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March 31, 2008

Butt Implants Web Site

Filed under: Ugly Websites — bgmacaw @ 1:28 pm
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OK, I’ve seen some ugly ones in my day but Justin takes the cake with this little jewel: Butt Implants. This just goes to show that people will blog about anything, including something quite unpleasent like have your rear end pimped out. That makes me appreciate my long and lovely tail feathers even more. The information there is quite interesting, if a bit dull. The dull Blogger Minima template gives it a clinical feel. At least there aren’t any pictures on that blog. I don’t know if I could handle it if there were.

Anyway, give Butt Implants a look and see if it’s one of those things that you’ll never want or at least never own up to wanting! Check it out when you get a chance!

March 24, 2008

Asia’h Epperson Contest

Filed under: Favorite Websites — bgmacaw @ 8:47 am
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As a demo of SEO skills, my pal Grizzly started a SEO contest on his blog that offers $500 to anyone who can beat his American Idol blog about Asia’h Epperson that is currently ranked at #3. Asia’h got kicked off American Idol without reaching the top 12 but she might be surprised to learn that she’s getting a second life on the Internet in the form of this contest. People anxious to win the $500 are creating blogs and other sites talking about her. Hopefully she can take advantage of this free publicity on the Internet to take her singing career to a new level in spite of getting kicked off American Idol way too early in my opinion and the opinion of many others.

I had helped Griz out with his site with a post of my own here: American Idol Top 24 contestant Asia’h Epperson. Grizzly has some great lesssons about how to apply search engine optimization and marketing techniques. Applying such techniques is not only important to search marketers but to wannabe celebs like Asia’h Epperson. It is important for anyone who gets a ‘golden ticket’ to Hollywood, or to be on the cast of any reality show, to go ahead and get WordPress.com, Blogger.com, MySpace, Facebook and other social media accounts setup ahead of time. Otherwise your name, once you gain fame, might be the subject of a SEO contest as what has happened with Asia’h Epperson.

Check out the contest results by doing a Google search for Asia’h Epperson. If you’re participating in the contest, leave me a comment with your site. If it is particularly good or particularly ugly, I may just link to it. The guy who feeds me was slow with the pellets this weekend and didn’t give me a banana so I don’t want him to win.

UPDATE

This contest is getting bananas. Here are some of the contest entries that I’m monitoring:

Terry Didcott: Asia’h Epperson
EJ Cross: Asia’h Epperson

March 12, 2008

Betta Fish Care

Filed under: Favorite Websites — bgmacaw @ 12:35 pm
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Here’s an interesting little site I found about Betta Fish. It had some great pictures of these fish and some good care tips as well. People do need to take care of these little guys better than they usually do. They can’t scream their fool heads off like I can when their human is being stingy with the peanuts, bananas or pellets. They have to suffer the foolish humans in silence. From what I’ve heard, they really enjoy the larve of those pesky biting bugs.

Oh, and they also have a blog, I assume that it’s their blog, Betta Fish and You!, where you can ask questions. They seem to know Betta Fish pretty well since they have one that’s four years old. I guess that fish has eaten its share of those nasty biting bug babies. Way to go Red!

Check out their sites if you get a chance!

March 7, 2008

Bananas! Making Money Fast with Terry Didcott

Filed under: Ugly Websites — bgmacaw @ 5:43 pm
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Terry Didcott is obsessed with making money fast it seems. He created this blog, Make Money Hints, as an experiment in search engine placement for those terms. Since Terry has helped out the guy who brings me fresh bananas from time to time I thought that I would help him out by mentioning his site here on my blog.

I will give him my ugly website award since, well, let’s face it, sites made for Google are ugly to human and macaw eyes. Plain and drab is the watch word for these blogs. However, these blogs do make money for their owners from time to time which can translate into free bananas or whatever for their associates. Turning a blog into a bananas is almost always a good thing.

I wish Terry well in his attempt to keep everyone in his family well fed on bananas and Vanilla Wafers. Maybe I should start a blog about bananas. That would be great. I could use a bright yellow color without shame! There are even banana themes here on WordPress! OK, well I’ve probably rambled enough about my favorite fruit. Now I’m hungry and I’ll have to scream until I get some of this delicious and delightful fruit.

Give good ole Terry some help with his Make Money Fast dream and check out his site. Make him go bananas!

March 5, 2008

PopCritics Show Recaps and Movie Reviews

My pals Jason and Mike recently combined forces on the new site called PopCritics. Both are great TV show and Movie reviewers. In most cases I find myself agreeing with their assessments of shows although I have to say that I’m not a big Battlestar Galactica fan. Their blog is quite active with several posts per day and very active commenting. Check out their recent show recaps of American Idol and Lost to get a taste of what they do.

I also depend on their insights to save me money before going to the movie theater or renting a DVD. These guys have a lot of great entertainment industry knowledge. 

Check ‘em out when you get a chance!

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