Happy New Year!

We’re getting closer to our invitation-only beta. We expect to have a new version of our software installed in the next few weeks. After we get a chance to work some of the initial kinks out, we’ll be inviting bloggers to take a look and help us make this service the best it can be.

If you’re interested in participating please head over to the main site and sign up. We’ll only be using your information to invite you to the beta and notify you of launch!

Talk to ya soon

I’m proud to announce that bloglinkr is sponsoring Darren Rowse’s latest Problogger Group Writing Project. This GWP topic is Reviews and Predictions. There are over $2,000 dollars in prizes to be won, and 10 different sponsors.

For our part we’re offering $500 in advertising credit on bloglinkr (when we launch, of course) or $100 in cold hard cash (well..as cold and hard as PayPal gets…) - winner’s choice.

If you plan on participating in the Group Writing Project, be sure an read the official rules, and have fun! Winner’s are selected randomly, but you can’t win if you don’t participate!
Good luck to everyone!

We received a nice write up on Rooster’s Rail this weekend that I wanted to pass along to those of your subscribed to the RSS feed.

Here are a few excerpts:

I like this concept. Bloggers advertising their blog on other blogs with minimal outlay. Nice idea, not sure if it will take off or that it will have the returns that they say it will but it is a good idea that might be of interest to bloggers who don’t have the A-List on their side or the cash for a marketing plan.

One issue that the blogger brings up is something I want to address:

I would question their claims that you could:

“… recieve hundreds of backlinks, clicks and visitors every month.”

There is no way that they could know this when the service has not even started yet. I think they could sell the idea to bloggers without unsubstantiated claims. They may well be using data from other services but I think that is a reach. It slumps a little into the “hard sell” with statements like that.

Maybe I should change “every month” to “for your money”.

We expect ads to cost between .05 and .20 cents per click. Going by those numbers the minimum amount of clicks you would receive for $25 would be 125, the most would be 500.

That’s why it’s worded that way…it’s not meant to be a hard sell, per say, as much as I was just trying to illustrate what kind of response you could expect for your investment.

I also want to stress that it is FREE to publish ads on your site. There is no cost involved with becoming a bloglinkr publisher. The only time that you’ll need to spend any money with us is if you want to advertise on other blogs.

Anyway, we’re still looking good for a January beta launch, and we’re eager to hear your input on what we’re trying to do…so feel free to contact us, at info(at) bloglinkr (dot) com or comment on any of the posts on this blog.

Just a quick update for everyone, we’ve been hard at work on getting our advertising system in place over the last few weeks, and all that’s left are cosmetic changes before we’ll be inviting the first round of Beta Testers.

We hope to have the first Beta running in January, so be on the look out…and tell your friends!

We had to do some house cleaning last night to get the ad servers up and running, and as a result, the previous blog entries are kap-put.

Ah well…