Hello All,

Just thought I would write a very quick post to keep you up to date on this lovely little 100 blog comment challenge!

Little challenge I say? NOT!

This has been the most amazing ride I have had in a long time! It has been hard work, time consuming and very tiring!

My fingers are sore, my brain is completely drained and my eyes feel like they are hanging out of my head!

Who knew what a little bimbo idea of mine could turn into! (Note to self: Let bimbo brain go to sleep for a week! I need a rest! )

This has been awesome, amazing, incredible and inspiring all at the same time!

The blogs that joined the challenge have been incredible, some of them full of content I got myself lost for hours!!

First I would like to say a very big THANK YOU so much to all of you that joined me in this challenge.

THANK YOU for believing in the challenge,

THANK YOU for promoting the challenge &

THANK YOU for honouring your commitment to the challenge.

I have been around to everyone’s blogs a couple of times over the last few days, taking a tally of the blog comments as I go. Some are missing comments, whether they have ended up in people’s spam folders or they haven’t checked their blogs yet I am not sure.

I do know it is holidays in the Northern Hemisphere right now so I am pretty sure some people are still on holidays too!

I also get the feeling a few people will still be blog commenting over the next few days to catch up. As long as everyone honours the challenge that is more my concern right now.

Getting people inspired to join the challenge was the easy part so to speak (Actually it was still hard and I thank everyone for promoting it to get everyone on board!).

Keeping people inspired to complete the challenge has been the hard part.

It is actually up to the challengers the level of success this is in the end.

There has also been a couple of blogs playing up as well. We lost Craig Breeze (Was 95)  due to his blog going down so we replaced him with Ashwandra Michelle (101).

And as far as I can tell we are having problems with John Edward’s blog post (45), Jeremiah Carstephan’s blog post (59) and Shameka P’s blog post (50). Hopefully those blogs will be sorted out shortly.

I do plan on going around to everyone’s blogs again at the end of the week to do another tally of comments and do another round of social book marking for everyone.

(I have twittered everyone, however I would like to do some facebooking, digging and stumbling too! Just to share the challenge love a little more! )

Plus I also plan on writing a blog post in about 2 weeks time summarising the challenge overall honouring all those that completed the challenge and letting everyone know the final results.

For those of you that have completed the challenge I would love your feedback.

Should we do this again?

If so when do you think we should run it knowing the commitment that this challenge REALLY is and the time we need to honour it?

What would you change about it?

For example the length of the challenge, the amount of blogs, the type of blog post to contribute? Should the blog post be a new one?

I actually think everyone should submit a new blog post next time and one dedicated to their niche. What do you think?

What would you improve about it?

Have a dedicated website? Given more notice before joining? What rules would you introduce such as a commitment to visit 25 blogs each week or something like that?

What suggestions would you have to make it fun and inspiring?

Motivation type stuff? Regular posting etc etc


THANK YOU so much for an amazing yet very tiring month!

Hubby and bubba think I have glued myself to the computer. I think they need some cuddle time too!

See you back here soon!

Until next time……..

Happy Blog Hopping!

P.S If you are a current challenger I would love your feedback on the questions above.

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Hello All,

Just a quick post to keep you up to date on how we are going with my little challenge I started from my bimbo comment in a forum.

Phase 1 is done!

We have 102 members that have joined the challenge!

(You can check out all the contributors posts here: 100 Blog Comment Challenge Contributors )

Now for Phase 2! The Blog Hopping!

The challenge is running until the 31st of August which means we all have 10 days to make sure we complete our commitment to the challenge and visit all the members contributing blog posts, have a read, make a comment and socially book mark the post along the way!

Not a big task really! Yeah Right!

101 Blogs to visit in 10 days! I am nuts!

So far I have visited the first 4 on the list, 96 to go!

I am taking a table as I go to mark off the members comments as I visit each blog. I want to make sure that everyone is doing the right thing by the challenge and actually visiting each others blogs.

(I feel like I am back teaching college again when I used to have to grade the students exams! I had better get some strong coffee and chocolate for the week! I have 101 blogs to grade! Oops on that one! )

I actually have to visit each blog twice!

Now for my own blog hopping, reading and commenting and the second time will be the first week of September when the challenge is over to do a final tally!

Boy do I have my work cut out for me!

(Hubby and bubba already think my fingers are glued to the keyboard!)

I will be really interested in the results as I go!

Fingers crossed everyone does the right thing and gets around to everyone’s dedicated blog post for the challenge and comments by the end of August!

That way we will all succeed together!

Well that is the plan anyway!

It is now up to the challengers if we all succeed or not!

The one thing I have noticed already is the drops in Alex rankings for some of the blogs. This is unbelievable!

Alex Fyfe’s blog has dropped over @8.5 million! What an amazing result all from the power of blog commenting!

I have also noticed so far just from the 4 blogs I have visited the amazing sense of community. Everyone is joining in on the conversation and really contributing to the blog post, plus the blog owners are replying to the comments which is bringing people back to continue the conversation!

