BlogMad has been moved over to a new (dedicated) high-speed server to cope with the incredible amount of load generated by you bloggers - let it never be said we slowed you down! You should now experience much faster browsing and an increase in stability. Please be patient over the next 12 hours as things settle in, but after that start shouting if you see a problem!
Vault9 is scheduled for a major redesign and change pending our members requests — keep your eyes open and your browsers checking Vault9 over the next week!
Expecting father and BlogMad loyal member, Cary Cartter is running a baby pool competition on his blog.
Guess the time and date of birth of his child and win the pool, it costs 5 credits to enter and the pool is 800 credits which will grow with each entry.
Visit his blog and enter the pool!
We have just launched phase 1 of the new credit allocation system to get the transition process started. The way the new system works is quite simple. In the past you would assign a minimum credit limit to stop everything that could take a credit away from your account.
How this has changed now is instead of having 1 global limit and pretty much no control over where the credits are being allocated, you can now tell us where you want your credits spent. You can allocate credits to all the services on BlogMad - the surfbar, banners, textlinks and VARB. Once a certain allocation runs out, your blog will stop being displayed in that service and you will need to top up that allocation in order to resume as per normal.
We have also made it easier for you to assign the credits you are earning to a blog. This means that while you are passively earning credits on services such as textlinks, they are directed toward your blogs in a split that you have defined. You can have 20% go toward blog 1 and 80% toward blog 2. This means that you won’t have to check up on the allocation everyday and the system keeps itself running.
The spending priorities are the same as usual, you give your blog a value from 1-10 and the one with the higher number will receive the majority of the traffic in a ratio relevant to your other blog priorities.
Please note that the credits you allocate to the different services are immediately deducted from your account and put aside for the specific allocation you have set. Eg. if you assign 100 credits to surf bar and 15 to text links, 115 credits will be removed from your account.
Keep surfing!
The latest addition to the Kinetiq network has been launched, Blognetiq. It is, for now, a network of blogs published only by Kinetiq and based around the technology scene. The full list of blogs, their feeds and their links can be seen here.
This has also seen the re-launch of an old favourite, Blolg!
Something the members have been waiting for!
We are in the process of rolling out the new credit allocation system on BlogMad. This will allow members to assign credits to their blogs giving more control over how your blog is seen and where your credits are spent. Members will also be able to assign credits to banner ads and textlink campaigns.
Over the next couple of days you may notice the credit allocation box when setting up banners and textlinks. We are launching this in 2 phases - the first of which is allowing as many members as possible to setup allocations to their blogs. After this, we will implement the new deduction system whereby when someone views your blog, textlink or banner, the credits will be deducted from the allocation and not your general credit total.
We plan to have the system 100% ready within 2 weeks.
Stay tuned for more updates!
Good news BlogMad users! We’re getting ready to launch the latest addition to BlogMad - a review “auction” section.
You will be able to offer credits for a review, and other users are able to bid for the job! You can then sift through their ratings and profiles and choose the right reviewr for you!
More information will be available, but for now - here are some screenies!
See you on the flipside!
An over eXcited member managed to find a little more than he was supposed to and posted some screenshots of eXlinks on his blog.
We thought we’d follow suit and show you a few more screenshots.
You are more than welcome to use these on your blogs as part of your campaigns to gain more referrals.
Show them to your friends!
Hi there bloggers (and non-bloggers)! We’ve recently seen a huge growth on some of the other Kinetiq sites (particularily Vault9), and I thought I’d take this oppurtunity to introduce the members to each other.
For our BlogMad users, Vault9 is a network of forum sites and great users, all focussing on different topics but based around the internet and IT environment. Its, obviously, free to signup to however many you wish, and the Chill Vault even includes a massive collection of free flash games!
Vault9 users, BlogMad is an amazing community of bloggers, sharing traffic, thoughts and laughs in a web 2.0, social-network type of environment. Its based on whats commonly known as a trafficking service (not drugs, but blog views!). If you don’t have an account - feel free to signup!
To everyone! eXlinks is going to be the ultimate way to increase Page Rank, viewers and your friends network, exponentially! Don’t miss out…
We’ve just given every single user 50 free BlogMad credits to use however they wish! This is our way of saying thanks for being members, and even though we are trying to sell a few credits - we’ll always be the highest ratio site!
Enjoy
