Widget Customization Introduced

We'd like to announce that from now on the BlogUpp! widget may be used in various sizes and layouts. This comes in response to community's request to provide a better fit of the widget in various blog templates.

Dealing with it is simple. After specifying a blog's address, and once its code is generated, there becomes visible the one-click option to choose between:
• Vertical layout (default), which fits in the sidebars of most blog templates;
• Horizontal layout, for wider sidebars;
• 1-blog widget, showing only 1 blog at a time.

Update: For some extra-customization please consider the BlogUpp! Google gadget announced lately. Thus it has become possible to customize the look of the borders exactly the way you want.

Important to mention is that the 10:9 sharing ratio is valid for any of the sizes or layouts of the widget. It actually means that if a blog uses the 1-blog widget, then for each 10 blogs displayed in the widget, the blog automatically obtains 9 views for its promotion within the community. Whereas with a 2-blog widget (vertical or horizontal), the views the blog obtains double for the same number of readers.

Not less important to know is the following:

• Having more than one widget in a blog, won't affect the number of impressions the blog accumulates or shares actually;
• Altering manually the size of the widget is not recommended, as it'll be treated as gaming the system, which might lead to the blog being rejected;
• Placing the widget too low (i.e. close to the footer) will result in either the blog not being approved, or the overall results being less favorable.
• Additional recommendations could be found in the post titled "Reviewing terms. Respect your readers, and the bloggers".

Note that while you submit your blog for the first time, BlogUpp! automatically snapshots it. Should the obtained blog's thumbnail not look ok - there should be no worry; while your blog gets reviewed, the thumbnail is reviewed as well, and it is re-created if necessary, so that to best represent your blog.

Update: Should you need to change your BlogUpp! thumbnail, now you can easily force a real-time update.

The layout and size of the widget can be changed for any blog and at any time, the historical records being stored accordingly. This means that not only the new submitted blogs can use a customized widget, but also the blogs that have been submitted in the past. The only thing that needs to be done in case of previously submitted blogs, is to re-enter the blog address at blogupp.com, choose the desired customization option, and get the renewed code to replace the previous one in the blog.

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// Image by Toni Blay