Daily Archives: April 9, 2008

Increase Your Blog Traffic*

As blogging fever seems to have hit others I know as well as myself, I thought I’d share some of the neat gizmos and sites that I’ve recently found! In the past 2 months my visitor traffic has increased dramatically since using some of them, so feel free to pick and choose what you’d like! If you have any good sites to recommend to me, please do! I’m also always looking for new blogs to read, so please feel free to leave me a link and I’d love to take a look. :)

MyBlogLog
If you are looking for new blogs to read that are updated regularly, I would highly recommend this site. There are thousands listed by category and you can join different neighborhoods of bloggers! If you do take a look and decide to join, please join my neighborhood and I’ll join yours! Here is my link: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/iheartmyshoes/

BlogCatelog
Again, BlogCatelog is a similar type of site with lots of great blogs. I’ve found a couple of blogs that I now love and read regularly through this site, and it’s to bring some new people to me! :)
This is my profile: https://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/i-heart-my-shoes-scribbling-about-life-and-love.html

Blogged
This site is kind of cool… once you submit your blog they will take a look and review what you have and give you a rating! You then go into their directory and can take a look at blogs of a similar rating as yours! This is my review/page: http://www.blogged.com/blogs/i-heart-my-shoes-scribbling-about-life-and-love.html

Who’s Amung Us?
On my right sidebar you’ll see a little black box with a red circle & a man. This is probably FAVOURITE addition to my blog. That little box tells me how many people are currently browsing my site, and when I click it I can see see a map of where in the world they are! It doesn’t provide me with anything terribly personal, just general regions and countries, but it’s pretty cool! I also just found today that there is a firefox add-on for it, so I can see how many people are on my site without even logging on. Pretty neat, huh?

BlogRush
Beneath the black box with the man is another bigger box under the heading “Increase Traffic”. If you click on the box itself (not the links) you can add one to your own profile! This is great for increasing traffic to your site! If you add it, titles of your blogs will appear where the links you currently see are, on other blogs! So it’ll bring you all kinds of new people! I really like it!

Anyway, those are just a few neat things that I’ve found and thought I’d share. Enjoy!!

Shop Girl*

Books*

I found this on C‘s blog. As I am a great lover of good literature I thought I’d borrow it and reevaluate what I have / haven’t / should read! Her list is MUCH longer than mine–I’m going to do it in sections to prevent having a really really long list. Here are the first 100!

*bold those you’ve read
*italicize those you started but never finished
*double star ones you want to read
*add your own
*post to your blog, if desired

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte**
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (Incredible)
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s/Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck**
30. Alice‘s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen**
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen**
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas**
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough**
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding**
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel (love the whole series)
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot**
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

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