If you haven't read a review for or heard of Blog Explosion yet you might be missing out on a grand opportunity to boost traffic to you blog.

I've been trying the service out for a the past week to see how it looks and feels.

If you don't know, Blog Explosion is a 100% free to use blog traffic exchange and here is how it works.

You surf other Blog Explosion member blogs and in return you generate traffic to your blog at the same time. You are reguired to surf a member blog for a minimum of 30 secs in order to earn surf credits to your own blog.

This service is worth checking out. Among other things the allow you to use your earned credits to also display your banners on their network. You are allotted a certain number of impressions per credit. You can use your credits to bid for positions in their directory.

They provide some pretty useful Blog Explosion stats on how well your blog doing within their network as well. Your at-a-glance stats will provide you information on how many credits you have, how many visits you've had from the Blog Explosion directory versus the number of visits from their bloggers surfing their network. Other stats include the number of people that have bookmarked your blog using the Blog Explosion "blogmark" feature as well as the number of visits from searches.

They provide chat, blog ratings, credit for referrals, and you can even "buy" credits for traffic and banner ads but this is hardly required. This will probably be a preferred method while the surfing option will be popular with those like me who really love blogs and like to visit all types of blogs for interesting conversation and ideas.

In summation, this is a fatastic service to and for the blogging community. Blog Explosion is new but growing rapidly! You will only do yourself and your blog a disservice by not at least check them out. You've got absolutely nothing to lose but a lot of potential traffic to your blog to gain. :-)

Click here to visit Blog Explosion now.

Here is an interesting blog tools and blog software site. It seems to be a fairly new site as a couple of pages are incomplete.

The site is called blogtricks and they provide short list blog add-ins.

The provide a blog rss tool that allows you to integrate RSS feeds into your website. The provide a referrer list list tool for private and public viewing of traffic referrers to your site.

There are a few other fun tools for your blog site such as 'countdown to event' counter, gallery creation blog software tool, a random quotation blog site tool, and an Amazon products integration tool.

I haven't demo'd any of these tools just yet but I'm always on the hunt for fun and profitable things to do with blog. Check out Blogtricks and see if any of their tools are fun and interesting to you.