We are now into our sixth year on the web… Time just seems to fly by 🙂

I want to thank the regulars that show up every Tuesday for Top Sites Tuesday. Thanks Cheryl, Bud and Trina you are awesome and for those who wish to read some great blogs just click on the names listed above and you will be on your way. I too participate but don’t think it’s right to toot your own horn 🙂

I am not sure what this new year will bring to BlogDumps. I would like to see more people participate each week on Top Sites Tuesday the check in post goes up on Mondays if you would like to join us.
As for the rest of the site a recap of this last year: we have updated our Instant Messenger for those who do not like to be tracked or have spyware on their computer give it a try. You can even transfer file to each other with no security issues it’s private between users. You can find the download here. Some would like me to integrate it with the other IM’s but that would bring on security and privacy issues so we are going to keep it in our own network. If you’re not sure what to do after you download there is a help button with instructions if you need them.
We have our very own Spider now, adding your site to BlogDumps is fast and easy, add one of our cool buttons and follow the instructions and in just a few minutes you are in the directory. OMG! You have no idea how happy I am that this has been accomplished we did it all manually for years!
If you would like to have a screen shot next to your listing and be on the revolving front page of featured sites follow me here to gain more readers and comments to your blog.

We have changed up the front page some so it will load faster and it also makes Google happy that we do not have a few thousand links on the front page. We used to show all the latest new members and Google discounted our site for doing so. Nice, I know, but they have the last say when it comes to search and SEO.

You will notice that we have added on the front page a link to those that want to sponsor a category.
This will put your site at the top of the first page of the category you choose. It’s always good to be in the spotlight and have people find you as there are so many sites on the web today.

One of the latest changes we have added to BlogDumps is we no longer regulate what you can put on the blog you create here on BlogDumps but we have added a small cost of just one dollar a month to have a blog here. I know to some it sounds crazy to do this but we have no choice it combats and keeps out the spammers and the real bloggers can enjoy no limits to the advertising of their own that they may want to have on their site, not to mention the help it gives Trina and I on the thousands it cost each year to keep the site running. Dedicated servers and top quality techs in a high tech data center isn’t cheep to say the least.

I don’t know if you have noticed we have a Blogger Connection Wall it works on your PC and on your smart phone or touch screen phone too. It’s a fast way to leave a message for others, no login, links allowed and it’s fast and easy. If you have a moment check it out.

We were going to make some changes to the video portion of the site where you can upload and share Videos Music and photos. but it works fine so why change it. The high Def player and screen options are awesome. Messaging between users, webcam uploads, private video mail and even flash games. This portion of BlogDumps is nice for all your media hosting with embed codes to add them to your site as well.

Have a great rest of the week, the best part of today is tomorrow is Friday!

Wolfbernz

Hey Everyone!

Before today’s news, I’d like to thank everyone for participating in Top Sites Tuesday, I thought maybe for next week we could all invite a fellow Blogger to play along – the more the merrier! I really enjoy visiting everyone each week for the latest happenings and reviews.

If you haven’t visited, I recommend them all!

… and now the news 😉

I’ve had registrations closed for a month now (as I was recently reminded) but I’ve been working on cleaning up the site – no SPAM or nasty stuff here!

It’s nice to have new bloggers to the site.

To All of you who created Blog last night, Welcome to BlogDumps!

–Trina

In today’s economy it seems as though we have to make every penny count. More so we need to make an extra dollar if we can. Lately I have noticed that the banks have high interest checking accounts. Yes it is true you can get a checking account that will pay interest and a higher interest than some others you might find.

In trying to figure out why they would do this I found that they do this to offer an incentive to the customer by providing a higher interest rate on checking and savings accounts. This benefits current customers and entices new customers in the door and open accounts. This is a good idea on the banks part because the banking industry has become so competitive in today’s market.

So back to high interest bank accounts, free checking and how they can provide this to the new or existing customers of the bank.

I will try to make this easy to follow and simple to understand.

Put simply, say you deposit $100 into your bank and at this time the Federal Reserve has a ten percent requirement – the bank can now lend $90 to someone else. If the person who gets the loan put that money into a bank account in another bank, now that other bank can loan out $81. If you multiply those simple figures by thousands of people and lots of banks you can imagine the amount of money banking is introducing into the economy.

Instead of keeping the money as cash reserves for themselves, which banks can do legally, because of competition between banks now they use the money created from lending and offer incentives. Things like higher interest checking accounts and free checking accounts help to draw in more customers to a bank, bringing them money that they can lend from.

But as with every good thing, one may ask, what’s the catch? There’s always a catch to every good thing. There is normally no “catch” other than a few rules or stipulations, some of them may include the amount of withdrawals and how often you can make them, there may be a penalty for too many withdrawals or being under a certain balance. So make sure you are educated and ask as many questions as you possibly can in order to make the right choices on the right account for you.

I hope this little tidbit of information was helpful for you, I thought it was fun to look into and check out. In the state of our economy, I thought I would share this because it seem as though we are all in the same boat.

Wolfbernz
As with any money and investment ideas you are in control of your money, always make sure to read and find out the rules and stipulations that may come with any offers you may receive financially.