PetLvr.com - [The Blog]

I have now begun to proceed with the upgrade process with the backups and will be immediately converting this blog from version 2.0.4 to the latest wordpress version 2.1

Please Stand By …

Greetings …

I do plan to upgrade this blog from an older wordpress version 2.0.4 to the latest version 2.1 tomorrow during the Super Bowl.

Of all my blogs in the HART-Empire Network .. this is the one that I fear upgrade the most, as there are over 2200 posts in this blog and over 50 activated plugins. I will be shrinking these plugins down to about 20-25 count and hoping there are no issues during the transition.

I will give advance notice prior to the process and again, notice of its completion.

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Season’s Greetings!

If you just tuned in … Only “Pictures of Pets in a Christmas Theme” has been posted here at [The Blog] since last Friday morning .. and will continue until the end of Boxing Day!

It’s not to late to send in your entry! Send your pet picture via email to me .. at .. hart (at) PetLvr (dot) com … with the subject line “Pet in a Christmas Theme”. You have until December 26, 2006 morning to get your pictures in. All pictures will be coded into a new Pet Category called “CHRISTMAS PET PICTURES”.

SEASON’s GREETINGS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY

HART from PetLvr.com

Announcement

From Friday December 22, 2006 00:01am until Tuesday December 26, 2006 11:59pm .. I will be posting only pictures of pets in a Christmas theme. This could mean pictures of pets in santa costumes, next to a christmas tree, opening presents, jumping out of a wrapped box .. etc etc etc.

I will be posting mostly pictures from online social sites (i.e. Flickr, etc) .. but everybody is welcome to send me your own picture of your pet in a Christmas theme directly to my inbox!

Send your pictures to .. hart (at) PetLvr (dot) com … with subject “Pet in a Christmas Theme” for consideration

Thank-you!

Hope to see your pet in here over Christmas!

UPDATE:

You may also click the [UPLOAD] button from the top menu to forward your pet picture to me … // HART

I have added a new button just below my archive links in the sidebar .. a button to add this PETLVR blog to your FAVORITES in Technorati.

I have been seeing “FAVE” links and buttons all around the internet on blogs, and not so inconspicuously placed anymore … so I hope I am not too forward. It’s just that I don’t use Technorati much and never really thought about this feature. In my own account .. I only have one person who has added me to their “FAVE” list.

Link Button:

Text Link: Add to Technorati Favorites

PLEASE Click on the above link or button and add this blog … PetLvr.com - [The Blog] .. to your Technorati Favorite List.

If you do this - I will know and come by your blog and add you as a “FAVE” in my own Technorati List!

* Let’s get some Technorati “FAVE” link love happening before 2006 is over … Pleeeeeeeeeeeze?

* I have added the above button up at the start of this page, below the header. Just in case you don’t have an account at Technorati.com .. well .. C’mon! Go create one so you can add me to your FAVE list!

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UPDATES:
December 1, 2006 (after first 24 hours) .. No takers so far ..

IMPORTANT CHANGES TO OUR RSS FEED OPTIONS

We Now Offer FULL FEED Here at PetLvr.com

Up until this morning, our RSS FEED was set to summary feed. I initially selected this option for two reasons that I still think are valid.

(1) MAIN REASON: Because of the many postings here at [The Blog] of articles on a daily basis .. our summary feed has been set of the first 200 characters .. and a notice that if you wanted to continue reading the article … you were to click on the article title to continue. This is much like the “MORE” or “CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING” links that you see everywhere on coverpages of blogs. It gives the reader a quick idea what the post might be all about and the option to continue reading the article, or scan for the next article of interest.

(2) SECONDARY REASON: There’s no doubt that I am trying to monetize this site and trying to get readers to explore this site and stick around. Bloggers like the summary feed option .. because if readers want to continue reading the article, they will have to visit your site by clicking the ‘continue reading’ link. We hope you stick around and enjoy what we have to offer in content .. and we also hope you explore other links and affiliated options that we may present on our pages. And, yes .. in case you do not find what you are looking for .. there is a good chance there maybe the familiar “google” ads that you are all familiar and while it is against google’s Terms of Service to ask you to click on them .. publishers hope you do.

I should note that pet related keywords are probably the lowest paying keywords out there .. and sometimes average around 5 cents per click .. where there are other high paying keywords or phrases out there (like “Mesothelioma” and other medical terms or “Search Engine Optimization” etc) that gives publishers great incentives to try to trick you into clicking their ads ..

