Hello Folks,
As school starts up and summer vacations are ending and people are returning to work, surfing seems to be down a bit. But this is normal for this time of year and happened last year as well. I would like to encourage all users to come surf a few blogs each day though!
We do continue to grow in blogs each week though! We've picked up several this past week in fact! Happy viewing!
D.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
ExposeYourBlog! - What is it and why?
So, what is ExposeYourBlog! all about? ExposeYourBlog! is a Traffic Exchange Service that allows you to put your blog(s) in a queue to be seen and read by other people on the net. It provides another avenue to help get your site seen. This service is not like MOST traffic exchanges out there, in that it only allows for blogs to be put in rotation. Each blog in rotation is on your screen for from 20 seconds to 35 seconds giving you a chance to glance over it to see if there is new content to read. After reading and commenting, you have the option to click on a color or text to move on to the next site in rotation.
To make it work for you, what you must do is spend some time each day or week reading other blogs. As you do this, you earn credits that are automatically assigned to your blog(s) so others see yours. You do not see your blog(s) while you are surfing (so you don't use up your own credits). So, the more you surf, the more your blog goes into rotation! Also, the more you surf, the chance of getting an extra 5 to 500 credits comes along every few surfs (~33) in a row! Don't worry though! You will not see the same blog in a continuous three hour surfing session! Now, if you leave for any length of time over say 3 hours you may see some of the same blogs again, but that is because you have gone outside of that three hour window!
Why upgrade to a paid account? Free accounts are set to have a counter of 25 seconds for their blog(s) to be seen before the next blog can be selected. Paid members blog(s) get a counter of between 30 and 35 seconds, depending on the Pro level selected. Also, paid members get a reduction of time required to wait on other blogs of from 2 to 5 seconds, again, depending on the level of paid membership. Free members earn 3 credits for every 5 blogs they see. Pro/Paid members earn 1 credit for every 2 blogs or 1 for 1, depending on their level. (Each credit earned comes out of the viewed blogs owner's credit using them up as the other person surfs. (Make sense?)) Free members can only have two blogs in rotation at a time. Paid members can have from 5 to 50 (ok, I know, who has 50 blogs, you may be surprised!!) blogs in rotation at any time. Free members may only have banners that point to blogs (unless they buy commercial banner credits), while paid members may put any banner in rotation. Free members only get one banner. Pro/Paid members can have 5 to 15 banners in rotation!
A VERY important reason to be a Pro/Paid member is that there is a greater chance, by 10%, that your blogs will be seen first! Yep, being a Pro member you blogs have a weighted chance of 10% better viewings!
Why have banners? Banners give you a chance, with a flashy banner, to get another chance of having the surfer look at your blog(s)! PLUS, if you keep an eye on the banners each time the surf bar loads, you stand a chance of getting from 1 to 5 extra credits added to your account if you click on the banner before the notice slips off! After it slips off the banner, you don't get any extra credits, so look at the banner first thing!! Also, I am using those banners in rotation on other web sites soon! Remember, all banners MUST be 468X60 in size to be seen correctly! If you have banners, keep an eye on the credits available to you banners, as you may need to convert some of your surfing credits to your banners to get them seen!
Why surf daily and for at least 35 blogs each day? Well, for one, it keeps more credits in your account so your blog gets seen more often! Those that surf daily raise their blogs visibility by 5% for that day, meaning that it will be seen 5% more often that day than those accounts that have not surfed that day, so if you are a Pro/Paid member surfing daily, you are at 15% instead of 10%. After very 33 blogs you surf you will come upon a verification page that will allow you to receive from 5 to 500 extra credits, some cash and other benefits! Plus, you get to read some great blogs as you go! So, come join us and SURF AWAY!!
To make it work for you, what you must do is spend some time each day or week reading other blogs. As you do this, you earn credits that are automatically assigned to your blog(s) so others see yours. You do not see your blog(s) while you are surfing (so you don't use up your own credits). So, the more you surf, the more your blog goes into rotation! Also, the more you surf, the chance of getting an extra 5 to 500 credits comes along every few surfs (~33) in a row! Don't worry though! You will not see the same blog in a continuous three hour surfing session! Now, if you leave for any length of time over say 3 hours you may see some of the same blogs again, but that is because you have gone outside of that three hour window!
