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Congratulations to Keith W winner of a copy of Jack The Giant Slayer [Blu-ray] from my recent giveaway. Your details have been passed on to the people at Partners Hub.
Keith W was selected completely at random. The names of all people that entered were put into List Radomizer @ Radom.org and then the Randomiser selected Keith W’s name completely at random. See the images below – you can click on the images to see full size: |
Blog soon,
Antony
The kind people at Partners Hub have got a copy of Jack The Giant Slayer [Blu-ray] for me to giveaway to a reader of my blog.
Here’s a really cool Blog App:
Click here to display content from archive.partnershub.com.
And here’s some more information about the film:
Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants
strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing Jack (Nicholas
Hoult), into the battle of this life to stop them. Fighting for a
kingdom and its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes
face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in
legend… and gets the chance to become a legend himself! Directed by
Brian Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns)Starring: Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy), Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge!),
and Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones).
To be in with a chance of winning comment on this post or send me an email on my Contact page saying you want to be entered into the draw.
The deadline for entries is Tuesday 27th August 2013 @ 17:00. The winner will be completely randomly selected by myself, notified through email and I’ll post the name of the winner on the blog. You’ll need to check your email on the Tuesday evening, as I will need your address so that the people at Partners Hub can send it out to you. Entries from the UK only.
Best of luck!
Blog soon,
Antony
I’ve recently installed two content plugins on my blog: Random Images for WordPress and WordPress Related Posts. The aims for these plugins were to recycle older content and direct visitors to other posts/pages of interest. From the sites statistics they’ve been a huge success. So let me tell you about the plugins:
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Random Image for WordPress by Justin Watt About: Random Image for WordPress displays a random blog post title and image on the sidebar. It will only display posts with an image, those without it won’t display. But it has lots of customisable features, that are easily tweaked on a settings page (Settings – Random Image). Features:
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This plugin is easy to install and use. It’s great because of it’s position on the sidebar. It catches the readers eye and if the title or image spark they’re interest, they can click for a view. It’s a brilliant way to recycle old content; but the randomness has it’s pro’s and con’s. The pro is that on the homepage, it’s good as you don’t know what the visitor is into so it gives a variety of content, changing on every refresh. The con is that on specific posts it doesn’t link to simliar posts.
Which is why I’ve installed WordPress Related Posts:
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WordPress Related Posts About: WordPress Related Posts displays other related posts at the bottom of the post page the visitor is on. So for example, if you’ve come to a book review post, it will offer you other book reviews, possibly by the same author. It clearly links together appropriate posts and if you’re not satisfied with the results, you can choose which posts appear on that particular page. It has it’s own settings page (Related Posts on your Dashboard left sidebar) making it easy to customise the many features. Features:
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This plugin was easy to install and use. I’m still experimenting with this plugin, in terms of what format works best but it seems to be doing what I want it to do: directing visitors to other posts of interest. It’s useful for me as I write about the same sort of things. I guess if your content was varied and didn’t have simliar themes it wouldn’t be useful to you.
These plugins are helping to increase the time visitors spend on my site and helping them notice some of my other content. However, it means that I’ve got to create great, regular and orignal content that they will want to view.
Blog soon,
Antony
Hi all,
A few weeks ago the kind people at Partners Hub and I got together to giveaway a free copy of Dark Shadows Triple Play Blu-Ray see Dark Shadows Blu-Ray Giveaway.
I said that the winner would be completely randomly selected by myself and I wanted to write a quick note on how this was done. Firstly the names of all that entered were put into Random – Lists (click on screen shot below for full size image):
Then I clicked ‘Randomize’ to reveal the list of names in a random order. The first name selected is the winner (click on screen shot below for full size image):
Blog soon,
Antony
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