BlogSoldiers

Now Over 9000 Blogs!

2007-09-06T21:08:00.001-05:00

In the last few days BlogSoldiers has added it's 9000th blog! As one of the largest and premier blog traffic exchanges, this is great news as more great content is available to our members. While others have closed up or slowed down, BlogSoldiers keeps on growing. Come see what you are missing and join us today!

May Traffic DOUBLED April Traffic!

2007-06-12T20:06:00.000-05:00

The number of visitors spending time at BlogSoldiers was double in May what it was in April. This growth for an established site is phenomenal and makes BlogSoldiers even that more attractive for new members. The more members and blogs we have in the system, the more readers for YOU!

Blogsoldiers Launches Internet Radio Station and Forums!

2007-06-12T19:00:00.000-05:00

Today BlogSoldiers is announcing the launch of BlogSoldiers Radio. The station is hosted by Yahoo! Launchcast and a link to start playing is available on the website starting today. It can also be accessed here. In addition, BlogSoldiers is adding Forums where bloggers can discuss the service, read announcements, give feedback, and generally chat with other members. Stay tuned for even more features and services that will help continue to grow BlogSoldiers as the premier internet community for blogs!

BlogSoldiers still growing!

2007-06-03T23:07:00.000-05:00

BlogSoldiers recently passed the 8000 member blogs mark and we now almost have 8200 blogs in the system between over 6600 members. We gain about 20 members and blogs a day, every single day. It's still a great time to be a part of BlogSoldiers with new features and a redesign coming in shortly! Stay tuned.

November News!

2006-11-14T20:55:00.000-06:00

BlogSoldiers has been doing great the past few months, traffic has stayed high, especially during the elections.

Since taking over, Blog Soldiers has consistently been in the top 100,000 visited sites according to Alexa. Enough stats, now for the good news:

BlogSoldiers is now offering .75 credits per page surfed. What this means is that when you surf 4 blogs, you get 3 credits instead of 2. You earn traffic 50% faster, much faster than almost all other traffic exchanges! You've seen great blogs, you get your great blog seen!

The 200,000 credit sale is still ongoing! You can buy 7500 credits for only $20! Memberships now get rewarded with even more credits and is more cost-efficient than buying credits. Upgrade your account today!

As always, if you have any comments, feedback, or problems let us know.

Steep Discounts on Credit Purchases and More!

2006-09-22T01:20:00.000-05:00

BlogSoldiers is conducting it's 200,000 credit sale! Basically, we're trying to sell 200,000 credits at cut-rate prices to you. At prices well below normal and below what the competition charges, you can't afford to take advantage of this!

$5 - 1500 credits
$10 - 3500 credits
$20 - 7500 credits!

Also, a new surfing contest and member referral contest until the end of the month will be running... If you surf the most or recruit the most members you can get up to 1000 credits!

An Incredible Month at Blog Soldiers

2006-09-06T00:05:00.000-05:00

We've just had an incredible month since the transition... the take over was August 14th and traffic has roughly doubled daily since then. Every statistic is up, number of visitors, number of hits, hits per visitor, and so on. There's been a large jump in the number of new users and new sites, and old users are coming back to active status. It's been a great month of growth at Blog Soldiers.

Expect to see more great blogs, a greater variety, and new features! Thanks to all of you who support Blog Soldiers.

Great New Programs to Support Bloggers!

2006-08-24T01:18:00.000-05:00

As part of Blog Soldier's commitment to helping bloggers succeed, we've added two great new programs!

First, for those who host the various Blog Carnivals (or look here), we will reward your volunteer effort with FREE credits. That's right, you host a carnival, and we'll give you credits (500 for Carnival of the Vanities, 200 for others). Also, for the Carnival of New Bloggers, we'll reward all participants of the New Blog Carnival with 200 credits as a way of helping new bloggers get readers!

Second, as part of my personal blogging efforts, I've started a new featured column at Blog Critics called the Overlooked Blog Review, where I review established blogs and highlight those I think aren't getting the attention they deserve. If your blog is highlighted, you get a free 1 month membership and if you nominate a blog that I accept to highlight, you also get a free 1 month membership!

This is just one of the many ways we're supporting bloggers and the blogging community! Stay tuned for more great programs by Blog Soldiers!

BlogSoldiers Sponsors WideAwakes Radio

2006-08-18T11:17:00.000-05:00

BlogSoldiers announced today that we are sponsoring Wide Awakes Radio, a blogger-only internet talk radio station. As part of our commitment to see bloggers succeed and getting our voices heard, we support endeavors such as WideAwakes Radio to push the envelope.

