That’s right folks, BifSniff.com is in the finals for the Irish Blog Awards in the best popculture blog category…

Well done to all the contributors on BifSniff – thanks to you all for your part in making BifSniff worthy of getting this far in the Irish Blog Awards.

I really didn’t expect we’d make it this far, but damn are we delighted to be here.

The full list of finalists is as follows:

• bifsniff.com
• raptureponies.wordpress.com
• rickoshea.wordpress.com
• dante-andthelobster.blogspot.com
• fustar.info

All good blogs, I checked em all out, and I’m proud we got BifSniff to the finals along with these top notch popculture blogs. To all my fellow finalists – you rock.

While all these blogs are really great, I’m going to predict a winner here. Why? I want to predict a winner so that if I’m right I can boast about my prediction everywhere and how clever I am, and if I’m wrong I’ll just stay quiet and hopefully nobody will remember what I said.

So my prediction is Fústar.

The Irish Blog Awards are coming up again and BifSniff was nominated.

Will we make it past the first round?

Who knows, stiff competition, but at least we’re currently in very good company – check out our new nemeses below, and check out the link above for all the nominated blogs in all categories.

“Weeeeee are the chaaaampoinnnnsss of the bloooogooooospheeeere… weeeeeeeee’ll keeep on fiiiiighting till the eeeeennnnnddd…..”

Best Popculture Blog – Sponsored by Bubble Hits

Party Down And Go Fuck Yourself: http://duderay.blogspot.com
Rosemary Mac Cabe: http://rosemarymaccabe.wordpress.com
The Chancer: http://thechancer.ie
Raptureponies: http://raptureponies.wordpress.com
The Ray Foley Show…: http://rayfoleyshow.blogspot.com

Fustar – Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005: http://fustar.info
Unarocks: http://unarocks.blogspot.com
The Pointy Adventures Of Jean-claude Supremo: http://rickoshea.wordpress.com
Anneelicious: http://anneelicious.wordpress.com
Gothetshirt: http://gothetshirt.com
A Word to the Wise: http://thejackanory.wordpress.com/

Bifsniff: http://bifsniff.com
Off The Meatrack: http://offthemeatrack.wordpress.com
The Red Scrapbook: http://theredscrapbook.blogspot.com
Egoeccentric: http://egoeccentric.blogspot.com
I Have Grave News: http://johnniecraig.wordpress.com
Dante And The Lobster: http://dante-andthelobster.blogspot.com

Off Her Rocker: http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker
Why, That’s Delightful!: http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com
Spherical Notions: http://thebubbleboy.blogspot.com
Old Bitter Balls: http://oldbitterballs.blogspot.com
Down With My Life By Vic Barry: http://victorbarry.blogspot.com

may the best blog lose and may BifSniff win

The Irish Web Awards are being organised by Damien Mulley who has already organised the highly popular and successful Irish Blog Awards.

Only representatives of a website can nominate their website, nominating your site is free, and entrance to the award ceremony is €30 quid and it’s in Dublin.

If you want more info, visit the site.

This post is an experimental post which is aimed at examining the influence of inbound links on a website. BifSniff is a playground for me, and where I post all my fun finds on the internet as well as the odd film review etc, but it’s also a place where I get to test out some WordPress theories I have and that kind of thing, because my ‘day job’ is as web designer and all the stuff that goes with web design, like SEO and all that jazz.

What I’m doing with this post is examining the impact of a single link with specific anchor text in it from a site with reasonably good ‘Google-Juice’. That’s why I’m linking to another site of mine using the phrase web design cork.

The site I’m linking to has no other inbound links to speak of, and I hope it will remain that way for a little while so I can monitor what happens when Google picks up on this one, and this one only – so much as you might be tempted to deluge said site with inbound links now that you are aware of it, I would beg you to graciously hold off a while

I will be publishing any interesting discoveries on the blog over there, so keep an eye on it if you’re curious.

Thanks for ignoring this post! Normal insanity will now resume…

Full details of the competition are on the Glengarriff Lodge blog

All you have to is write a blog post which has a link like this in it: Luxury Self Catering

The post must also link to another blog, a friend who you think might be interested in the competition.

Go to the competition blog post and leave a comment letting them know where your entry is, and you’re done.

Easy peasy.

Full disclosure and all that: As part of my dayjob I had a hand in organising the competition.