It’s been a while since I have thanked my top droppers here on EzGreatLife so I decided to recognize the top 15 instead of 10. As you can tell, these guys are seriously into dropping. Why not check out their blogs and drop your card?

Once again I have decided to reward the top droppers with Entrecard Credits. This months payout is significantly more than I have previously done.

#1        = 1000 ec
#2 - 5   =   250 ec
#6 -10  =   100 ec
#11-15 =     50 ec

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Thanks again for all the visits and drops! It’s really appreciated!

It is time once again to thank the top ten Entrecard “droppers” on EzGreatLife over the last thirty days. As you can see, these are some serious droppers! In addition to the link love, I have decided to reward these guys with the following:

#1 = 300 ec, #2 - #5 = 100 ec, #6 - #10 = 50 ec

Thanks to all the faithful droppers! It is really appreciated!

I just wanted to take a minute and thank my guest bloggers from last week. Heidi from Health Nut Wannabee Mom and Sarah from My Life As It Was, Is, and Will Be did a wonderful job providing some great posts while I was on vacation. A big “THANK YOU” to both of you! In case you missed out, scroll on down the page and check them out! Leave a comment and hop on over to their blogs.

Health Nut Wannabee Mom

http://www.ezgreatlife.com/2008/07/01/five-misconceptions-of-exercise

My Life As It Was, Is, and Will Be

http://www.ezgreatlife.com/2008/07/03/they-love-ice-creamand-each-other

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you’re dead and rotten either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.” - Benjamin Franklin

When I started blogging, I wanted to outline my EzGreatlife concept. But, like many, when I first started, I had no readers. I figured there was no point in taking the time to explain my concept with no one to appreciate it. Since then, I have grown and my audience has developed. I would like to take a moment and describe to you my original concept for EzGreatLife.

My intent was to create a site about living the good life, becoming physically fit, financially secure and developing better relationships with friends and family. It is as much a therapeutic learning experience for me, as hopefully it is informative to you. By no means have I ever wanted to imply that my life is perfect or great. Like most people I have many areas in need of improvement. I am trying to make my life better everyday for me and my family. I am on a journey of self improvement. My goal is to share what I have learned.

That is where I am coming from. I hope you find my ramblings interesting and helpful. I really appreciate your daily visits and comments. If you have never commented, please do! And one last thing, I would really like to see more of an interaction between you guys. I have an extremely intelligent group of readers! I think we could have some awesome discussion, if we comment on others comments! That’s what I want, I community of like minded individuals, working on attaining a better life!

A large part of my journey is spent visiting other blogs. I learn so much from others! Here are some sites that I frequent, learn from and think you will find interesting:

• Sogeshirts Blog
• Health Nut Wannabee Mom
• My Life as it Was, Is, and Will Be
• Web Goodies 411
• The Get Smart Blog
• Security for Idiots and Other People That Care
• Stay At Home Mom
• Young Dough
• EZ Wealth Solution

It’s time once again to thank the top ten Entrecard “droppers” on my blog over the last 30 days. As you can see these guys take Entrecard seriously and probably deserve to be on your drop list too. AND remember to support your fellow bloggers by clicking on their ads and checking out their blogs!

Again, thanks to all of you who have dropped your card on EzGreatLife and supported my blog! It is really appreciated.

First, I would like to thank everyone that participated in my first contest. Thank you, thank you!

And with out further delay, the first place winner is:

My Online Discoveries will receive 2000 ec and a blog review later this week.

2nd Place - Sherry Rambling will receive 700 ec

3rd Place - Lesson In Life will Receive 300 ec

Additionally, I am going to give everyone who participated 50 ec, just cause! Thanks again to all who played along!

I am giving away 3000 Entrecard Credits!

The random drawing will be held on Saturday, May 31, 2008

First Prize = 2000 ec
Second Prize = 700 ec
Third Prize = 300 ec

Bonus:

I will write a post on the winners and link to your sites. Nothing better than a little link love!

The First Prize winner will also receive a blog review from yours truly. **

How to Play:

1. Join my RSS/Email feed.

2. Comment on any post at EzGreatLife.

3. Answer the following 3 questions:

1. What date did I quit smoking? mm/dd/yyyy
2. What was the name of our family’s first dog?
3. What was the title of my first post on EzGreatLife?

4. Send me an email at contest@ezgreatlife.com with the following:

1. State that you joined my RSS/Email feed
2. The user name you used to comment
3. The answers to the 3 questions

I will assign you a number, starting with 1, in the order I receive replies.
I will use a random number generator to pick the winners - http://www.random.org/integers/

All emails must be received by 11:59 PM Friday, May 30, 2008
- I will pick the winners on Saturday, May 31, 2008
- I will post the winners on Sunday, June 1, 2008
- I will post the blog review the week of June 1st

** IMPORTANT

I will not review the follow types of sites:
- Sites with no real / original content
- Adult / Pornography
- Promoting anything illegal
- Promoting pyramid schemes and the like

** Also your site must be a blog.

I wanted to take a minute and thank the top ten Entrecard “droppers” on my site. But first I have a few thoughts about Entrecard I wanted to share with you. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go here.

I think that in order for everyone to truly benefit from Entrecard, you must take several things into consideration.

First, I feel it is important to drop on those who have dropped on you. Especially consistent droppers. Why not reward these people with a reciprocal drop? I go through my drop inbox everyday and return the favor to these people first. Check out my policies page.

Second, for this group of consistent droppers, I try to do the following:

1. I click on another link on their site after I drop. This will keep my visit from being viewed as a “bounce” from the likes of the google bots. Sites with a high bounce rate receive unfavorable ranking status from google, as I understand it.
2. I try to click on the ad running on their site. This helps out the blog running the ad. You know, the whole reason we are all running Entrecard ads to begin with, right? If I am interested in the subject matter on this blog, I may stay a while and check it out. If not, I click a link and exit. Remember the bounce rate?

I am currently averaging about 150 drops on my widget every day. In order to return these drops and max out my 300 drops I had to find a way to speed things up. First of all, you need to use Firefox. It is much faster than IE and functions much more efficiently. I can easily open 20 or more sites at a time and click through to them. I also recommend getting the Firefox addon PermaTabs. To fill the balance of my daily drops I visit: PowerDropping. The sites listed here are supposed to have the EntreCard widget above the fold, in other words visible when landing on the page. This keeps you from having to hunt for the Entrecard widget. Having to hunt for the widget is very annoying!

So, I hope my rambling has helped you out in some way! Without further delay, here are the top ten Droppers on EzGreatLife.com

Dropper

1. STAY AT HOME MOM
2. Absolutely Mom’s
3. EZ Wealth Solution
4. StewartSchatz.com
5. Happy Family Matters
6. Dot Com Mogul
7. Treasure Nature
8. My Library
9. A Investor
10. ReapMoneyOnline

Again, thanks a lot to all of you who have dropped your card on EzGreatLife and supported my blog! It is really appreciated.