With the second installment of the Sex and the City movie franchise fast approaching, www.ApronsandOvenMitts.com, a new vintage apron website, has some big news for all the bakeresses out there that are definitely Charlottes. Fans of the preppy Upper East Sider will all want to get their hands on the adorable cherry cupcake apron that she can be seen wearing in Sex and the City 2. You can catch a glimpse of this cupcake apron in the newly released trailer. In the trailer, you find the always chipper, mother-of-two multitasking in the kitchen. She effortlessly prepares a dish while holding her daughter Rose and having a conversation on the phone. She is seen making cupcakes and how appropriate for her to be wearing a cupcake apron! You know Charlotte; she is always one to match her outfit to the occasion. And she never disappoints.

The Cherry Cupcakes hostess apron, created by Jessie Steele, features a delicious cherry cupcake pattern with baby pink piping. It also features two convenient front pockets and bow detailing. This pattern is also available in the half-apron style. You can even complete the ensemble by pairing it with the matching oven mitts. You know Charlotte would!

Got little hands assisting you in the kitchen? Dress your bakeress-in-training in the child version of the cherry cupcake apron. Having a matching kids cupcake apron is a perfect way to get in some quality mother-daughter time with your little darling. Together you can whip up a batch of delicious cookies or cupcakes while dressed in an ensemble that would make Charlotte proud.

Visit www.ApronsandOvenMitts.com right away to get your very own cupcake apron and kids cupcake apron. This is truly is your opportunity to channel your inner Charlotte. Don’t miss out!

The trick is to list your site only in QUALITY web directories. You want a search engine friendly site, and you want one that allows you to provide a real description for your site, not just a list of keywords. Peruse the other listings – are the quality sites, or spam packed garbage? Are sites in the directory regularly reviewed and removed if they no longer qualify? DirMania is one free business web directories that promises to only accept quality sites, and they approve listings within 24 hours. All of this explains how they kept their PR 3 ranking when many directories LOST pagerank!

But Colleen, who really uses web directories to FIND websites? Don’t people use Google?

True – most people won’t browse through a web directory looking for sites. The whole point of most web directories isn’t to send traffic to your site, it’s to give your link popularity added wait. When Google does a pagerank update, the more ONE way links you’ve got pointing to your site, the higher the chances are that your PR will improve! Adding your site to web directories is a great way to give your one way links some “oomph”, and with this site showing you a ton of free web directories you can submit to, it’s easy! If you want to make your directory submissions even easier, check out this free directory submission tool I found – it will keep track of what directories you’ve already submitted your site to, and which directories remain. (Trust me – it’s irritating to input all of your information into a submission form only to be told your site already exists in the directory!) If you’ve got multiple websites or blogs, no sweat – the tool will keep track of those too, and tell you what link title you used as well.

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A DotCommentary is a personalized website consultation designed to help you strengthen your online presence by looking at your website from all angles.

Oh sure, I could ask my friends to take a look and tell me what they think, but I’d probably end up with biased opinions, or maybe they’d be afraid of telling me about the negative aspects of the site. So why trust the man behind DotCommentary, Ben Steed?

For starters, Ben is unbiased. He’s spent the last ten years working on websites, and he’s obviously not going to be afraid to tell me the good, the bad, and the ugly about my site. Ben actually gave me a free DotCommentary in return for MY unbiased opinion about his service, which ranks websites on 35 checkpoints, showing you how you compare to your competition, and what you can do to fix the mistakes that you’ve made.

Let’s get started on what I thought of the DotCommentary, shall we?

Before I even received the results of the DotCommentary, I got an email from the company asking me to click on a link to verify my response time. Neat! This verifies that you actually reply to emails, customer complaints, questions, and the like. I’m happy to report my response time was instant. It’s definitely not something I would think of testing, but it’s a great idea!

Once the report was completed, I received a link to log in and view my results. It was laid out well, from the domain name to contact information and load time. Errors and potential problems are notated with an exclamation point or a red x, so if you’re pressed for time, you can only view the negative issues. Each of those negative things was clearly explained as well, for instance, my site can be accessed with or without the “www”, and the report pointed out I should have a 301 redirect to force people to one, or the other, but not allow hits to both versions. I never even thought of that.

I found out my CSS doesn’t validate, and I don’t have a favicon. Probably easy enough to fix on both counts, but I wasn’t aware I had problems with those items before now. I received kudos for having a search function prominently displayed, as well as making my font adjustable, and being compatible in different browsers. The report checked for broken links and only found 5.

What I liked best about all of this is that if you’re not sure about an item, you can easily access more information, tips, and resources on how to correct the problem. The whole thing is very user friendly and easy to follow and digest, and each segment is explained clearly. I’m very impressed.

Not only is this CTR great for the advertisers using PayPerPost, but it’s great for the people blogging about the sites and products. My traffic has doubled, if not tripled on every blog I’m using PayPerPost on. I’m getting tons of search engine traffic for things that I’ve blogged about, both sponsored and not.

And oh yeah, I made almost $6,000 last month with my blogs. Not all from PayPerPost of course, but I know PayPerPost is indirectly responsible for a lot of that income!

How am I so certain that you’ll get traffic from Fechr? It’s run by Bobby Griffin, the mastermind behind The Bestest Blog of All-Time. Bobby has featured my other blog (SimpleKindOfLife.com) on The Bestest Blog before, and I still get traffic from that mention. In fact, The Bestest Blog is my 12th biggest referrer, and that’s over 4 years of blogging, but I only did it last year. So yeah, I’d say Bobby knows a little something about web site promotion.

When I ran my website, I bought promo products like pens and key chains and gave them away at events I participated in. If you can put your URL on something free, you’re practically guaranteeing yourself a visit to your site. That’s why Gimmeees.com has products that allow for logo or URL customization for gifts and giveaways and tradeshows, from hats and mouse pads to calendars and cups!

Tony recently announced, via the press release linked above, and his blog, Advanced Marketing Techniques, his plan to invite anyone to learn the secrets of internet marketing. Since he plans to be in Vegas to meet clients, Tony figured that he’d kill 2 birds with one stone and invite all of us to join him for a free discussion group. You do need to RSVP (instructions can be found on Tony’s blog on how to do that) to attend, but in addition to the event being free, there are door prizes, as well as the benefit of hearing tips and tricks directly from Tony.

Ok, so I get Vegas – he was going to be there anyway. But why 7/7/07? “Having this meeting in this city and at a time when people are all caught up in the 07/07/07 hysteria sets the background for the perfect case study for our discussion”, said Baker.

If I hadn’t just come off a vacation, I’d probably go, just to pick up some tips. Anyone in the Las Vegas area who plans to attend out there?