RenaisNet

Update: I'm looking for a total of ten bloggers for this new non-exclusive network. Three spaces are spoken for. For the latest current information, check here. Information below is dated.

I'm looking for five bloggers or other website owners to join in an informal promotional network. This will be a mutual promotion group, no financial obligation, just quid pro quo with a half hour a day or less spent promoting each other's sites and our own. «Or less» because each of the things you'll do, should be a thing you're doing anyway to promote your own site, it will be just a matter of adding a few clicks and a couple of minutes reading and writing about the other members blogs as well.

This is non-exclusive. You can do whatever sort of cooperative efforts you are already doing with others. The more traffic you generate elsewhere, the better this works, so go for it! This doesn't affect your ownership of your blog, your advertising, your links, your membership in other networks, your content, your blog design, etc.

I have found one very interesting and potentially very big opportunity to generate lots of quality inbound links for each other's sites and that's a big part of the impetus behind this project. A half dozen members is sufficient to create a «critical mass» with this particular tool, though we might add a few more if all the original members agree. This is something I stumbled onto in the backend of the Google Webmaster tools. I managed to find one SEO guy that has spotted this same thing and that is it. Darren Rowse hasn't written about it, John Chow hasn't mentioned it. I don't read Shoemoney, but if he wrote about it, it didn't show up in a Google search.

You'll need to have two websites to join. (If you only have one and want to team up with a friend who has one and be considered one «member», that's fine.) These should preferably be sites with their own domain names. If you have an existing Blogger blog or something similar that is well established, indexed in Google and Yahoo, with some «Page Rank», that might be acceptable. At least one of the sites needs to already be indexed in Yahoo and Google. The other site can be new and PR0, but sites that have been banned for spam, etc. are not allowed. The sites have to have original content. They have to be more than just link blogs and they definitely can't be scraper sites.

This is going to be first come, first served and I'm not revealing much of anything to anyone I don't think is serious. If you're already active with things like EntreCard, social networking, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. you're going to get first shot. To «apply» send me an email tomhanna a-t tom-hanna d-o-t com.

Here's what I'm offering to get this thing moving for all of us:

1 - Links from an existing PR 5 blog for every member. This is a bonus, in addition to my own equal contribution as a member. Want a free link from a PR5 blog? Join and devote half an hour a day to driving traffic to your own blog and others. That's called «win-win».

2 - I've set up the system so we can all do this in a matter of a half hour a day or less.

3 - I'll be offering my help or advice as needed to get setup.