Blog Discovery Toolbar

Discovering the new is exciting. Our blog promotion service provides now a blog discovery toolbar for you to enjoy this experience. It is a great way to explore blogs seamlessly and come across excellent new blogs.

The toolbar is generated automatically, and requires neither installation, nor sign-up. It shows up upon clicking in the widget (click it in the sidebar to try out the toolbar), and while accessing any external link from blog directory. Blog discovery toolbar comes enriched with a number of features, which offer the possibility to rate blogs, share them, comment and keep exploring blogs further. Note that in order to build impartial ratings, attempts to abuse with voting will be treated accordingly.

Above being mentioned, BlogUpp! represents now a blog promotion service that offers free blog marketing via 3 channels at once: blog widget, blog directory and blog discovery toolbar.

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Blog Directory Optimization and Features

BlogUpp! blog directory has been updated for better blog promotion output and optimized performance-wise. It loads faster, provides more blog exposure opportunities, and it has become searchable.

Most bloggers look to connect like-minded fellows, and now the directory helps achieve this easier via blog tags presented in a handy manner in blog directory's sidebar, and in a separate tag cloud page. Top blogs and recently updated blogs are mutually displaying each other in order to increase the blog promotion chances for top performing and frequently updated blogs.

The search box comes handy in finding your blogs in the directory, and seeing what blog thumbnail and blog post are actually used while we promote your blog within the widget across BlogUpp! community of blogs. Having in mind that blog thumbnails are recreated by us to better represent your blogs, it is advised that you first check your blog in the directory before you intend to re-generate your blog thumbnail in real-time.

The sidebar opens as well a new opportunity for advertisers to make available their advertising message to a community of engaged users and publishers of quality content. Just visit the advertising page to get started.

Your feedback is invited; enjoy your blogging!

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Customized Premium Offer

Your blogs are unique, and so must be the offerings. You get now customized Premium conditions, found in your blog stats page.

Until recently BlogUpp! was offering unified Premium packages for your blog promotion. We've modified that and have adjusted to the best practices, so that your blogs benefit of extra-promotion conditions relevant to your blogging sub-community (i.e. English, Spanish, etc.). Premium packages prices start* from as low as 0.08 EUR per thousand impressions (CPM) and minimum package cost from 5 EUR.

Note that BlogUpp! uses OpenID to allow secured access to stats page, which only requires blogger's blog URL to get in. Blogs on custom domains can easily become OpenID identifiers by following the instructions in this OpenID tutorial. In the same context it has to be mentioned that Monebookers has been integrated into BlogUpp!, to make it more accessible benefiting of Premium / advertising offer.

We'd love to know your feedback, gladly expected either via Twitter, a comment or email.

* Premium prices differ depending on a number of factors, such as blog's language, quality and geo-origin.
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Blog Action Day 2009. Get Involved!

As a part of BlogUpp! community You are encouraged to get involved in the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices. That’s Blog Action Day initiative - the annual event held every October 15th. On this day the bloggers across the world unite to write about a single issue, with the goal to spark conversation on an issue of global importance across the web.

This year’s topic is climate change, and in addition to joining thousands of other bloggers, you’ll also be supporting the work of the dozens of leading nonprofits who are also participating. Your voice will get the most of exposure via BlogUpp! blog promotion widget, and it’s your opportunity to contribute to a real global change that you shouldn’t miss.

You can learn more about the event and the issue of climate change through the video below:


Register here to get started. Thank You.

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New Payment Method Available

In response to user feedback BlogUpp! has become a certified seller in WebMoney Transfer online payment system. As a result, accessing the Premium features can be done both through WebMoney and PayPal, to get extra blog promotion and advertising.

Our WebMoney ID is 560043653166 and the purse to which payments are welcomed is E205538700212. Please access BlogUpp! stats page to inquire the available Premium packages. Simply choose the desired one, and transfer to the E-purse the amount corresponding to the package, mentioning the address of your blog in the note of the transaction. Your payment will be processed and within 1 business day the extra impressions will be visible in your stats under "Additional impressions". Note that accessing BlogUpp! stats requires that your blog is approved.

