So I entered a poetry contest a while back where I wrote a caption to a picture of the Golden Gate bridge on the “My City By the Bay” blog.  I won the contest which awards meOn A San Francisco High CD by Sony Holland and a $10 check.  I am very pleased, you can check out this great blog and my winning poem on My City By The Bay.

This is my 3rd poem to win a contest in the last few years and I am always thrilled when others like my poetry as I enjoy creating them as much as hearing peoples feedback on them.

-Dragon Blogger

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So I had set my goals for October 2008 and posted them previously, here is a reprint of my goals for October 2008 vs what I actually achieved.

Keep my Blog < 1000 IzeaRank

I have met this goal and in fact my blog has been in the 300 range for the entire month.

Keep my Blog < 500,000 Alexa Rank\

Again, my 3 month average is in the 200,000 range and this is because my blog only existed for 2 months.  I am the 100,000 range weekly average.

20 new Back Links

I only managed to achieve 11 new back links for the month of October for this blog.

Average Unique Visits to 200 consistently, this means I am shooting for 6000 Visits for the month on GA

I have averaged 318 unique visitors per day and hit 8095 unique visits for the month.

Dragon Blogger try to earn $100

I have made a total of $110 in payments for the month of October, not pending payments but actual paypal received payments.  ($17.50 from SocialSpark, $5 from PayPerPost, $87.50 from PayU2Blog)

So I had exceeded all of my goals except the number of back links, in the spirit of adjusting my goals I will set my November goals for reasonable growth.  I have seen my blog taper off quite a bit so I won’t be unrealistic.  Note each of my blogs has their own goals, and my other blogs have their own goals and income.  My personal site Justin Germino has actually started making some money as well.

• Goals for Dragonblogger.com for November 2008.

• 10 New Back Links

• GA Visits Keep Average 320 per day / 9,000 Unique for the Month

• Try to earn at least $100.00 for DragonBlogger.com

• RealRank (Izea Rank stays < 400)

• Alexa Rank below 200,000

Wish me luck in meeting my blog goals.

-Dragon Blogger

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Dragonblogger.com would like to thank my Top Entrecard Droppers for the Month of October 2008. In addition to listing your links and sites in my table below, you get 1 free month addition to my Entrecard Generator (see page at top of this page) with a special button called EC TOP DROPPERS. Hope this sends some love back your way my friends.

Entrecard Top Droppers for October 2008

Dropper	# of Drops
Wanderer Thoughts	30
Great Registry Hacks	29
Money Maker Times	28
Septagon Studios Inc News Blog	27
Justin Germino	27
Up to the Minute, with C.G. Salgado	27
The Movie Whore	27
Smoothie Land	27
The Power Of Three	27
Where the Long Tail Ends	27

-Dragon Blogger

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So I have been tagged by KellyK
and decided to play the game and share 7 things about myself and tag some fellow bloggers who I follow and would like to learn more about.

First, these are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So here are the 7 things about Dragon Blogger

1. My Real Name is Justin Robert Germino
2. I have lived in Arizona 13 years this month but was born and raised in New York City (Queens)
3. I’ve been told I am a hopeless romantic, my favorite movies include (The Princess Bride, Stardust and What Dreams May Come)
4. I have a very analytical job (I work with Web Site Security Software), but I am a very creative person. I channel this through my poetry blog Wanderer Thoughts
5. I have two beautiful boys ages 5 and 2 years old
6. I have only started blogging in the last 60 days and am addicted to it, also addicted to twitter now too
7. I have made more decent people from blogging and twitter in the last two months than I have found in 12 years.

That’s my 7 items for this tagging

So I tag the following 7 people whose blogs I follow and I would like to know 7 more things about:

The Lady Programmer

Cheryl from DailyBlonde

Aronil

Damien Riley

Dani

Chorva

Nicole Humphrey

-Dragon Blogger

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