Just Started a Blog? Submit Your Blog Here for a Boost!

Dec 20, 2007
108 Comments

UPDATE: I’ve closed comments on this, because it was so popular that the list of blogs for people to visit is getting too long. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s a wonderful thing! Rest assured I will do this again in the near future! But for now, I’d like to thank all of you who participated in this. Keep an eye out for the next one!

When your blog is new, the one thing you want more than anything else is traffic.

There are many people at any given moment starting blogs, every minute of every day, in a vacuum as if there were nobody else out there to read their blog.

I want to try a little experiment in boosting blog traffic. Keep reading to see how it’s going to go.

The Golden Rule at Work

If you just started a blog and want a little traffic boost, here’s what you do:

  1. Leave a comment with your blog’s URL in the website field and describe your blog in a short paragraph.
  2. Make sure you subscribe to the comments so that you get alerted on every new comment.
  3. Every time a new comment is added, go and visit that blog! This is simply the golden rule at work: do for others as you would have them do for you.
  4. Subscribe to the other blogs’ RSS feeds.
  5. Stumble a post or two from the blog.
  6. Write a post on your own blog about the new blogs you have found and link to them.

You Must Participate for this to Succeed

If you just submit your link and that’s it, well, nothing’s gonna happen. The more you give, the more you get. Spend time visiting the other blogs, commenting and subscribing to their feeds.

You will also get some traffic from my readers who have already been blogging for a while. I’d like to encourage my regular readers to spread the link to this post around: this is one of those the-more-the-merrier kinds of things. So please link, stumble, and bookmark at Delicious. I’m not making any promises about huge traffic, but you’ll probably get more than from BlogRush, let’s put it that way. ;)

Some Rules

My comments are moderated. The following will be deleted or marked as spam:

  • Automated blogs or splogs
  • Adult content blogs
  • Content about illegal activities
  • Hate speech
  • Anything that seems suspicious to me or that isn’t above-board
  • Your blog has to be less than 3 months old

Updated: Your blog can be older than three months old–I’ve made an “executive override decision” :) on this, since it seems, at second thought, to be an unnecessary barrier to participation.

Ready? Post your new blog URL in the comments!

  • I am a wedding photojournalist and SAFFRON is my wedding & portrait photography blog. It's integrated into my website and I am adding to it slowly. I welcome your visit, ask that you spread the word and of course, I am all ears to hear your suggestions to make it a better place for all. Thank you!
  • Reviews of tools and services I use, my thoughts about IT-related stuff and social networking. 2 weeks old blog by an IT generalist who currently works as technical writer and tester.
  • My blog is http://blogelephant.com and is a blog that gives branding, design, and writing advice to bloggers.

    I have an Adobe Illustrator tutorial blog also. http://aiburn.com

    Thanks.
  • Hi Michael :-)

    I'm an award-winning corporate documentary filmmaker.

    My blog, "Bringing Brands to Life!" helps communication and marketing professionals learn about producing corporate videos that are:

    1. authentic
    2. engaging
    3. compelling
    4. remarkable
    5. emotional

    Do stop by and grab the rss or email updates.

    Tom
  • cathlawson
    Hi there - great idea. My blog is a business advice blog, where I share my mistakes as much as my successes.
  • Remarkablogger is a wonderful thing, Since Michael Martine first mentioned my homebrew blog, my traffic has gone way up!

    Now, I have a new site, this blog is about politics, world news, global warming and so on. I know that there are a lot of sites that talk about politics, but this one is a little bit different, OpinionHead.com is Politically Incorrect, and has a discussion board as well. Come on and take a peek, all views and attitudes are welcome!
  • Nez
    Hi everyone,

    My blog is about using things like critical thinking and common (or uncommon) sense on various topics to help us all live smarter, at least that's my hope.
  • My blog is about programming and web development. I share tools and tips that can help developers in their everyday work.
    See you there.
  • I found out about the project from Blogging Tips. And I'm joining.

    Allow me to introduce my blog - LessonInLife.com. It started around May 2007, And briefly the blog is all about some ideas and lesson I learnt in life, which varies from relationship, career and etc.

