Sorry guys, lots of problem with my host when I went out for 2 days. My wordpress hosting account was suspended and I lost my backup too as my computer crashed during the same period. Worst days these were and somehow I was able to get a backup for this blog. Thanks to hostgator, they are really a best web hosting providers.

I already have 2 hostgator hosting accounts but I thought to buy something new and went to Lunarpages web hosting. Currently they are running a great promotional offer which can get you unlimited featured hosting for as low as $5/month compared to $10/month from similar featured hostings. I grabbed the deal and tell you – lunarpages rocks too. Their support is also good as said on their website.

As this blog is very big with over 250 blog posts, I had few problems backing up mysql database. But nothing can stop me from bringing this blog again. I dropped some unimportant stats and such tables to make the database small and imported again. It worked !! Will continue posting again. Hope there will be no hosting problem again – its very tough to come out of such situations.

I see lots of contests going on regularly on various blogs including JohnChow, Shoemoney and more. Nowadays MarketLeverage seems the big sponsor of these contests and they created a lot of buzz with blog contests. You can check out current contest on TylerCruz.com too for the latest MarketLeverage sponsored contest.

Blog Contests would be great for both sponsors, blog owners and particpants :

• Sponsor build buzz and traffic
• Blog Owner also builds buzz, traffic and might be a share of prize
• Participants or readers can win cool prizes.

So what does ProBlogineer’s readers think – Should I also start one more blog contest ? Any idea on how should we proceed  – no I don’t want similar blog contests, something new would be great.

Also, Sponsorship is welcomed. Send your offers via contact form – I can’t guarantee every offer will be accepted, only those which I feel would work

Yes, we made it finally.. We are in the popular Top 100 MMO blogs list where top bloggers like Problogger, Shoemoney, Johnchow are listed. Ranking # 77

I was checking my awstats and was surprised to find traffic coming from this list. Then I searched the list and found my blog name at the very bottom of the list. But the problem is – the stats of my blog are all N/A

Hope the stats get updated in the next update with correct alexa, technorati and other rankings…  do you think it will make in the Top 100 rankings ?

Thanks for the support – keep commenting, subscribing, visiting, suggesting and sponsoring the ProBlogineer blog.

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Update 1: I see update on Technorati ranking after this post. And the ranking is pushed to # 120 . Still Alexa and PR are N/A

Thats a big jump. If the alexa and PR gets updated, I forsee problogineer will make in the top 100 rankings this week. Need Wishes, more wishes !!

Thanks to Tom from standoutblogger for the quick update.

One more important update : ProBlogineer now ranks # 29 in the THE UK’S TOP MARKETING WEBLOGS
list This is the only well maintained marketing blogs list gathering data from Adage world list. Two good news this week. I am feeling good.

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Update 2 : And finally it seems, all the 3 stats are updated and now we are ranking at # 77 beating my favorite blog Johncow… so within 3 days, we jumped from #362 to #77. Hope the rankings remain within top 100. Thank you guys.