Why upgrade to a paid account? Free accounts are set to have a counter of 25 seconds for their blog(s) to be seen before the next blog can be selected. Paid members blog(s) get a counter of between 30 and 35 seconds, depending on the Pro level selected. Also, paid members get a reduction of time required to wait on other blogs of from 2 to 5 seconds, again, depending on the level of paid membership. Free members earn 3 credits for every 5 blogs they see. Pro/Paid members earn 1 credit for every 2 blogs or 1 for 1, depending on their level. (Each credit earned comes out of the viewed blogs owner's credit using them up as the other person surfs. (Make sense?)) Free members can only have two blogs in rotation at a time. Paid members can have from 5 to 50 (ok, I know, who has 50 blogs, you may be surprised!!) blogs in rotation at any time. Free members may only have banners that point to blogs (unless they buy commercial banner credits), while paid members may put any banner in rotation. Free members only get one banner. Pro/Paid members can have 5 to 15 banners in rotation!
A VERY important reason to be a Pro/Paid member is that there is a greater chance, by 10%, that your blogs will be seen first! Yep, being a Pro member you blogs have a weighted chance of 10% better viewings!
Why have banners? Banners give you a chance, with a flashy banner, to get another chance of having the surfer look at your blog(s)! PLUS, if you keep an eye on the banners each time the surf bar loads, you stand a chance of getting from 1 to 5 extra credits added to your account if you click on the banner before the notice slips off! After it slips off the banner, you don't get any extra credits, so look at the banner first thing!! Also, I am using those banners in rotation on other web sites soon! Remember, all banners MUST be 468X60 in size to be seen correctly! If you have banners, keep an eye on the credits available to you banners, as you may need to convert some of your surfing credits to your banners to get them seen!
Why surf daily and for at least 35 blogs each day? Well, for one, it keeps more credits in your account so your blog gets seen more often! Those that surf daily raise their blogs visibility by 5% for that day, meaning that it will be seen 5% more often that day than those accounts that have not surfed that day, so if you are a Pro/Paid member surfing daily, you are at 15% instead of 10%. After very 33 blogs you surf you will come upon a verification page that will allow you to receive from 5 to 500 extra credits, some cash and other benefits! Plus, you get to read some great blogs as you go! So, come join us and SURF AWAY!!
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
EYB! - School Starts Soon!
Well, here in the US school in many areas starts Monday of next week. Means some of our users will be home more doing homework, which also means instead of homework, they may be on their computers surfing to get away from homework... I hope they do their homework FIRST though. ;)
ExposeYourBlog! is still growing, slowly but surely! We could always use more bloggers and surfers, but I'm not totally unhappy with with what we have right now. More is always better of course! So, if you blog, come join us over at http://exposeyourblog.com and read other blogs (will help you come up with new ideas) and get your blog seen! Most of our surfers read the blogs, and many comment on your blog as well!
We have 325 blogs in rotation right now, which takes over three hours of steady watching to see them all. You will not see the same blog within three hours of itself either. We are only a manual surf site, with variable times for free vs paid members, with the paid member blogs having more time on the screen before the person can go on to the next blog.
Happy Surfing!
ExposeYourBlog! is still growing, slowly but surely! We could always use more bloggers and surfers, but I'm not totally unhappy with with what we have right now. More is always better of course! So, if you blog, come join us over at http://exposeyourblog.com and read other blogs (will help you come up with new ideas) and get your blog seen! Most of our surfers read the blogs, and many comment on your blog as well!
We have 325 blogs in rotation right now, which takes over three hours of steady watching to see them all. You will not see the same blog within three hours of itself either. We are only a manual surf site, with variable times for free vs paid members, with the paid member blogs having more time on the screen before the person can go on to the next blog.
Happy Surfing!
Friday, July 15, 2011
EYB! - Summer Heat!
It looks like the summer heat here in the US is keeping people away from their computers and at the pools maybe! Surfing is down a bit, but we are still getting some surfing and commenting done!
We are also still growing slowly but surely! Each week we get a blog or two added and three or four new people surfing and commenting on the blogs, so things are going well.
I would still like to see us out grow BlogExplosion at it's prime! All it takes is for each of us to get active in surfing daily, and for each of us to post links in our blogs to ExposeYourBlog! and at least one post about the site to get your readers to come check it out. I have found that MOST of the readers of blogs are blog writers themselves, not all, but most. So, if they read in your blog that you use ExposeYourBlog!, they will possibly come check us out and become one of your down line (giving you extra credits as well!) and give us more blogs to look at!
Happy Surfing!
We are also still growing slowly but surely! Each week we get a blog or two added and three or four new people surfing and commenting on the blogs, so things are going well.
