tips that you&#8217;ve seen work to up the hits to your site.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re welcome to have pictures, videos and walk-throughs as your content. Just make sure it is about traffic generation and you&#8217;re halfway there!</p>
<p>Make sure you write the best article you can because not only will it be published on our high traffic / PR blogs, it maybe included in future promotional items like ebooks, newsletters and blog features. If your name is associated with your article and it&#8217;s great then you have another wonderful opportunity to get more readers and traffic to your site!</p>
<h2>When and where?</h2>
<p>We plan on getting everything ready for a March 1st launch and it&#8217;ll happen right here at ComLuv.com and all the organisers sites at the same time but, you can get a head start right now by planning your traffic generation article. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t publish it at your own site!! the article you submit MUST be unique to the contest, it must not have been published before (we&#8217;ll check) and it must not be published elsewhere. This is a requirement of the contest so don&#8217;t ignore it! </p>
<p>The earlier your article is submitted, the sooner you can start promoting it. The last contest saw a wave of last minute entries and even though the article content is what matters, the more promotion you do and thus the more points you can accumulate will give you an advantage when it comes time to whittle down the finalists into their final positions.</p>
<h2>More to come</h2>
<p>Keep coming back and find out more as and when it happens and if you&#8217;re the eager type, you can try out the contest entry plugin on this blog by logging in and click on the &#8216;new entry&#8217; link and submit your post! Rules and instructions will appear in the dashboard when they&#8217;re ready. Don&#8217;t ignore the rules!</p>
<p>Good luck and start thinking now about what your entry is going to be about.</p>
<h2>Call for sponsors!</h2>
<p>Now would be the best time to become a sponsor, you need to donate at least 100 USD in prize money (paid in advance to 1 of the 4 organisers) and you get some serious promotion in return. You not only get a prominent position on the 4 high traffic sites with the associated promotion that we give it when we talk about the contest, you also get your links and keywords published on all the contestants sites which, if we get as many entries as last time could mean your link gets some serious exposure!</p>
<p>100 USD gets you one link to your website using your chosen keyword. This is cheaper than buying a text link and will be perfect for a low budget blogger. You don&#8217;t need to be a company to get value from this!</p>
<p>200 USD gets you a choice of 4 keywords which will be rotated each week of March, contestants use the one that is in rotation when they publish their sponsors list post. If you sell products or have more than one subject on your site then this will be ideal for you!</p>
<p>300 USD gets your own logo displayed at the top of the sponsors list (in the order that the sponsors come in) and 4 keywords in rotation. This means that we will rotate 4 different anchor texts of your choice every week during the contest. It’s a great form to build your brand and create exposure as your logo will be seen everywhere.</p>
<p>To become a sponsor, contact me <a href="http://comluv.com/wp-admin/support.php?page=tickets">here</a> or Hesham at FamousBloggers.net</p>
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We are nearly ready to launch the BIG contest of 2011 where YOU will have a chance to win massive real cash prizes by doing what you normally do and that&#8217;s blog! yes, imagine getting a wedge of cash for blogging! and it&#8217;s not going to require you to pay 97$ for a bloated video course, it&#8217;s not going to require you to follow some questionable practices using an even more piece of questionable software. This is a fair contest where everyone has the same chance to win.</p>
<h2>The Organisers</h2>
<p>Who&#8217;ve you got to thank for this amazing opportunity?<br />
<a href="http://comluv.com"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2010/06/ComLuvNetworkIcon.png" alt="Gain traffic, increase comments and build community" title="Gain traffic, increase comments and build community " width="281" height="109" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-928" /></a><a href="http://www.famousbloggers.net"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/famousbloggerslogo.png" alt="How to blog and make money blogging" title="How to blog and make money blogging" width="364" height="83" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4536" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.iblogzone.com/"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/iblogzonelogo.png" alt="Home based business resources" title="Home based business resources" width="393" height="90" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4537" /></a><a href="http://myblogguest.com/"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/myblogguestlogo.png" alt="Community of guest bloggers" title="Community of guest bloggers" width="288" height="144" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4538" /></a></p>
<p>You have four great and well known websites to help promote the contest and ensure that things run smoothly, I&#8217;m sure you know all the sites above. If you don&#8217;t, I highly recommend you give them a visit!</p>
<h2>How it will work</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>This contest is similar to the last one in that you submit an article to Comluv.com and the exposure it gets with comments, tweets, mentions and more will count towards your score. Above all, first and foremost, your article will be judged independently for it&#8217;s content and then the tweets etc points will be used to further refine the finalists positions.</p>
<p>There will be opportunities to score more points by writing reviews or other tasks that will add value to the contest sponsors, more information on that to come as and when it is available.</p>
<p>All contestants will be required to make a post on their own blog listing the sponsors along with their keyphrase/keywords and logos if appropriate. This, like the last contest, is a requirement to enter. No money can be given to any blogger who hasn&#8217;t published the sponsor list. It&#8217;s how we can collect so much money to give away!</p>
<p>Your article will be reviewed, approved and finally, published to one of the participating organisers blogs.</p>
<h3>The Steps Required</h3>
<p><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/3steps.png" alt="" title="3steps" width="257" height="219" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4531" /></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Register to Comluv.com</strong><br />
This is required so you can add your entry by using the custom plugin. </li>
<li><strong>Write your article</strong><br />
Instead of having to request to be a contributor, wait to be upgraded and worry about if you got the email right or not. This new plugin will allow any subscriber of Comluv.com to submit their entry to the dashboard of this site and the contest organisers will either publish it to this site or copy it to their own for publishing there.</li>
<li><strong>Promote your article</strong><br />
Once your article is published, you are free to promote it to the world! You will even be given a helping hand by the contest organisers who will also publish it to their twitter following and (if available) their newsletter subscribers.</li>
</ol>
<h2>What to write about?</h2>
<p><a href="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/web-traffic.jpg"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/02/web-traffic-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="web traffic" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4547" /></a><br />
This time around, the subject of your article is traffic generation. It can be a tutorial on how you generate traffic or how to use a particular tool to bring more visitors to your blog. You can recommend plugins that you use or SEO tips that you&#8217;ve seen work to up the hits to your site.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re welcome to have pictures, videos and walk-throughs as your content. Just make sure it is about traffic generation and you&#8217;re halfway there!</p>
<p>Make sure you write the best article you can because not only will it be published on our high traffic / PR blogs, it maybe included in future promotional items like ebooks, newsletters and blog features. If your name is associated with your article and it&#8217;s great then you have another wonderful opportunity to get more readers and traffic to your site!</p>
<h2>When and where?</h2>
<p>We plan on getting everything ready for a March 1st launch and it&#8217;ll happen right here at ComLuv.com and all the organisers sites at the same time but, you can get a head start right now by planning your traffic generation article. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t publish it at your own site!! the article you submit MUST be unique to the contest, it must not have been published before (we&#8217;ll check) and it must not be published elsewhere. This is a requirement of the contest so don&#8217;t ignore it! </p>