I reiterate - my main reason in the past has been for reason (1) above .. But, It’s been a year and half now since this blog began - and I thought I would experiment with traffic for.

Subscribe To Our RSS FEED Through Your Favorite Reader

Just click on the above link to reach our RSS Feed page, then you can add this URL to your favorite RSS Feed reader. This button will always appear at the top of all our pages. Down the right side in the sidebar, there are more options to help simply the adding of our feed to certain feed readers like .. Bloglines (my favorite), Google Reader, Yahoo, AOL, etc etc.

If you are using the new Internet Explorer v7 or Firefox v2 .. if you see this button on your top task bar .. or botton toolbar, you will be able to directly access our feed and add it directly to Bloglines or your favorite RSS Feed reader.

Everytime a new article is published and posted in here at the [The Blog] .. your RSS Feed reader of choice will retrieve the article without you having to come here manually through your bookmarks.

Subscribe To Our Blog Via Email Using The Subscription Option

Just enter your email address into the above form and a new window will pop up from Feedburner Service asking you to input some image characters to confirm. You will then receive an email requesting that you approve the subscription (so you can’t just sign up other people!). You can opt out at any time and unsubscribe, like any newsletter or ezine.

The nice thing about this .. is that you don’t have to come here through your bookmarks, and you don’t have to keep loading your RSS Feed Reader to see if there are new articles posted. Once a day - you will receive an email containing 100% of the posts for the day, since your last email notification directly into your inbox.

You May Now Advertise on our RSS Feed Directly

Feedvertising is an option where you can advertise a text-link-ad directly at the bottom of our RSS Feed entry that goes in readers’ RSS Feed Reader of choice. For every six posts, three spots will be available for advertisers to include their text link on, and it randomizes over with other advertisers .. plus the three spots that are available and I am using for our internal use. Not everybody comes to PetLvr site from their bookmarks, (you can see the feedburn subscriber count icon in the sidebar) and this is another option to advertisers.

As with all other advertising done on my sites .. I am offering a thank-you post once a month (around the 10th) called “Advertiser Appreciation” and providing a permanent link to all advertisers on record at the end of each month-end date here in this blog.

Hi everybody.

There will be no posting until after the Grey Cup Game here in Winnipeg on Sunday 5pm CST … but it’s not because of the game itself or the event being held here in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada .. it’s that I’ve been tinkering in a few large projects - both offline and online - that has been taking up my regular and spare time. Also, I did a bunch of pre-posting last weekend but I forgot that the ones on this blog ended Wednesday morning!

* As for the offline projects .. I am not at liberty to say .. but it has been occupying my time immensely

* As for the online projects .. it’s mostly related to my two communities ..

(1) Related to the alternate HART-Empire Network II community, and
(2) Another pet related project what will accompany this “LVR-Series of Blogs” .. mostly related to this PetLvr site and community

Feel free to guess on either (1) or (2) and the first correct answer on either one will get a free blog hosted on my server! This particular offer will expire Monday morning when I announce the winner (or lack of one).. Don’t worry .. I’ll be honest! So, give a good guess .. C’mon!

HART

1) New Background

I was bored with the dark brick background … and lightened it up a little with a nice softer canvas type of marble background. What do you think? I have updated the “website version” in our footer from 3 to 3.01

OLD BACKGROUND

NEW BACKGROUND

2) New SiteMap Added

There is a new button on our top menu .. called MAP on the far right side. This is a new way to view our archives in a “sitemap-type” of format. All posts on this page are listed in category order (see sidebar DropDown menu for order and list), and each post under each category is sorted alphabetically.

Comments and suggestions are appreciated and welcome regarding use of this new MAP page.

Take care.
HART

PetLvr.com - [The Blog] introduces PetLvr.com - [Community Calendar] …

Today I have added a button on the header menu called “EVENT”. PetLvr.com invites EVERYBODY who wants to add your Pet Related Event on the calendar, to feel free to do just that. All you have to do is click on the calendar date and enter your event. Please remember to include the city and location of your event! Every week, either Sundays or Mondays, I plan to recap the upcoming week’s event here in the blog for all to see.

You may also cross promote your event by posting an entry in our PetLvr.com - [Community Forum]

It’s a FREE-FOR-ALL* …. Enjoy!

Notes:

* Free-For-All, for Pet Related topics
* Please be nice and keep the conversation Rated-G (kids are watching!)
* Login in as …. “eventy” and use password as … “eve”
* Please do not delete other people’s and other organization’s events …

Thanks …
HART