9th May 2007
I’ve only recently started adding sponsored postings to BrainSeeds. I’ve had offers in the past and always said no. Why? Well, I don’t really believe in writing sponsored posts for products/services/websites I will not use. The few I have added lately are services that I have tried or anticipate using in the future. You can be sure that if the post is positive, then that is how I feel about it. I have no issue writing a negative post about a service that dissappoints, but more likely I won’t even take on the review in the first place. You can also be sure that I only write my posts after a pretty thorough review the site in question. Oh, and for you SEO inclined readers, I won’t put a nofollow on links in my reviews for these same reasons — these reviews are for sites I personally trust.
9th May 2007
Sponsered Post:
Yes, another stat service. I am trialing the GoStats web stats for a while to see how it stacks up against other web stats services. Even though GoStats has been around since 1999 (according to their content), I’ve actually not heard of them before yesterday. Anyway, I signed up last night in under 5 minutes even taking the time to read more details than I usually do during signups. In another 5 minutes I signed up this website and had tracking code in place.
I can say that through these first steps of signup and getting code in place, the only thing that bothered me was having to enter a captcha code to get the code to put on my site. I can understand the security around signups to keep out spammers. However, once I have an account, it would seem that the need for captcha’s should go away (especially for someone like me who seems to always get the code wrong the first time).
You can find the link to view BrainSeeds’ stats on the bottom of the right menu bar. This is more of a personal blog so traffic is limited and very sporadic to say the least. Don’t expect to see huge amounts of traffic if you click the link, but you will get a good sense for what GoStats has to offer. If after my trial I find it worthwhile, I will likely add this to a few of my sites that are more active.
2nd May 2007
Sponsored Post
I took a quick tour and run about on whogets.com today. If you are not familiar with them, I think you will be soon. It appears to be a prime candidate for viral marketing 101, because if you want to win — you will surely try to get all your friends to sign up and vote for you. I envision mass groups of “friends” trying to pile up the prizes just because they can, and all within the rules.
The short description of WhoGetsTM is that someone is always winning cool products, and the person who wins is decided by other users on the site. Registered users vote on who wins using whatever criteria they want. Pick a friend. Choose the hot chick. Get together with friends to boost along the person you think should not win — just for the heck of it! You start by picking the prize you want and entering the contest semi-final pool. WhoGetsTM randomly selects the seven finalists for each prize, then the semi-finalists put together a sob story about why they should win. Vote for your favorite, and if they get the most votes… they win.
WhoGetsTM makes sure to tell everyone that it is free to register, that you have nothing to buy, and that you won’t get annoying e-mails (isn’t that refreshing!). I found it a worthwhile site to visit and register — now if I can get you to vote for me to win I’ll be in heaven.
