I have written a couple of posts making fun of software titles that give no clue as to what the software does. eg Pando, Chirp? Any ideas what you might do with them?

I have also found a bit of resistance to the title of my blog, (the perceived disgustingness of the innocuous word Pisstakers being too much for some to mention, let alone visit.)

And finally, I was reading some SEO info about whether a domain name helps with search engine rankings. The upshot being that indirectlly, a cool and relevant domain name does help Google rank your blog.

So all in all, it got me thinking, is the title of your blog reflective of your content, and is the name aiding or abetting your attempts to build a brand? You are building a brand, right?

I have really been hoping to have more advertisers on our blog, we have tons of sidebar space that could be sold for a great value. Thankfully I recently was approached by Thoughts.Com

Thoughts.com have their own page on our blog now. There is quite a bit of information there about their website.

What are your thoughts?

“Thoughts offers blogs for everyone, so sign up for a free blog, upload your videos, photos and share your podcasts all in one site.”

I’m not sure how many people were into the online journals, like blurty, but thats what thoughts reminds me of. A super online journal/blog.

Win a Trip

Thoughts doesn’t really seem to be promoting their free vacation giveaway enough. So let me tell you about it! Five members will receive a free trip to Las Vegas! They are really just looking for active members, so to do so make sure to post some blogs and get active!

The winners will be able to take one guest and get…

* Roundtrip airfare for two from anywhere in the continental United States.
* 3 Night stay at a 4 star Las Vegas resort (to be determined)
* Complimentary dinner 3 nights
* Complimentary shows 2 nights

My First Impressions

When I was first contacted by thoughts, I thought it was another free blog service like blogger. However, thoughts is more of a community type environment, sort of like a myspace.

The only problem I could see for the more advanced bloggers, is that you can’t customize your own blog pages, so every blog is pretty much the same. I hope to see that change in the future.

Overall I like the idea, and there is quite a few features, yet they are only in BETA. It will be interesting to see what happens when they really make a full release.

What are your thoughts?

I just came across the coolest blog contest tool and immediately thought of BAYB. Now since Matt is on top of everything, he may already know, but in case he doesn’t and for everyone else’s information here it is. There is a blog dedicated to spreading the word about blog contests! It is logically named Blog Contests on the Net. This website is an awesome way to spread the news of all the awesome blog contests that go on here at BAYB or any other blog. It is completely free, and you write your own post to share the details of the contest. I think this idea was genius. Next month when Random Encounters of We hosts our very first blog contest, I intend to get the word out with this website!

Comment Friday had another good day, and received 25 comments. It was nice to see everyone responded so well to the topic, and had a few people to thank. I have to give a mention to Jon from SmartHealthyRich who was mentioned more than once.

When picking a comment friday winner, I always look for something more to grab my attention. Bob of The Four of Clubbs did just that. Not only did he leave a comment, but he wrote a post thanking a loyal reader. Is that not getting into the comment friday spirit or what? Congrats Bob and welcome to our blogroll, and the honorable title of blog of the week.

Is there something you want to see for a Comment Friday topic? Let us know!

Blog about your Blog has just been “featured” on “fechr”. Fechr (pronounced feature) is a brand new website I think you guys will love. Each day a new website will be featured, on fechr (ok I’ll stop). Yesterday our website was featured, and we received well over 130 visitors just from that. For now the site is free. If you blog about fechr, you just might be featured as well. Who doesn’t love free traffic?

The prices are planning to go up once a steady amount of traffic is reached, however for now the plan is for the site to be free! Like I said, you can be featured just for blogging about it. So make sure to mention the site in your next blog post so you can be featured next.

Many bloggers, like myself, are always trying to Triple your blog revenue or at least increase your blog revenue. Last month I posted that Blog about your Blog only made about 100$, and I have really been trying to improve that. Well TopTut is all about providing you with tips on getting more revenue from your blog.

To make more money on this blog, I have been putting in extra effort, and really reading what else is working for other bloggers. To be a good blogger, you have to be able to learn from others if you have a goal of making money.

Toptut provides several articles about making money with your blog like 5 tricks for increasing blog revenue. I hope they work for me.

Comment Friday has really become a great feature on the blog. I think some of our readers just hang around here for that. Jatecblog recently mentioned that comment friday was one of the best ideas they’ve seen. I am glad to have such a support for the idea.

I wanted to thank a few people who have really been plugging comment friday. Techsplorer has started their own comment friday, and make sure to mention BAYB every week. He even made up a little banner, I thought it was really nice. Home Mom writes her weekly post and has been including BAYB as well. IngaOz has also started a comment friday and also mentioned us. Brown Baron has tweaked the idea making it his own in the form of Open Comments on Sundays.

Of course without other bloggers support we wouldn’t be where we are at. Especially the support from our authors. Now it’s your turn. Who has really went above and beyond, and supported you and your blogs? Leave us a comment, and drop some link love about your support team.

Remember one lucky commenter will be featured on our blogroll as Blog of the Week until next friday. If you have something else on your mind, we want to hear that too!