Have you heard of Qassia?

I have just learned of a new way to promote my Etsy shop and this blog. It's called Qassia. I'm in the learning phase of it now, but apparently it is a site to which you can add your websites. You can also add tidbits of information called "intel" (short of intelligence). The more intel you add, the better your sites will rank, the more backlinks you get, and the more money you make. Qassia is 100 percent free, and does not require reciprocal links. You can get unlimited quality backlinks to your websites from Qassia. Right now it is in the beta testing phase and you can only join through a referral. In other words, you can click on my link (http://www.azalealane.qassia.com) and sign up that way. Here is a little bit more info:

* Back links. You get one back link for every piece of intel you add. Every intel will carry a direct back link to one of your sites. So the more intel you add, the more back links you get.

* Credit. When you add intel, you also get credit, in the form of Qassia dollars (not real money). Your net worth in Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our directory.

* Revenue. This is directly from their site: "When your intel is displayed, you get 100% of the advertising revenue generated by that page. That is not a typo, by the way: we give you ALL of the gross ad revenue" (this is done through Google AdSense attached to your intel, not your site or blog). The contributed intel will allow Qassia to become a vast repository of intelligence, with unrivaled original content. And a vast amount of original content draws traffic like honey draws ants. This site and other are starting become the next generation of social book marking networks. (Think Wikipedia, but BETTER!)

I encourage interested folks to click my link and read the information and sign up if interested. It looks very interesting and I have not read anything negative about it. They do say in the FAQs that you won't earn a lot of money just yet, mainly because they are in the beta phase. I'm all about the Etsy exposure really though.