Blogexplosion

Well it can't get better than hearing from the co-owner of BlogExplosion directly !! I get Google alerts and your url came up.

BlogExplosion is a blog traffic exchange. You look at my blog and I look at yours. Members can generate traffic to their blogs and it also creates opportunities for more comments and cross-linking between sites which are all key elements to generating long term traffic to your blog.

BlogExplosion is less than 2 weeks old but we already have 450 members with 60-75 new signpups daily. A member caught spamming will have their account deleted immediately.

As far as a pyramid scheme - There is no money exchanged here. People do get 10% of the traffic from the people they refer on 5 levels, but this certainly does not classify BlogExplosion as a Pyramid Scheme -- Offering multi-tiered referal programs (with no money involved) does not come close to even fitting the definition of a pyramid scheme...

As for the top-rated blogs we did not have enough ratings as a brand new site but as of now sites with a minimum of 3-4 votes are the only ones that qualify and we will increase the number of minimum votes to qualify for the top 10. I certainly don't have the time to rank blogs, so again please before you make accusations perhaps you can give us the benefit of the doubt here.

For anyone reading this we take feedback good and bad, but I ask to try out BlogExplosion for yourself before making any judgements on it.

Within 90 days from now members will be generating probably a minimum of 100 visitors to their blogs daily and we should be delivering well over 1 million pages per month or more.

We own three other traffic exchanges that rank in the top 10,000 sites on the net serving tens of millions of pages monthly, so know we are not some link exchange that spams people.

http://absoblogginlutely.net/ why don't you sign up surf some sites and earn some credits and see for yourself what we are all about --

I think you may (or may not) at least see at minimum that the above comments are not based on anything factual and infact BlogExplosion is a valuable asset to the blogging community.

Sincerely
BlogExplosion Team

As a member of BlogExplosion (no link) and of the other three exchanges owned by this team, since all were new, I think I can give you a fair opinion from my personal experience.

Actually, since most of us bloggers already spend time looking for and reading other blogs, this system is a natural fit. You can spend the same amount of time and, yet get something back for it.

Surfing BlogExplosion, I've found some interesting blogs that I might not have stumbled across otherwise. I gain from that.

Other people gain from my membership. I like to think of this as more in the line of barter and exchange among a community. If you think carefully about it, this IS how the human race has always united it's societies. Once we bartered carrots for potatoes at the the local village market. Now we exchange our time or expertise online.

I know there is a lot of bad stuff in the world, but, I think you would agree that it would be a mistake to assume that it was flat because of it?

I'm a BlogExplosion member and it works well for me.

I spend several hours a day (lunch hour plus) surfing the web and once I've exhausted my regular sites I go looking for new ones. BlogExplosion pays me credits for reading sites through their interface. Those credits are then used to direct other readers to my site.

As with any selection of sites there are some (many) that I'm not interested in. But I've also found some very interesting sites through BlogExplosion.

BlogExplosion has generated about 50-odd new visitors to my site, more than BlogSnob or any other system ever has. And of those 4 have left comments, meaning there's a good chance that they've bothered to read the site. Not a bad success rate I think (especially for a site as poorly written as mine).

I have posted about and linked BlogExplosion on my site as I like the service (just as I have for BlogSnob and the webrings I'm a member of). However, BlogExplosion also pays credits for referrals as a % of the credits that referred users generate. However, I wouldn't class that as spam (or as a pyramid scheme, simply marketing).