Monday, June 23, 2008

Blog visibility, free. For sale too

In response to community's feedback, BlogUpp! now provides several ways to accumulate blog impressions, for more visibility and blog promotion. In addition to the main mode, when a blog gets promoted with each of its readers, there are available two more alternative ways.

BlogUpp and Visibility for Sale The newly introduced update makes it possible to obtain additional blog visibility for a modest charge. Simply access your BlogUpp! stats page to find available 3 progressive impression packages, with attractive discounts. Currently they can be easily acquired through PayPal, although we are open to consider other methods that are convenient for the community, and we welcome feedback.

The above method is accessible for all the blogs accepted within the BlogUpp! community.
Besides, there is still available the possibility to obtain bonus impressions as part of our ongoing action. It only requires sharing with your blog readers your discovery of BlogUpp! service; 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, such as: be with no adult, gambling and illegal content (e.g. warez and multimedia sharing), as well as to represent a real value for the community.

We'd like to emphasize that promoting blogs through the widget is free for everyone, and will always be. The newly added impressions acquisition feature is only to meet community's demand for alternative ways, as well as to allow us keep BlogUpp! running for you.

In closing, we'd like to quote one of Google principles, which we at BlogUpp! are following too:
Simplicity is powerful.
Simplicity fuels many elements of good design, including ease of use, speed, visual appeal, and accessibility. But simplicity starts with the design of a product's fundamental functions. Google doesn't set out to create feature-rich products; our best designs include only the features that people need to accomplish their goals. Ideally, even products that require large feature sets and complex visual designs appear to be simple as well as powerful.
// Image by DarylTanghe

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Get OpenID-fied and discover a new Web

Today we’re announcing that BlogUpp! is sharing its stats with you, the easy way. And as promised, you don't need to have yet another web account with us in order to access it.

BlogUpp and OpenID With those tons of web sites requiring you to register so that you can use their services, it's not an easy task to remember all the user IDs and passwords. But things can get simpler, and we at BlogUpp! are constantly looking to implement technologies to ease and improve your whole web experience. And here comes OpenID. With it you can login to thousands of websites with a single digital identity, represented by a simple URL, which can be your homepage or blog, or it can be provided to you by a web site you use.

We now support OpenID too, and it helps you access your BlogUpp! stats just by entering your blog address. It's that simple. Before you start, we need to make sure your blog is OpenID-enabled. Actually most blogs hosted on Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, LiveJournal and alike have been OpenID-enabled automatically. Just click Stats from BlogUpp! main page, enter the address of your blog which uses BlogUpp! widget, and that's it. When you see your BlogUpp! stats it means you've been authenticated through your blog provider and you are ready to go.

For the other cases, including WordPress blogs on custom domains, there are simple solutions as well. Firstly, get an OpenID from sites like Technorati, AOL, myOpenID or others, 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.

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 of this article, 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 card and signature! From now on, you can enter dozens of sites, including BlogUpp! advanced module, 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 it, and your blogging!

Friday, June 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 presents interesting content to the readers.

BlogUpp! vs Magic One of our priorities is to support you in building long-term readerships, without compromising your image in the eyes of such web players as Google. The visitors sent to your blog through BlogUpp! widget are your new readers; engaged ones. That's because they are not credit-chasers or affiliate program fellows to generate you simulated traffic. These are people who've got interested in your content shared in the widget, they appreciated your blog design, and they wanted to know you closer. They might not be as many as provided by multi-tier 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 don't force 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's 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 call you to make your blogs nice to surf, and interesting to read. The readers are the ones to reward you. Each visit to your blog gains for you through BlogUpp! views of your blog to other readers on other community blogs. Effortlessly of you. Just 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's the easy way it should be; inartificially and organically.

// Image by Stuck in Customs

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Sunday, June 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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