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The first month of summer is over and we officially have our $250 June Blog Award winners. Stop by and say hello to:

Most Popular Blog - June	Editor’s Choice - June
For A Pessimist, I am Pretty Optimistic	Celebrity Today

We also decided to surprise everyone and give out a few more bonuses to our performance-based bloggers (Those on a PPM program) for making the most progress in the month of June.

1st, $150 Bonus: Progress of Liberty - Providing you with the tools and principles to contribute to a freer, more prosperous world.

2nd, $100 Bonus: Single in LA - Tales of a girl living “Single in L.A.” As well as a little Hollywood gossip on the single celeb scene.

3rd, $50 Bonus Just My Opinion - Just the opinions of an ordinary blogger on current events.

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We will be giving out all of the above awards again for July. Keep up the great work everyone and can’t wait to see who the next winners will be!

Hello Everyone! We have good news/bad news.

Bad news: A few of you experienced technical difficulties uploading video.

Good news: We decided to extend the video contest until the end of July!

We felt extending the contest was the most fair thing to do for everyone. So, if you haven’t gotten your videos in yet, here’s your second chance! All you have to do is create an original video for your blog, upload it to Today.com , and embed it. Simple as 1 - 2- 3!

Our support email system is down right now. Our tech team is working on, but in the meantime if  you have an outstanding urgent matter please pop over to the forum and post in the Support section or send Nichole a private message.

The votes and stats are in for May’s awards.

First, for Most Popular, please give a big congrats to What’s Hot on TV for getting their blog name out there and being our most popular VIP blog in May!

Second, for enthusiasm and effort, we are giving May’s Editor’s Choice award to Mental Health Humor. Keep up the great work everyone!

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Ready to try for June’s awards?
We will again have a $250 Editor’s Choice Award and a $250 Most Popular Award for June.

To be most popular you need to get the most traffic and links. We will determine the winner based on our server logs. It’s up to you how to get the traffic (of course, no spamming please!) For example, you can use word of mouth and tell all your friends and family and you can also check out tips posted on our blog or in the Forum - be sure to LOG IN to see the private VIP area.

You have a whole month to get creative on making your blog the Most Popular. We will announce the winners the first week of July. GOOD LUCK!

Between now and the end of June any video you upload to Today.com and embed on your blog automatically earns you a chance to win an Amazon Kindle, Nintendo Wii, or Amazon gift certificate. There will be 10 winners in all!

Contest is open to VIP Bloggers only.

GO TO CONTEST PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS

Well, it’s sure been a busy week here at Today.com. We had what might be considered growing pains between the new forum, the many new bloggers, and a few tech issues. I must say we seem to be going in the right direction though!

First, I would like to thank my team. You see Nichole, John, Blake, and Bryan posting in the forums. Working hard behind the scenes we also have Dan, Sherry, and Shelly. As they say in Rock & Roll, we got the hardest working band in show biz! It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in a short amount of time. So here’s a shout out to the Today.com team!

Of course, I also can’t forget VIP Bloggers, both the new ones joining daily and the ones who’ve been around for a little while now. The content and the teamwork we see going on in the forums has been great!

We are launching a redesign of the front page of Today.com real soon that well get you more and more traffic. To begin with we will be featuring one VIP blog a day which will get top exposure. We will pick a different blog each day that we think is doing a great job and show them to the world. The home page gets over 150k visits every day and that’s a lot of eyeballs! So make sure you are putting your heart and soul into your posts because the world is watching.

Now on to my tip of the week.

In case you haven’t noticed (and I don’t know how you couldn’t have) there is a little button called “Add This” on your posts. Are you spreading the word? The button has links to many great services around the web that you can easily submit your blog to. They want to know about your blog, so let them know!

Next I suggest getting out there and finding chat boards and forums on your topic. Introduce yourself and your blog to others interested in what you write about. Don’t forget to add your blog link to your signature in any forums you frequent.

That’s it for this week folks. Make sure you stay up and active on the forums. Our main office is closed for the long weekend, so bear with us if we are a little slow responding to questions and requests the next few days.

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend! Dave

 

This week I have 2 short tips for you.

First, wondering how to change that “Just Another Today.com Weblog” text? This is the default tagline for newly created blogs. Depending on the theme you use it might even show up in your header. But no matter what theme you use you’ll want to have a more descriptive tagline. It helps bother readers and search engines understand what your blog is about.

Changing your tagline is very easy. When logged into your blog control panel go to “Blog options” and save your new, well thought out, and descriptive tagline. You can also edit your blog title there too.

Second tip, get your blog listed in Google’s search engine faster. Simply submit your blog to Google via their Add URL page. This takes the guesswork out of wondering if Google knows about your blog. You only need to submit once. Remember, if they don’t know your blog exists they can’t send you visitors!

Happy Blogging!

Dave

Come join us at our new forum where you can meet and chat with fellow bloggers. Your Today.com username and password will get you in, no need to create a new account.

If you are a VIP blogger there is a special section just for you that you can see once logged in. This is where you can ask all your VIP blogging related questions. Be sure to stop by the Introductions section and tell everyone what your blog is about.

We are looking forward to getting to know all of you better on the forums.

I just got done reading Adsense Secrets 4 by Joel Comm, an e-book on how to make more money with Adsense. I must say that I learned a lot.

Even though this doesn’t directly apply to a lot of you right now I recommend getting it. It will be especially helpful to bloggers who are or will be a part of our revshare program.

For those of you that have other blogs, as we know many of you do, this is great resource to check out now. It teaches you all the tips and tricks. Some of it’s common sense stuff, but I’m sure you’ll find some good info as well.

Best of all, the Adsense Secrets book is only $9.95. Joel is also offering a free issue of his monthly Top 1% Report when you buy the book. I haven’t checked that out yet so can’t comment on it right now, but since the first month is free if might be worth checking out yourself.

 

 

Thanks,
Dave

To start the week off right we thought we’d thank our new and loyal bloggers by giving away some Today.com swag.

To get your free shirt (with free shipping!) simply log in and order your shirt from the “My Account” page. Be sure to double check that we have your correct address in your User Information before ordering! Pick your size preference from the dropdown menu and we will do our best to fulfill your size request, but no guarantees. Shirts offered on a first come first serve basis and while supplies last.

Unfortunately, we can only ship to US and Canadian addresses. Many apologies to our overseas friends.

We hope you have a great week and as the t-shirt says, Have You Blogged Today?