Giants fall too. It just happens sometimes

For our service to be more reliable it's operated through Amazon Simple Storage Service. This aims to make the service available at any time and from anywhere. Unfortunately there happen outages with Amazon servers occasionally, which results in many web services, including BlogUpp!, not functioning. Such blackouts were noticed lately even with Google services, which tells that absolutely everyone is vulnerable. Obviously the problems get fixed shortly and the services become available again.

Herein we need to apologize to all our community bloggers for inconveniences and for them not being able to make use of BlogUpp! service during outages. The practice shows that Amazon servers might go down for at most several hours, during which we kindly ask everyone to be understanding. In this context we appreciate a lot all the reports that we receive from the community, that help us make sure where the issue is, and react promptly.

The good part is that Amazon is still one of the most reliable web players, with best uptime characteristics for their infrastructure. Hopefully it stays in the same position, and BlogUpp! will be available to you almost at any time, and almost from anywhere. Otherwise, we'll just have to change the partnership.

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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.

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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Comparing BlogUpp! & other services

BlogUpp! aims to keep things simple and easy, both for bloggers and readers to enjoy their online experience.
It is still understood that not all the advantages that BlogUpp! offers are obvious to everyone.

In this context there have been queries to make comparisons with other services that stand for blog promotion.

In order to make things straight and clear, we've prepared a simple analysis of BlogUpp! service along with other known ones, which is shown below:

	BlogUpp!	Entrecard	Spottt	BlogRush
• Membership-free, i.e. no signup	Yes	No	No	No
• Automatic widget generation, i.e. no ad submission	Yes	No	No	Yes
• Automatic categorization, i.e. based on RSS and context	Yes	No	No	No
• Interactive articles sharing	Yes	No	No	Yes
• Hassle-free, i.e. no multi-tier programs maintenance	Yes	No	No	Yes
• WordPress platform and alike friendly	Yes	No	Yes	No
• Targeted readers reach, i.e. no credit-chasers	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
• Multilanguage support	Yes	No	No	No
• Welcome bonus impressions for everyone	Yes	No	No	No
• Clicked widget doesn’t close the original blog	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
• No page load delay, i.e. no Java Scripts	Yes	No	Yes	No
• Cheat-proof and fair sharing *	Yes	No	No	No
• De facto exchange ratio **	10:9	N/A	10:5	10:2

* Repeated page refreshes won't change the blogs in the widget, to protect the community from impressions-waste;
** Total displayed blogs impressions versus yours.

Other misc advantages:
• SEO friendly link exchange, i.e. doesn't aim to alter one's PageRank;
• Although initially designed for bloggers, actually any website with enabled RSS can use the BlogUpp! service;
• BlogUpp! was designed on purpose to be unprecedentedly simple and easy-to-use, nevertheless it has a powerful engine, and it uses mighty techniques.

The conclusion - is your own. If you feel the above comparison is not objective enough, please feel free to comment, and we'll not hesitate to correct ourselves.
Or better, if you've discovered a different way how BlogUpp! does help you and your blog, we'll be pleased to include it in the list above.

Enjoy your blogging!

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BlogUpp! launch press-release

Dear Blogger,

We are happy to share with you the news of BlogUpp! public launch. Please check below the press-release related to the roll out of the service that we are proud to present to you.

BlogUpp! - the easiest way to get readers and traffic for quality blogs

BlogUpp! introduces an improved service aimed to drive traffic and discover new connections for bloggers with quality content, the easiest and more efficiently. It has the best of any link exchange or banner exchange service, and more. BlogUpp! operates with the highest in the industry exchange ratio of 10:9. There is no signup, no account, and no other data required, except the link to the blog. BlogUpp! generates in return a short code, for the blogger just to copy and paste into its blog once, and which will result in driving traffic to it for good. WordPress platform and alike are supported as well.

BlogUpp! doesn't require the blogger to submit an ad either, as it automatically takes a snapshot of the blog, and shares it on others using the service from http://www.blogupp.com. Each blog's snapshot is accompanied by the most recent article, which BlogUpp! gets by reading blog's RSS regularly. In this way the blogger enriches its blog content, and the readers are provided with diversified and interactive information. At the same time this method ensures there are no animation and annoying ads displayed to the readers.

As the community of blogs with BlogUpp! service gets bigger, the bloggers will get interconnected through common interests. BlogUpp's method for scanning the content of blogs and its smart technique will enable interaction between bloggers with similar topics and quality content, without requiring a weblog category being specified.

Although every blogger is invited to benefit from BlogUpp! service, each submitted blog passes an approval step, in order to ensure only those with quality content are added. There are not accepted adult, gambling, and illegal or inappropriate content websites, which aims to make BlogUpp! a family friendly service with quality content. The approval doesn't require additional action from the blogger though. As indicator of the approval status is the color of a specific element in the banner.

Every approved blog gets bonus impressions from the start. BlogUpp! has a democratic method of displaying impressions, so that even blogs with very few readers get fair visibility on other blogs. The more blogs one shows, the bigger the number of credit impressions it gets. However that doesn't have to encourage cheating, aimed to artificially increasing the number of blog views by constantly refreshing it. BlogUpp! handles such attempts appropriately, so that to value blog's readers, and not displayed impressions as such.

Even though no account is required with BlogUpp!, that doesn’t mean the bloggers can't benefit from monitoring their stats. Those willing to use this feature will get it just by following-up an easy procedure. Advanced bloggers could also use stats analytic services that are already available with their weblogs. BlogUpp! seeks to be referred as a simple, efficient and honest community service.

The reliability and scalability of BlogUpp! are supported by Amazon services, which aims to maximize the availability and efficiency of the service for anyone, and at any time.

Previously used methods for adding visibility to a blog consisted mostly in building textual static blogrolls. That implies firstly getting to know of a weblog and only after that a link is to be established manually, by crawling the HTML for each update. With BlogUpp! the bloggers have the possibility to discover new connections effortlessly, in an interactive, automated and extremely simplified way.

With a one-time inserted code into the weblog, the blogger gets to be known by other fellows who share common interests, obtains a boost in the traffic, along with a vivid, fluent and evolved blogroll. In this particular manner each blogger increases its chances for the blog to be shown to a wider audience, with no complexity at all.

All the bloggers are invited to take advantage of BlogUpp! service, which makes it easier than ever getting the bloggers interconnected. Readers and traffic are the true currency for the weblogs, and BlogUpp! can give it cost free to every blogger with quality content.

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