You may have noticed a new widget in the sidebar below the recent posts widget. This is Blog Rush, a new blog syndication service by John Resse, that has just entered beta testing.

I removed a few widgets to make room for Blog Rush, to test out the results on my blog traffic. This of course is being tested along side of the Exit Explosion applet. (annoying yes/no?). I may or may not keep this widget, depending upon my test results. If traffic increases substantially over the next few days and weeks, I may carve out a permanent place for the widget into my new and improved blog design (coming soon).

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I recently had an idea that I want to test, and if proven effective, would be a great way to get free traffic to my websites.

Recently while selling my two cars, I created a quick 1 page web site, threw up some car pics and a some Adsense code for good measure. Then I painted my URL on my car windshield. I was able to get some traffic and a few Adsense clicks. (not to mention about 20 phone calls). From the web logs, I could tell this was type-in traffic and not from Craigslist (which I had also advertised on).

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You might have noticed that when you attempt to leave my blog, an exit pop up appears with some random ad.

That’s Exit Explosion at work.

What is it? We’ll, actually I just learned of it today from a promo email from Wes of Keyword Xray. Exit Explosion is a new traffic exchange strategy that sends you other people’s traffic. Essentially, once you sign up to the Exit Explosion network, as a member, you are able to piggyback off high traffic websites.

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As a quick side step from my Xray postings I wanted to share a cool affiliate tip I discovered today…(I’ve gotten so behind on Xray, it’s not even funny)

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