This is awesome!

However I have also noticed a few comments from people missing even though I know they have been commenting. I must remind people to check their spam folders just in case some people’s comments are ending up there by mistake.

I have “Akismet” installed. It is an excellent spam control plugin however it sometimes places people’s comments in the spam queue when they don’t need to be!

I have had to fish a few people out of there.

Yes Randy Smith if you are reading this, you did end up in the spam queue!

Ok! So like I said before this is just a quick update for you!

Now it is time for me to get back to my own blog hopping! 96 blogs to go and then back around again!

I am going to be blog hopping in my sleep!

See you back here soon!

Until next time……..

Happy Blog Hopping!

P.S If you are a current challenger I would love your feedback on how you are finding the challenge.

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Hello All,

Just a quick post to introduce you to a new challenge some of my fellow Masterclass students and I have created just for fun.

“The 100 Blog Comments Challenge”

The idea of the challenge is to get 100 individual comments on a blog post.

The idea was born from a bimbo comment I made on a thread I had started about achieving 100 blog posts. I had made a thread letting people know that they can achieve 100 blog posts.

A few members congratulated me, then I made a bimbo comment of “Next challenge 100 blog comments on a post”. Well Steve King one of the members thought the idea was great and then next thing I knew a challenge was born!

Last week I was catching up on study and this week I am madly blog hopping trying to get 100 people involved in a challenge. Oops on that one!

(Not a bad bimbo idea! I come up with some good ones when I least expect it! )

We have started a thread in the “JT Masterclass Training Forum” for members to get involved and I would also love to make this available for everyone to get involved and contribute to.

Blog Networking is an excellent way to meet new people, read new blogs and learn new things as well as improve our websites page ranking, traffic ranking and most of all generate back links.

The idea of the challenge is to get 100 people to participate. Everyone that contributes is to comment on everyone’s blog and if we have 100 people then we should get 100 individual comments! Well that is the plan!

We are going to run the challenge pretty much from now to the end of August.

To get the most out of the power of receiving and giving blog comments, there are a few plugins you will need to install to get the most out of this challenge. These plugins will help with your websites traffic and page ranking as well as your ranking for keywords.

100 Blog Comment Challenge Plugins

The plugins to install are:

CommentLuv = http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/commentluv/

This comment will leave a link back to your latest post at the bottom of your comment that you make on a blog that has “commentluv” installed on. This plugin is awesome for generating new traffic and visitors to your site. They see your blog post title and think “I will check that blog out” I have done that many a times and met some awesome people on the way!

KeywordLuv = http://www.scratch99.com/wordpress-plugin-keywordluv/

This plugin allows your commentator to use an anchor keyword after their name when they fill in the name section on the comment form and the website will link to the keyword phrase rather than your name. This is great if you are targeting keywords for your website. Eg Jacinta @ Creating A Business Online.

DoFollow = http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sem-dofollow/

Excellent plugin to help the google bots crawl from website to website. Anyone that leaves a link in your comment section. This will allow the googlebots to go from your website to theirs and help with ranking especially if this is coming from a website that has a higher traffic and page ranking than you.

Subscribe To Double Optin Comments = http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-double-opt-in-comments/

Allows you to subscribe to the websites you have made comments on and to see when others have made comments. Allows your commentators to subscribe to your blog posts comments page. (This plugin is not compulsory, just a good one for people that comment on your blog to see when you or others have replied to their comment. )

Add To Any = http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/

Allows you to socially bookmark the post with what ever service you want to use such as digg, twitter, facebook etc etc. You can use any other social plugin as well.

(If you have another social plugin already that is fine, as long as people can social book mark your post that is the main point!)

I think the challenge is a great idea and I am really interested as to how successful we can make it. It would be awesome that through the power of 6 degrees of separation that over 100 of us get on board and all help each other out.

If you are interested in joining in our challenge leave a comment below telling me you are in!!

100 Blog Comment Challenge Steps

The steps to take toward the challenge are:

1. Let me know your in on the challenge via commenting below.
2. Install the plugins mentioned to get maximum usage and benefit to the challenge both for you and those contributing to the challenge. (The most important ones for the challenge are DoFollow, CommentLuv, KeywordLuv and a social bookmarking one of your choice.)
3. Write your post on your blog that you want the 100 comments on and make it a “sticky” post for maximum exposure. (Will stay at the top of your blog posts until you have reached your 100 comments.) (Update: Some people don’t want their post to be a sticky. You don’t have to if you don’t want to. As long as I have a link to the post you want to contribute to give to everyone else that is fine! )
4. Send me your link to your “100 comment post” so I can let the other challengers know. (I will create a page here for the challenge so that everyone can reference to it with a link to the particular blog posts for commenting. Update: Have created the contributors page here: The 100 Blog Comment Contributors )
   
