It’s been a long weekend of data recovery and data recovery failure. Thankfully I made a full system back up the night before our server crashed.
The hard drive was fried and no information could be taken off it.
However I did miss three of my personal websites but I was so tired I said I’ll get it in the morning and my server crashed before I could get there.
The crash was not expected what so ever. It’s safe to say all the most popular and active websites have been saved and will see restored over the next 24 – 48 hours.
Because I didn’t get any data from the hard drive I requested a refund from Godaddy seeing I paid 150 USD for then to add the old drive on a USB Enclosure.
I’m happy to announce Blog Engage is back up and hopefully for good!
Thanks for your patience and welcome back.
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The deal is pretty easy. I’m approaching over 1900 followers on twitter. If you add the Blog Engage word press plugin I will always retweet your blog article.
This is no joke but I do however have minimum expectations to be followed if you plan on joining this train ride. This really is an amazing opportunity for us all.
I also have many friends that follow me and retweet what I tweet. So by helping our community you would also be helping yourself.
The Blog Engage Button and Tweetmeme button must be right beside each other. This is so when I retweet other bloggers will also see the blog engage plugin ad perhaps visit our community to vote on your article.
You can find the blog engage plugin on our profile and promo pages.
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The question should be asked! With blog engage closing registrations should we start allowing anonymous voting?
This decision is actually pretty big… …
You might be asking your self why would we have to right? Well truth be told not many people will request an Invite to simply vote on an article.
So we will only have our members votes. We have a lot of people voting as you can clearly tell but to get even more votes for some other struggling bloggers this could be a great idea.
The major issue is cheating. I heard users can use proxies and vote for their selves over and over. This might in fact cause a large amount of spam to happen. Especially when only 10 votes is needed to reach the front page.
As always I would fully moderate the website ensuring to cheat like activity is occurring.
None the less this is your choice.
Please let me know below what your thoughts are and what you would prefer.
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This is an official announcement that blog engage our social community will be closing registrations and going to an invitation community only.
The system is pretty basic but I do however need a few volunteers to help me out. Registration will now be completed by using an invitation registration system.
Current members will see the “Invite Friends’ link on the main page. This will allow you to send e-mail invitations to anyone you trust that requests one.
Please I ask our members to spread the word and share our news. Write a blog article about us announcing our closure of registrations and make sure the blogosphre knows you can invite people.
I’m willing to bet this could create some buzz and great search engine traffic. People will be Googling for blogengage invitation trust me.
This means in order to join us and submit your blog article you will have to get an invitation. We have two ways you can get invited into our community of bloggers.
- Join our Blog Forums and request an invitation by posting.
- Know a friend on the inside. All members have the opportunity to send you an invitation.
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This weeks word challenge should be pretty easy for the majority of our members.
I’m sure we have something to write about or regarding for the thousands of wordpress plugins. We also have a secondary word and it’s a wild card. “Blog About Whatever”
So if you don’t blog about or regarding wordpress plugins this weeks word challenge has a spacial card allowing our members to blog about whatever they want and submit it.
I think I will start doing the wild card once a month from now on to promote submissions.
How do you submit your article?
Simply leave a reply in the article with your url or state your submission is in your comment luv.
Why participate
Because all articles submitted to the challenge will be promoted on by me here on our word challenge linking directly to your word challenge post. This also includes retweets from myself with over 1800 followers. Also other members will be joining us in conversations on your blog. This is a great way to find new readers and get comments.
Previous weeks submissions
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