Country-specific URL. Blog Analytics

Blogs on Blogger.com now may have serveral URL's: one ending with .com, and another one ending with a country-specific domain. Please learn more at the following Blogger support page.

One of the affected areas with this change is the access to blog analytics panel. In case your blog is approved, and you are not able to authenticate, then simply change the head section of your blog to:

<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://blog-name.blogspot.com"/>

where "blog-name" should be your claimed blog's name, and the URL ending with .com - for cases a country-specific domain was being referred instead. As a result the authentication should be ok, both while accessing our analytics panel, as well as when using your blog URL to authenticate to other services (i.e. acts as OpenID identifier). The above header change works for blogs with traditional blog layouts - since the templates are editable, while Dynamic Views aren't for the time being.

While entering your blog at blogupp.com, also please be advised to submit the blog URL ending with .com, since http://blog-name.blogspot.com and http://blog-name.blogspot.es (or .fr, .it, etc) appear to us as different blog addresses, and country-specific ending might change in time. That will ensure that you keep the analytics consistent under your fixed .com URL and the widget active.

Are there any other effects you've noticed with above mentioned country-specific Blogger.com change? Please share with us in the comments below.

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Cross-posting to Facebook Pages

Announcing a new feature - cross-posting to Facebook pages. Blog distribution to Facebook pages added to the blog promotion suite makes BlogUpp a truly all-in-one blogger support, meant to build awareness, connect bloggers and engage readers.

The new feature is an extension of existing cross-posting ability, which pushes updates to personal profiles.
  • Now, after you submit the blog URL,
  • click Facebook cross-posting button, and
  • on the confirmation page there’s visible the list of Facebook pages you own, if any;
  • simply clicking "Cross-post" button enables the blog distribution to selected Facebook page(s) on a regular basis. Simple as that!

We are excited to include this new feature on BlogUpp's 4th birth date. On this occasion we cheerfully salute our bloggers, and thank you for helping build the authentic blogger community!

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Google Apps Marketplace

Happy to share with you that we’ve been included in Google Apps Marketplace, and now we are more accessible to millions of Google Apps individuals and businesses who are blogging.

The more connections we build, the greater the content that you’ll be discovering. We take this opportunity to thank our bloggers for being part of our selected blogger community. Cheers!

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Expression Equals Freedom and Vice Versa

January 18th (2012) will be the day in the history known as the Largest Online Protest for the Freedom of Expression. As participants we hope to be able to make a difference, and preserve the common sense. Learn more by clicking on the image below or watch this video.

Please share the info to build awareness. Together we can do more.

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Custom Domain Blogs Love

Our goal is to make your experience with us very simple and enjoyable. Now with a custom domain blog on Blogger.com you benefit from quick-add feature. We detect blog's engine and automatically offer the "Add to Blogger" button, to make it a breeze for you. It saves you time with copying widget-code and locating the gadget for embedding. This is applicable for all blogs with upgraded templates.

Also worth mentioning in this context is the simplified ability provided by Blogger.com in collaboration with GoDaddy to get new custom domains up and running. Learn more in this Blogger Buzz blog post, or bookmark the following link for your convenience - x.co/BloggerDNS.

Easy blogging to everyone.

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Great News: Featured on Blogger.com

We are so honored to have BlogUpp featured on Blogger.com in the official list of recommended blog gadgets.

Now millions of bloggers can install the blog promotion service with just one click on the featured listing. To keep everyone happy, the gadget integrates seamlessly with blog templates for its simple and clean design.

As active Blogger.com users (with this blog inclusively), we highly recommend it as the blogging platform of your choice. Blogger.com has got a new look lately with tons of cool improvements, which most of you will love.

Happy blogging to you all!

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Get Points and More Blog Exposure

We've been giving away welcome points to every community blog so far. Today we've changed it slightly, so that points will be automatically assigned upon enabling Facebook and Twitter cross-posting.

Hence we'd like to invite all our community bloggers to benefit of this change and get the extra-points. Basically each point equals an additional view across the community and the chance to be discovered by new blog readers. You get 1,000 points for enabling Facebook cross-post, and 500 points for Twitter cross-posting.

Your feedback is invited, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Thank you, and enjoy your blogging!

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Improve Blog Rank via Validation Badge

Since the introduction of content discovery toolbar blog readers are able to contribute to blog ranking, besides using other toolbar features.

Rating blogs is available by default to blog readers sent by BlogUpp - either via the widget, content discovery toolbar, blog directory or social media cross-posting.

Now here's how to improve blog rank and encourage your blog visitors build a better blog rating. Simply place the following code anywhere on your blog, replacing in it prior to that the part "blog.blogupp.com" with your actual blog URL, without "http://".

Recommended for white backgrounds: <div style="display: block; text-align:center;"><a href="http://adv.blogupp.com/nextblog/blog.blogupp.com" target="_blank" title="Vote my Blog. Thanks!"><img alt="Authentic Blog, featured by BlogUpp" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/blogupppreview/Authentic-Blog.gif" /></a></div>

Recommended for colored backgrounds: <div style="display: block; text-align:center;"><a href="http://adv.blogupp.com/nextblog/blog.blogupp.com" target="_blank" title="Vote my Blog. Thanks!"><img alt="Authentic Blog, featured by BlogUpp" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/blogupppreview/Authentic-Blog.png" /></a></div>

This will show up the following badge, which should link your blog, and will have the blog rating feature enabled in the toolbar displayed. Please be sure to check the final link after you add the badge; if it doesn't lead to your blog, then simply adding (or removing) "www" before your blog URL will make it work.

At the same time by displaying the badge you tell your blog readers that your blog has been curated as an authentic blog.

Have more great tips to share? Let us know in the comments.

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Let's Celebrate the Blog Day!

Dear blogger / blog reader, did you know that August 31st has been declared the Blog Day? The initiative started on BlogDay.org, and we'd like to pass it on, since great blogs deserve their special dedicated day.

The idea behind this is simple and yet powerful to create new connections between bloggers and blog readers. It's about getting to know other fellow bloggers from all over the world and show appreciation to their blogs. On this day bloggers usually recommend new and interesting blogs to their blog readers, to help discover worthy blogs. One way to start exploring is simply by accessing the interactive widget in this blog's sidebar, or via blog directory that is being updated regularly with new blog posts.

The blogosphere and social media space is powered by you, and each small action keeps it evolving. Let's take this opportunity to share noteworthy blogs and mark this Blog Day. Cheers!

// Image by ParadisoPerduto

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Notes for Asian bloggers

As you probably know, our mission is to support authentic bloggers who produce high quality content.

Since we review each blog for terms compliance, we've noticed along the time that most Asian blogs are of unacceptable quality. In this context we'll be treating those specially, which in consequence might take longer to review them.

Herein we invite comments from Asian bloggers who believe their blogs deserve timely consideration. This will also be kind of additional quality filter for Asian blogs. Thanks everyone in advance for your understanding and support.

Cheers to the great bloggers from all around the world!

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