<p>The earlier your article is submitted, the sooner you can start promoting it. The last contest saw a wave of last minute entries and even though the article content is what matters, the more promotion you do and thus the more points you can accumulate will give you an advantage when it comes time to whittle down the finalists into their final positions.</p>
<h2>More to come</h2>
<p>Keep coming back and find out more as and when it happens and if you&#8217;re the eager type, you can try out the contest entry plugin on this blog by logging in and click on the &#8216;new entry&#8217; link and submit your post! Rules and instructions will appear in the dashboard when they&#8217;re ready. Don&#8217;t ignore the rules!</p>
<p>Good luck and start thinking now about what your entry is going to be about.</p>
<h2>Call for sponsors!</h2>
<p>Now would be the best time to become a sponsor, you need to donate at least 100 USD in prize money (paid in advance to 1 of the 4 organisers) and you get some serious promotion in return. You not only get a prominent position on the 4 high traffic sites with the associated promotion that we give it when we talk about the contest, you also get your links and keywords published on all the contestants sites which, if we get as many entries as last time could mean your link gets some serious exposure!</p>
<p>100 USD gets you one link to your website using your chosen keyword. This is cheaper than buying a text link and will be perfect for a low budget blogger. You don&#8217;t need to be a company to get value from this!</p>
<p>200 USD gets you a choice of 4 keywords which will be rotated each week of March, contestants use the one that is in rotation when they publish their sponsors list post. If you sell products or have more than one subject on your site then this will be ideal for you!</p>
<p>300 USD gets your own logo displayed at the top of the sponsors list (in the order that the sponsors come in) and 4 keywords in rotation. This means that we will rotate 4 different anchor texts of your choice every week during the contest. It’s a great form to build your brand and create exposure as your logo will be seen everywhere.</p>
<p>To become a sponsor, contact me <a href="http://comluv.com/wp-admin/support.php?page=tickets">here</a> or Hesham at FamousBloggers.net</p>
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<p>For New Customers use GAM3 for 35% off a .COM domain registration</p>
<p>For hosting discounts, use GAM1 for 10% and GAM20 for 20%</p>
<h2>brand new godaddy vouchers!</h2>
<p>here&#8217;s some brand spanking new vouchers</p>
<p>FAN749 which is a 50% off .ORG domains for $7.49, and it gets .NET and .BIZ for $7.49</p>
<p>FED2499 for $5 off a .CO domain</p>
<p>(that&#8217;s a whopping 50% off .org domains. awesome, say thanks to Brian who also runs <a href="http://www.couponswapper.com/">Coupon Swapper</a> , a brand new coupon site where you can get money off a lot of nice things)</p>
<p> More coupons including SSL / Auction codes found in this list: <a href="http://ql2.me/1/gd/">http://ql2.me/1/gd/</a><br />
 <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p>For New Customers use GAM3 for 35% off a .COM domain registration</p>
<p>For hosting discounts, use GAM1 for 10% and GAM20 for 20%</p>
<h2>brand new godaddy vouchers!</h2>
<p>here&#8217;s some brand spanking new vouchers</p>
<p>FAN749 which is a 50% off .ORG domains for $7.49, and it gets .NET and .BIZ for $7.49</p>
<p>FED2499 for $5 off a .CO domain</p>
<p>(that&#8217;s a whopping 50% off .org domains. awesome, say thanks to Brian who also runs <a href="http://www.couponswapper.com/">Coupon Swapper</a> , a brand new coupon site where you can get money off a lot of nice things)</p>
<p> More coupons including SSL / Auction codes found in this list: <a href="http://ql2.me/1/gd/">http://ql2.me/1/gd/</a><br />
 <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m nearly there!</h2>
<p>I am just a week or 2 (or 3) away from finishing the immensely intense project that I started on 1st December to create a brand new ePoS system for our family <a href="http://firedwok.co.uk">Chinese Takeout &#038; Delivery shop in Lancaster</a>, UK (and yes I know the site needs a redesign!).</p>
<p>It was supposed to be over by the end of December but, it has turned out to be a behemoth of a project. I never expected to become so involved with it. It&#8217;s been a series of surprises and each one has made me appreciate the old system more and more!</p>
<p>To bring us into the 21st century, I decided to create a new system completely from scratch using PHP and MySQL and take advantage of the WordPress plugin system so it&#8217;ll be easy(er) to update and perhaps be turned into a commercial product. To make things easier, I am coding it in conjunction with the <a href="http://ql2.me/1/studiopress/genesis/">Genesis theme framework</a>. by golly, Genesis is good! it makes things an awful lot easier to deal with and the advantage is that I can change themes and all the hooks and widgets still work! woot!</p>
<p>The good news is that it can handle everything that the old system did and a bazillion things more like integrated google maps so when a customer calls (and my custom Windows 7 caller id app opens a browser) I can see a street map, satellite view and even the google streetview image of their front door as soon as they call. Oh, and also the time it takes to drive there and the exact route. </p>
<p>I could go on for hours and hours what else it&#8217;s got but I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll bore the hell out of you! enough said that it&#8217;s frickin brilliant and no Chinese delivery shop anywhere else in this country will have something as powerful or easy to use. Sweet (and sour :p).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not done though so I&#8217;m still working hard at it. I&#8217;ll be done soon (lol, who am I kidding? hehe, it&#8217;ll be tweaked and tortured for months to come!)</p>
<div id="attachment_4194" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a class="thickbox" href="http://comluv.com/files/2011/01/lossa-words.png"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/01/lossa-words-300x193.png" alt="" title="lossa-words!" width="300" height="193" class="size-medium wp-image-4194" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Over half a million characters and counting</p></div>
<p>Click the image above and you&#8217;ll see the results of a word count on the plugin directory, there&#8217;s plenty lines, words and characters that have gone into this so far, I hope it doesn&#8217;t have to go to 1 MILLION characters before it&#8217;s done.</p>
<h2>Shelving an external project</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>Some of you know that previous to December, I was working every single hour before work on an external project in a &#8216;work for free but get a cut of the profits&#8217; kind of deal. Well, it evolved into something that I would have never have got involved in if I had known beforehand how much time and effort it would take just to even get it to the ready to test stage.</p>
<p>Rather than lose more sleep over the fact that I am going to lose the opportunity to work on CommentLuv and bring out a new version before someone else does, I have decided to shelve the project for now and concentrate on my first love. That&#8217;s CommentLuv!! hurray! There&#8217;ll be a series of video blog posts and question and answer sessions coming soon about the new CommentLuv, I&#8217;d love it if you got involved and gave me your feedback.</p>
<h2>New contest</h2>
<p>The good news for you is that there&#8217;s an awesome new contest for you to enter! yup, following on the massive success of the last contest, we&#8217;re doing another one. I mentioned a little about it in the last newsletter and I&#8217;m mentioning it a little bit now, it&#8217;s already got over a thousand dollars in prize money (the cash kind) and a few thousand in digital prizes. </p>
<p>Thanks goes to Brian our regular <a href="http://ql2.me/1/gd">godaddy coupon</a> guy who also runs <a href="http://www.couponswapper.com">Coupon Swapper</a> for being the latest top level sponsor! </p>
<p>Stay tuned next week where I&#8217;ll be giving you a lot more information about it and how you can enter.</p>
<h2>Back to blogging (soon)</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s been a real boon to have so many awesome guest posts to have kept the blog alive while I was away on the project, thanks to all those who contributed! We have over 100 guest bloggers here now, most have written just one post but there are a few repeat posters who have really stood out.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m talking about <a href="http://comluv.com/author/mitz211/">Mitz Pantic</a> from <a href="http://wordpress-websitebuilder.com/">WordPress Website Builder</a> who has had some of the busiest posts out of all the guest bloggers. I&#8217;m also talking about <a href="http://comluv.com/author/reiter331/">Reiter331</a> who has a knack for writing things that generate a lot of comments like he does on his site <a href="http://leaderinme.wordpress.com/">Reiter Thinks</a> and not forgetting <a href="http://comluv.com/author/blogstashdotcom/">Satrap</a> who writes articles that can help you <a href="http://www.blogstash.com/">make money online</a>.</p>
