It’s great fun to have a competition on your website or blog.  Competitions encourage interaction and bring alot of new faces to your website of which a large percentage are likely to visit again.

As i was surfing around the DigitalPoint forums, i usually spend my time in the Buy section of the forums - you can get alot of ideas from what other people are doing.  However i came across a very fun competition here.  The owner of the thread is giving away $10 to the person with the highest score.

Well i decided to give it a go and after a few ‘practice’ starts - it honestly was just a few - I managed to get into the top5 although im far off the lead by around 25,000 points it was a damn good start.  So to all the bloggers out there who are bored right now go and check it out and post back some results!

Do you think you can beat me? 

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Today while surfing the internet i came across the BumpZee widget on one of my favourite blogs.  But i was shocked to see that the widget was displaying the owners details - these details include website stats which i know i would not want my visitors seeing.

For those of you that don’t know, BumpZee is a SocialNetwork for bloggers - similar to BlogCatalogue and MyBlogLot, which allows users to create and browse communities.  The site also offers stats to blog owners and allows bloggers to put a BumpZee widget on your site showing the latest blog visitors and stories.

Here’s a screen capture i took while browsing one of the top affiliate marketers blogs,

As you can see the Stats section is visible to everyone.  This is not my blog but i can view the website stats i wonder how BumpZee is going to regain the confidence of it’s users after this stunt.  Ofcourse if the site was hacked then let’s hope they improve security measures.  At the moment the BumpZee website looks like;

Let’s hope they can sort of the problems and fast.

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