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What Do You Think? Review Contest 2
For those who missed the first round of the contest and would like to review The Thinking Blog, take a look at the original post for the contest guidelines and previous winner of the free blog re-design. Once again I would like to thank the following 5 bloggers who took the time to review my blog but didn't win this time. You can always write a better review if you like but feel free to contact me if you need any design tips.Honorable Mentions:
- Jeremy Miller's Jemmille dot Com
- James Rissler's Clever Start
- Digital Nomad's The Sovereign Journey
- James Thoenes' Digitalkeyto.info
- Maia Jose's Manila Mom
The winning reviews are... drumroll please
Favicon Winner: Sean Dinner's Just An Idea
. The second best review in round 2 of the contest and you just gotta love that screenshot!
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Not only this fabulous mom wrote a comprehensive, well researched, or put simply an excellent review, but she also filed the entry under Celebrities! When I first read it I thought "no one could come up with a better review than that" and I was right. Thus, I gladly offered my services for free to the best review in this batch. She was extremely kind in her emails and said that she didn't want anything fancy to keep "all things easy to read.. and boxy." So check out her new header image, color combinations and a matching favicon. Please make sure you don't leave her blog without reading the content and commenting on the posts.
Quick tips: For all the others who didn't review The Thinking Blog yet, it's not too late. The contest is still going on and by reviewing this blog you get linkbacks to help your ranking and a chance to win a free re-design! Those who read, comment and link to the posts in the archives get extra points. The further down the road, the better. Graphic elements like screenshots or using the "Thinking Alien" logo earns you extra points. Also I urge you to not make my avatar the main discussion of the post. Everyone knows Natalia! It's overdone and there are much better, timeless quality articles in the archives to talk about.
Let the best review win!
15 thoughts:
You're incredible Ilker! Not only are you immensely talented BUT what marketing acumen!!
I wish everyone much success :)
Glad you tweaked the comments part. Nice and easy now. THANKS for the mention. I still think mine was the best and I'm so sure I'm not even going to read the others :-)
Whoa! I posted into the future! It's still April 10th in the US. You freaky Turks! Thanks again Ilker.
Thanks for the mention! Mind changing the first link to http://sean-dinner.com/blog instead of http://sean-dinner.com? Just cause my blog is installed on the main directory so it doesn't pick up the link unless is has the /blog on the end. Thanks! :D
Oops, I mean ISN'T installed on the main directory, my bad lol.
Thanks a ton Ilker! What a nice write up about my blog. I really appreciate it and the time you put into helping my site look so great!
Now if I can just get your wonderful favicon installed correctly I'll be all set. If anyone out there has suggestions on getting a favicon installed on wordpress that would be great. I've tried a million different things that I've found online. Can't figure out what the missing key is. Thanks again!
Not even an honorable mention for my review =(
@Kelly Cho: Your review will be up on the 3rd round. Don't worry, I have everyone covered!
Ilker, was my review taken into consideration?
@Shankar Ganesh: Yes your review will be considered in the next round as well.
I could have posted links to 10 reviews but I'm afraid it would just serve that purpose: link. I don't usually go through all the links of a post that has 10 links in it. I don't thing people would go through all of them either so I post 5 Honorable mentions at a time. Shouldn't I?
Wow that's a great list. Love the makeover:) And thanks for the honorable mention.
Great redesign and review! Very impressive indeed!
And that is a way cool screenshot!
Wonder if I can review your site too? ;)
The contest is open to anyone who has a blog!
Woohoo!! I will be doing that then...probably between my kids' naps...LOL!
Thanks so much for the honorable mention. Yes, I agree that listing 5 at a time gives us more exposure and more chances at visits from your tons of fans :-) I'll continue to visit to learn more marketing and networking skills. More power!
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