Update: This challenge has been discontinued.

I’ve been meaning to do this ever since I received an encouraging number of participants for this project through SocialSpark. Take a look at the top of this blog’s sidebar, and you will see a link called Take My Challenge. Read through the requirements before you request for one.

In case you missed my previous post concerning this topic, Take My Challenge is a project I started in SocialSpark as a way to build links to and from WebGrrrl.net. The way this works is that if you blog about and link to a post I made in this blog, I’ll respond in kind. Pretty simple stuff.

In a way, this also prevents me from going through a “writer’s block” — you know, when your brain goes through this weird spasm, and you suddenly don’t have any idea what to blog about? This is a pretty neat way for me to warm up my thoughts and start collecting ideas on topics I’m interested about.

I have tagged my posts as IBlogUBack on those related to this project, so if you’re interested and you like what you see, take my challenge now.

Despite it being a paid post, I am exactly in the same wavelength as Serial Box.net on using SocialSpark to connect with your blog visitors and increase your web site traffic.

I did blog about my recent attempt to use the Spark ad feature as part of my back linking strategy. What I haven’t mentioned (no thanks to my Internet connection) is that my advertisement was yanked a few days ago by IZEA for violating its terms of service. Specifically, I requested that there is no use of NoFollow on the link back from the reviewers’ blogs to mine, and removing NoFollow is a big NoNo for SocialSpark. For what it’s worth, responses for that short two days since I put up my Spark (after changing the title a bit by promoting my PR) was quite encouraging.

I’m thinking of making the IBlogUBack challenge a permanent one, as soon as I can find the time to put up a page on it. Will keep everyone posted.

Update: As of 10 July 2008, this Spark is no longer listed, as it has been yanked by IZEA for violating its ToS. Read here for more.

Since I’ve already posted this in SocialSpark, I might as well announce it here.

As part of a link exchange campaign I’m running, I am looking for personal blogs that are willing to do a 50-word review on any of the posts I have in WebGrrrl.net, with a link back from your blog to that particular post. Your post should look something like this. Once done, e-mail me and let me know of the URL, or if you have a SocialSpark account, accept the Spark. In exchange, I’ll return the favor and do the same thing to one of your posts in your site.

Please make sure the link back is NOT a no-follow and is not published under any sort of sponsored review category. Your review on my site will stay in my site permanently and has a DoFollow so that you can get some link juice back. Take this opportunity only if you own a personal blog. Commercial blogs, or blogs with adult or gambling content will NOT be entertained.

Interested? Then start now!