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Jun 23, 2008

Blog Visibility, Free. For Sale Too

In response to community's feedback, BlogUpp! provides now several ways to get even more exposure and blog promotion.

Now it is possible to become a Premium blogger and boost your blog visibility for a modest charge. Simply access your BlogUpp! stats page to find available 3 Premium packages, with prices starting from as low as 0.08 EUR per thousand impressions (CPM) and minimum package cost from 5 EUR, customized* as per your blog's sub-community. Premium packages can be easily acquired through PayPal, Moneybookers and WebMoney.

BlogUpp and Visibility for SaleNote that BlogUpp! uses OpenID to allow secured access to stats page, which only requires blogger's blog URL to get in. Please check OpenID tutorial for more information.

Besides, there is still available the possibility to obtain bonus impressions as part of our ongoing action. It only requires reviewing BlogUpp on your blog; just spread the word, and let us know about it. Please note however that we welcome only genuine posts, on blogs meeting community's criteria.

We'd like to emphasize that promoting blogs is free for everyone. The newly added impressions acquisition feature is only to meet community's demand for extra blog promotion, as well as to allow us provide a free service for you.

* Premium prices differ depending on a number of factors, such as blog's language, quality and geo-origin.
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Jun 10, 2008

Get OpenID-fied and get blog analytics

BlogUpp is sharing analytics, the easy way - so that you don't need to have an account with us to access blog analytics.

BlogUpp and OpenID With all those websites requiring you to register to use their services, it's not easy to remember all the user IDs and passwords. Things get a lot simpler with OpenID, which allows to log in to thousands of websites with a single digital identity, represented by a simple URL, which can be your blog URL.

We now support OpenID too, and it allows to access blog analytics with BlogUpp just by entering your blog address. It's that simple! Most blogs hosted on Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, LiveJournal and alike have been OpenID-enabled automatically. Just click “Analytics” in upper menu, enter the address of your blog that has an active BlogUpp widget, and that's it – you should be in.

For blogs on blogspot.com please do the following, should OpenID not be automatically enabled:
• Go to www.blogger.com, and click on "Settings";
• Choose the tab "OpenID" and follow the instructions to make sure the blog is OpenID-enabled.
• Alternatively, please paste the following line in the header of your blog:
  <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.blogger.com/openid-server.g" />

Update: find tips on OpenID authentication with country-specific *.blogspot blog URL's

For custom domain blogs on wordpress.org - there is a quick solution as well to enable OpenID. Simply install the OpenID plugin, then in plugin's settings select to enable OpenID and specify the blog owner. That's it.

Alternatively, the following steps should be followed. Firstly, get an OpenID from sites like Yahoo, AOL, which might already have your OpenID identifier, without you even knowing it. Then through OpenID delegation you can easily transform your blog URL into an OpenID. It only requires the ability to add a small snippet of HTML code to your blog. Basically, OpenID helps prove that you own the blog. 

For example, in case of myOpenID issued identifiers, the code to be added into the <head> of the blog would look like:
  <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />
  <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://your_name.myopenid.com/" />

which says that your blog is owned by the owner of "http://your_name.myopenid.com/" and "http://www.myopenid.com/server" may be used to verify the ownership of "http://your_name.myopenid.com/".

For an AOL OpenID, the code would look like:
  <link rel="openid.server" href="https://api.screenname.aol.com/auth/openidServer" />
  <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://openid.aol.com/screenname" />

More examples of OpenID code snippets will be posted in the comments below, and we welcome you to share the OpenID snippet that worked for your blog. For more information about OpenID, visit OpenIDexplained.com or OpenID.net.

Get OpenID-fied and enjoy the difference with your universal online identity! Ultimately, you can enter dozens of sites, including BlogUpp analytics and Premium area simply by providing your blog's URL. Moreover, while being authenticated through your blog's URL as an OpenID, and commenting in the blogosphere, your blog is linked back automatically, with minimum effort. Isn't that cool? We think it really is. Enjoy your blogging!

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Jun 6, 2008

We do No Magic

BlogUpp is not a service that deals with magic. You'll get no promises of tons of traffic, or thousands of instant visitors. It rather aims to be referred as a decent and fair support for every blogger who values readership and creates interesting content for the reader.

BlogUpp vs Magic One of our priorities is to support you in building a long-term readership, without compromising your image in the eyes of such web players as Google. The visitors sent to your blog through BlogUpp widget are your real readers; engaged ones. That's because they are not credit-chasers or affiliate program fellows to generate you simulated traffic. These are people who have got interested in your content shared in the widget (or other blog promotion channels we provide), they appreciated your blog design, and they wanted to know you closer. They might not be as many as provided by multi-tier and questionable quality programs, which you need to constantly maintain. But they are the readers you are addressing; like-minded people.

The point we'd like to make is that BlogUpp really encourages interesting content and creative presentation. We do not incentivize readers to click and visit your blogs, rather provide everyone of you opportunities to deserve their attention, by sharing mini-copies of your blogs to larger audiences. Probably you use to share well your content yourself. But BlogUpp is the easy way to do it, so that you can focus on blogging, of which everyone wins; both you and all the readers.

Additionally, please keep in mind that your inbound click through rates are dependent on how you favor outbound clicks in your widget. Expect moderate results if your widget is placed below the fold. And that is because BlogUpp uses techniques to identify this, and promotes you on community blogs having similar widget placements.

We are in the Web 2.0 era, and we encourage you to make your blogs nice to surf, and interesting to read; please see these blog tips for that. The readers are the ones to reward you. Each visit to your blog gains views of your blog to other readers on other community blogs via BlogUpp widget and content discovery toolbar. Effortlessly of you. Simply invest your time in things you like; create. Attractive content will always get readers from outside through the widget, and they will become your followers. For better results, just re-consider it, keep the content live and interesting, and people will come to join your readership. It is the easy way it should be; inartificially and organically.

Haven't tried blog promotion with BlogUpp yet? Get started in seconds!

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Jun 1, 2008

Build the Future. Make it Good

We are proud to serve a community of influencers. People with deep thinking, who have a valuable say on what's happening in the society. It's you, the bloggers.

We all do realize very well that the children are the future, and the way we behave and treat them - determines who they'll become, and what the world will be. But sometimes it seems that this fact is being ignored.

Here's a video that we'd like to share and make the same call: "Children see. Children do. Make your influence positive".



We can do better. And we should.

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