I happened to check our Romance Tracker Technorati page today and was excited to see that we’re on the brink of breaking into the Top 10,000 Most Popular Blogs . . . which is really awesome!  Thanks a bunch to everyone who has added a link to Romance Tracker on their blog, and if you haven’t yet, it would sure be great if you did.  If you’re a fan there’s no better way to spread the word about old-fashioned romance than by linking back to our site.

Also, our RSS readership is now well over 200, and if you’re a subscribed reader I hope you’ll take a couple of seconds to add Romance Tracker as a Technorati Favorite.  Just click on the Technorati Favorites button in the sidebar and the rest is easy.  We have 139 fans right now, which is outstanding, so go join the group if you get a chance!

Finally, for those of you who are feed readers, I hope you’ll take a second to click through to our home page to check out Romance Tracker’s new theme.  We’ve introduced a new mascot of sorts, a cupid girl who is hanging out on our banner and post pages.  She’s only been around for a few days, but I’ve already seen an increase in page views and time spent on the site by visitors.  I think she will be sticking around Romance Tracker for a while!

Here are the first two blogs that linked back to Romance Tracker using the anchor text “romantic ideas.” As promised, I’m linking back to them using the anchor text they requested.

Romance & Dating Advice

Dating Tips

Do you want to make your blog rank higher in the search engines with a link back from Romance Tracker, too?

This is all you have to do: Write a short post about Romance Tracker giving away free linkbacks. And in that post, make sure that you link back to our homepage using the anchor text “romantic ideas.” Here’s an example of what I’m looking for:

Hey, Romance Tracker is a PR 4 blog that’s giving free linkbacks to your site if you link to them using the anchor text romantic ideas. Go do it!

It’s that simple. After you’ve posted your link, just contact me and I’ll link to your site in a weekly post using any anchor text you want. I don’t care what your blog is about, I’ll link back to it!

Our article on romantic ideas to find the person of your dreams has turned out to be the most popular post ever on Romance Tracker, and I was happy this morning to see that it’s made it onto the front page of Netscape.com. It’s bringing a lot of traffic our way today, but more importantly, it’s making hundreds of people think of adding old-fasioned romantic ideas to their relationships!

Will you take a moment to help add some more romance to the world by voting for the story on Netscape? It’s easy . . . just sign-up and click “vote!”

With your vote, “How to Find the Person of Your Dreams” could rise to the top on Netscape! Remember: good old-fashioned romance is contageous . . . and you can help spread the bug!

Those of you who visit Romance Tracker to read about romantic ideas with any regularity (come on, there must be a few of you out there!) may have noticed that I’ve been tinkering with this site’s theme a lot over the past week, and I think I’ve pretty much gotten it to a point where I’m digging it. The previous Cutline theme that I had been using worked great for the first few months of the blog, while I was focusing on SEO and linkbacks, but it was a little too simple and vanilla. I still suggest Cutline for any wordpress users who want a simple, clean, search-engine-friendly theme for their blog!

The new Romance Tracker look is basically a hacked-to-hell version of this Valentine theme that I came across. It’s an attractive, simple, search-engine-friendly theme that the author did a great job on, but it was a little too “pink and mushy.” This blog is about romance, but all of the hearts and flowers are a bit too much even for me! So I hacked the code a bit, did a switcheroo on some colors, created my own banner, and you’re looking at the finished product.

I’m sure I’ll make other small changes to the theme in coming months (I have a hard time leaving things as they are), but I’m going to try to leave Romance Tracker basically how it is for a while as I focus on gaining regular visitors.

So, what do you think? Like the new Romance Tracker design? Leave a comment and let me know!