I was reading John Reese’s Income.com blog where he announced TrafficJam.com.  It’s similiar (yet different) to Bloglines. He claims it’s a great source to find blogs in your niche to share those posts with your own readers and discover new blogs in your niche that you didn’t know about.

Another idea I had – search for other blogs on TrafficJam in your similiar niche, and leave comments with a link back to your site.  If it’s “dofollow“, all the better for SE rankings, but you are still apt to get some free traffic if “nofollow”, especially if you are clever with your name/title/url/comment/blahblahblah.

Now that I bookmarked TrafficJam, I figured I want my blogs included in their results!  Well, you have to be a part of the BlogRush Network (free) to be added.  You basically add a snipet of code on your site, and for every impression you give them, they’ll load your last blog post title on another member’s similar site. I’ve tested BlogRush on one of my sites for a few months now, and have been happy with the results/stats so far. 

And now that TrafficJam will essentially bring me even more traffic, I’m adding more sites to BlogRush.com and recommend the same to other bloggers. They manually approve to keep out the bad bloggers.  You should be able to see my BlogRush widget in action in the sidebar of this very blog.

Next up, I think I’ll get rid of the Etology Ads in the sidebar, as I’m not caring for the ads being shown.  I’m thinking of adding Jim Kukral’s ScratchBack widget.  Anyone have good luck with it?  ScratchBack appears profitable for Lynn Terry of Clicknewz. Hmmm, maybe I should buy a link on her site…

Today’s tshirt is courtesy of Etology.com. Yeah, I had never heard of them either until now. But according to their site, they’ve been around about three years - that’s a long time in internet years…

In June 2005, Etology saw the need to empower Website owners by allowing them to sell their AdSpace directly to Advertisers. Advertisers can place ads directly on sites. Etology serves text ads and banner ads in all types of standard ad units, including banners, skyscrapers and inline ads.

I signed up for an Etology account myself to test it out.  They haven’t approved my website yet for my ads to be live on this site (I put the code in the sidebar).  As for buying ads myself, I didn’t see any websites that I really wanted to advertise on (either non-relevant sites or the buying price was too high for my budget).  But they do offer an affiliate program (aka broker) and pay out 20%.

The concept reminds me a lot of AdJungle.com that has been around since 1999 (ancient, I know).  Hey Brad Waller, got a tshirt (or Hawaiian shirt) for me to wear?