Blog Explosion
Today I tried out a new blog promotion service that I’ve been hearing a lot about: Blog Explosion. They offer a unique combination of rewarded surfing with multilevel marketing (pyramind) schemes. The payout, though, is not money, but traffic. For every 2 blogs you visit through their site, they send one visitor to your sites. And for each referral that you get to sign up on Blog Explosion, you get 10% of the traffic they generate, down to a maximum of 5 levels deep.
They’re not stupid about doing this, either. They give a page full of banners you can use to promote blog explosion, most of which are well done, but unfortunately animated. Here’s a still of one of them:
After surfing 100 blogs I’d never seen before, I found some neat, interesting things:
- Saint Isidore, patron saint of the Internet
- A hilarious appeal for a date, and overall amusing site
- The survival guide to homelessness
- A proud US marine’s wife’s blog
- Some mystical poetry by Yeats
That’s the real benefit to the Blog Explosion system: getting to meet new and interesting blogs. Of course, for every good blog you meet, there are some bad ones:
- Profit center: sate your greed
- Michelle of garish and aliased fonts
- A scary tale of babies and ceiling fans…
- Inane personal family blog
- More inane family thoughts
- Cluttered designs and slow loading layouts
- No Comment
- Blogs that are too personal
- Blogs that are too personal and very hard to read
My friends, there is more chaff than wheat. Still it’s an idea worth checking out, especially if you sign up with this special link! Probably, you’ll find some neat blog ideas and blogs, find some stuff you hate, and get a few more visitors. It’s a sophisticated enough system and idea that it’s worth a try–and it’s free.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 at 5:06 pm and is tagged with patron saint of the internet, saint isidore, mystical poetry, amusing site, multilevel marketing, slow loading, promotion service, survival guide, profit center, personal family, chaff, yeats, interesting things, ceiling fans, homelessness, greed, explosion, blog ideas, wheat, referral. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.
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