BlogMad in Beta!

BlogMad is here! Horray! If you haven’t heard of BlogMad yet, it’s an up-and-coming blog traffic exchange. The guys at BlogMad have some pretty creative, if not revolutionary ideas about boosting the traffic to your blog. And I, yours truly, will be a beta tester. I can’t wait! For the latest from BlogMad, check out the post continuation below.

Happy Holiday Greetings BlogManiacs!

We hope that everyone has had an awesome holiday!
Those who celebrated Christmas we hope it was as awesome for you as it was for us and that Santa brought you lots of cool stuff!
So much has been happening in the last few weeks, there is an air of great excitement in the BlogMad camp!

Things are hotting up as we try and wrap up the year on a high note.
The team coding BlogMad have been losing sleep changing things as ideas pour in, it’s a nightmare but a lot of fun!

But a well deserved break shall be enjoyed.

Credits

To get a few things aside, some people will notice that they have additional credits in their accounts.
This was from updating the "Downline", so to speak and adding an extra credit for every person below the person you referred down to 5 levels.

We’ll be keeping this in place long after we launch so that means that the more people you refer the more credits you score!
The amount of signups we have had are phenomenal!
It is without a doubt that the day that we launch blogmad we’ll not look back!
While we are on the subject of credits, we’d like to extend a hearty thank you to those people who have been raking in the referrals.
So we are going to be adding even more credits to peoples accounts.
If you have referred more than 5 people we’ll update your acount with an extra 25 credits,
more than 10 an extra 75 credits
and over 20 an extra 200 credits!

We like to go and look to see who are using our banners and promoting us and we randomly give away credits to people who are promoting blogmad so keep an eye on your comments! we’ll be round to visit.
Just an extra way we are saying thanks for supporting us thus far.
To give you something to look forward to, we are giving you some awesome screenshots this week.

Below you will find a number of thumbnails that you can click to enlarge into the full screenshot.
But be Warned! They can cause addiction!

Feel free to use the screenshots as media material to get more referrals.

Unverified Accounts

We have noticed that there are quite a large number of accounts that have not yet been verified.
If you are having any problems please feel free to email us directly at helpdesk@blogmad.net

Launch Date

We realise that people are dying to know when we launch. We have been getting emails from many people asking about the launch date and although we’d love to give you a final date but alas we can’t as there is still alot of testing to be done. We can confirm however that the Beta testers will get access in January.

BlogMad Mascot

We have received so many cool names for the blogmad mascot yet we still haven’t seen the name that is going to be in the hearts and minds of bloggers all over the world.
We are looking for the name thats going to jump up at us and make us go YES!

We are still giving away credits to those people who give us some pretty cool ideas though so check your accounts for free credits!

Send us your suggestions and if we like it, we’ll reward you handsomely!

Beta Testing

We were very much hoping to have had the site on a beta testing server during December but alas it wasn’t to be (It’s been said that good things come to those who wait! )

But we have been looking over the applications we received and we have chosen the following people to be testers for us.

2 people on this list didn’t apply but we think they’d be an asset to the team.

Well done to :

Sarah
http://www.sarahintampa.com

Andrew
http://www.monkeyboy.ws

Beltane
http://blog.aequinox.com

Steven
http://letsmovetothemoon.blogspot.com

Joe
http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog

Joe Anderson has not only been accepted as a Beta Tester but has earned himself a place on the Moderating team at blogmad and will be a contributing writer for alot of documentation such as Search Engine Optimization tip n tricks for bloggers, as well as moderating the irc channel.
Joe has already been allowed to access the blogmad beta site and will probably write a short review on it on his blog soon, so for an unbiased account, go read Joe’s blog.

Thanks for your valuable input Joe!

Thomas
http://www.truthonirag.blogspot.com

Koray
http://koray.ws

Koray comes to us with a host of great ideas.
Koray will be joining forces with us on a project or 2.

Indie
http://indeterminacy.blogspot.com

Fred
http://serial-thoughts.com

These people will be receiving their secure log in’s shortly.

If you applied and were not accepted, we are still looking for more people so maybe rethink any ideas and drop us another email.

If you feel you deserve to be a beta tester, drop us an email and tell us why we should choose you.

Staffing needs

When BlogMad launches, we’ll be looking for volunteers who would be willing to give up their time to take up the reigns and help out with some of the tasks that will need to be done. Such as manning the "Help Desk" , answering support questions, slapping wrists, etc

If you would like to help us out in this respect, drop us an email to helpdesk@blogmad.net telling us why you would make a great staff member.

If you are accepted, you get a free link on our staff page, bonus credits and prizes.

Interesting Stats

The BlogMad site has received visitors from 150 different countries! ( Including a visitor from Christmas Island over the Christmas Weekend )

The site has generated more than 1 million hits since pre launch signups started.
BlogMad.net is already indexed by every major search engine.
The term "BlogMad" brings blogmad.net or a blogmad related search up in 1st place on Google, MSN, Altavista, yahoo, aol, icerocket, technorati.
The 1st 2 pages of results on google when searching for BlogMad all are related to blogmad.net

Clearly showing that the internet’s gone BLOGMAD!!

‘Till next time

Go BlogMad and have a great new year!

BlogMad Manical Administration