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My friend The Big Brit just pointed me at a new lottery type competition that could land you some cash prizes and free traffic for your site! Kumiko has a new domain and she’s giving you a chance to make money online too with her new Cash Quest Competition!!

The Prize:

1. $100 Cash Paid via PayPal!
2. A full review of your site! (value: $40)
3. A one month link in her Super Sites section! (value: $40)
4. A two week 468×60 banner ad at the top of her site! (value: $50)

Not too shabby. Go check it out for yourself!

A few weeks ago I got a message from Monawea over at the iwebis website. She mentioned a big community buzz event she was organizing for one of the social blogging networks called BlogCatalog. I’ve been really pleased with the community so I said sure. The details of the event can be found in her article titled Social Networking - BlogCatalog Buzz Experiment - Join In! So here are the 5 reasons that I love BlogCatalog:

1. Meet Other Great People To Interact With

There are two different concepts that you will find and enjoy after joining the BlogCatalog site. There are neighborhoods and friends. Friends is a concept that links you up with people or bloggers that you resonate with. These show up in your profile under a My Friends list. You can click on the pictures of your friends to go straight to their profiles. Then for each of your blogs you have a neighborhood. People can join your neighborhood if they find they have things in common with your blog or they just like it. Under each of your blog listings you will have a Neighborhood listing with all of the friends or neighbors listed there. Clicking on their avatars has the same effect as clicking on a friend. Under your profile you will also have a My Neighborhoods that lists all of the neighborhoods that you have joined. This gives you a lot of ways to network and connect with people that share your passion, whatever that maybe.

I’m fairly new to the blogging world; I started seriously investing in it this year. It has become a new passion for me. One of my new favorite sites is called ProBlogger by a guy named Darren Rowse (an Aussie). Heran a competition/project this week called the Top 5 Group Writing Project. I decided to get involved since I’ve never done anything like this. I really had fun writing my Top 5 Tantalizing Blog Title Techniques. Anyway, I learned a lot, stretched myself in my writing, found some new blogs, made a few new friends online and gained a few new readers (I hope).

Well, for your viewing pleasure and perusal (the pingbacks don’t hurt either) here is the complete list of submissions. Go to the potty and get a drink first… it’s quite large.

SORRY THE LIST WAS DELETED BECAUSE WHEN I UPGRADED WORDPRESS IT WOULD NOT DISPLAY THE POST. HMMM. OH WELL.

You can view the Top 5 Group Writing Project Final Submission List on ProBlogger.net.

Sometimes all you have is a title. In a blog directory, an RSS feed aggregator or a community blogging project such as the one I’m writing this post for. If you want to be able to lock on to your readers and use your Jedi mind powers to force them to click your blog post then read on. These are just five techniques that I’ve both seen and used to make those blog titles really pop out at readers. Let me just go ahead and answer this up front… no, all CAPS does not count and is not on this list.

1. Money $$$, Greenbacks, Cold Hard Cash

Millions of people flock onto the internet every day to get a piece of the American… (well that’s a bit close-minded isn’t it?) no make that the global dream. The dream is to live well and that dream takes money. What better place to make money than on the internet? Where else can a guy (or gal) in his basement with a computer forge a business with little to no startup costs and build an empire to rule both the world and his destiny. Ok, yes I’m being a bit melodramatic.