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Liz Strauss at Successful Blog has posted her third and fourth batch of submissions in the Blogging Metaphor Project, and I’m copying the list below.  It’s a great project and I encourage you to check out the links if you get a chance.

Romance Tracker’s post on 10 reasons why blogging is like dating was included in the first batch, and it brought us some nice traffic.  Kudos again to Liz for thinking up a great blogging project!

• Kayaking as a Metaphor for Blogging at Loosely Speaking—A VA’s Blog
• A hug, metaphorically speaking at MamaBlogga
• Blogging is like dancing on top of an iceberg, and other Metaphors at J.T’s Productivity Blog
• 20 Blogging Metaphors - Rock Throwing and the Universal Monkey at marketing neophyte
• Blogging metaphors at Roberta Ferguson
• Blogging Metaphors at Lena M Holmberg
• Blogging Metaphor (s) at Transition Capital Management
• The Blogosphere is a Virtual Time Capsule : Another Viral Meme at Orbit Now!
• Dexter’s Memetic Laboratory at Spooky Action
• Really? Why? What’s a blog? at Art Dinkin’s Moment on Money
• 10 Basic Tips for Starting a Blog Using Gardening as Metaphorat Circular Communication
• Behold, A Blogging Sower Went Forth To Sow Links at The Frugal Law Student
• For Whom the Blog Tolls at Idea Dude
• All the Blog’s a Stage at Just Thinkin’
• Blogging Metaphor: Blogging Is a Large City with Hundreds of Small Neighborhoodsat A Writer’s Word, An Editor’s Eye
• What’s your blogging metaphor? at The Junky’s Wife
• Blogging is a Tapestry at Grow Your Writing Business
• Blogging Metaphors at The Gift Idea Help Blog
• 7 Ways That Blogging is Like Opera at Randa Clay Design
• Blogging Metaphor: Blogging Is Like Catching Dreams and Setting Them Free at Online Public Relations
• Blogging Metaphor at Better Business Blogging
• I’m Baking a Blogging Cake … at Writing Thoughts
• Why Blogging is Like Fishing at Freelancing Journey
• The Metaphor Project at The Marketing Whore

Liz Strauss at Successful Blog has posted her second batch of submissions in the Blogging Metaphor Project, and I’m copying the list below.  It’s a great project and I encourage you to check out the links if you get a chance.

Romance Tracker’s post on 10 reasons why blogging is like dating was included in the first batch, and it brought us some nice traffic.  Kudos again to Liz for thinking up a great blogging project!

• Bloggers, Brains and Metaphors at BrainBasedBusiness - Using your Brain to succeed in Business ·
• Blogging is like a box of chocolates… at Small Business Marketing Ideas - Marketing Idea Blog
• Blogging Metaphors, or, What I am doing here at A Politically Incorrect Entrepreneur
• Blogging Metaphor: Why blogging is like a Mommy at Moments of Clarity
• My Blogging Metaphor at Carpe Factum
• What’s Your Blogging Metaphor? Teaching by Bits (and Bytes) at ModernMagellans - Maps to Improve Your Business, Leadership, and Life
• A Blog is Your Bullhorn to the World at Blawg IT
• An Image Is Worth A Thousand Words! Huh? at Smart Wealthy Rich
• Blogging Metaphor - The “Party Line” at Insight Advertising-Marketing Communications
• Singing the “blogging song” around the campfire at Live the GREAT life you desire
• Blogging is Like Baseball at Rush Nigut: Rush on Business
• Raise your sails and blog on! at dsm BUZZ
• One BIG small town at Runners Lounge
• Metaphorically speaking, this is what I do at Passing It On

Romance Tracker’s recent post on 10 reasons why blogging is like dating has attracted quite a bit of attention and linkbacks across the blogosphere.  In a funny coincidence, I sent the post to Liz Strauss at Successful Blog without even realizing that she had recently launched a group writing project about blogging metaphors!  :)

Liz was kind enough to include our post in the first batch of ”What’s Your Blogging Metaphor?” submissions, and I’m reproducing the full list for your enjoyment below.  Check them out if you get a chance!

Here are the blogs that linked back to Romance Tracker this week using the anchor text “romantic ideas.” As promised, I’m linking back to them using the anchor text they requested.

Dating Tips

Do you want to make your blog rank higher in the search engines with a link back from Romance Tracker, too? This is all you have to do: Write a short post about Romance Tracker giving away free linkbacks. And in that post, make sure that you link back to our homepage using the anchor text “romantic ideas.” Here’s an example of what I’m looking for:

Hey, Romance Tracker is a PR 4 blog that’s giving free linkbacks to your site if you link to them using the anchor text romantic ideas. Go do it!

