If you would like Entrecard Credits to use as advertising, the coolest redneck girlie geek is having a contest over at Ramblings of an Undisturbed Mind.   First prize will win 1000 EntreCard Credits!  These are great to have if you would like to advertise your blog on other blogs.

I would love to have these credits since this blog is relatively new.  I need to get this blog out there and let people know about the cool articles I post!

I have just installed the Entrecard widget into my sidebar. Entrecard is a very cool program that allows you to make a “business” card that you can drop onto other blogs that are also running the Entrecard widget.

If you want to advertise on a specific blog, you can for free.  How do you “pay” for this free advertising?  It is done by Entrecard credits.  You earn Entrecard credits every time you visit a blog and drop your card.  All you do is click on the “Drop Yours” at the bottom of the Entrecard widget on a blog.  This does not make the card visible, it just tells the blog owner that you visited their blog.

If you want to make the card visible, you can advertise with all the credits you earned by visiting blogs in the first place.  You earn 1 credit each time you drop your card and 1 credit each time you drop your card on other’s blogs.  You also earn credits each time you advertise.

Entrecard is a cool way to get your blog noticed for free.  Try it.  I think you will like it.

Are you busy searching the stores for a Nintendo Wii and haven’t been able to find one?  Contest Beat is having a contest on their site and will be giving one away for free on Christmas Eve.  The contest is sponsored by CellForCash.com.  CellForCash.com is the place to go when you want to sell your cell phone.

A little more about the contest:

To gain two entries into to the contest, simply blog about the contest on your site.  Include a link to the contest and a link to the sponsor - CellForCash.com.  Then leave a comment on the contest page and you are entered!

To gain another entry, subscribe to the Contest Beat RSS feed by email.

Read all the details about this great contest on Contest Beat!

Do you love FREE software?  Well I sure do!  I found a site that has one free program for download everyday - Giveaway of the Day.  But you best be quick - the download is available for only 24 hours.  After that time has passed, you can no longer download the program.

Every day, a new software title is posted.  This is licensed software and is absolutely free.  It is not a trial or limited version.  And, the best part, it was provided by the software company or developer, it is being given away with their permission.  Nothing illegal here!  The only catch is that upgrades and technical support may not be available and the software is for non-commercial use only.

I have added the Giveaway of the Day ticker to my sidebar.  You can see what is available every day.  I have already downloaded two programs that I have found useful.

With all the decrease in bloggers’ page rank, you might be wondering why?  Here is a tool that could help you determine the cause - Bad Neighborhood - Tools for the Uncommon Webmaster.  The have a text link checker tool that will determine if links on your blog my cause problems.

Each link is checked and three areas are checked.  First, the checker determines if the link is Blog Spam.  If the link directs to a page where a lot of the incoming links are from blogs, the Blog Spam icon will occur.   Some commercial website tend to increase their page rank by blog comment spamming, so be sure to check the comments on the post.

The check then determines the Link Density.  A page that has more than 100 links is sometimes considered a link farm or it could be a blog with a lot of comment spam.

The last item is if the link passes the “family friendly” test or if the page is not found.  Links to online gambling, adult entertainment, etc. will get flagged and will pages with redirects or the link is no longer valid.

I ran this tool on one of my blogs and found a number of links where the page did not exist anymore.  I will try and clean these up.  Some of the links were paid posts and thus not changeable.  However, even correcting a few items could bode well the next time Google does a Page Rank revision.