Some Updates

2006-08-16T22:21:00.000-05:00

First, the membership drive is having great returns... we've about doubled the amount of traffic since the purchase on Monday which is outstanding. We've got some great coverage in the media and some of the blogs and I'm working out some partnerships that will drive even more traffic and fresh members to the site.

Second, I've been working on getting some good variety in the rotation and toss a few of my own credits into sites I think might be interesting or otherwise the best of the blogosphere. Hopefully you guys are finding the increased variety interesting.

As always, let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Press Release on BlogSoldiers

2006-08-16T09:13:00.000-05:00

You can see it here:

Pentex Net, Inc. Acquires Blog Only Traffic Exchange, BlogSoldiers.com

BlogSoldiers.com, a premier blog traffic exchange, has been acquired by John Bambenek of Pentex Net, Inc. promising to provide new and more expansive services to the blogosphere.

Champaign, IL (PRWEB) August 16, 2006 -- BlogSoldiers.com, a premier blog traffic exchange, has been acquired by John Bambenek of Pentex Net, Inc. promising to provide new and more expansive services to the blogosphere.

"Bloggers worldwide are excited about the acquisition and relaunch of BlogSoldiers.com. As an innovative resource available for bloggers to get more visibility for their content, BlogSoldiers is uniquely situated to provide advertising and traffic generation tools to the blogosphere. With the number of blogs increasing to over 50 million, it is a necessity to have a focused resource to provide affordable services to this community.

John Bambenek, CISSP, philanthropist and founder of Pentex Net, Inc. has spent over 10 years in the information technology industry building a reputation for expertise in information security. As a blogger and opinions journalist, he has shown passion for active political participation. He brings a combination of technological expertise and media savvy that will make BlogSoldiers a website to watch in the weeks to come.

BlogSoldiers is free to join and allows people to build traffic to their sites the first day they are on the site. It's extremely easy and user-friendly for even novices to achieve results. In order to maximize your membership, it is important to understand how the traffic generation works. Basically users earn "credits" by surfing blogs and those credits are used when other people visit that user's blog. Paid memberships allow users to pay for upgraded services and credits.

During the period of transition, BlogSoldiers is offering new member incentives like 50 bonus credits for joining, discounts on upgrades, and incentives for existing members such as referral bonuses and incentive credits.

BlogSoldiers offers many other resources for members with both Free and Paid memberships suck as banner and text advertisements and a blog directory. It also includes a blog education center, how-to videos, blog tools, and much more.

Pentex Net, Inc, owner of BlogSoldiers, is a provider of information technology and information security services.

BlogSoldiers Under New Management: Promotions!

2006-08-15T01:15:00.000-05:00

I'm slowly working through the site to tweak settings and facilitate the transfer of ownership. Right now we're having a membership drive to really bring some good variety to BlogSoldiers. Here are the current promotions:

1) 50 referral credits for all new members you refer.
2) 50 bonus credits on surfing 50 sites for new members who join.
3) Surfing Contest for the month of August, the Top 10 surfers will receive up to 500 credits for having the most pages surfed between Aug 15 and Aug 31. Top surfer gets 500, 2nd gets 250, 3rd 150, 4th and 5th get 100, 6th-10th get 50.
4) Membership contest. In ADDITION to the referral bonus, the member with the most sites referred will get 500 credits with the same bonus structure as above.
5) REDUCED PURCHASE PRICE FOR CREDITS! I have reduced the price on purchasing credits for THIS MONTH ONLY! It is now $8 - 1200, $14 - 2500, and $24 - 5000.
6) If you post on your blog about the purchase and relaunch of blogsoldiers, you get 50 credits IN ADDITION to any referral credits that post generates. (Please open a support ticket, send me the permalink and your username).

Also, I've added a new credit purchase option, 600 credits for $5. That's 50 more credits for 50 less cents than Blog Explosion. Go out there and refer some new users!

Site Update and Program Alert

2006-01-23T08:25:00.000-06:00

I hope the New Year is going well for everyone. Things have been busy for me this year with some great new features in the works for TrafficSoldiers. The new features will be setup very soon with Commissions for members being the number one priority. You will receive commissions for your referrals upgrading and purchasing credits. So, you will receive great traffic and as a bonus you can make some cash.

