Fireboard plugin for Wordpress
My new friend, One Man from One Year Goal, has developed a plugin for Wordpress users called Fireboard. The Fireboard plugin allows bloggers to auction their own sidebar links to advertisers. Spud Oregon, from Nice4Rice, wrote a great summary of the Fireboard:
Fire Board is an automated auction for text link ads on your blog. Your readers can get a link on your site by outbidding or matching the lowest bidder. When you bid for a text link spot, you are directed to PayPal, and when you’ve made the payment, you’ll see your link on the list.
I’ve purchased a link myself on One Man’s site to test it out. The majority of bidders at the time were only bidding a dollar for a link, so I threw in for $10 so I could command the top link. My link will stay in the top position until someone bids $10 or more, and it will take 5 bidders at $10 or more to remove me from his Fireboard completely.
Fireboard is very close to a beta launch… bloggers who are interested in participating in the beta period can throw their name in at OYG Ads.
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That’s what I first thought, but actually, the price drops steadily overtime, so even though you paid $10 at first, after a few days the value of your link will drop to $9, $8, etc. I actually think this is a good way to get new bidders, otherwise the top bids would stay there forever and the blog owner wouldn’t make anymore money!
What a bummer… I suppose you’re right, though. I was actually surprised that the cost didn’t recur month to month. That how it goes, I guess.
Sorry for the confusion Chris. I’m trying to make that clear to my readers. I thought Spud made it clear in his review but I guess I need to clarify.
Sorry man.
One Man. One Year. $100,000 online. How’s he doing it?
http://www.oneyeargoal.com
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