<p>Every week, I add the top performing guest post to the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CommentLuv">CommentLuv facebook page</a> so it gets even more exposure and there&#8217;s still plenty of room for more guest posts! Be sure to come by and apply to be a guest blogger by submitting a support ticket in the dashboard and I&#8217;ll give you the nod when you&#8217;re approved. Guest posters get an excerpt of their article included in the newsletter  like the ones below  and the author box uses dofollow links with your registered site details used as the anchor text.</p>
<p>When my shop order system project has finished (or at least, ready to be used) then I&#8217;ll be full on back to blogging, developing for CommentLuv (oooh I have some big news about that, let me tell you!) and organising the contest.</p>
<h2>New adsense</h2>
<p>There are a few new adsense blocks around the site thanks to a wonderfully useful call from a pretty (well, she sounded pretty) girl called Sophie from Google who went over some things that she thinks can make a difference to the adsense earnings here. If you&#8217;re interested, I can add a few posts about what I did and how, there&#8217;s some pretty cool things you can do and most of them are pretty easy to add to your own site by adding a few lines of code to your functions.php file. Let me know in the comments if you&#8217;re interested in seeing posts about that.</p>
<h2>New advertisers</h2>
<p>Welcome to <a href="http://ql2.me/1/directory/journal/">Directory Journal</a> who has sponsored the site this month with a big fat banner designed by the inhouse design team especially for displaying on Comluv. Hasan runs <a href="http://ql2.me/1/directory/journal/">Directory Journal</a> which is a directory site with a difference, register your site and get it reviewed by experts within 48 hours (on some packages). There are a number of options that can help get your site noticed like getting 5 deep links or a manual human review. His prices are very reasonable and if you have ever seen the amount of directory sites that turn up in search results when you&#8217;re searching for something you need then you&#8217;ll know how useful they can be for businesses with new sites. Click to <a href="http://ql2.me/1/directory/journal/">register your site</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks to you and the other advertisers, the site can stay up for another month! hehe, things have gotten a bit trim with regards to ad income over the past few months due to me not having time to source new companies to take advantage of the ads.</p>
<p>To get the ball rolling with the text link ads, I&#8217;ve got a nice coupon for you. This one will roll back the prices to last years level and allow you to buy a PR6 text link ad for 40% off! and unlike the Christmas offer, you can subscribe with this one and it&#8217;ll stay at that price for as long as the subscription remains active! Get the 90 day subscription and you could save over 80 dollars on the regular price!</p>
<p>This offer <strong>only</strong> runs until next <strong>Tuesday 8th Feb 2011</strong> and there are only a few available spots so be quick! they ran out within a day last time I made a crazy offer like this!</p>
<p>Use <strong>comluv-ad-offer</strong> as the coupon code on the checkout page for the text link ads to take advantage. See the <a href="http://comluv.com/oiopub-direct/purchase.php?do=link&#038;zone=1">text link page</a> to purchase text link ads</p>
<p>If you need a custom advertising solution, feel free to contact me!</p>
<h2>More about the contest</h2>
<p>Come back often to check on the status of the contest and if you&#8217;re interested in becoming a sponsor then please let me know! there are 3 levels to the cash sponsorship 300,200 and 100 . There are also opportunities for cash + products so if you have some useful blogger tools/courses/books/videos/memberships that you would like to get some extra exposure for then shoot me an email!</p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m nearly there!</h2>
<p>I am just a week or 2 (or 3) away from finishing the immensely intense project that I started on 1st December to create a brand new ePoS system for our family <a href="http://firedwok.co.uk">Chinese Takeout &#038; Delivery shop in Lancaster</a>, UK (and yes I know the site needs a redesign!).</p>
<p>It was supposed to be over by the end of December but, it has turned out to be a behemoth of a project. I never expected to become so involved with it. It&#8217;s been a series of surprises and each one has made me appreciate the old system more and more!</p>
<p>To bring us into the 21st century, I decided to create a new system completely from scratch using PHP and MySQL and take advantage of the WordPress plugin system so it&#8217;ll be easy(er) to update and perhaps be turned into a commercial product. To make things easier, I am coding it in conjunction with the <a href="http://ql2.me/1/studiopress/genesis/">Genesis theme framework</a>. by golly, Genesis is good! it makes things an awful lot easier to deal with and the advantage is that I can change themes and all the hooks and widgets still work! woot!</p>
<p>The good news is that it can handle everything that the old system did and a bazillion things more like integrated google maps so when a customer calls (and my custom Windows 7 caller id app opens a browser) I can see a street map, satellite view and even the google streetview image of their front door as soon as they call. Oh, and also the time it takes to drive there and the exact route. </p>
<p>I could go on for hours and hours what else it&#8217;s got but I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll bore the hell out of you! enough said that it&#8217;s frickin brilliant and no Chinese delivery shop anywhere else in this country will have something as powerful or easy to use. Sweet (and sour :p).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not done though so I&#8217;m still working hard at it. I&#8217;ll be done soon (lol, who am I kidding? hehe, it&#8217;ll be tweaked and tortured for months to come!)</p>
<div id="attachment_4194" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a class="thickbox" href="http://comluv.com/files/2011/01/lossa-words.png"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/01/lossa-words-300x193.png" alt="" title="lossa-words!" width="300" height="193" class="size-medium wp-image-4194" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Over half a million characters and counting</p></div>
<p>Click the image above and you&#8217;ll see the results of a word count on the plugin directory, there&#8217;s plenty lines, words and characters that have gone into this so far, I hope it doesn&#8217;t have to go to 1 MILLION characters before it&#8217;s done.</p>
<h2>Shelving an external project</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>Some of you know that previous to December, I was working every single hour before work on an external project in a &#8216;work for free but get a cut of the profits&#8217; kind of deal. Well, it evolved into something that I would have never have got involved in if I had known beforehand how much time and effort it would take just to even get it to the ready to test stage.</p>
<p>Rather than lose more sleep over the fact that I am going to lose the opportunity to work on CommentLuv and bring out a new version before someone else does, I have decided to shelve the project for now and concentrate on my first love. That&#8217;s CommentLuv!! hurray! There&#8217;ll be a series of video blog posts and question and answer sessions coming soon about the new CommentLuv, I&#8217;d love it if you got involved and gave me your feedback.</p>
<h2>New contest</h2>
<p>The good news for you is that there&#8217;s an awesome new contest for you to enter! yup, following on the massive success of the last contest, we&#8217;re doing another one. I mentioned a little about it in the last newsletter and I&#8217;m mentioning it a little bit now, it&#8217;s already got over a thousand dollars in prize money (the cash kind) and a few thousand in digital prizes. </p>
<p>Thanks goes to Brian our regular <a href="http://ql2.me/1/gd">godaddy coupon</a> guy who also runs <a href="http://www.couponswapper.com">Coupon Swapper</a> for being the latest top level sponsor! </p>
<p>Stay tuned next week where I&#8217;ll be giving you a lot more information about it and how you can enter.</p>
<h2>Back to blogging (soon)</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s been a real boon to have so many awesome guest posts to have kept the blog alive while I was away on the project, thanks to all those who contributed! We have over 100 guest bloggers here now, most have written just one post but there are a few repeat posters who have really stood out.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m talking about <a href="http://comluv.com/author/mitz211/">Mitz Pantic</a> from <a href="http://wordpress-websitebuilder.com/">WordPress Website Builder</a> who has had some of the busiest posts out of all the guest bloggers. I&#8217;m also talking about <a href="http://comluv.com/author/reiter331/">Reiter331</a> who has a knack for writing things that generate a lot of comments like he does on his site <a href="http://leaderinme.wordpress.com/">Reiter Thinks</a> and not forgetting <a href="http://comluv.com/author/blogstashdotcom/">Satrap</a> who writes articles that can help you <a href="http://www.blogstash.com/">make money online</a>.</p>
