The SEOs fight fat challenge is over, and now it’s your turn… no I’m not saying you need to lose weight, I’m saying that you need to go vote for the winner. Sadly, I’m not one of the two you can vote for. I lost as much as 10lbs at one point but my final weigh in was down 9.5 lbs from my starting weight of 240. I never did get around to a regular exercise routine but I still think the challenge was a success. Anyway, go vote, and then go give Donna some mad props for organizing this whole thing and raising some money for charity in the process!

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OK, I know this doesn’t look like a major change but I’ve been struggling all day with this WordPress theme. It has some new features that I’d like to offer in the themes we sell over at Blogging Experiment and I’d like all the input I can get on how it’s working. So any comments you can give me about how it appears and functions on various browsers, loading problems, etc. will be greatly appreciated.

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We’ve added ScratchBack to our right sidebar.

For those of you that aren’t familiar with ScratchBack, they position themselves as a new sort of “tip jar” but in reality, it’s just a simple method to sell text ads. We’ve chosen to initially make 5 spots available at a cost of $10 each with the links remaining in place until bumped. We may adjust that as time goes by. Ads will be approved before they go live.

The proceeds will go towards the purchase of a small island for use exclusively by members of the forum.

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Well, after about a week of a bogged down server, we’ve moved the site over to a new wide open server. While we’re fairly certain we know what the issue was (*cough*Wit*cough* ;) ) we were also having some email delays so the move was still needed.

While he was at it, Pops went ahead and upgraded to the latest version of VBulletin, and even updated the design for the forums! It now matches the look you’ve seen here on the blog for quite some time. If you get a chance, leave a note of thanks to the old man. He does a lot of work around here not to mention puts up with me.

Anyway I just wanted to give everyone a quick update in case you’ve been avoiding the site do to our so called “back to dialup” week. Enjoy!

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The following is a guest post by Yuri from Improve the Web. If you enjoy this post consider subscribing to his RSS feed.

Perhaps, you live your online life without considering the trade offs you make or whether you really spend too much time online. Use the list below to see if you are addicted to a forum and how to fix it:

You are addicted to a forum, if..

1. You always have your forum opened in the browser.
2. You restlessly click the “New posts” button, often seeing that there are none
3. You know some of the members better, than your real life friends.
4. Obviously, you are one of the most active members on the forum.
5. You are seriously considering meeting up with the fellow members in RL.
6. You feel like you own at least part of the forum, though you are not getting paid for it.
7. You link to any kind of forum threads often, since you have read or participated in them yourself.

How to spend less time on the forums

1. Get a job and work hard ;)
2. Read the forum only several times per day
3. Only reply to a thread, when you absolutely have to

[Editor’s Note: As the owner of a forum, I feel I should tell you that forum addiction can not be cured. Stop trying. Resistance is futile!]
Have something to add? Please comment below. Thanks.

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