    Please have a look to better know the blog :)

    Ok, now I'm going to visit all the 82 links participating, See you
  • Ivo
    Indranet is a blog comprising reflections in Italian and in English on the impact of technology and media on our psyche. I give attention not only to what we observe on the computer screen, but above all to the internal transformations that are stimulated or inhibited by technology.
  • http://www.whywenothithard.com

    Why We Not Hit Hard? tells new martial artists what to really expect when they start training and is a nice place for those with experience to polish their game with some new ways of looking at things they might take for granted.
  • (sorry, I forgot to subscribe to the comments!)
  • Hi Michael!

    My blog is: http://buriedthelead.blogspot.com
    I started it in August when I started graduate school in journalism. My blog is about my adventures in my program and during the normal course of life. I am also the wife of the commonculinarian. :)
  • Hello once again Michael & Everyone else!

    I've killed all my blogs, including my personal blog, therefore I've started a new one. Ko-Ta.com once again, it is a personal blog, not much more useful than my previous blog, but it is better...


    Blog is less than a month old, it is mostly covering my day-to-day life, where I also share anything I think might be of any use to anyone.

    p.s. I am not much of a blogger, but I do enjoy commenting.
  • My blog is www.singleguymoney.com
    My blog is about me getting out of debt.
  • My blog is StuffWeLike.com. No it's not what you think. It's an entertainment blog. Ok that's very descriptive...
  • My blog is about Search Engine Optimization and other traffic tips. The latest post is about Entrecard, if you are looking for traffic, it's a great way to get another 100 uniques a day.

    And no, there is no affiliate program and I'm not getting paid to tell you about it.

    Just click SEO News on the tab to the right.
  • Hi Michael,

    Great idea. My blog is on a URL that's about 15 months old, but the blog itself has been up only 4 months. It's my company blog and it focuses on traffic generation techniques for small/ medium businesses. We use a 4-step methodology - analyze, optimize, advertise, publicise - and blogging fits squarely in the 'publicise' arena.

    regards
    Mark
  • Joe
    Just finished updating my subscriptions. I have everybody now. Good stuff here. This is some really good reading, gang. Thanks. Tonight I'll get everyone a stumbleupon vote or digg vote or two as I'm reading.
  • This is a great idea, Michael!

    My blog is just over 4 months old, and I'm finally starting to make an active effort at doing more networking (finding more blogs to read, making more comments, using the social bookmarking sites, etc.)

    This sounds like a great experiment that I'd love to be a part of!

    As far as my blog...

    I'm a WAHM (Work at Home Mom), Wife, and Mommy to a very active, but so wonderful, toddler. I work at home full time while moonlighting as a freelance web designer in my spare time.

    My official goal (aka 2008 resolution) is to become a successful full time freelancer, while maintaining a healthy work/life balance.

    This blog chronicles the process of reaching my goals, as well as offering helpful resources that I've found along the way.

    I hope you'll join me in my quest to reach full time freelance status!

    Thanks again for this opportunity Michael! I look forward to finding some great new blogs through this experiment!
  • I came here via Chris Garrett's blog so just shows how well this all works.

    My blog is about vacation rental and gives second home owners all the information they need to set up and rent their second homes. I am encouraging them to set up their own blogs so will be posting more often on blog creation. Bearing in mind that most of my target market readers have never read a blog I am working on educating them, so I am looking for blogs to recommend.
  • I love this idea, my blog is on the niche of click fraud or invalid clicks as the search engines will have us call it.

    I offer advice on how to combat the problem, gain refunds from the pay per click suppliers and tackle related problems such as stopping low quality clicks from made for adsense sites and adwords for domains.

    Anyone looking for guest posts in related niches please let me know.

    My blog is montetised via a consultancy service for SME or companies running smaller pay per click campaigns.
  • Full-Time-Blogger.com is a website to follow my thoughts and comments, tips and tricks of how to start blogging full-time! We welcome guest posts, comments and information from anyone else trying to do the same!
  • AndroidGuys is a site dedicated to Google's Android as well as the Open Handset Alliance. We cover network providers, phone manufacturers, and software developers. Updated a few times a day, we are run by a couple of guys with a love of gadgets, technology, and especially smart phones.

    http://www.AndroidGuys.com

    We bookmarked a handful of these sites for ourselves. Great post!
  • Thanks to everyone who visited GearPipe and left a comment, especially Terry McDonald who's passing my site on to his guitar playing sons. That, to me, is what makes exercises like this worth it.