<p>Every week, I add the top performing guest post to the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CommentLuv">CommentLuv facebook page</a> so it gets even more exposure and there&#8217;s still plenty of room for more guest posts! Be sure to come by and apply to be a guest blogger by submitting a support ticket in the dashboard and I&#8217;ll give you the nod when you&#8217;re approved. Guest posters get an excerpt of their article included in the newsletter  like the ones below  and the author box uses dofollow links with your registered site details used as the anchor text.</p>
<p>When my shop order system project has finished (or at least, ready to be used) then I&#8217;ll be full on back to blogging, developing for CommentLuv (oooh I have some big news about that, let me tell you!) and organising the contest.</p>
<h2>New adsense</h2>
<p>There are a few new adsense blocks around the site thanks to a wonderfully useful call from a pretty (well, she sounded pretty) girl called Sophie from Google who went over some things that she thinks can make a difference to the adsense earnings here. If you&#8217;re interested, I can add a few posts about what I did and how, there&#8217;s some pretty cool things you can do and most of them are pretty easy to add to your own site by adding a few lines of code to your functions.php file. Let me know in the comments if you&#8217;re interested in seeing posts about that.</p>
<h2>New advertisers</h2>
<p>Welcome to <a href="http://ql2.me/1/directory/journal/">Directory Journal</a> who has sponsored the site this month with a big fat banner designed by the inhouse design team especially for displaying on Comluv. Hasan runs <a href="http://ql2.me/1/directory/journal/">Directory Journal</a> which is a directory site with a difference, register your site and get it reviewed by experts within 48 hours (on some packages). There are a number of options that can help get your site noticed like getting 5 deep links or a manual human review. His prices are very reasonable and if you have ever seen the amount of directory sites that turn up in search results when you&#8217;re searching for something you need then you&#8217;ll know how useful they can be for businesses with new sites. Click to <a href="http://ql2.me/1/directory/journal/">register your site</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks to you and the other advertisers, the site can stay up for another month! hehe, things have gotten a bit trim with regards to ad income over the past few months due to me not having time to source new companies to take advantage of the ads.</p>
<p>To get the ball rolling with the text link ads, I&#8217;ve got a nice coupon for you. This one will roll back the prices to last years level and allow you to buy a PR6 text link ad for 40% off! and unlike the Christmas offer, you can subscribe with this one and it&#8217;ll stay at that price for as long as the subscription remains active! Get the 90 day subscription and you could save over 80 dollars on the regular price!</p>
<p>This offer <strong>only</strong> runs until next <strong>Tuesday 8th Feb 2011</strong> and there are only a few available spots so be quick! they ran out within a day last time I made a crazy offer like this!</p>
<p>Use <strong>comluv-ad-offer</strong> as the coupon code on the checkout page for the text link ads to take advantage. See the <a href="http://comluv.com/oiopub-direct/purchase.php?do=link&#038;zone=1">text link page</a> to purchase text link ads</p>
<p>If you need a custom advertising solution, feel free to contact me!</p>
<h2>More about the contest</h2>
<p>Come back often to check on the status of the contest and if you&#8217;re interested in becoming a sponsor then please let me know! there are 3 levels to the cash sponsorship 300,200 and 100 . There are also opportunities for cash + products so if you have some useful blogger tools/courses/books/videos/memberships that you would like to get some extra exposure for then shoot me an email!</p>
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<h2>10 winners of 10 Credits</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s been 1 week since the CommentLuv facebook page went up and there have been over 250 people who clicked the &#8216;like&#8217; button. hurray!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s 10 random facebookers who liked CommentLuv this week who all receive 10 ComLuv credits..</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/cyberdv8.197">Dani Rose</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/shahiranazman">Shahiran Azman</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tonisuggests">Toni King</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/joany.perez">Joany Perez</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Vincent.R.Parker">Vincent R. Parker</a> <strong>[claimed]</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1215646447">Alyson Ratney</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/gisellagallenca">Gisella Gallenca</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mompowerment">Cristina Favreau</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/jamesehernandezjr">James Hernandez</a> <strong>[claimed]</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/christineleiser">Christine Leiser Schroeder</a> <strong>[claimed]</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>I will try to contact those who have some method of contact on their pages but not all have so if you know any of them, be sure to let them know that they need to come here and claim their prize by leaving a comment on this post or submitting a support ticket.</p>
<p>Be sure to give CommentLuv a &#8216;like&#8217; if you haven&#8217;t already to show your support! </p>
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<h2>New Famousbloggers/ComLuv/MyBlogGuest/iBlogzone Contest</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>Remember the great big fat contest that ComLuv and Famousbloggers ran last year? Well, we&#8217;re in the process of arranging a brand new one this year to start around March 1st and this time it&#8217;ll be a lot easier to enter and we hope budding entrants will get their posts in early!</p>
<p>I spent the whole day yesterday coding a brand new custom plugin that means any registered member of Comluv.com will be able to submit an article for their entry and Hesham who did such a good job of arranging the articles last time will be doing it again this time.</p>
<p>Details are still pretty thin as we arrange the sponsors and organize the prizes but you should know that this time around the article subject will be anything to do with traffic generation. That means it could be things like , &#8220;How to get more traffic by commenting&#8221; or &#8220;Traffic generation with forum posts&#8221; or any article about a method you used to generate traffic to your site.</p>
<h2>Sponsors!</h2>
<p>Are you a potential sponsor? we&#8217;re looking for prizes of 100,200 or 300 dollars or a combination of dollars and prizes.</p>
<p>This is a fantastic opportunity to get your brand and/or products in front of thousands upon thousands of people as Comluv, FamousBloggers, iBlogZone and MyBlogGuest promote the contest and entrants show your links/logo/products on their own blogs as part of their entry requirements.</p>
<p>There&#8217;ll be more details to follow as and when they develop so keep checking back to find out what all the requirements will be and when this site will open up the site to allow users to submit their entries.</p>
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<h2>10 winners of 10 Credits</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s been 1 week since the CommentLuv facebook page went up and there have been over 250 people who clicked the &#8216;like&#8217; button. hurray!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s 10 random facebookers who liked CommentLuv this week who all receive 10 ComLuv credits..</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/cyberdv8.197">Dani Rose</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/shahiranazman">Shahiran Azman</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tonisuggests">Toni King</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/joany.perez">Joany Perez</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Vincent.R.Parker">Vincent R. Parker</a> <strong>[claimed]</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1215646447">Alyson Ratney</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/gisellagallenca">Gisella Gallenca</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mompowerment">Cristina Favreau</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/jamesehernandezjr">James Hernandez</a> <strong>[claimed]</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/christineleiser">Christine Leiser Schroeder</a> <strong>[claimed]</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>I will try to contact those who have some method of contact on their pages but not all have so if you know any of them, be sure to let them know that they need to come here and claim their prize by leaving a comment on this post or submitting a support ticket.</p>