The other feature is the IPN system, i've been waiting for this one for while, but it will be worth it. Members will have their credit purchases and upgrades processed in real time. No more waiting for us to update them manually for you. If you use the Upgrade with Account Cash now, you will receive your upgrades instantly.

Our site rotator is officially closed but I have noticed that many of you are still using the Free Rotator that's offered in the members area. I've been delaying shutting it down until everyone has stopped using it. I have also sent an email to everyone using the rotator to let them know of our new policy. If you are in need of a rotator/tracker you can signup at HitsConnect and receive 30% off, just for being a member of TrafficSoldiers.

Here's the Link: http://www.hitsconnect.com/partners.php?ref_id=875

New Program Alert:
Everyone knows that building an email list is one of the best ways to increase your online exposure and generate sales and referrals. Two good friends of mine have put together an awesome course in list building. Mike Paetzold and Tim Whiston have released Optin Master Course, a complete list building program that will teach you how to build a list and you can brand the bookand make some cash. Check it out, you will be amazed.

http://www.optinmastercourse.com/patlovell.html

Thanks for reading and remember, if you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to send me an email or post to the blog.

Thank you,
Pat Lovell

Trouble Verifying New Accounts

2005-12-02T08:29:00.000-06:00

I wanted to send this out to all members that have NOT received an Activation Email and have not been able to Verify their accounts and login to BlogSoldiers. I just found out that email is not always being sent from our automatic system and I apologize for the inconvenience.

If you HAVE NOT received your Verification Email and can'tlogin to your account, Please send me an email with the email address you used to Join BlogSoldiers or go to our Support Ticket System www.lovelltechnology.com/esupport/and fill out a support ticket. I will go in to the system and activate your account and send you an email acknowledging that you are active and you can start using your account.

Members, Please login and surf some Blogs over the next month, as a Holiday Special we will be giving out MORE Bonus credits as an incentive for reading our Members Blogs.

Thanks for being a member of Blog Soldiers, we appreciate it.

Pat Lovell
BlogSoldiers.com

Long time, No post.

2005-09-18T18:27:00.000-05:00

Wow, the end of the summer has been extremely busy. Our business is growing very well in all areas but I would like to see more activity and growth at BlogSoldiers. So, we are going to focus over the next few months on growing the membership and making BlogSoldiers an active community. Surfing has been steadily increasing but not as well as I would expect with our membership base. We have been online for a little over 4 months and we have just over 2000 members. That is good but I would like to see more growth and when we grow the activity will come with it.

We are going to be advertising on some major Websites over the next few months (not blog traffic exchanges). Our goal is to be at or above 5000 members by January and steadily increasing to 10,000 by our Anniversary Date, May 2nd. This will take some committment on our end but I am going to give it 100%.

You as members will benefit from our advertising, your Blogs will be seen by more viewers and you will have more features to use. If you haven't done so, login to the members area and click on Blog Directory, while you are there submit your Blog to our Directory for some additional exposure. Take a few minutes out of your busy week and do some surfing, there are some very interesting Blogs in rotation.

As always, if you have a suggestion or comment, feel free to post it here or send me an email at support@blogsoldiers.com

Blog Shares - I'm Hooked!

2005-07-22T11:12:00.000-05:00

I recently discovered the website BlogShares.com and I am hooked. I have dabbled in the stock market over the years and still follow certain stocks daily. BlogShares combines the premise of the Stock Exchange and the Blogging Community. You can buy and sell shares of stock in Blogs listed, you can submit ideas and you are rewarded with B$ (BlogShares Cash) and Chips. These are both ways to determine your status in the community. Members are ranked by the amount of chips , cash, and value of portfolio. There are many ways to earn chips and cash like completing missions, submitting ideas, artefacts and more. There's too many ways to list them all. You'll have to check out the site yourself. BlogShares.com

I found the site because BlogSoldiers was listed in the Stock Market and someone sent me an email to check it out. I was able to claim ownership of BlogSoldiers and buy stock in my own Blog. You can submit your own Blog to the Market and do a press release of the Initial Offering, it's really cool.

Needless to say, I've been spending too much time there surfing and buying up stock in my favorite Blogs.

Pat

An ebook for Traffic Exchange Users

2005-07-20T14:02:00.000-05:00

Most Bloggers aren't that familiar with Traffic Exchanges but they are a great way to increase readership and exposure of your Blog. Yes, there are ads and probably some websites that you may not like, but you can benefit from using them.

