There’s a new site that’s in beta, Qassia. It seems like it might be interesting. I just signed up about five minutes ago, so I haven’t really had much time to explore. Here’s are some excerpts from their about page:
At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You’ll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to “no-follow” backlinks). You can also add intel. Short for “intelligence”, intel is a tidbit of information. Qassia rewards users who add intel in three ways.
1. Backlinks You get one backlink for every piece of intel you add. Every intel will carry a direct backlink to one of your sites. So the more intel you add, the more backlinks you get.
2. Credit When you add intel, you also get credit, in the form of Qassia dollars. Your net worth in Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our directory.
3. Revenue When your intel is displayed, you get 100% of the advertising revenue generated by that page. That is not a typo, by the way: we give you ALL of the gross ad revenue.
This means that website owners have triple incentive to contribute intel. The contributed intel will allow Qassia to become a vast repository of intelligence, with unrivalled original content. And a vast amount of original content draws traffic like honey draws ants.
I always see people touting the effectiveness of backlinks to rank higher in the search engines. I don’t really care much about it for this website since it’s just a personal blog about whatever the heck I feel like writing about, but for other sites I have, it might be useful. I’m gonna get back to Qassia now to see what I can do with it.