I would still like to see us out grow BlogExplosion at it's prime! All it takes is for each of us to get active in surfing daily, and for each of us to post links in our blogs to ExposeYourBlog! and at least one post about the site to get your readers to come check it out. I have found that MOST of the readers of blogs are blog writers themselves, not all, but most. So, if they read in your blog that you use ExposeYourBlog!, they will possibly come check us out and become one of your down line (giving you extra credits as well!) and give us more blogs to look at!
Happy Surfing!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
EYB! - Ticking along!
Well, in this past week, we had a bit of a problem with our Host system. They decided to do an unscheduled (well they didn't let me know about it anyway) maintenance on their systems, which took us out of play for almost 24 hours. Not a happy camper with it, but at least they got us back up, without loss of data, and all appears to be running smoothly again.
At least in the surfing area. Comments are a problem for blogspot.com systems though. If you have left your comments section "in line", meaning that when a person clicks on comments to comment and the page refreshes instead of opening a pop up (only time pop ups are allowed on ExposeYourBlog! is for comments!), you stand a good chance of the person trying to comment getting a white page with no content on it. I have found that blogspot.com does not support frames when it comes to comments. The way to fix this is to set your comments as a pop up and not in line.
I have taken out text ads from the system, as no one was clicking on them, and they were eating credits up pretty fast. If you have text credits left, don't forget to convert them to conversion credits, and you can use them for banner or surf credits. At the end of August, I am converting any text credits left to Banner credits!
Happy Surfing!!
At least in the surfing area. Comments are a problem for blogspot.com systems though. If you have left your comments section "in line", meaning that when a person clicks on comments to comment and the page refreshes instead of opening a pop up (only time pop ups are allowed on ExposeYourBlog! is for comments!), you stand a good chance of the person trying to comment getting a white page with no content on it. I have found that blogspot.com does not support frames when it comes to comments. The way to fix this is to set your comments as a pop up and not in line.
I have taken out text ads from the system, as no one was clicking on them, and they were eating credits up pretty fast. If you have text credits left, don't forget to convert them to conversion credits, and you can use them for banner or surf credits. At the end of August, I am converting any text credits left to Banner credits!
Happy Surfing!!
Saturday, June 04, 2011
One Year Anniversary!
YES!! Today marks the one year anniversary of ExposeYourBlog! being officially open to the public and out of development mode!
Those that are members at 11:59PM tonight will receive a bonus 25 credits to their account as a present, and those that surf, even once, today, will receive another 25 credits. :)
We have had a few trails and tribulations this past year, but over all, things have gone pretty well! We have slowly grown, after the initial growth, and continue to slowly grow, which is OK by me. We have a lot of good blogs on board, and the reading and commenting is pretty good in most cases!
Hope to see more of you here over this next year!
Don
Those that are members at 11:59PM tonight will receive a bonus 25 credits to their account as a present, and those that surf, even once, today, will receive another 25 credits. :)
We have had a few trails and tribulations this past year, but over all, things have gone pretty well! We have slowly grown, after the initial growth, and continue to slowly grow, which is OK by me. We have a lot of good blogs on board, and the reading and commenting is pretty good in most cases!
Hope to see more of you here over this next year!
Don
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Have you gotten your blog seen lately?
Hello Folks,
ExposeYourBlog! (http://exposeyourblog.com) is awaiting your arrival to get your blog seen! All you have to do is sign up, surf five sites, then post up to 2 blogs for a free account, 50 blogs for the Enterprise Pro account. (I know, who has 50 blogs? You would be surprised, but the Enterprise Pro account has many other great bennies too!)
What is ExposeYourBlog!? It is a surf site in which you read other blogs earning credits for each view (for every 5 blogs you view, you get three credits on a free account, and for every one you view you get one credit for your blog) of someones blog.
We have been around just under a year now, and while we are still kinda small, we are growing slowly each week. :) We would like to grow faster, so if you are reading this, come join us!! ;)
ExposeYourBlog! (http://exposeyourblog.com) is awaiting your arrival to get your blog seen! All you have to do is sign up, surf five sites, then post up to 2 blogs for a free account, 50 blogs for the Enterprise Pro account. (I know, who has 50 blogs? You would be surprised, but the Enterprise Pro account has many other great bennies too!)
What is ExposeYourBlog!? It is a surf site in which you read other blogs earning credits for each view (for every 5 blogs you view, you get three credits on a free account, and for every one you view you get one credit for your blog) of someones blog.
We have been around just under a year now, and while we are still kinda small, we are growing slowly each week. :) We would like to grow faster, so if you are reading this, come join us!! ;)
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