Strictly for article writers (that includes you internet and affiliate marketers looking for yet another quality backlink): Qassia is a free service where you can add and promote your articles (such as your Hubpage articles!) and receive full credit for all of your "intelligence," or additions to the site. In turn, you'll get a free backlink to your site, and "Qassia money" in your account, which can be accumulated and redeemed for more promotional bonuses. Available as a closed, members-only service: a Qassia invite would be needed to join (get your free Qassia invite: and click the "Sign Up" button and following all directions).From there, you can begin writing articles or reviewing other peoples' content to start accumulating credits.

Qassia has a handful of options for affiliate promotions. Aside from articles and links, you can integrate your Hostgator affiliate account. All sales made through the program are 100% yours. There's also an option to add your Google AdSense account ID. You'll earn 100% of the proceeds from that, as well! Qassia is one of the last few content submission services that doesn't take a cut in your AdSense earnings.

Qassia's affiliate program lets you get more "Qassia money" during your first 12 hours of joining. Be sure to advertise your Qassia account in forum signatures, Hubpage and Squidoo hubs, and anywhere else during this time period. You'll get $500 in Qassia money, per successful referral!

Using various features will continue to add Qassia credits to your account. In this early stage of the site, the only other way to earn Qassia credits is to review articles for acceptance or rejection. An additional way is to insert a special box ad on one website of your choice. Qassia will randomly spider your site, and if it sees the box ad, you'll be rewarded with a healthy amount of points. On occasion, Qassia will do a double-audit for the box ad, and you'll earn double points.

Qassia credits can be assigned to the backlinks you've listed on your account. The more credits you put into a link, the higher it ranks within Qassia's online link directory. Most (if not all) people put 100% of their Qassia credits into only one link. You'll never lose Qassia credits.

In July 2009, Qassia changed names and URLs, becoming "Qondio." All previous Qassia links have been re-directed to their qondio.com counterparts. The service and functionality of Qassia are idential to that of the new Qondio - except for the salmon color!

Qassia is currently an invite-only program. You can get a free Qassia invite at marketing.qassia.com. Use it to promote your Hubpages hubs (get your Hubpages account, here!) Remember, once you join, be sure to promote your account to buid up more credits, backlinks and visibility! (A warning: be sure to never cheat Qassia, it is a very complex site that will penalize you if you attempt to create multiple accounts through the Qassia invite process, through IP logging and other means)