We were just talking about SEO tools and although it is still in Beta, I just today stumbled across a really exciting new one. Apparently it has been around for a few months, but it is new to me:
Oh, and if you click the link you will see a new version of my grapefruit and bananas art shot! Ever wonder why I write all this stuff? The explanation is there too.
Qassia looks fantastic and the owner has a wild sense of humor, so if you sign up, be sure to read and understand the Terms of Service. That said, the purpose of the site is to help bloggers get back links without working their posteriors off. Looks like a great place for some Geeky social networking, too. Is that a contradiction of terms? I don't think so.
Already some people of limited capacity have been advertising Qassia as a place to make a fast US$, but a quick glance and/or a little common sense should tell visitors that the gimmick they use called Qassia "Bucks" are not real money. When you write an article (they call them "Intels") or rate someone else's article, or recruit a new member, they award you Qassia Bucks, and the incentive for earning them is that people with a lot of the play money bucks get more exposure for the blogs they wish to promote.One problem I have with their rating system is that if an article is obviously plagiarized, the rater cannot verify the authorship or reject it as part of the rating process. Instead, you can wait until 12 other people have approved it and then go in and flag it as inappropriate. By that time it has already been published with a high rating from people who may not have noticed that it was not original material. That part of the process is greatly flawed, in my opinion.
I'd tell you more, but right now I have to get back and start expostulating!
Choosing Your AeroGarden
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