Luka (not her real name) over at Incogoblogo was pimping something called Blogexplosion. Supposedly it will boost traffic to your site, just by you going and clicking on other people's sites.
It had all the aroma of a blog pyramid scheme, but I decided to check out the site anyway. Turns out it's one of these nouveau "viral marketing" sites.
Here's their pitch:
You read other blog sites and they in return visit your blog. Blogexplosion is the internet's first blog exchange where thousands of bloggers visit each other's blogs in order to receive tons of blog traffic. Imagine how many other people out there could be adding your blog to their blogroller and how many people would be reading your blog every day with this sort of attention.
When you refer new members to Blog Explosion you receive 10% of the traffic they generate five levels deep. By referring new members you receive bonus blog traffic for life!
Blog Explosion Features!
* 2:1 traffic ratio means for every two blogs you visit, one person will visit your Blog in return!
* Get your blog listed in the Blog Explosion blog directory and get free trafffic as long as you are a member!
* Add unlimited blogs you want to promote!
* Add unlimited banners with clickthrough reporting to help promote your blogs
*Enter great monthly contests and win bonus Mystery Blog traffic 24/7!
*Blogexplosion provides full statistics for your blog traffic including total visitors, unique visitors, time of day, and what country your blog traffic is coming from
* Refer new members to BlogExplosion and generate huge referral traffic on five tiers (10%,10%,10%, 10%,10%). Watch your blog traffic fly as you earn a percentage of blog traffic from people you refer to BlogExplosion.
Autumn and Winter, in my humble opinion, are the perfect months to be in a relationship. The cold weather gives one more reason to snuggle up against your loved one. The winter chill erased by loving warmth. Ah, how I would love to be held like that once more.
I got bit by the BlogExplosion bug, too. I spend time surfing random blogs anyway, so I figure what's it hurt to get some traffic in return.
Only problem I found surfing was it seemed to be the same sites each time I sat down to surf. And there were so many mommy sites, and politics sites that I lost interest at first. But, eyes on the prize, I endured my 30 seconds of pain and clicked the little number for the next site. I did find a few pearls in the cesspool, though, and bookmarked them for later perusal.
The down side I have found is that you stop clicking for a few days and you run out of credits and you don't get exposure anymore until you start clicking. So you have to keep doing it ritually every day. This "crack factor" may work for the slobberring masses, but for those of us with lives, that kinda sucks.
Still, I try to earmark an hour every couple days to feed the kitty for credits. And their banner impressions, hell, they were unimpressive. After hundreds of exposures only a handful of clicks. So many wasted credits.
So I will stick with BlogExplosion for now. I am sure it will improve as it matures, the site is only a few weeks old.
Posted by: Dave at November 1, 2004 02:04 PM