Burt over at osWorld has a new idea and a cool widget (if he gets enough interest) where it’s very similar to Scratchback.   His product as he explains it:

How is it different to Scratch Back?

Well, IF I release it;

• I’ll give no support
• I’ll take no commission
• It can be designed by you, to fit your blog completely
• I’ll want 1 linkback from every site it’s used on

In essence, if you need support/help/tuition/hand holding, then you need to go to someone who can offer this. In return they will want payment. If you have enough skill to be able to amend your template, FTP and copy/paste then you might want to consider using my script.

A Marketplace for link sellers

I’m sure that the Scratch Back people have something like this planned - it’s definitely needed. If I release my version, I think it would be quite easy to make a little site on which people can add their own sites that use the script.

Personally I like the idea of not having to deal with the middleman and giving a link back for using the product doesn’t seem like a bad idea.  What I’ve noticed about products like this though is that without the Middleman to promote the link sales or have an area where you can see who else is using the script to do an exchange, etc makes it a difficult task to be successful with it and often more times than not we give up on it because it is “too hard”.

With this yet un-named product from Burt he’s looking to take care of that concern with the development of a marketplace.    I’m hoping like Burt, that Scratchback comes up with something similar - it’s hard to find others using the product… so that would be really excellent to have.

So if you think you could use this product - stop by and let Burt know you would be interested.   If there is enough interest Burt will code it up for us to use!

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