What do you think?

Hit? or Miss?

I’m trying to figure out how to get that annoying black overlay on the text and links in the sidebar. If this was a week ago, I would have started up my AArdvark Firefox Addon and find the class and fix it. Unfortunately, I upgraded to Firefox 3.5 version yesterday and this is one of those Addons that has yet to be upgraded.

As soon as it is upgraded, I will fix this – however, as you probably would have guessed .. I usually tend to tweak things all the time and might figure it out on my own before that time!

I have installed Lucia’s Linky Love plugin .. which turns on all the author links on comments to “dofollow”, after 3 comments.

I will be experimenting with the settings and how it affects my spam control, but currently .. I have disabled links IN the comments to remain a NoFollow. Comment and get some juice! Spam me with links and you get nothing…

HART

Testing 1,2,3 ..

Only thing is .. I can’t seem to get it to work 🙁

// UPDATE:

The CommentLuv Plugin now works with the new template! Check it out!

January 18th will mark the first second anniversary of the creation and inception of our “Battling The Monster” series of Health blogs, operating under the BattlingForHealth.com umbrella.

We have 12 active blogs

Battling Addiction – addiction.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Alzheimer – alzheimer.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Arthritis – arthritis.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Cancer – cancer.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Depression – depression.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Diabetes – diabetes.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Heart and Stroke – heart.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Multiple Sclerosis – ms.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Obesity – obesity.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Schizophrenia – schizophrenia.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Stress – stress.BattlingForHealth.com
Battling Vision – vision.BattlingForHealth.com

We would like to offer giveaways to our readers, and have a contest for each individual health blog and a site wide contest.

I’ve got over 50 blogs in my HART-Empire Network ( see HART-Empire-Network.com/sites )
and I plan to promote these contests and the giveaway prizes on as many as I can. In addition to the promotion, I will create a special thank-you page afterwards.

So …

I am putting out a call of interest for prize giveaways. Do you want to offer a giveway prize for our “Battling For Health” Giveaways and Contest? This can be a product, a service, a coupon, an iPod, a computer, a subscription to Starbucks, a Walmart card, a giftpack at Amazon, a year’s worth of gas, Redesign of a blog, Create a logo for someone, flowers, or ..??????? What do you have to offer?

You can offer a specific prize for a specific blog or a generic prize for any blog contest winner ..

If this interests you … please email me (HART)…

Email: hart (at) BattlingForHealth (dot) com

Prize: what product or service you can offer as a prize

Value: Real or percieved value of your prize

Sponsor: name of person and site URL sponsoring the prize (for promotion and linkage)

Deadline: I hope to announce the start of the Contest on Friday January 18th, 2008 – although, at this time I am not sure how long the contest will run or its nature.

If you have any questions .. please feel free to ask!

cc:’ed on a few of my other blogs:
HART-Empire-Network.com
HART-Empire.com
1800HART.com/blog/
PetLvr.com/blog/

Also Posted on BlogCatalog
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/call-for-prizes-do-you-want-some-extra-publicity

Schedule Downtime Maintenance has been complete .. and we’re still here~

That’s good news.

HART

My host provider has been reminding me this week that there is a planned outage of part of certain accounts including my Dedicated Service Hosting Plan.

At about 1:00am Saturday Morning December 8, 2007 (which is about 50minutes from now) 100% of all the sites of the HART-Empire Network will be unavailable while routine maintenance is performed.

My sites should be down at least an hour – and, if it’s more .. it’s not my fault! They suggested that all it will take is 45 minutes, but give it an hour just in case!

I apologize for any inconveniences in advance.

HART

I am in the process of consolidation of the HART-Empire Network, to coincide with my 2nd year anniversary as a network of blogs and sites around October 17th ..

Basically, I am relocating separate blogs on separate domains to separate subdomains of a single domain.

Meet: BattlingForHealth.com

NEW BLOG: >>> http://BattlingForHealth.com (Battling For Health)
NEW RSS FEED >>> feeds.feedburner.com/battlingforhealthcom

For all the sites moved, the RSS Feed remains identical to what it used to be, so if you were reading these blogs in your Bloglines or Google Reader .. nothing should change.

All the old sites, have 301 Redirects in place, and should maintain its link popularity for the sponsors (who I have been providing gratuitous links each month to thank) and for the search engines (hopefully!)

addiction.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Addiction)

alzheimer.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Alzheimer)

cancer.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Cancer)

depression.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Depression)

diabetes.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Diabetes)

heart.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Heart and Stroke)

ms.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Multiple Sclerosis)

obesity.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Obesity)

schizophrenia.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Schizophrenia)

stress.BattlingForHealth.com
(Battling For Health: Stress)

Coming Soon

Battling For Health: Arthritis
Battling For Health: Hearing
Battling For Health: Vision

Sorry .. but, I will have to take all sites offline – again! But, it won’t be long.

PS> I figured out that my server was crashing every morning at 3am due to some hefty cron jobs and automated wordpress backups being scheduled to happen around that time, and was creating problems. I have spread these cron jobs apart this morning, and will be adding another 1GB RAM memory to the dedicated server to help keep things be healthy.

HART //

* MichelleMalkin.com

TheBlogStudio did a nice job switching Michelle Malkin yesterday .. from Movable Type to Wordoress.

I like it when you click on any blog permalink (either lead story, or in the archives) .. and RELATED articles pop up in the center column.

Actually, that’s quite clever~ and gets your attention instead of the links at the end of the article.

But, as much as I like that feature .. What would I add to that design?

The last 20 posts in a line-by-line format under the LEAD story. Also, in the archives .. I think they are a little too vague and require too many clicks. I would suggest the a better plugin, where at least 100% of the posts from the current month are listed in plain view.

~~~~~
* heads up from JOE YANUZZI // thanks.

That’s the “Good News”.

I wouldn’t say that there is “Bad News” .. but, it sure is taking a long time to migrate all the accounts. While I can confirm that all the accounts have been moved from my ISP#1 and ISP#2 over to my new ISP#3 … not all of them are active. Generally, I’m doing it in my spare time and making sure things work. I’m also upgrading each site to wordpress version 2.2 (using the InstantUpgrade plugin) and upgrading a few plugins to the latest version.

I’m also documenting what I am doing, and will create some sort of series of posts in this blog .. The experience, tips and learning curves that I have been faced with is valuable information i.m.o. and worth passing along to other people with growing pains, and doesn’t necessary have an arsenal of venture capital or support staff backing you!

Of all my sites .. I can only say that the following are completely migrated:

(in alphabetical order)

1) 1800HART.com/blog/
2) 1800HART.com/picks/
3) 62-151.com
4) Battling-Addiction.com
5) Battling-Cancer.com
6) Battling-Depression.com
7) Battling-HeartandStroke.com
8) Battling-MS.com
9) Battling-Obesity.com
10) Battling-Schizophrenia.com
11) Battling-Stress.com
12) HART-Empire-Network.com
13) HART-Empire.com
14) HARTandYVONNE.com/blog/
15) HBSMC.com
16) PapillonLvr.com/blog/

These sites are definitely creating problems for me.

The-Singers.com
DogLvr.com
HART-Network.com

The rest of my sites .. well, I have looked at them and there is a site visible .. however, I have not taken the time to upgrade or test to see if everything is okay.