Free Sponsorship Giveaway

New sponsorship options with new low, low pricing, are now available on Average Joe Blogger. And as a way to get things rolling, I will be giving away one 3 month sponsorship in each of the available areas (a $60 value).

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24 Hours With John Chow

As a winner of the Free John Chow Banner Ad Contest from eMonitized, I received one of John Chows 125×125 ad spots for a full 24 hours. This was an exciting opportunity for me because I haven’t really done any advertising for the site and it was a free way to get a taste of that infamous John Chow Effect everyone keeps talking about.

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Average Joe Blogger - A Winner of The Blogger Challenge

If you remember, a little over a month ago, I entered a competition that was being hosted by Bryan over at OneMansGoal called The Blogger Challenge. The competition was based on Technorati authority, Technorati favorites, and Alexa rank. The winner was whomever could increase their rating by the highest percentage over the course of the […]

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Welcome John Chow Readers

Welcome to Average Joe Blogger. My name is Nate Snipes and I am an everyday, average joe blogger that has been inspired by many of the “Pro Bloggers” out there, including John Chow. After years of reading their blogs and a few lost blogs of my own, I decided to see what it would take […]

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Weekend Reading: September 1, 2007

Here are a few articles, and a couple contests, from around the blog sphere (and my RSS reader) that I found interesting and that may be of interest to you as well.
Taglines That Deliver a Message
Daily Blog Tips has a post that lists some of The Best Website Taglines Around the Internet. An interesting and […]

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An Average Joe Gets Some Free Advertising

Thanks to Tim Schroeder of eMonetized, this average joe will be getting some free advertising on John Chow dot Com courtesy of the Free John Chow Banner Ad Contest he was running last week. And as special bonus for being one of the first 10 linkbacks to the contest I will also get a 468 […]

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The End Must Be Near

What an insanely crazy 24+ hours! I’m almost afraid to ask “What else can go wrong?”, for fear I will just jinx myself. But honestly, What Else Can Go Wrong?
It all started yesterday afternoon when I decided to take my car in for some general maintenance and to get the wipers fixed. Mainly the wipers. […]

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Jazz Up Your Wordpress Admin

You would think that the design of the WordPress administration area would be a reflection of the power and sophistication that is WordPress, but it’s not. Granted, it is functional, but it could be so much better. In an attempt to remedy this, a few people have created themes to restyle and increase usability of the administration area. Here is a roundup of available admin themes I could gather together. If you know of any others please let me know and I will add them to the list.

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Weekend Reading: August 25, 2007

A selection of articles and posts from the week including Comment Relish Plugin Could Be Dangerous, Calculate Your Google Supplemental Index Ratio, Take A Cue From Your Readers and Increase Affiliate Profits By Using Autoresponder Sequences.

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Do You Have a Widespread or Targeted Approach to Commenting?

We all know that one of the best ways to get exposure for our blogs is to comment on other blogs and be apart of their community. However, it’s not often discussed, if ever, whether it is better to focus your energy on a few highly targeted blogs or comment on as many blogs as possible.

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