Monday, April 2, 2007

Issue 3

Welcome to the third issue of TopBlogMag!

We have a fantastic issue for you this week including an interesting look at what the author of Critique my Blog has learned from your blogs, a delightful theme inspired post by Melissa from Home In The World, a competition to become next weeks Blog Of The Week, a debate over Pay Per Post and much more.

This week’s themes are Van Gough’s ‘Café Terrace At Night’

and the on going theme of ‘write about what ever the hell you like’.

A few things of note before we delve in to this week’s issue:

  1. The comments on this blog have been made DOFOLLOW which means that the Google and Technorati spiders will pick up the link to your blog when you comment – if that isn’t an incentive to leave some feedback for our writers I don’t know what is.
  2. In our left sidebar we now have a blogroll link to all our writers blogs as well as the links to all the posts they have written for us – which means our writers are getting even more links from us!
  3. We have added a Blog Review this week and intend to make it a weekly feature
  4. We have added this blog to Spicy Pages and Fuel My blog, the more votes you give us and the more readers we get, ultimately, the more people read your posts visit your sites. So get voting!

As usual, all posts on this page are part of this weeks issue, so scroll right down to the bottom, leave comments for the writers (remembering that all comments are now DOFOLLOW so will be picked up by the googlebots) and click over to view the blogs of the readers you like; and don’t forget to go and see Skittles, this weeks Blog Of The Week for sending us the most unique hits during last week and tell her TopBlogMag sent you.

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Next weeks themes are ‘revenge’ and of course, the ever present ‘write about what the hell you like’.

To take part in next weeks issue please send your entries to topblogmag(at)gmail.com no later than 12 midnight GMT on Friday and please, please, please read the rules before sending us your entry. (To find out what time this is where you live click here, Hint: GMT is 0)

Amaze us, inspire us, tell us something we didn’t already know, make us laugh, cry or think, but, most importantly, entertain us. Make us want to read more, want to get to know you, visit your blog and come back for more. Remember this is free advertising for your blog, wow us.


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10 comments:

Barb said...

Thanks for the honor of being chosen as Blog Of The Week!

Wishing you continued success :)

April 2, 2007 at 8:11 AM
BillyWarhol said...

Nice Blog*

I'm trying www.cocomment.com as a way to follow or keep track* i wasn't aware of DOFOLLOW but thass interesting too*

Cheers! Billy ;))

Peace*

April 2, 2007 at 8:55 AM
Anonymous said...

Wow, awesome site! Glad that I finally found it through MyBlogLog. Thanks for the DoFollow!

April 2, 2007 at 12:24 PM
Top Blog Mag said...

You're welcome. But don't forget to go and leave some comments for the writers...I kow they are dying to hear what you think.

April 3, 2007 at 7:08 AM
mikster said...

Nice site. I plan to come back...and often.

April 3, 2007 at 2:52 PM
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April 4, 2007 at 4:53 AM
Danielle said...

Sounds like a great idea. I may comprise an entry.

Reading on....

April 4, 2007 at 6:55 PM
... said...

Interesting concept. Will be back to peruse some more.

Evil Dildo @ Rorschach On Crack

April 7, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Anonymous said...

I found you via "Tiny Voices" and love the concept of your blog! I better submit something soon because by the looks of your stat counter you are exploding on the blogsphere and will have so many entries you won't be able to post them all. :-)

April 7, 2007 at 6:18 PM
Top Blog Mag said...

Happily Anon - thank you, we look forward to seeing you.

Danielle - Cool, anticipating an entry from you in the near future.

Evil dildo - (ha ha, now there's something I never thought I would be writing here) thank you and we hope to see you around.

Traveling Spirit - Thank you. We await your entry.

April 8, 2007 at 1:58 AM

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