There has been a new ebook released by a good friend of mine, His name is Tony Tezak and the new ebook "The Surfers Manual - Exchange Secrets Revealed'. Tony is probably one of the most recognized and successful traffic exchange users on the Internet. This e-book is a collaberation of several of the most well known and successful people in the Traffic Exchange Industry. It is a very well done ebook with loads of information that will take your traffic exchange experience to a whole new level. The chapter with Tony's surfing strategy is worth the price of the ebook alone.

The ebook is a very good resource and once you purchase it you can signup as an affiliate and earn a few bucks for selling the book yourself.

PS. Yours truly, Pat Lovell, is a featured contributor. I wrote a chapter for the ebook :)

If you are interested visit the site and see the details for yourself.http://hitexchangesecrets.com/x.php?action=alink&id=104&cpe=Y3A9dHRlemFrJnM9dHNvbGRpZXJz

Have a good day,
Pat

Vacations Over.... Back to Work

2005-07-12T13:12:00.000-05:00

First, I would like to welcome all new members, over 150 new members joined while we were on Vacation. Thank you. We are growing very quickly and our members are viewing blogs at record pace. Keep in mind, if you bring in new members using your referral id, you will earn extra credits. Thanks to everyone that has been referring new members and helping us promote BlogSoldiers.com, the faster we grow the more people will see your Blogs.

We have returned from vacation, rested, refreshed and ready to go. If you purchased credits or upgrades while we were gone they should be processed now, if not send me an email.
support@blogsoldiers.com

Pat Lovell
BlogSoldiers.com

I'm listening to your Suggestions.

2005-06-03T10:11:00.000-05:00

I have been listening and I will be making some changes to the surfing experience at BlogSoldiers. The first thing I'm going to do is remove the small surf frame, the one that has the letter hunt game on it. The letter hunt game is still going to be available, it will just be moved to the large part of the frame.

I will also be adding a few new features to the surfing frame, I'm not sure exactly as I have just put my programmer on the job today, but I will be adding a Do Not View Again, and/or a Skip Blog feature. These two have been the most suggested features and I think they will be a very good addition to the surfing experience.

Remember, I am here to make your surfing experience a good one so if you have any feature suggestions, please send me an email. Keep in mind I can't use all suggestions as some are just not feasible and would be very hard to implement. However, I take every suggestion seriously because you guys are the ones that do the surfing and your opinions count the most.

Thanks for the great suggestions. Keep em coming. and also Keep Surfing!

Surf's Up

2005-06-01T16:43:00.000-05:00

Members have been surfing at a good steady pace but I would like to see an increase in surfing. I'm asking all members to send me some suggestions, I want to know what I can do to get everyone surfing more? The reason surfing needs to increase is, we are growing as far as new members and members are adding their Blogs to the system, but if members don't all surf , the cycle is stops there. The best possible scenario is for members to login , add your blog, surf for an hour or so, assign your credits then repeat this process a couple days a week.

What can I do to increase surfing activity?

Send in your suggestions to support@blogsoldiers.com

Pat Lovell

Questions About Surfing

2005-06-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

I've had a few emails regarding some issues when viewing member blogs. There are a couple of explanations for surfing the issues. The most common questions I'm receiving are.

1. I'm seeing Adult Content Blogs and I don't want to, can you fix this? I sure can. The reason you are seeing Adult Content Blogs is this, by default, our system selects all categories for you when you first join, including Adult Content Blogs. To change this and remove this category, login to your members area, click on Surf by Category, then UN-Check the category Adult Content Blogs and you will no longer see these blogs.

2. Why am I only seeing a few Blogs when I surf? This is another easy fix related to the same issue. If you have already discovered the Surf by Category and you've UN-Checked most of the categories and only Selected a few, that is all you will see while surfing. Until our site grows some more some of the categories won't have many Blogs added. Check as many categories as possible so you can enjoy your Blog Surfing.

Any other questions, feel free to contact me at support@blogsoldiers.com

Thanks, Pat Lovell

My Apologies to All Members

2005-05-27T10:39:00.000-05:00

I have just learned that our contact page and our support ticket requests email was setup incorrectly and were not being received, so yesterday I fixed it and there were many, many
emails from members as far back as May 3rd. I apologize greatly for this and I hope you all didn't think I was ignoring your support requests. I strive to make customer support a top priority and always answer support requests and emails as quickly as I can.

