This came up from someone I see squeeking away on a regular basis over at Sokule – thanks Surgreen.

So I took a look and it’s not a bad system.

I’ve joined as  a Free member so I only have an inkling of what’s available as a paid member.

I even put up a few posts for fun.

Now it’s really easy to get setup. There are a few templates you can choose from but I wasn’t able to find how to upload my image. It’s got a place in the template for one so for now I’m just an shadowy outline. I’m guessing this is something you can do as a paid member. I could be wrong!

Now there are a few catches…

For one thing, Ads, banners appear on your pages that unless you join up in these programs, your referrers or their referrers links appear. Not something I overly Keen on. I couldn’t see a way of disabling those so I’m guessing I am stuck helping promote these programs for others. Hmm well it is Free but still, it’s a little annoying.

As a paid member…

I have seen a number of emails appear in my inbox from IBS with links to other peoples Blogs. If I click on those and go and have a look, I earn 4 Subscriber Points.

As a paid member, you get so many of these subscriber points that allows you to post and email to how ever many people, asking them to read your blog.

It’s a little , or a lot, like a Traffic Exchange System. Which isn’t bad. It’s clever in fact.

So if you were to use this system correctly, you’d use your IBS Blog as a way to promote your other Blogs, promoting your products or services or just to show off your Great Articles.

This is the link to one of my posts on my IBS Blog

http://instantblogsubscribers.com/entry.php?w=TimBrownlaw&e_id=6050

You can find out more about IBS from the main page about the Free and Paid benefits.

http://instantblogsubscribers.com/vip/ausome

I’ll keep playing with it. Again, as a Free member I’m a bit limited in how much I can tinker on the site. I have seen some very nice setups on the Paid members blogs. So it appears that you can customize it quite considerably. Which is only fair. You don’t get everything for Free and the Guy running it, Walt Bayliss , has to pay for it all!

Oh and it has a Nice big SOKULE Banner

Which I like because I love Sokule, and you can add your IBS Blog to the list of places your Squeeks end up on.

So now I’ve got mine going to Twitter ( Free members get this only), One of my WordPress blogs, Facebook and Myspace and now to my IBS Blog.

I’m going to play with it a bit more and see what happens. It’s fun and if I get enough subscriber credits I’ll be able to “Show off” my blog to the other IBS members.

Some suggested Improvements.

In it’s implementation with Sokule, it does have this annoying habit of adding backslashes to any apostrophes. Any Feeds coming from Sokule need these removed with the PHP “Stripslashes” command.

And I have to mention this because there doesn’t appear to be any help desk or support so I can Shout – “Walter , please fix those bleeding Backslashes….”

So remove those backslashes and put in some way we can bring these things to someones attention to get it fixed and that will make things really nice.

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