Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

Looks like an interesting idea, but I'd be extremely wary of signing up for any site that rewards users for helping boost your SEO with inbound links. Google has traditionally been pretty harsh on anything resembling linkbuying, and these incentives seem to blur that line.<p>That said, I think there's a lot of room for improved, dead simple referral systems, and I'm glad to see another one enter the fray.

Internet marketing garbage. Alas, tis the fate of HN.<p><i>"Just ask 2 of your friends to visit:<p><a href="http://Promotioner.com/viral/?u=yourname@email.com" rel="nofollow">http://Promotioner.com/viral/?u=yourname@email.com</a><p>and you will receive the report "5 Elements of a Successful Viral Marketing Campaign" for free in your email."</i>

Why does it require me to put my email address on the end of it for a reward. Considering that for anyone to get any real benefit out of it the links (containing the email address) would have to be posted publicly. Just seems like a huge spam magnet.<p>I think most people would be pretty wary of adding their email address to a link and posting publicly. Especially on a strange site they dont know about.

Awesome idea.<p>Quick thought: You would get a lot more users by testing difference bases(reducing the 15 to something really small, like 5). Feels like more people would do it, you would get more than 5 anyways, and the the exponential gains outweighs the difference in the base.

<i>(And yes, for folks who don't want to show their email address in the URL due to spam worries, they can replace their email address with a unique username.)</i><p>I would make this the default. Exposing addresses like that is begging for your users to be spearfished.

The logo looks nice, not sure about the heavy black colour scheme though and I have to say that the headline font looks positively ghastly.

very similar to successnexus - but, they have a very good blog going as well.

I like what you are doing here. You're turning ordinary people into a marketing team for website owners. This is one of those "Why didn't I think of this!" ideas. Kudos.

:)