I hope everyone is enjoying the start of summer. In celebration of my favorite season, I wanted to announce a sales promotion at LinkAdage to kick things off….

From today until August 1, 2008 LinkAdage Auctions will not be charging closing fees on successful text link ad auctions. The only charge would be for any upgrades like front page or premium features that you can select for your auction. If you don’t upgrade, your text link auction will be free. If you want to sell links and pocket all the money, this is the way to go.

I also want to mention that last month we made a small change to increase maximum auction listing time to 15 days. We did this in response to members that wanted to renew their ongoing auctions less frequently. If you haven’t listed in a while, now is the time to start listing again.

Other news…

Content Plug-in for WordPress bloggers

I recently had a WordPress plug-in developed that creates Twitter mashup posts based on keywords/and keyword phrases. I use the plug-in extensively at Lessnau.com and my traffic has increase dramatically. Free unique relevant content, it doesn’t get better than that… The plug-in has quite a few cool options. Learn more here: http://www.lessnau.com/twitterdoodle/

The Lessnau Lounge

I started this new personal blog a few months back and call it The Lessnau Lounge. At this new blog, not only will I discuss LinkAdage and text link advertising, I’ll cover a wide range of SEO topics and other interests of mine. I found that I am not a prolific enough writer to maintain a one topic blog so I thought it is best to have a blog that covers life on the web from many different angles. After all, how much can I say about paid links other than they work and Google wishes SEOs would not buy them.

Twitter

To follow the masses, I have become involve with Twitter over the past few months. For those still not familiar with Twitter, it is an online micro-blogging site that allows only 140 character posts. So far, I have not decided if Twitter is a time waster or the next great marketing tool. If you are already on Twitter or decide to give it a try in the near future, make sure you follow my tweets at http://twitter.com/John_Lessnau — I promise not to bore you with mundane Tweets.