We are open to consider other eCommerce means that are commonly used by you. Please feel free to contact us by email, comment, or Twitter to help us help you.

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Blogging - Shaping the Social Visions

The growing importance of blogging and its impact remains undisputed, even after more than half a decade first Blogging 101 have seen the light. Supported by micro-blogging, social media has changed journalism. Citizen journalists (i.e. bloggers, social media users) post photos of fast-breaking events, and cover stories from a different angle than traditional media does, in a collaborative manner of producing content. Being driven by community, rather than profit or someone's interest, and in an iterative process to 1) create, 2) publish, 3) get reactions, and 4) improve - such stories become especially valuable.

News organizations are still important, but the pieces are in the end shaped by community, its dynamics and the velocity of information. With the objective of summarizing the above, and the ways to support the distribution of social content, we'd like to share a short presentation, as follows.

Blogging - Shaping The Social Visions

More presentations by BlogUpp!.

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NevaCamp - White Nights BarCamp Announcement

The future web and media, ventures and startups, and StartupVision contest - are the main topics of NevaCamp conference, the first barcamp to be held in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation during 26-28 June 2009.

Participants from Europe, Russia and Central Asia are invited to meet and share experiences, discuss web trends, and develop the environment to build promising startups for the online community. It's a great event to connect startupers, bloggers, media representatives, entrepreneurs and investors. And of course it's a great time to be in Saint-Petersburg to witness the beautiful White Nights.

The image below will lead you to more details and help you be there; just click on it.

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Winners Rewarded, Wishes Collected

Happy to know many enjoy BlogUpp! just the way it is, keep discovering community blogs, and promote each other continuously.

As you know, we announced a contest back in April to encourage everyone of you have a say on what's necessary in BlogUpp!, and identify the needed new features. Today we are ending the contest, and are pleased to announce the 3 winners who contributed valuable suggestions.

These are: Radu, AG and Mike (as named in the comments of contest post). And because N.D.'s suggestion is already in our implementation schedule, as something that we believe is important - we'll have in the end 4 (instead of 3) contest winners who will be given bonus impressions. Winners, check them soon in your stats!

We've taken note of all the features requested, and will be working on them, in the best interests of the entire community. Thanks everyone and congrats to the winners!

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New Features You Need. Contest Announced

You are invited to suggest new features You think BlogUpp! should have. We want to hear and meet your needs, to make a success of your blog.

Please comment them down, and within 1 month or so - we'll list an update with requested new features that got the most of supporters. Note that your suggestions should follow our core principles - automated blog promotion, non-obtrusiveness, and lack of registration required. The initiators of top 3 ideas will be rewarded with bonus impressions, respectively - extra-promotion through BlogUpp! service.

Thereafter we'll do our best implementing them. So, let us know what's your need, bring supporters for your idea and make everybody win!

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BlogUpp! - 1 Year of Service

We're happy to share with you that BlogUpp! becomes today a 1-year grown start-up. It launched small, and now reaches millions of impression of promoted blogs. We're proud to serve and build on international scale blogger communities speaking same languages, connect related minds, and help find Your Reader.

During the year that passed we've been listening to your recommendations on making the service better, worked on them, have had the quality in focus and the blog promotion efficiency. In our quest for simplicity we managed to implement easy solutions that provide the added value. Here are some of them you've got now, and which weren't available at launch:
• Analytics through OpenID;
• Extra-promotion on sale;
• Widget customization to fit your blogs;
• BlogUpp! gadget for Google funs;
• Real-time thumbnail update;
• BlogUpp! directory - the latest in work, which is meant to show at a glance what's new and hot in the blogosphere, and of course give your blogs the extra-exposure.

Contextual targeting is ubiquitous, but new methods gain popularity, and we at BlogUpp! strive to provide a better matching, user behavior based.

Many of You have spread the word about BlogUpp!. Some of the influent blogs, such as TheNextWeb and Startup Meme - have shared the info about the service. And most recently BlogUpp! has got pitched on TechCrunch Elevator Pitches.

Enriching the user experience - that will be keeping us busy ahead. If you have something to say - we'd love to hear it from you via email, Twitter or a comment.

Thank you all for being with us, and for being a part of BlogUpp! community!

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