This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Bidazzled. All opinions are 100% mine.

There are two things that I like to do online, one is buy cheap items from auction web sites and the other is make the odd donation to charity. Today I came across an auction web site that is run by a charity.

Bidazzled is an auction web site that is set up and run for a charity called The Ruch Foundation, which is a charity about lung cancer. This means that every thing you buy the money goes to the charity.

The auction is run in the same style as a penny auction. The idea is that you buy your bids and are able to use them on whatever items you wish, so in theory you could buy 25 bids and use them all on one item.

When you join you are given five free bids to get the ball rolling, according to their site in the past two months two people have won Nintendo Wiis with their first five free bids. And for a limited time (until January 15th) they are running an offer where new members get 15 free bids. All you have to do is enter one of the following codes:

* Blog: BBP1202A
* Twitter: BTP1202A

I received an email two weeks ago from someone called Abbie who asked me if I would be interested in exchanging links with her. The deal would be that I put a link on this blog advertising her job web site and in return she would put a link advertising this blog on two of her writing web sites.

Both her writing web sites have a Page Rank of 1 & 2. So I thought it would be a good deal for me, as I have a Page Rank of 0, and it would be a good deal for her as she gets traffic from people looking for ways to works.

I placed the link and waited patiently for her to do the same. But she never did. I waited about a week before emailing her and politely enquiring about the links. Her reply was very nice and she explained how she had forgootten, it happens to us all at some point.

She asked me to change the anchor text and the url of the link to another job site off hers. This was done within minutes.

Another week has passed and still no links have appeared on her sites concerning this blog.

So I’ve removed her link and will now no longer accept links of this nature.

Some of you might have noticed that there is an audio file playing while you are looking at this blog. This is an experiment that will be running along the same lines as the one that was conducted earlier this year with regards to placing pop-up advertising on this blog.

The experiment will last for two months (until February 1st 2010) and the money I raise form it will be donated to charity. I’m not sure what charity yet but it will be something to do with psoriasis.

The experiment will also see the advertisements placed on Dean Saliba Dot Com, The Final Cut, and Dean Saliba’s new blog Angry Blogger (That is why the charity will be a psoriasis one) blogs.

As with last time I am very eager to hear your views on this type of advertising. Do you think it is more annoying than pop-up advertising? To ignore the adverts you simply turn your speakers off, it takes more effort to block a pop-up, doesn’t it?