Not too long ago I wrote a TNX Review. What would draw in any advertiser is the low cost of links. PR 3 links run as low as 200 points which is only 26 cents! Do you realize how little you are selling your links for?

Advertising is a Pain

This system would be great for advertisers to get tons of links for cheap, if it was easy. I’ve had a lot of problems, with a very unhelpful staff. Since there is no support system via email you must take it live or through the forum.

My problem (which can be viewed here) was that several of the websites I had purchased links from weren’t displaying them. Support kept telling me to wait and so I did. Before my monthly link expired I checked the websites again. Only 2 of 8 websites were displaying the links. Apparently I must be blind because the support said “I found pretty much all websites displaying your link.” I didn’t know invisible links existed. Now that my thread is closed “Alex” the support has changed his mind and said “all websites did display your link.”

Funny how things change.

TNX Points Giveaway

I did secure a refund and have no intention of using them again. I would have to be given a lot of free points and I don’t see that happening.

I currently have 2,400 points, but only 1200 available for transfer. I figure I could give 6 people 200 points, which means a free pr3 link. All you have to do is leave a comment about your experience with TNX. I am interested in hearing how you like them and would love your input on the support problem in question.

Black Friday is gone. But, great deals and savings on items you buy online are not limited to after Thanksgiving day sale. You can find them year round if you know where to find them.

ProBargainHunter is a great site for deal news and coupons. They are all about finding great deals from around the Internet.

So, you love frequenting popular deal sites on the Internet and love sharing those great finds with your friends and family. What if, you could get rewarded for sharing those great deals?

That’s where Buxr.com comes in and it is by the same folks I just mentioned. Buxr.com, just launched on December 3rd, is not only a way for you to find great deals, shop and save money, but if you had a blog or website, you can share these deals with everyone and get rewarded when someone makes use of the offers.

Quick facts about Buxr

• Hand picked hot deals
• Deals are tagged and categorized helping us to find similar deals by same merchant.
• Buxr widget is highly customizable and you can track clicks and conversions in the control panel.
• Widgets show the latest hot deals and can be narrowed down to show certain deals based on your niche.
• Referral program offers 10% of the people you refer’s commission for 12 months!
• I was offered a $10 commission just for signing up in beta but now that they have launched it, it may not be available.

Win a 8GB iPod Touch

Buxr.com has a contest running now that offers a 8GB iPod Touch to the person with the most referrals. They are also giving away a 4GB iPod Nano & a 4GB USB Flash Drive for the runner ups. You can periodically check the standings and you can keep promoting it until January 4th when they announce the winners. Even if you don’t win one of the 3, you can still win the 10% referral commissions.

Should I Join?

I realize Buxr.com might not look like a great fit at first look for every niche. But, the way I see it, everyone loves a great deal on the Internet. With Christmas shopping on top of the list for those celebrating Christmas, this is a fun way to find and share deals with your friends and family.

There are plenty of ways to make money online but I love this idea of trying to make some money while you can save some yourself finding good deals.

I am finding myself checking this widget everyday as they really do post some of the hottest deals on the Internet.

If you would like to show some referral love, you could sign up using this link for a Buxr Widget. (affiliate link)

Yesterday some of you experienced a bit of a technical issue here at Blog about your Blog. If you tried to leave a comment you were denied. It was pretty easy to find that Bad Behavior was the culprite.

I haven’t yet attempted to fix it, but I don’t think it would be worth the trouble. Has anyone else had Behavior problems?

Sorry about the problem, don’t be shy now. You can comment again.

I am happy to announce we teamed up with NeverBlueAds to offer you this great contest. I really wanted to get a nice cash contest launched before Christmas for some lovely spending money for our great readers. Have I buttered you up enough yet to enter? Along with our great sponsor NeverBlueAds, we got some other websites contributing what they can.

NeverBlueAds is an affiliate network where you can run their variety of promotions and earn money. You can read more about them at my post Affiliate Marketing with NeverBlueAds.

Rules

Before we get to the prizes let me tell you how to enter. The contest will be pretty simple and straightforward. All you have to do is mention the contest in a blog post, along with our sponsor NeverBlueAds. This will get you one entry.

Bonus Entry. The only way to get an entry is to post as I mentioned above. However to get a bonus entry in the contest, you can use your affiliate link when you mention NeverBlueAds in your post. The link should look like this http://www.neverblueads.com/signup?ref=aff_29231. NeverBlueAds is looking to gain more new members as well as get their affiliate service out there. By posting your affiliate link I will know that you’ve joined.

