OK, It’s hardly been a week and I’m tired of this theme.  Time to find another one to play with.  The next one will definitely be widgetized!  There are too many good ones out there to stick with one that is a pain in the neck to code.  I thought I had the ads set and then find it leaving space on posts for ads that aren’t there.  Time to throw in the towel and go on.

I did find a better way to use StumbleUpon.  Like any online community, StumbleUpon wants you to be an active member.  They don’t want you to use them as a bookmark repository and nothing more.  However, they do stimulate traffic (non-targeted) and can keep you from dropping into Internet Oblivion.

In my last post I said that I was going to start blog commenting and try to find some online communities in my niche.  I want to find blogs where people are commenting and not just posting.  By using the search feature in the StumbleUpon toolbar, I set my search parameters for blogs in my niche (garden blog) and then Stumbled a few of them.  I found some great sites to work with.  Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to do some daily posting to 5 or 6 of them and see what happens.  This should be fun.