    Terry...if I ever move to Charlotte and need a house, I'll give you a ring ;-)
  • Thanks for the exposure!

    On my site I feature products created by solopreneurs, entrepreneurs or small business owners.
  • Thanks in advance for the blog boost!

    My blog centers around marketing for small businesses. It's only been truly active for one month. My goal is to continue to develop the content so that it'll become a helpful resource to small business owners. Today's post covers my blogging goals for 2008.

    I'm looking forward to checking out everyone's blogs. Thanks again!
  • DAN
    Hellow Michael!!
    Great post-
    My new (4 months) blog is a free self-help guide

    Thanks
    DAN
  • Okay, it's a week after your original post, but I will take any opportunity to promote my blog about midlife career changes. And, just to be fair, I'm going to spend some time going back through the comments and visiting as many sites as I can before my eyes just give out on me.

    Watch out...here I come. And thanks in advance to those of you who visit my blog!
  • Ben
    Your guide to making more money online.
  • Hi Michael and friends - my blog is all about successful career change using goals, coaching and mentoring.
  • Check out the latest in tech news and reviews!-

    http://22tech.blogspot.com/
  • Michael Martine
    @everyone: again, thanks so much for your participation. There are a bunch o' new blogs for everyone to visit, bookmark, stumble, subscribe to, etc., so please get on that when you can.

    I would also like to point out that there are only so many characters available in the Name comment field. Instead of trying to game a phrase in search, maybe consider just using your name from now on.
  • Thanks Mike, great way to kick off a relatively new blog. Charlotte Communities is 4 months old and if I've done it right, a community sight with loads of local real estate and community information about the greater Charlotte area. I am a broker, but virtually all of my clients are moving to Charlotte from outside the area. This is the kind of stuff they like... I hope. Terry McDonald
  • Great idea! My blog is a discussion on why America is the greatest country in the world. It's also a discussion on why we need to keep it that way and how we go about doing that. If you love America and are thankful for what she has provided you, come and visit my blog.
  • Michael, will commenting here earns traffic?
    Then cool.. here is my comment ;)

    (Oops..! ur also in do follow..!(juz saw thy policy) good! )
  • @Troy - one thing you might consider is focusing more on your audience, and not having both business and personal (or a wide array of topics) because that tends to dilute your message. I have my site building / marketing blog but it's seperate from my personal "thoughts and wanders around the world" blog. That's good, because the other isn't updated near as often as should be. :)
  • @Cyndee, Thank you for pointing out that we had failed to properly tell our host how much we Digg him. Also, thanks for the kind words about my blog. I am enjoying yours too!

    Michael, this is really cool. Thanks for getting the ball rolling.
  • I am going to bed - just read 200 great rss feeds, mind in overload.

    www.realestatevirginiabeachhomes.com
  • Ok, I have learned more today than I imagined visiting most of the blogs. Unbelievable the good stuff out there.
  • Good golly Michael look what you started here! :) I will try and add everyone new to my reader. I have been to a few so far and hope to get to everyone in the next few days. - Ashley
  • Michael - what rude guests we've been - I just realized no one had "dugg" this fabulous article (Golden Rule Violation #1 - :-)so I just did - hey readers - consider giving Michael a digg if you've like it - I'm sure he appreciates extra traffic too :-)


    Also thanks to @searchJim who did a great article about our blog (thank you I'm blushing) - I dugg it and he's gotten more traffic from that from my extended readers and friends and the social community at large. Wanna read it?
    http://digg.com/design/Florida_Real_Estate_Blog...

    Art's financial site it fabulous and gets my wheels spinning - it's easy to see why he was selected as one of the best blogs across industries. I've met other real estate professionals across the country and ones with similar beach resort niches.

    Food and Wine and music and more have my creative blogging juices flowing.

    For those that haven't done it - stumble can drive huge traffic and it seems to give more weight when different people stumble your posts so a big tent is a good tent!