<p>Be sure to give CommentLuv a &#8216;like&#8217; if you haven&#8217;t already to show your support! </p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FCommentLuv%2F156438857738200&amp;layout=box_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=65" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:65px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></p>
<h2>New Famousbloggers/ComLuv/MyBlogGuest/iBlogzone Contest</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>Remember the great big fat contest that ComLuv and Famousbloggers ran last year? Well, we&#8217;re in the process of arranging a brand new one this year to start around March 1st and this time it&#8217;ll be a lot easier to enter and we hope budding entrants will get their posts in early!</p>
<p>I spent the whole day yesterday coding a brand new custom plugin that means any registered member of Comluv.com will be able to submit an article for their entry and Hesham who did such a good job of arranging the articles last time will be doing it again this time.</p>
<p>Details are still pretty thin as we arrange the sponsors and organize the prizes but you should know that this time around the article subject will be anything to do with traffic generation. That means it could be things like , &#8220;How to get more traffic by commenting&#8221; or &#8220;Traffic generation with forum posts&#8221; or any article about a method you used to generate traffic to your site.</p>
<h2>Sponsors!</h2>
<p>Are you a potential sponsor? we&#8217;re looking for prizes of 100,200 or 300 dollars or a combination of dollars and prizes.</p>
<p>This is a fantastic opportunity to get your brand and/or products in front of thousands upon thousands of people as Comluv, FamousBloggers, iBlogZone and MyBlogGuest promote the contest and entrants show your links/logo/products on their own blogs as part of their entry requirements.</p>
<p>There&#8217;ll be more details to follow as and when they develop so keep checking back to find out what all the requirements will be and when this site will open up the site to allow users to submit their entries.</p>
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<p>Finally! CommentLuv now has a facebook page! Come and visit and be sure to click the like button so I know you&#8217;re alive!</p>
<h2>CAN buy me luv!</h2>
<p>To get the page off to a good start, I&#8217;ve decided to run a little contest&#8230;</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FCommentLuv%2F156438857738200&amp;layout=box_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=65" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:65px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe><br />
Like CommentLuv on facebook by clicking the like button above or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/CommentLuv/156438857738200">visit the page here</a> and become a fan and you could be in with a chance to win 10 ComLuv credits to buy extra links, urls, featured site spots and more. </p>
<p>10 lucky winners will be chosen at random on Monday 17th Jan and will receive 10 credits each.</p>
<h2>Facebook app?</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>Eventually, when I get off these next two intense projects I will have some time to develop a facebook app. What functionality do you want from a CommentLuv facebook app?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my initial thoughts,</p>
<blockquote><ul>
<li>Show a message on your wall whenever you approve a new comment that has some CommentLuv on it<br />
This could be useful to help your readers get some more exposure and encourage them to comment more often if they know their blog will be linked on your wall</li>
<li>Have a widget showing how many comments have received luv on your site since installing the widget<br />
This could be good to encourage your facebook friends who haven&#8217;t visited your blog to finally come and see why so many people are getting &#8216;luv&#8217;</li>
<li>Ranking. Become the best luv giver on facebook by having the most comments that have been approved with a commentluv link<br />
Everyone wants to be number one right? <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li>more?..</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;d be interested in hearing your thoughts on what you would like out of a commentluv facebook app.. please leave a comment, even if it&#8217;s to say you don&#8217;t want a facebook app!</p>
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:63:"http://comluv.com/newsletter/facebook-page-for-commentluv/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"14";}s:7:"summary";s:3137:"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/CommentLuv/156438857738200"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2011/01/Facebook-Heart.png" alt="" title="Facebook-Heart" width="253" height="204" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3955" /></a></p>
<p>Finally! CommentLuv now has a facebook page! Come and visit and be sure to click the like button so I know you&#8217;re alive!</p>
<h2>CAN buy me luv!</h2>
<p>To get the page off to a good start, I&#8217;ve decided to run a little contest&#8230;</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FCommentLuv%2F156438857738200&amp;layout=box_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=65" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:65px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe><br />
Like CommentLuv on facebook by clicking the like button above or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/CommentLuv/156438857738200">visit the page here</a> and become a fan and you could be in with a chance to win 10 ComLuv credits to buy extra links, urls, featured site spots and more. </p>
<p>10 lucky winners will be chosen at random on Monday 17th Jan and will receive 10 credits each.</p>
<h2>Facebook app?</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>Eventually, when I get off these next two intense projects I will have some time to develop a facebook app. What functionality do you want from a CommentLuv facebook app?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my initial thoughts,</p>
<blockquote><ul>
<li>Show a message on your wall whenever you approve a new comment that has some CommentLuv on it<br />
This could be useful to help your readers get some more exposure and encourage them to comment more often if they know their blog will be linked on your wall</li>
<li>Have a widget showing how many comments have received luv on your site since installing the widget<br />
This could be good to encourage your facebook friends who haven&#8217;t visited your blog to finally come and see why so many people are getting &#8216;luv&#8217;</li>
<li>Ranking. Become the best luv giver on facebook by having the most comments that have been approved with a commentluv link<br />
Everyone wants to be number one right? <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li>more?..</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;d be interested in hearing your thoughts on what you would like out of a commentluv facebook app.. please leave a comment, even if it&#8217;s to say you don&#8217;t want a facebook app!</p>
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<h3>Free comluv credits when you purchase SEOPressor</h3>
<p>Here&#8217;s a special offer for you, purchase SEOPressor through <a href="http://ql2.me/1/seo/pressor/">this link</a> and send your receipt number from clickbank to me via a support ticket (<a href="http://comluv.com/wp-admin/support.php?page=tickets">here</a>) and you will get 25 credits sent to your comluv account (You must purchase through the link provided and you will receive your credits after the money back period has expired). </p>
<p>You can read how it works here : <a href="http://comluv.com/tutorials/gift-for-guest-bloggers-seopressor/">http://comluv.com/tutorials/gift-for-guest-bloggers-seopressor/</a></p>
<h2>Use it for free!</h2>
<p>Become a guest blogger (<a href="http://comluv.com/submit-your-article/">instructions here</a>) and you get to use it for free! You not only get access to this amazing bit of software but, when your article is published you will get 5 comluv credits sent straight to your account. You can get 5 credits for every article you submit.</p>
<h2>Christmas gift was enjoyed by (nearly) all!</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>The credits giveaway that I wrote about before Christmas seemed to go down extremely well and thousands of credits went out to happy users. A lot of you used your credits to <a href="http://comluv.com/member/buy-featured-site-spot/">buy featured site</a> spots so that now there is a long queue of people waiting to have their 5 site keywords shown on the PR6 homepage.</p>
<p>Glad you enjoyed the gift!</p>
<h2>Busy for a few weeks</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m neck deep in code making a new ePOS system for my family business so I&#8217;m going to be a little bit quieter than usual this month, you might see me swearing or ranting about jquery on twitter but for the most part, I am deep in to my man cave tapping away at the keyboard.</p>
