About a month ago I got an email that basically said hey you have a great blog and we would like you to tell your readers all about our blog. At first I was like wow! Somebody likes my blog. And then reality set in and I realized my blog likely met some keyword search critera and that nobody actually READ my blog before sending me that email. Because well, as loyal my followers are (thanks for that, by the way) there are barely a handful of you. In other words, I'm hardly what you could call and influential blogger.
A few days later I got yet another email requesting that I promote a website and this time I didn't let it go quite so much to my head.
So you can imagine the skepticism I felt when I received the following comment on my blog.
Congratulations!
Your blog has been nominated for the 2009 Utah Baby Guide Blog Contest. The blog that gets the most votes wins! Voting ends June 30th, 2009.
Congratulations! You have a great blog!
Kindly,
Jessica Taufer
Editorial Director
Utah Baby Guide
j.taufer@utahbabyguide.com
http://www.utahbabyguide.com
Especially since I've had spam comments in the past. (before turning on word verification) Comments that served no other purpose than to get you to click over to somebody's insurance site.
My suspicion was furthered by the fact that my other blog also got the same comment. And when I've been spammed in the past both blogs got hit.
But finally my big head telling me "this one might actually be for real" got the best of me and I clicked to it.
It does look like a legitimate site. I think. And my Sister-in-law's two blogs are nominated in different categories which leads me to believe that maybe she nominated me (Thanks if you did!!!!) Or maybe she didn't. Who knows.
Her blog Orange World is nominated in the Discount/Giveaway Blog category. And her blog Orange You Special is nominated in the Product Blog category.
And so this is the part where I shamelessly beg for your vote. Because hey, it would be cool to win something! Plus you don't even have to register. Simply email contest@utahbabyguide.com and tell us the web address of your favorite blog for each category before June 30, 2009.
This blog is nominated in the Personal Blog category, right beneath Dooce. Yea right, like I'll win. But hey, it's a nice thought, right?
My other blog is nominated in the Funny Blogs category.
And I guess it would be nice if I told you their website. Because that's what a courteous blogger does, right?
So you can visit the Utah Baby Guide at, surprisingly enough, http://www.utahbabyguide.com/
I'll stop begging now. Since it's likely all really a hoax anyway. Thanks.
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Sorry I meant to tell you that I nominated you but was waiting for the voting to begin (which was yesterday, I'm a little slow).
Good luck!
P.S. One of the ladies on my mommies group works on the magazine.
Congratulations! There such is a lot of fake stuff out there, but sometimes good things happen for reals. Off to vote!
So now I just have to figure out how to vote.
Woo hoo! Don't forget us little people! G'luck! See, now you have pressure to blog. I've been having the blaaahgs.
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