5. Comment on all the contributing blogs. (This is the whole point! I will be going around to everyone’s sites at the end of August to see if everyone has done the right thing! Each person is only counted once on their comments and replies are not included in the count either. Hence the real challenge is getting 100 people! )
6. Social bookmark the post you comment on! (You must do this at least once whether you bookmark the post via twitter, facebook, stumble upon, delicious etc etc. You must do this for the real power of this challenge to benefit us all.)
7. Update: One of our contributors Thu Nguyen has created some fantastic graphic buttons that we can use for the challenge. You can get these buttons from here: Thu Nguyen’s Graphic Buttons

The idea behind social book marking everyone’s posts is that not only will we get the 100 individual comments on our blog post of choice we will also have that blog post socially bookmarked by everyone that leaves a comment on it!

Plus if we do get 100 people involved that will be 100 back links from the comments you leave to your website.

Pretty Cool huh! (Not bad for a bimbo moment! )

So what do you think???

Do you like the idea???

Are you up for the 100 blog post comment challenge?

We would love you to join us in the challenge.

Until next time……..

Are You Up For The Challenge?

CHALLENGE UPDATE:

I have now created the page for the contributing bloggers,

The 100 Blog Comment Post Contributors

I am updating this page daily as new contributors join.



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Hello All,

Just a quick post to say…………………..

Drum Roll Please……………

Happy 100 to me!!……..Happy 100 to me!!

Woo Hoo Happy Dance!

This is post 100!!

I first started this website back in October 2008 and for the first 12 months I didn’t really write much as I really didn’t know what I was doing! Actually I still don’t think I know what I am doing!

Most of my writing has occurred over the last 9 months since October last year when I first started my training series and it has metamorphosed from there. It has grown incredibly and I have so many plans on what I want to write for you for the next 100! You will just have to wait and see!

To celebrate I have found a really cool inspirational video and thought I would share it with you.

Hint: As your listening, Read the words!!

Such an inspiration!

Enjoy!






So until next time……..

Be Good To You & Believe In Your Dreams!

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Hello All,

It has been nearly 2 weeks since I last posted and I thought I had better get a wriggle on and let you know what I have been up to.

Life has been a little bit busy the last couple of weeks. I have had interstate visitors come and stay as well as I have taken some time out to catch up with some old friends from 20 years ago.

All study and no play makes Jacinta a sad girl!!

OK so the point of this post.

I have a few tasks I am focusing on at the moment that are taking up a lot of my time. You may remember me talking about a membership that I have to a website called “Easily Answered”? Well cut a long story short I have been going through all the audios in the membership and transcribing them for future reference.

I actually want to cancel the membership. I have been lucky in that I have only been paying @$20 per month, however I have had this membership now for 18 months and haven’t done anything with it. Does that sound familiar to you!

There are over 770 audio files of questions and answers in there and each audio is about 5 mins long. So do the maths on that one. That is over 64 hours of audio to be transcribed, and each audio takes me around 10-15 minutes to transcribe give or take. This is a big job!! Approximately 300 hours worth!!!

As of yesterday I am half way through. 

I must say there is an absolute wealth of information on the website I have been really surprised with what I have been learning. The content is amazing and if I add up on what I have spent on the membership so far it has been well worth it.

The reason why I am going to cancel the membership is because there has been no new content added since October last year and basically I have a monthly membership to a website that really isn’t active anymore apart from the content that is in there already.

Over the next few weeks I will be focusing on this task pretty much 100 percent. The sooner I finish the task the sooner I can cancel the membership and allocate the money to better use.

I also plan on completing JT’s Masterclass’s final couple of posts and to start going through ‘The Challenge’ training.

So much to do and so little time. I need a clone!

OK so I had better get back to the transcribing.

I will still be writing my motivational posts over the next 2 weeks, however I won’t start writing about doing ‘The Challenge’ until ‘Easily Answered’ is finished!

Blame Will Smith’s video from my last post. It got me FOCUSED!


So until next time……..

Enjoy Your Learning!

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Hello All,

Welcome to this weeks choice of ‘Motivational Video’.

Introducing ‘Will’s Wisdom’.

A collection of clips made by a guy on ‘YouTube’ called ‘The Mind Guy’.

I really like Will Smith as an actor and as a person. His dedication to his life and his family is absolutely amazing and inspiring.

One of my favourite movies of all time is ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’. That movie is an inspiration in itself!

Every time I watch this video clip of ‘Will’s Wisdom’, I am inspired to do better.

I am inspired to be a better example for my daughter and what’s more is that I am inspired to actually enjoy my life. To see the positive and to look for the positive instead of thinking about the negative.

I won’t ramble on anymore other than to tell you to enjoy and let me know what you think.





What do you think?

What is your life’s wisdom?


Until next time……..

Be Good To You & Believe In Your Dreams!

P.S If you want to see more motivational videos I have selected, click on this link here: “Motivational Videos”


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