After weeks of waiting....

...to be approved by the benevolent admin at BlogExplosion (and my hours spent surfing via their system to earn points), I received this in my email yesterday:

Your site was denied at BlogExplosion.

Title: The Everything Portal to the Web
URL: http://everythingweb.blogspot.com/

This site was denied for the following reason(s):

No Original Content

Our reviewers determined that your site contains content from or links
to nothing but other sources, and does not have any original content.
Because of this, your site does not fall inside the definition of a blog
and we cannot accept it.


Spam/Keyword Site

Our reviewers determined that your site has no purpose other than to
generate money. Such sites include keyword blogs and blogs with nothing
but sponsored posts and largely rely on incoming links to generate
revenue. Such sites are not blogs, they are spam.

Don't you think this is outrageous? What really pisses me off is the Spam/Keyword Site section. Find one single sponsored post. I have two, count them: 2, places I could possibly make money off this blog. If you look in my Ads and Affiliates section in the right, I have referral links to Agloco and FreeCardMatrix. IS THIS SPAMMING???!!! As far as original content, I would like to think the time I've spent writing about websites and cool things on the internet have not gone to waste. Please comment to this post. I don't care if you agree, disagree, or are indifferent, just let me know that you've read this post and what your thoughts are. Thank you, dear readers.

Get a free email address

Okay, when you signed up to have internet where you live, your internet provider gave you an email address. I hope that's not the one you use for everything, because if you start receiving 100 SPAM emails a day, and you want to ditch the email address because you can't stop them, then you'll have to go to your internet provider and explain the whole situation. What a headache! Instead, I recommend having a free web-based email address. They are easy to create, most are easy to navigate, and you have the option of starting fresh anytime you want to! Plus, you could have more than one email address. You could set up one for emailing your friends, one for business, and one for signing up for freebies (hint, hint).

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Free music for your website

You can download all the music you want for free- the catch is that they're MIDI files. MIDI's, which stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, is a tinny/computerized sounding version of any kind of audio. Like the music old nintendo used to play, or a lot of phone ringtones sound like. They make great backround muzak for your website, because the files are smaller than mp3's, so they load quickly, and you can loop them.

A great place for finding whatever MIDI you want is MIDI Search Engine (A.K.A. MusicRobot). You can search by band, song, or just browse by the letter. Take it for a test drive today.

P.S. You could even have a snippet of famous music play on your computer when you shut it down or start it up, just an idea, hee hee.


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