    Michael - thanks again - as always I digg YOU!!!! :-)
  • Michael Martine
    @everyone: thanks for the high level of participation in this. I just wanted to mention that this whole thing so far has been an outstanding success, with many bloggers reporting increases in traffic. Please make sure you at least visit every blog that's added to the list, but what really makes this thing work is that everyone bookmarks/subscribes/stumbles everyone else. It's like a big blog love festival. The more you give, the more you get.
  • Michael I too want to say how much I appreciate your brilliant Blog Boost idea. I'm finding some great new blogs and stumbling and subscribing my way down the list. Happy New Year!
    Jim
  • Michael - have founds some great new blogs and have subscribed to many here already. I've even had some here visit, comment and subscribe to me also. Thanks for the great inspiration. Off to read some more... - Cyndee Haydon
  • Troy, nice autograph collection. I technorati'ed you!
    Thanks, Dennis
  • Michael - thank you for a great post and idea. My blog has been going a while now, but sometimes it seems like I'm the only one listening. I struggle daily with deciding whether to turn it "strictly professional" or keep it more of a personal blog. Then I realize there are more important things to think about.

    I look forward to finding more blogs to visit through the comments!
  • I just read David Rogers blog - it is filled with great ideas and I will definitely get back to it.

    I am impressed so far with the amount of knowledge I have gained from everyone's blog's. This is has been very good.
  • My blog - How to have Great Self Confidence - has been going since last March, but I still feel I've a lot to learn. I do agree with the principal behind this as I have generated traffic, friends and knowledge by interacting with other bloggers. My focus is on self confidence/self esteem, although I do "drift" into other personal development issues.
  • I found you thru SU. My blog is about marketing for beginners. My current focus is a series on setting up WP on a memory stick and then modifyfing and creating your own theme.
  • I love golf and have subscribed to Robert's RSS feed. This is great - free golf lessons over the Blog - we wish!
  • My blog will be about my knowledge of golf I have developed from 34 years as a PGA teaching pro. Plans are to posts tips and drills for the golf swing, short game, mental aspects etc.

    First of year I would like to add case studies of current students,that are willing........and I have to learn video, lol.

    Thanks for the chance to do this Michael!
  • All about real estate and homes in Virginia Beach and the Hampton Roads Community. Virginia Beach attracts many tourists during the summer with beautiful beaches and weather. My blog features many buyers and seller articles, area information. Being a retired Naval Officer I cater to the military community both buyers and sellers. I am very passionate about our young men and women serving our country. Coming in early 2008 I will roll-out a new buyers program tailored specifically for Veterans and others serving our country. I appreciate the opportunity to be part of this great group and promise to participate
  • What a great way to start off the new year with some fresh faces at our blogs AND some great new reads! Thanks for doing this.

    Drew's Marketing Minute (http://www.drewsmarketingminute.com) is a blog dedicated to helping business owners, bloggers, and marketing pros learn more about branding and marketing.

    I try to have some fun along the way too. Tune in for tomorrow's post -- 5 marketing lessons we can learn from Rudolph!

    Looking forward to reading all of your blogs!

    Drew
  • Whoops! I missed the 3 month rule the first time I read the post. But I'm kind of glad I did. Thanks for letting us "adolesent" blogs play too.

    And in case anyone is wondering if this works, I had 2 overnight visitors who came from this post. One of the visitors left me a comment and told me they have subscribed.

    As Michael points out, it is a two way street. I have visited everyone on the list so far and have subscribed to two new blogs as a result.

    Thanks again Michael. Great idea. Happy Holidays.
  • Michael Martine
    @Art: Not only will I make an exception for you, Art, I will rescind the requirement for everyone. If anyone else was disappointed that they couldn't participate because of the blog age rule, then I apologize. It seemed like a good idea at the time to have that requirement, but really, I think having a mix of experience and blog "ages" might be a good thing in this case, since the more established and popular blogs can help boost the newer blogs.
  • What a great idea. I'm anxious to join in the fun!

    I'm not sure if my blog, Moment On Money qualifies as "new" but it is only about 7 months old. I am a Certified Financial Planning practicioner and my blog is about my observations and insights about financial planning.

    Can't wait to check out the other blogs in the comments... Seems like some good ones and I have never been to any of them before!
  • Michael Martine
    @Jim: Targeting a niche market such as real estate for SEO is good move. Two specialties in a one-two punch! Great combo. I see you're in Indiana? I was born in Valparaiso and lived most of life there till I moved to Vermont.
  • Thanks Michael, I'm branching out my SEO business to include Real Estate. I will steer my clients to your remarkable blog.
  • Hal,

    This is how I set up mine:

    Subscribe to RSS

    Are you using FeedBurner? What is K2?

