I don't know about you but I detest adverts on web sites. I know they are a necessary evil and provide the web site owners with a small revenue stream.

What really gets me is the lengths some web site owners are willing to go just to get you to click on one. Pop-ups are bad enough but now some ads are obscuring the content you are trying to read and that really winds me up.

A while back I got thinking, are they a necessary evil ? could someone earn cash from their web site without all those obnoxious adverts pulling their users away. Was it possible to promote your site without blasting your banners all over other peoples sites ?

Well, I created LinkForge to find out if its possible to have an advert-free method of promoting web sites. You can set a fixed amount to be shared by anybody who links back and the back-links are checked on a regular basis.