Please, if you have an important request send it in again and in the future if I don't answer your requests in 24 hours, send a ticket through our support ticket page. www.lovelltechnology.com/esupport/index.php or email me direct at support@blogsoldiers.com

Again, if you sent in an email or support ticket that was unanswered, Please accept my sincerest apologies, it will not happen again.

Sorry Everyone, Pat Lovell

On a side note:

I'm working on a Getting Started tutorial as I've had alot of complaints about only seeing one Blog while surfing. This is caused by only checking one or two categories for surfing. We do not have enough Blogs entered yet to support single category surfing. We have over 800
Blogs entered so it won't be long before we can support single category surfing. To view all sites, login and click Surf by Category then click all the categories for surfing. If you don't want to view Adult Blogs leave that category unchecked.

Bloggers Beware

2005-05-18T08:05:00.000-05:00

I was recently made aware of some software that will effect the blogging community. The software is called Blog Blaster and is nothing more than a way for unethical people to spam your Blogs. The junk software will automatically post comments to Blogs that allow comments to be posted by unregistered users. This junk software claims to 'blast your ads to thousands of blogs with one click'. I can't believe anyone would think that this kind of advertising (if that's what you want to call it) would actually help anyone's business. This is an outrage and shouldn't be tolerated. Do you want thousands of comments on your Blogs like: Make a million dollars overnight, join my business and earn millions, free viagra, etc... I don't think so.

What can we as Bloggers do? I suggest we start a campaign against this form of Blog Spam. Stop these people before they sell thousands of these blog spammers, spread the word and block these spammers now. I know it's a pain to have someone register to comment on your blog, but if you require registration, this junk software will not work, unless the spammers register on your blog. If they do you can delete them quickly.

Bloggers unite! and stop these Spammers. If you want to read a good article on stopping blog spam check out this forum thread, scroll down and read the article.

http://netmarketingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4446

Pat Lovell

Weekly Update and Information

2005-05-11T08:59:00.000-05:00

First, I would like to welcome all new members. We aregrowing very quickly and our members are viewing blogsat record pace. Keep in mind, if you bring in new membersusing your referral id, you will earn extra credits. Thanksto everyone that has been referring new members and helpingus promote BlogSoldiers.com.

Second, I would like to apologize for the downtime yesterday.I was unable to connect to the internet because my ISP was down. To top it off, I had the bandwidth set to low on our server and the site was taken offline for while. This was my fault as BlogSoldiers is hosted on my own server. lol. I've raised the bandwidth to unlimited, so that won't happen again. I've logged in and approved all blogs and processed credit purchases and upgrades. Thanks for your patience.

Our contest is going well, I've already found 6 blogs in other blog exchanges with a link back to BlogSoldiers. If you haven't already added our button or banner to your Blog, make sure you do. If I see it while surfing the other sites, you will win credits. The best part is, if a new member sees it and joins the site, you will get a referral and earn extra credits everytime they surf. It's a win-win situation.

I've been approving Blogs as fast as I can, and I have also run across a lot of submissions that are not Blogs. If you've submitted a site and it has been changed from 'waiting for admin approval' to 'Hold', you have submitted a regular website and it won't be approved. I am working hard to keep the exchange clean of Non-Blog sites.

Don't forget - Surf and Assign your credits.

Assign Your Credits and Keep Surfing

2005-05-06T09:40:00.000-05:00

I thought I'd post to the Blog today as I've been getting a few emails about seeing our "Default" website over and over. There are a couple of reasons this will happen. The first reason is surfing by categories, make sure you have all categories checked while surfing. This will ensure you are seeing all the blogs in our system. If you only choose one or two categories while we are so new, you won't see many Blogs.

The second reason you may be seeing the same Blog over and over is many members have not assigned their credits to their Blog(s). To fix this, you can do 1 of 2 things. Click on the 'Assign Credits' button in the members area and assign credits to your Blog. The other way is to Surf, sign on and click start surfing and build up some credit. I have implemented many ways to earn bonus/extra credits while surfing. The are all listed in the Blog Entry below.

For the next week I will be giving away random credits, how will i do this? I surf all the Blog Exchanges a couple times a week. I will be surfing everyday for the next week. If I see a Blog on one of the other exchanges and you have a Blog Soldiers Banner, Button, or Post about our site I will give you 100 credits. Make sure you have it linked using your referral id, that's how I will know who you are. Winners will be posted in the members area.

So remember, Surf alot - Assign your Credits and Watch for all the Bonuses.