<h2>Guest bloggers</h2>
<p>Even though I&#8217;m busy with work, I still have time to approve people who want to be guest bloggers, all you need to do is submit a support ticket with your request (please provide your current site url) and I&#8217;ll take a look and approve you if your site is appropriate (most are so don&#8217;t be shy)</p>
<p>until next time, toodle-oo!</p>
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<h3>Free comluv credits when you purchase SEOPressor</h3>
<p>Here&#8217;s a special offer for you, purchase SEOPressor through <a href="http://ql2.me/1/seo/pressor/">this link</a> and send your receipt number from clickbank to me via a support ticket (<a href="http://comluv.com/wp-admin/support.php?page=tickets">here</a>) and you will get 25 credits sent to your comluv account (You must purchase through the link provided and you will receive your credits after the money back period has expired). </p>
<p>You can read how it works here : <a href="http://comluv.com/tutorials/gift-for-guest-bloggers-seopressor/">http://comluv.com/tutorials/gift-for-guest-bloggers-seopressor/</a></p>
<h2>Use it for free!</h2>
<p>Become a guest blogger (<a href="http://comluv.com/submit-your-article/">instructions here</a>) and you get to use it for free! You not only get access to this amazing bit of software but, when your article is published you will get 5 comluv credits sent straight to your account. You can get 5 credits for every article you submit.</p>
<h2>Christmas gift was enjoyed by (nearly) all!</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>The credits giveaway that I wrote about before Christmas seemed to go down extremely well and thousands of credits went out to happy users. A lot of you used your credits to <a href="http://comluv.com/member/buy-featured-site-spot/">buy featured site</a> spots so that now there is a long queue of people waiting to have their 5 site keywords shown on the PR6 homepage.</p>
<p>Glad you enjoyed the gift!</p>
<h2>Busy for a few weeks</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m neck deep in code making a new ePOS system for my family business so I&#8217;m going to be a little bit quieter than usual this month, you might see me swearing or ranting about jquery on twitter but for the most part, I am deep in to my man cave tapping away at the keyboard.</p>
<h2>Guest bloggers</h2>
<p>Even though I&#8217;m busy with work, I still have time to approve people who want to be guest bloggers, all you need to do is submit a support ticket with your request (please provide your current site url) and I&#8217;ll take a look and approve you if your site is appropriate (most are so don&#8217;t be shy)</p>
<p>until next time, toodle-oo!</p>
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<p>You read that right! As a Christmas gift to all you CommentLuv users, I am gong to give EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.OF.YOU a FREE 5 dollar package of ComLuv credits. Woot! read on to see how to claim yours</p>
<p>Over 33,500 members each receiving 5 dollars worth of credits is the equivalent of 165,000 dollars. OMG!</p>
<h2>Spend them!</h2>
<p>You can do lots with your credits, here&#8217;s a list &#8230; (you <em>have</em> been good boys and girls haven&#8217;t you?) <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<h3>Featured Site Spots</h3>
<p>Feature your site with 5 dofollow keyworded links for a couple of days on the PR6 homepage.<br />
The homepage is the most visited page on this site and there&#8217;s a reason people keep buying featured spots, they not only get you click thrus but they also get you noticed. Google indexes this page multiple times a day and it really helps to get your site noticed if you&#8217;re way up there before the fold when Google comes knocking.</p>
<p>Click to <a href="http://comluv.com/member/buy-featured-site-spot/">Buy a Featured Site</a> spot</p>
<h3>Default Links</h3>
<p>Default links are static links that always appear on your list of returned posts when you comment on CommentLuv enabled sites. It&#8217;s a wonderful way to always have your favourite post available when you comment. It could be your about page or your favourite popular post.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll even have a credit spare after <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Click to <a href="http://comluv.com/member/default-links/">Buy a Default Link</a></p>
<h3>Give them away!</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re feeling the Christmas spirit then you can give yours away to other ComLuv users. It&#8217;s as simple as visiting the dashboard credits area and entering their username into the field, choose how many you want to give away and click &#8216;send&#8217; .</p>
<p>Click to <a href="http://comluv.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=credits">visit the credits area</a></p>
<h2>Who gets credits?</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>Whoever is a registered member of ComLuv.com when this newsletter goes out (same as when the post gets published) will be able to claim their credits. You have to hurry though! you only get until Christmas day to claim your gift.. so be quick for goodness sake!!</p>
<h2>Why give them away?</h2>
<p>Because it&#8217;s Christmas and I didn&#8217;t have time to go out and get you all something. hahaha </p>
<p>Seriously, I am very very busy working on some very important stuff this month and I&#8217;ll be even busier over the next few months while I get my side project ready for launch which means I&#8217;m not going to be around very much so I thought I&#8217;d give you something to remember me by while I&#8217;m gone&#8230;</p>
<h2>Get Yours Here!</h2>
<a href="http://comluv.com/news/150000-usd-comluv-christmas-gift-giveaway/">Please visit the site to claim<br/><img alt="click to visit site and claim" title="click to visit site and claim" src="http://comluv.com/files/2010/12/xmas-heart-150x150.png" width="150" height="150"/></a>
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<p>You read that right! As a Christmas gift to all you CommentLuv users, I am gong to give EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.OF.YOU a FREE 5 dollar package of ComLuv credits. Woot! read on to see how to claim yours</p>
<p>Over 33,500 members each receiving 5 dollars worth of credits is the equivalent of 165,000 dollars. OMG!</p>
<h2>Spend them!</h2>
<p>You can do lots with your credits, here&#8217;s a list &#8230; (you <em>have</em> been good boys and girls haven&#8217;t you?) <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<h3>Featured Site Spots</h3>
<p>Feature your site with 5 dofollow keyworded links for a couple of days on the PR6 homepage.<br />
The homepage is the most visited page on this site and there&#8217;s a reason people keep buying featured spots, they not only get you click thrus but they also get you noticed. Google indexes this page multiple times a day and it really helps to get your site noticed if you&#8217;re way up there before the fold when Google comes knocking.</p>
<p>Click to <a href="http://comluv.com/member/buy-featured-site-spot/">Buy a Featured Site</a> spot</p>
<h3>Default Links</h3>
<p>Default links are static links that always appear on your list of returned posts when you comment on CommentLuv enabled sites. It&#8217;s a wonderful way to always have your favourite post available when you comment. It could be your about page or your favourite popular post.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll even have a credit spare after <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Click to <a href="http://comluv.com/member/default-links/">Buy a Default Link</a></p>
<h3>Give them away!</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re feeling the Christmas spirit then you can give yours away to other ComLuv users. It&#8217;s as simple as visiting the dashboard credits area and entering their username into the field, choose how many you want to give away and click &#8216;send&#8217; .</p>
<p>Click to <a href="http://comluv.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=credits">visit the credits area</a></p>
<h2>Who gets credits?</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>Whoever is a registered member of ComLuv.com when this newsletter goes out (same as when the post gets published) will be able to claim their credits. You have to hurry though! you only get until Christmas day to claim your gift.. so be quick for goodness sake!!</p>
<h2>Why give them away?</h2>
<p>Because it&#8217;s Christmas and I didn&#8217;t have time to go out and get you all something. hahaha </p>
<p>Seriously, I am very very busy working on some very important stuff this month and I&#8217;ll be even busier over the next few months while I get my side project ready for launch which means I&#8217;m not going to be around very much so I thought I&#8217;d give you something to remember me by while I&#8217;m gone&#8230;</p>
<h2>Get Yours Here!</h2>
<a href="http://comluv.com/news/150000-usd-comluv-christmas-gift-giveaway/">Please visit the site to claim<br/><img alt="click to visit site and claim" title="click to visit site and claim" src="http://comluv.com/files/2010/12/xmas-heart-150x150.png" width="150" height="150"/></a>