    Michael,

    I feel bad for these back and forth messages. This is obviously not the place to exchange such comments. I apologize.
  • I already implemented some ideas offered here. Thanks.

    I would like to list another blog I run called Dwellogy (www.dwellogy.com).

    My 9 to 5 job is related to modern things in general and I took a taste for cool, modern and useful products for the home. Dwellogy is my blog about it.
    Brand new blog with lots of things to evolve. Please send suggestions!
  • Hal
    @Andre,

    The text links back to the main site, while the little icon links to the feed. I'm not sure what's up with that (the text link is not customizable from within the K2 set up), so I'll look into a way to make it a little more user friendly.

    Thanks for letting me know.
  • Hal
    @Robert,

    Thanks for notifying me! I was wondering why I wasn't getting comments--it turns out, Akismet thought they were in fact spam! I wonder if there's a way to make that more prominent in the dashboard so I see that when I log in.

    And, I downloaded and installed Contact Form ][ yesterday and will get it set up today.

    Thanks again!
    Hal
  • Hal,

    I noticed that the "Subscribe to this site" link on your site is not working, although the RSS feed icon works fine.
    You may want to check it.
  • Looks like this is worth trying.

    My Las Vegas Tourism Blog is a blog about Las Vegas tourism (obvious), and is a good place to find Las Vegas hotel & restaurant reviews. It's a great travel guide when visiting Las Vegas.
  • This is such a great idea for getting traffic. Stop by my blog and leave your blog url in the comments also.
  • Robert,

    Thank you for sending out my blog's address to people you know. I appreciate that.
  • Hal,

    I think that our sites are perfect for link exchange.
    I will add yours to my blog later today - leaving now for last minute Xmas shopping...
  • Clearwater Homes,

    You are absolutely correct. I think I've read so many times about not trying to reach for everyone, but to focus on people who actually enjoy your topic that I forgot that we are all connected and, even if you don't like my subject, you may know someone who does.
    Thanks.

    I will try to figure out why the feed is not working - although I tried it yesterday and it did.

    By the way Michael, I noticed an increase already in traffic. Thanks.
  • Hi Michael. My Blog tothepc.com is about technology, techno, life ?

    I think you should visit it once to know more ;)
  • @ Hal -- could you check your Akismet spam queue and clear me? Akismet has taken to false positives on my URL for some reason. I commented on your post related to this one and referenced your site in a trackback on my site.

    PS - You need a contact form on your website. :) Contact Form ][ is good.
  • @ Andre -- also keep in mind that while I may not be interested in subject X, I may know someone who is. I passed links off to a couple of people already. Whether or not they'll subscribe or bookmark the sites remains to be seen, but it's possible, same as any other traffic wandering in.
  • Greetings Michael, everyone..
    It's nice to know your blogs. Some of the blogs related to HomeBiz Resource and i subscribed to latest posts. This will be the start of a prospectful relationship! :)
    BTW, HomeBiz Resource is everything everybody need to know about working from home utilizing the internet, ways to earn money legitimately, tips on avoiding from being scammed, what do you need to prepare, etc...
    Maybe the topic "earn money online" is too general, but along with time, HomeBiz Resource will find its best path. Please visit for useful tips you can use and you're welcome to make opinions about layouts, posts or anything!
  • Michael Martine
    @Ashley: Yes, this does work. And it's completely ethical and above-board. We're not gaming anything. This isn't about PageRank, so Google has nothing to say about it. We're just helping each other. The more people participate, the more it helps everyone. The traffic might spike a bit and then die down, but the subscribers will still be there and so your traffic should generally be higher after this.
  • Michael I am in this one as well. I will get out to every ones site tonight and add them into my reader. This stuff really does work. - Ashley
  • Greetings Michael,

    I like your idea, I hope it will help me [and others of course] drawing more attention to the blog [no matter how usless mine is], because it is always a painful process to do so on your own.

    I had loads of different blogs during last couple of years, but always ended up closing them because of traffic shortage... Nobody likes usless blogs...


    -My blog: My ramblings on the way to hell. Useless personal blog consistant of weird thoughts and ideas, mostly showing no sanity whatsoever... Maybe it will get useful someday.... someday....yeah, someday.....


    p.s. Can check out some posted blog links now...
  • Great idea!