It’s that simple. After you’ve posted your link, just contact me and I’ll link to your site in a weekly post using any anchor text you want. I don’t care what your blog is about, I’ll link back to it!

Here are the first two blogs that linked back to Romance Tracker using the anchor text “romantic ideas.”  As promised, I’m linking back to them using the anchor text they requested.

Romance & Dating Advice

Dating Tales

Do you want to make your blog rank higher in the search engines with a link back from Romance Tracker, too?

This is all you have to do: Write a short post about Romance Tracker giving away free linkbacks. And in that post, make sure that you link back to our homepage using the anchor text “romantic ideas.” Here’s an example of what I’m looking for:

Hey, Romance Tracker is a PR 4 blog that’s giving free linkbacks to your site if you link to them using the anchor text romantic ideas. Go do it!

It’s that simple. After you’ve posted your link, just contact me and I’ll link to your site in a weekly post using any anchor text you want. I don’t care what your blog is about, I’ll link back to it!

I mentioned a while ago that I was going to start doing some optimization here on Romance Tracker aimed at making the site rank higher when someone searched for “Romantic Ideas” in Google.  I  changing our home page link anchor tect to “Romantic Ideas,” am using the term more often in posts, and doing some other boring technical stuff designed to help us rank higher.

The good news is that it’s working!  Romance Tracker ranked 260 for the term “Romantic Ideas” ten days ago, and today we rank at 137.  We’re definitely on the right track!

If you have a blog and want to help, link back to Romance Tracker with the anchor text “Romantic Ideas” and I’ll make sure to do the same for you using any anchor text you want.  Thanks!

Those of you who are regular visitors may notice that I have a new addition to the sidebar here on Romance Tracker . . . it’s a little coffee cup!

I hadn’t planned on putting a tip jar or donation button on this site, because I had tried it with other blogs and it never really brought in any income.  But I came across an interesting plugin called “buy me a beer” and decided to use their great idea here on Romance Tracker.

No beer for me, of course . . . not while I’m working!  But I do love coffee . . . some people say I drink a little bit too much!

So if you like Romance Tracker and want to help me with future posts, clicking on the cup and donating some change for coffee would be a great start!

Okay, so in retrospect, maybe my post the other day about this site ranking number two for the Google search “ten ways to kill your boyfriend” wasn’t the best idea. I’m looking at my stats this morning and I see that now I’m getting hits from people searching for “ways to kill your wife.” What the heck is wrong with this world?

If you’re looking for ideas on how to kill your wife or husband, you aren’t going to find them here, sicko! And did you know that the sites you visit can track your computer’s IP address for use in your prosecution? Get a clue!

At least the two hits I got for that disgusting search term this morning didn’t come from the United States . . . one was from Bangalore, India and the other from Lambeth, London. Still, it’s pretty unsettling to know that there are people out there who are even researching this sort of thing.

At least the guy from India stuck around the site for about two minutes and viewed five pages. Maybe he discovered some great romantic ideas and decided there was a better way to repair his marriage.

If you’re looking for solutions, why not focus your energy on trying to heal your romantic relationship, instead? Have you seen our post on how problems can help your relationship?

I don’t care how bad your relationship is . . . physical violence against your spouse is never a good option. If you’ve got those kind of thoughts in your head, you’d be better off just leaving instead!

A while ago I posted a request for Romance Tracker fans to vote for this blog as one of your Technorati Favorites, and it’s been a while since I checked our progress. Amazingly, 110 people have already declared themselves fans of Romance Tracker!

That’s an awesome show of support. In fact, we only need about another hundred votes to get onto the list of the 100 Most Favorited Blogs! Will you help us get there by voting for us?

Here’s how to do it:

1. Create an account on Technorati by clicking here. (It’s super easy and you can remain anonymous. Just pick a login name and add your email address)
2. Now click on the following link to add Romance Tracker to your Technorati Favorites (make sure you click the confirm button when it asks if you’re sure!): http://technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.romancetracker.com

It’s that easy! And if you REALLY want to help spread the word, you can email this page to a few of your friends and ask THEM to vote for us too!

Thanks for your help . . . and be sure to let us know if you have any ideas for improving the site and spreading the word about adding old-fashioned romance to modern relationships!

Our article on how to find the person of your dreams has turned out to be the most popular post ever on Romance Tracker, and I was happy this morning to see that it’s made it onto the front page of Netscape.com. It’s bringing a lot of traffic our way today, but more importantly, it’s making hundreds of people think of adding old-fasioned romantic ideas to their relationships!

Will you take a moment to help add some more romance to the world by voting for the story on Netscape?  It’s easy . . . just sign-up and click “vote!”

With your vote, “How to Find the Person of Your Dreams” could rise to the top on Netscape!  Remember: good old-fashioned romance is contageous . . . and you can help spread the bug!