YAY! I WON!

RedGage the paid social bookmarking site that allows you to earn off of views on content that you submit also offers up contests on what appears to be a daily basis for a chance to win a $50 Visa card. Just about everything you do on the site from reading the content that someone else has contributed to the site to bookmarking your own content, you earn points which are then used as entries into the daily contest. There are 2 random winners picked per contest, both of whom get a visa card as a prize preloaded with $50.

As a winner within my first few days as a member, of this social bookmarking site, I am a bit stoked and eager to see if my card arrives. I have a feeling that it will and that makes the extreme coolness of this site even more intriguing. While navigation can be a bit difficult at times and things can get a bit confusing, if you are use to other sites, I believe that they will fix this in the future as the need to moves from a nuisance to a detriment. They have already though had to close down a time or two (temporarily) to fix their system to permit a larger traffic base since us ehowers all seemed to flock to the newer site all at once and really cause one heck of a traffic boost. -- Well that is what happens when you promote a new potential money making opportunity (especially a social bookmarking site) to revenue junkies like those of us who frequent ehow.

I like the fact though, that when it is down they give you a message on the front page letting you know the real reason and not some generic under construction message that many social bookmarking sites have been known to leave up when being worked on. I am also happy to say that it seems that the owners of RedGage are truly trying to make this a bookmarking site where everyone who contributes has a chance to get a little more than a back link out of it. If they can manage to profit enough to keep the site up this will may heed a change to social bookmarking sites as we know them as competition will have to take notice and look into incorporating some sort of dual benefit for its contributors to keep their pristine popularity.