    My new blog GearPipe.com is a musical instrument "deals and discounts" site. So, if you're looking for a new axe (or any other type of instrument, recording, or pro audio gear), stop by to find some sweet deals.
  • Hal
    @Andre,

    You know, I'm glad you submitted your site, because it might make a good companion (or link through) to my site. You can see from the description above, I want to write about cooking good (if not gourmet) food on a reasonable budget or for someone that doesn't have the training. I'll definitely be checking your site out later today when I have more than 2 minutes to spend :)

    @Cyndee, thanks for the add! I briefly browsed your site last night and thought how wonderful a site like this would have been when we were once looking to buy a house (or during our recent relocation, even).

    Good luck to everyone!
    Hal
  • Michael Martine
    @Cyndee: no apology necessary. You said it for me. :)

    @everyone: keep 'em comin'. Don't forget to subscribe to the comments, visit each new blog added to the list and then stumble/bookmark/subscribe to them. A rising tide lifts all boats!
  • Andre - we love wine and I tried to leave comment and coudn't after much work. Also couldn't find RSS by email which I like.

    To your response to why have subscribers that are not your "target readers" - Michael I apologize if I'm overstepping...but I have learned that blogging is a "team sport" and have even benefitted from savvy commenters that use key words and even words like "expert in my field" that now cause me to rank on page 1 for those terms. Also I've learned it's a small world and you never know if I put you in my blog as a wine expert and a big media source finds it reading my blog - it's good for you.

    The book "The Tipping Point was a great lesson in how 6 degrees of separation happens in all our lives - all the time - we're just lucky a blogging expert and maven like Michael is helping us all out. :)
  • Michael - Ok I've subscribed to the Common Culinarian - great blog by the way! :-) now I need to do more work stumbling and writing and commenting.

    This is also a great time to write about other blogs as people are enjoying the holidays and doing New Years Resolutions and open to new info. :-)

    I realize I read this "late" last night - so I didn't tell what our blog's about - It's all aobut living on Clearwater Beach and the Tampa Bay Beach - includes commmunity news, real estate market reports and info and lots of neighborhood specific info which people have a hard time finding other places. - Cyndee Haydon
  • Although I am not sure how this will generate qualified visitors to any blog - I mean this based on the fact that I don't want just anyone stumbling upon my site, but people who actually enjoy drinking wine and learning about it.

    In any case, my site is about the basics of wine. I am at the very beginning of it, so I am still trying to find my path, so you will find articles about anything that is wine-related.
    But if you enjoy wine, go to the site, add it to your feed reader and let me know how to improve it.
  • Sorry for the misclick above.

    New bloggers certainly need to go out there and seek for traffic rather than sitting there and wait for it.

    The mentality of "the traffic will come in automatically" must be removed from the mindset of new bloggers.

    Anyway, this is a good guide for new bloggers on what to do to bring in traffic to their new blogs.
  • Nice write up for new bloggers.
  • Great post! I'll definately be subscribing.
  • My website goes over setting up and marketing a WordPress blog and will branch out from there. Documentation is a good way to deepen your learning and hopefully it will be helpful to other folks out there when they take their own plunge.
  • Great Idea Michael, I am interested to find new and interesting blogs so I will join in.

    I started my blog two months ago (I had to go and check as it seems much longer) because I needed a new project. I decided to make WordPress the subject of the that project, in particular writing about plugin and theme development.

    So far it is going great.
  • Michael what a great idea - especially during the holidays - a nice present we can give and get that costs nothing. We have been blogging for a year but started our new blog SandbarstoSunsets.com three months ago and appreciate any feedback, visitors and always looking for guest authors on topic that will interest my readers. - Thanks Santa Micheal :-) Cyndee Haydon
  • Joe
    My blog is all about retail loss prevention. From theft concerns and trends to industry best practices that work to reduce shrink/loss.
  • Hi Michael, my blog is a diary of my Linux journeys that will hopefully benefit other Linux users :D
  • Hal
    I'll bite. The Common Culinarian strives to provide timely and relevant food advice for those who are want good (or even gourmet) food, but who don't have the time, money, or skill to prepare it. The point is to show that you can have these things. In fact, most people have the innate ability to produce something delicious, they just haven't tried!
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