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<h2>Banner Ads</h2>
<p>For the month of December you can get a full 50% off the normal price on 125&#215;125 banner ads at Comluv.com! You could save up to 200 USD on the regular price. OMG I must be crazy <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>All the banner ads are dofollow linked and will appear on EVERY page of this site, that includes the PR6 homepage and multiple PR4 member pages. Now is the perfect time to advertise, it&#8217;s the holiday season and if you&#8217;ve got a store or sell your own products then you&#8217;ll want to get your site in front of as many eyes as possible!</p>
<p>The prices : </p>
<p>7 days &#8211; <del>$50</del> <span style="color:red">Now $25 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-banner</strong><br />
30 days &#8211; <del>$150</del> <span style="color:red">Now $75 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-banner</strong><br />
60 days &#8211; <del>$250</del> <span style="color:red">Now $125 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-banner</strong><br />
90 days &#8211; <del>$400</del> <span style="color:red">Now $200 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-banner</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://comluv.com/oiopub-direct/purchase.php?do=banner&#038;zone=1">Click here to purchase a banner ad</a>. You can apply the coupon code <strong>jingle-banner</strong> at the checkout stage to get 50% off the price. Hurry right now there are limited spots available and only 4 places in the queue!</p>
<h2>PR6 Dofollow Text Link Ads</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>It&#8217;s been shown that text link ads on the homepage here and around the site have a dramatic effect on SERPs , this site gets indexed multiple times an hour and there are regular advertisers that have stayed here for months because of the results they are getting. </p>
<p>You may know Hesham of Famousbloggers fame, he has a text link here for &#8220;<a href="http://www.famousbloggers.net">How To Blog</a>&#8221; and I&#8217;ve seen his page rise up through Google for that very competitive term and right now he&#8217;s mid-way up page 3. (that&#8217;s a rise of at least 5 pages since the ad went live!)</p>
<p>The prices : (I&#8217;ve been told multiple times that these prices are too low, with 50% off they&#8217;re even lower! get them now before the next year starts and prices go up!)</p>
<p>7 days &#8211; <del>$25</del> <span style="color:red">Now $12.50 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-link</strong><br />
30 days &#8211; <del>$90</del> <span style="color:red">Now $45 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-link</strong><br />
60 days &#8211; <del>$150</del> <span style="color:red">Now $75 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-link</strong><br />
90 days &#8211; <del>$200</del> <span style="color:red">Now $100 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-link</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://comluv.com/oiopub-direct/purchase.php?do=link&#038;zone=1">Click here to purchase a text link ad</a>. You can apply the coupon code <strong>jingle-link</strong> at the checkout stage to get 50% off the price. Hurry right now there are limited spots available and only 8 places in the queue!</p>
<h2>Limited spots for a limited time!</h2>
<p>At these prices the spots wont last long so hurry and get yours before someone else does!</p>
<p>Why am I offering at these prices? well, I&#8217;m busy with a busy project being busy this month (I&#8217;m busy!) so I don&#8217;t have time to solicit advertisers to fill the vacant spots at the regular price. That means <strong>you</strong> get the deal of the year, hurry now before someone else gets them!</p>
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:79:"http://comluv.com/newsletter/50-off-banner-ads-at-comluv-com-pr6-dofollow/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"24";}s:7:"summary";s:4481:"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><div id="attachment_3582" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 587px"><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2010/12/50-percent-off-sale.jpg" alt="" title="50-percent-off-sale" width="577" height="321" class="size-full wp-image-3582" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Get 50% off DoFollow PR6 Banner Ads</p></div>
<h2>Banner Ads</h2>
<p>For the month of December you can get a full 50% off the normal price on 125&#215;125 banner ads at Comluv.com! You could save up to 200 USD on the regular price. OMG I must be crazy <img src='http://comluv.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>All the banner ads are dofollow linked and will appear on EVERY page of this site, that includes the PR6 homepage and multiple PR4 member pages. Now is the perfect time to advertise, it&#8217;s the holiday season and if you&#8217;ve got a store or sell your own products then you&#8217;ll want to get your site in front of as many eyes as possible!</p>
<p>The prices : </p>
<p>7 days &#8211; <del>$50</del> <span style="color:red">Now $25 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-banner</strong><br />
30 days &#8211; <del>$150</del> <span style="color:red">Now $75 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-banner</strong><br />
60 days &#8211; <del>$250</del> <span style="color:red">Now $125 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-banner</strong><br />
90 days &#8211; <del>$400</del> <span style="color:red">Now $200 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-banner</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://comluv.com/oiopub-direct/purchase.php?do=banner&#038;zone=1">Click here to purchase a banner ad</a>. You can apply the coupon code <strong>jingle-banner</strong> at the checkout stage to get 50% off the price. Hurry right now there are limited spots available and only 4 places in the queue!</p>
<h2>PR6 Dofollow Text Link Ads</h2><div style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float:left"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<p>It&#8217;s been shown that text link ads on the homepage here and around the site have a dramatic effect on SERPs , this site gets indexed multiple times an hour and there are regular advertisers that have stayed here for months because of the results they are getting. </p>
<p>You may know Hesham of Famousbloggers fame, he has a text link here for &#8220;<a href="http://www.famousbloggers.net">How To Blog</a>&#8221; and I&#8217;ve seen his page rise up through Google for that very competitive term and right now he&#8217;s mid-way up page 3. (that&#8217;s a rise of at least 5 pages since the ad went live!)</p>
<p>The prices : (I&#8217;ve been told multiple times that these prices are too low, with 50% off they&#8217;re even lower! get them now before the next year starts and prices go up!)</p>
<p>7 days &#8211; <del>$25</del> <span style="color:red">Now $12.50 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-link</strong><br />
30 days &#8211; <del>$90</del> <span style="color:red">Now $45 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-link</strong><br />
60 days &#8211; <del>$150</del> <span style="color:red">Now $75 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-link</strong><br />
90 days &#8211; <del>$200</del> <span style="color:red">Now $100 with coupon code</span> <strong>jingle-link</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://comluv.com/oiopub-direct/purchase.php?do=link&#038;zone=1">Click here to purchase a text link ad</a>. You can apply the coupon code <strong>jingle-link</strong> at the checkout stage to get 50% off the price. Hurry right now there are limited spots available and only 8 places in the queue!</p>
<h2>Limited spots for a limited time!</h2>
<p>At these prices the spots wont last long so hurry and get yours before someone else does!</p>
<p>Why am I offering at these prices? well, I&#8217;m busy with a busy project being busy this month (I&#8217;m busy!) so I don&#8217;t have time to solicit advertisers to fill the vacant spots at the regular price. That means <strong>you</strong> get the deal of the year, hurry now before someone else gets them!</p>
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->";}i:8;a:11:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Make your site pay for itself";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://comluv.com/tutorials/making-money/make-your-site-pay-for-itself/";s:8:"comments";s:80:"http://comluv.com/tutorials/making-money/make-your-site-pay-for-itself/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:30:28 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"Andy Bailey";}s:8:"category";s:62:"Making MoneyNewsletteradsaffiliatebannerspr6sell adstext links";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://comluv.com/?p=3482";s:11:"description";s:4654:"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2010/11/dollar-keyboard.png" alt="" title="dollar-keyboard" width="501" height="294" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3483" /><br />
