We are currently reviewing all the sites and catching up.  Sorry for the delay and thanks for your patience!

http://sportall.freehostia.com – Latest article about watching sports online for free

http://www.freegames4all.net/ - Need I say more? Then on to

http://www.mv3gp.com/ - Free 3GP videos, like this one:

http://www.swaptree.com/ - Free Trade Site ‘a la Craig’s List’

So if you haven’t done so in a while, take your Spottt for a walk and see how many new sites have come aboard!

‘Til next time,

Jennifer

If you’re unfamiliar with the Rick Roll phenomenon, click here.

All links below open in a new window, if you wanna check em out:

• 3GP music search engine
• DrewpyDraws images for MySpace comments
• SwapTree game/book/cd/dvd exchange
• Software.com free software downloads
• CyArena free graphics

Rock on!

To get started, here are a few nice features that have been requested already:

1. Make a directory of all the Spottt sites, so everyone can see who’s participating
2. Give you the ability to control what kinds of ads appear on your site
3. Increase everyone’s traffic by encouraging people to visit other members’ sites. For example, you get free credits when you click someone else’s Spottt ad to visit their site. That way you can “Spottt hop” around the network, check out new sites, and simultaneously help your own site (by getting free credits)
4. Allow multiple versions of your Spottt ad
5. Change the pink to some other color ;)
6. ???

Any more ideas?

For more on LinkExchange/Spottt history, see my blog posting, “Free ad exchanges throughout history.”

To celebrate and thank everyone for joining, we’ve just deposited 2,000 free credits into everyone’s account. Thanks for being part of the first 2,000!

Stay tuned as we develop new ways for everyone to earn bonus credits and get more clicks; especially small sites who need a little extra juice.

Update:  If you missed the deadline and didn’t get your free credits, fear not!  We have more opportunities for free credits coming up.

• Spottt graphic is “above the fold” — at most 850 pixels from the top of the website, so people don’t have to scroll down to find it
• Site contains no adult or “inappropriate” content. Your Spottt graphic doesn’t contain scantily-clad babes and so on
• Spottt graphic isn’t overly distracting, such as a wildly annoying animation. Spottt supports GIF animations, but within reason…
• Spottt graphic isn’t misleading, such as “you are the 1 millionth reader, click here to claim your prize!” and other stuff like that.
• Site is in English. Foreign language support is on the to-do list.
• Site is relatively high quality. We reject sites that look like they’re still under construction or not yet ready for prime time.
• Site loads quickly — we reject sites that load too slowly or not at all
• More…

We reject a lot of Spottts every day. The reason we do this is because we want to make sure that everyone gets a fair shake. If you have a great site with your Spottt code up near the top of your page, you’d feel cheated if the guy who’s ad is showing on your site broke the rules, and has his Spottt way down on the bottom of his page.

In other words, we do our best to insure that a pageview on every single Spottt site is roughly equal. If you find that your Spottt was rejected, just follow the rules above and you should have no problem getting approved.

Thanks for making Spottt fun and rewarding for everyone!

You may notice a little slowness as the Spottt on your site loads this morning, due to all the signups over the weekend. But rest assured that we’re working on it, and it won’t slow down your site.

More updates as I have em.

Update (11:20 a.m. PST) - Things are looking great, Spottts are loading instantly from where I’m sitting.  Will continue to monitor.