I’m not good at tooting my own horn, or even at promoting myself, BUT I just had to share this with you guys.
Oh boy, I hope she doesn’t really toot. That stuff is lethal.
So Tuesday I was going through my spam mail, checking to see if I’d won 8 million dollars in the African lottery or if some hot guy wanted to date me…and this subject line caught my eye.
“Heart Like a Dog has been featured on our website.”
Of course I was intrigued. So I opened the e-mail and read this, “My name is Valentina from FirstSiteGuide and I’m reaching out to inform you that your Heart Like a Dog blog has been selected as one of the Best Pet Blogs To Follow on our website.”
She then included a line that said, “You can see it here” with a link.
I was afraid to click it. You all heard about the hackers taking control of cars, right? What if they grabbed my website and wrote some awful stuff?
It’s some kind of scam I thought. I’ll click on it, then have to give them my first born or cash some kind of check for them.
I was worried I’d get a virus or get diverted to a porn site. (I feel so dirty when my computer gets a virus, almost like it was doing something it shouldn’t be. Stop that or you’ll go blind!)
But I was curious, then I thought, I have some damn good IT guys at work, they like me and they’ll be able to fix anything I break…
But I wasn’t willing to take the chance, SO I googled First Site Guide and it looked like a legit site, so I clicked one of the links that good Dr. Google provided and there it was. A list of pet blogs FirstSiteGuide are recommending as great blogs to follow.
I scrolled down and found a little cartoon of my picture along with a link to my blog, along with a link to our fellow bloggers SlimDoggy, Keep the Tail Wagging, Two French Bulldogs, Pawcurious…)
So there’s my excitement for this year. LOL But hey, if you’re interested in checking it out, you can find it right here Firstsiteguide.
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Well, heck, I could have told you that a long time ago! Siriusly, tho, Congratulations!!
Congratulations on the feature! 🙂
Yay, good job guys! 😀
sumskersandearlskers13.blogspot.com
We are getting ready to retire and live the good life with all the money we have received by clicking on the links in our spam folder. Amazing how many generous people we don’t know leave us millions! Good for you getting on that site which I have never heard of, but who cares if it gets you more exposure!
Congratulations! So exciting. And well deserved.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
Hi Y’all!
Congratulations! What a wonderful honor! You deserve to “toot your own horn”! But how much nicer to have someone “toot” it for you!
Y’all come on by,
Hawk aka BrownDog
We got the same email, I think, but I kind of thought it was somebody just looking to get some free advertising for nothing. Glad it wasn’t that! And I think you totally deserve to be on that list!
Very cool congrats! I too would of been very Leary of clicking on that site.
Congratulations! That happened with one of my clients too – I write her interior design website content, and it was chosen by another site as a “best of the web” blog. It’s such nice recognition, and you certainly deserve it. 🙂
Congratulations! They obviously have very good taste 🙂
Pretty cool. We were happy to be included with you
Lily & Edward
Congrats! That’s totally pawsome and well deserved. I know I enjoy your blog and Sam must too because his tail can’t stop wagging when I start howling at your posts. You crack us both up. 🙂
Wait, you mean I didn’t win the African lottery and that hot guy is coming on to you too?
Congratulations on being chosen as a best pet blog. I wonder why the email went to your spam folder since it was a message only to you.
Oh wow, congrats!!!! I would have been worried to click on it too, but way to go!
ღ husky hugz ღ frum our pack at Love is being owned by a husky!
Very cool! Isn’t it great when something like that turns out to be legit? Congrats!! 🙂
Congratulations on being featured! I think you are wise to be cautious about clicking on links, what you did is exactly what I usually do if I’m unsure of a link…look it up separately.
That’s so exciting! Congratulations!
Of course Heart Like A Dog is one of the best blogs to follow. Doesn’t everyone know that? <3
How cool…glad you check it out – we didn’t know we were listed! Congrats. I like the little caricatures too.
How awesome, and there’s a few on that list that I’m looking forward to checking out now as well. I think it’s super cool that they created those caricatures as well. I’m glad I’m not the only one that doesn’t follow links from emails – I thought maybe I was being a bit paranoid. Even when it looks legit, seems to follow the right path, and looks as it if were typed in by a human I don’t follow.. I do the Dr. Google check as well.
Congrats on being featured. That is cool and thanks for doing double duty on the hop!
You never know with those spam emails! Glad it worked out though! Congratulations!