One thing that really helped me to get my site to start paying for itself was advertising. Choosing someone to handle your ads is a long and arduous process that doesn&#8217;t always work out because whoever you choose is going to take a healthy cut leaving you to either take less than you&#8217;re worth or have to charge more than you should just so you can get what you deserve.</p>
<p>Read below how I overcame this problem (read it all, there&#8217;s a unique limited offer somewhere in the text) </p>
<h3>Throw away the middle man!</h3>
<p>I suffered from the same problems with choosing someone to handle my ads so I was over the moon when I discovered <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher/">OIOPublisher</a> because it not only provided a way to take direct control of my ad sales as a wordpress plugin but, it is fully configurable as a standalone system.</p>
<p>Within the first week of installing it (actually within a couple of days) it had paid for itself! All I needed was one or two ad sales to go through and from that point on, 100% of the money I took was mine to keep. awesomes.</p>
<h3>Multiple Payment Gateways</h3>
<p>As well as the ubiquitous PayPal gateway, you can also set up 2checkout, authorize.net, google checkout and even offline payment. All systems (except offline) allow you to have a hands free experience. You can set it up so that advertisers are allowed to subscribe so once they pay, they will be rebilled automatically by the system and the ad will be renewed (or expired if payment doesn&#8217;t go through).</p>
<p>You can see instructions on how to set up the different gateways at the <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher/">OIOPublisher site</a>.</p>
<h3>Mulitple ad types</h3>
<p>Everyone knows 125&#215;125 banner ads and text links but what about sponsored posts or premium downloads? OiOPublisher handles them all beautifully! I&#8217;ve been selling text links on ComLuv for quite some time (for a high traffic site you&#8217;ll be hard press to find a cheaper <a href="http://ql2.me/1/text/links/">PR6 dofollow text link</a>) and they&#8217;ve done me proud!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also been able to sell sponsored posts without any issue and because OiOpublisher has such an easy to use interface, it&#8217;s a snap to set up a custom type of ad that could be anything from an ebook download to a private consultation. It will take care of all the payment taking and processing for you, all you have to do is provide the service!</p>
<h3>Ad server!</h3>
<p>Some of you may remember the MBA ad network a few of us bloggers set up to show banner ads on all our sites with one payment. That whole system is running on OiOPublisher and it&#8217;s running without no more attention than a click to approve a banner when one is submitted.</p>
<p>You can use php or javascript to show ads so you could even run your own ad network! If you have more than one site then it&#8217;s a simple copy and paste to show your ads over every site and control them all from a single place. This is one of the major advantages of having it, most (experienced) bloggers have more than one site. Being able to offer a multiple site ad for one payment is a real bonus and getting to keep 100% of the money makes it even better.</p>
<h3>Affiliate system</h3>
<p>Not only can you sell your own ads with ease, you can actually set up your own affiliate network and get other bloggers to sell your ads for you! Now YOU are the one making the money and OTHERS ARE SELLING YOUR ADS! Set your system up so you pay affiliates a one off or recurring payment, either a percentage commission or a set amount and you&#8217;re away. You can offer an increased percentage to affiliates who perform the best and generate some competition that will see your ad spots sell out!</p>
<h3>Get 10% off for a limited time only</h3>
<p>As a special offer only available for November (nearly gone!) you can get a 10% discount off the price of <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher/">OiOPublisher</a>. Use this OiOPublisher Coupon at the checkout <strong>WINDFALL-COMLUV</strong> <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher/">Click here</a></p>
<h2 style="color:red">$10 off for Christmas!</h2>
<p>The kind folks at OiO have given me another coupon for OiOPublisher that gives you $10 off the price of the package!<br />
Use <strong>XMASGIFT-COMLUV</strong> by <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher">clicking here</a></p>
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:76:"http://comluv.com/tutorials/making-money/make-your-site-pay-for-itself/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"19";}s:7:"summary";s:4654:"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><img src="http://comluv.com/files/2010/11/dollar-keyboard.png" alt="" title="dollar-keyboard" width="501" height="294" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3483" /><br />
One thing that really helped me to get my site to start paying for itself was advertising. Choosing someone to handle your ads is a long and arduous process that doesn&#8217;t always work out because whoever you choose is going to take a healthy cut leaving you to either take less than you&#8217;re worth or have to charge more than you should just so you can get what you deserve.</p>
<p>Read below how I overcame this problem (read it all, there&#8217;s a unique limited offer somewhere in the text) </p>
<h3>Throw away the middle man!</h3>
<p>I suffered from the same problems with choosing someone to handle my ads so I was over the moon when I discovered <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher/">OIOPublisher</a> because it not only provided a way to take direct control of my ad sales as a wordpress plugin but, it is fully configurable as a standalone system.</p>
<p>Within the first week of installing it (actually within a couple of days) it had paid for itself! All I needed was one or two ad sales to go through and from that point on, 100% of the money I took was mine to keep. awesomes.</p>
<h3>Multiple Payment Gateways</h3>
<p>As well as the ubiquitous PayPal gateway, you can also set up 2checkout, authorize.net, google checkout and even offline payment. All systems (except offline) allow you to have a hands free experience. You can set it up so that advertisers are allowed to subscribe so once they pay, they will be rebilled automatically by the system and the ad will be renewed (or expired if payment doesn&#8217;t go through).</p>
<p>You can see instructions on how to set up the different gateways at the <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher/">OIOPublisher site</a>.</p>
<h3>Mulitple ad types</h3>
<p>Everyone knows 125&#215;125 banner ads and text links but what about sponsored posts or premium downloads? OiOPublisher handles them all beautifully! I&#8217;ve been selling text links on ComLuv for quite some time (for a high traffic site you&#8217;ll be hard press to find a cheaper <a href="http://ql2.me/1/text/links/">PR6 dofollow text link</a>) and they&#8217;ve done me proud!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also been able to sell sponsored posts without any issue and because OiOpublisher has such an easy to use interface, it&#8217;s a snap to set up a custom type of ad that could be anything from an ebook download to a private consultation. It will take care of all the payment taking and processing for you, all you have to do is provide the service!</p>
<h3>Ad server!</h3>
<p>Some of you may remember the MBA ad network a few of us bloggers set up to show banner ads on all our sites with one payment. That whole system is running on OiOPublisher and it&#8217;s running without no more attention than a click to approve a banner when one is submitted.</p>
<p>You can use php or javascript to show ads so you could even run your own ad network! If you have more than one site then it&#8217;s a simple copy and paste to show your ads over every site and control them all from a single place. This is one of the major advantages of having it, most (experienced) bloggers have more than one site. Being able to offer a multiple site ad for one payment is a real bonus and getting to keep 100% of the money makes it even better.</p>
<h3>Affiliate system</h3>
<p>Not only can you sell your own ads with ease, you can actually set up your own affiliate network and get other bloggers to sell your ads for you! Now YOU are the one making the money and OTHERS ARE SELLING YOUR ADS! Set your system up so you pay affiliates a one off or recurring payment, either a percentage commission or a set amount and you&#8217;re away. You can offer an increased percentage to affiliates who perform the best and generate some competition that will see your ad spots sell out!</p>
<h3>Get 10% off for a limited time only</h3>
<p>As a special offer only available for November (nearly gone!) you can get a 10% discount off the price of <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher/">OiOPublisher</a>. Use this OiOPublisher Coupon at the checkout <strong>WINDFALL-COMLUV</strong> <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher/">Click here</a></p>
<h2 style="color:red">$10 off for Christmas!</h2>
<p>The kind folks at OiO have given me another coupon for OiOPublisher that gives you $10 off the price of the package!<br />
Use <strong>XMASGIFT-COMLUV</strong> by <a href="http://ql2.me/1/oiopublisher">clicking here</a></p>
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