Deadline

Monday Dec 17th at Midnight PST

Prizes

First-Third Place 100$ Winners from NeverBlueAds
Fourth Place Website Review on this blog by Adsense Tracker
Fifth Place 25$ from Blogging4Everyone
Sixth Place Website Review from Nspeaks
Seventh Place Website Review from SelectIndex
Eighth Place Featured Blog Spot on A Links Blog

We’ve got a great list of prizes here, there’s no reason for you not to enter! I want to thank all of our sponsors for putting up some great prizes. A huge thank you to NeverBlueAds.

Entrecard is the latest blogging and traffic tool to go viral. Everyone from John Chow to John Cow is using it. I don’t know how I missed out on this interesting new blogging toy to play with. Blog about your Blog is late to the party, but we are jumping in both feet first.

What is Entrecard?

Entrecard offers a basic point system where you can buy and sell 125×125 banner cards on other blogs. These cards can be placed anywhere on your blog. The idea is to exchange traffic. With button banner advertising being so common now, it’s really an excellent idea.

The idea gets a little ‘complex’ but if you break it down, it’s pretty easy.

Dropping Your Card

When you drop your card (the 125×125 banner) on someone else’s blog you get one point and so do they. What you are doing is basically saying that you viewed their entrecard widget. By calling attention to their widget, they can sell their actual advertising for more.

Advertising

To determine how many credits you can sell your space for, it is the number of credits to twice the number of cards dropped on that widget each day. To place an ad on our spot, it currently costs 16 credits. Therefore 8 members have dropped their card.

Each ad runs for 24 hours. We are currently displaying A Frog To Kiss. In another 4 hours or so, we will be displaying our next ad, which happens to be Internet Dreams.

The Most Popular

Of course the most expensive entrecard belongs to none other than John Chow. It currently costs 122 credits per day and I’m sure that number will go up. I expect BAYB to be rivaling some of the other popular entrecards in the days to come.

Be Careful It’s Addicting

Each day you can visit other blogs and “drop your card”. This gives you 1 point. With each point you get, you then can advertise your card on other blogs. Do this everyday and you can be set to advertise on popular blogs. The more popular, the more traffic. We all know, traffic can be addicting!

How Does It Perform?

The most important thing is the traffic. As I mentioned I have only been on it for a day now. What is good about it is that they give you stats on how much traffic you’ve received. What’s bad is, I don’t know where it came from. I would definitely be more interested in finding out which blogs are sending me the traffic. Therefore I could obviously advertise on them again.
So far we’ve received 34 clicks from entrecard.com and 17 clicks from the ads we’ve purchased. Another problem is the quality of traffic. Yes, they are visiting our blog, but they are also just looking for the entrecard widget.

Have you registered to entrecard? If you have make sure to drop your card on ours!

The email subscriber contest has ended. We went from having only 14 email subscribers, all the way up to 78! I imagine we will have a few people unsubscribing, but I plan on having other contests and competitions where we will give our rss feed readers prizes.

The winners are:

76: writetome (at) thesilvas [dot] com

1: 06lisam (at) gmail [dot] com

64: Dreaming to Infinity – Review

The way I will decide the prizes is whoever writes me first gets what they want. If I get no response after 48 hours, I will chose another winner.

Remember the three prizes are:

• 1 month 125×125 banner spot
• 1 month blogroll link
• 1 month rss feed advertisement

Thanks to all our subscribers and to everyone who posted about the contest. We’ve received some great additional prizes for tomorrows contest that I am very happy about.

Mark wrote a quick review about RSSHugger and how you can use it to promote your blog.

Now by posting about their service you can get a free account. Your RSS feed will be listed for free. For people to find your RSS feed they have a listing of the Top 100 feeds. There is only 255 feeds on RSSHugger at the moment, so with a little promotion your feed can get to the top!

Top 100 List

For the top feeds of November BAYB found itself in good company at the top. Within a day or two, we got a few hits per day. Of course to get to the top is going to generate the most traffic.

The best way I found to get a quick boost is to stumble your RSS feed page. This should increase your views, traffic, and ranking.

The obvious other way to promote your feed listing is to mention it like I am doing. I hope you all will visit our page and increase our ranking. The month just started, so start getting your rankings. For anyone using RSSHugger leave us your URL to stumble!