We are seeing some really positive results from the first two weeks worth of traffic on BlogBurst and want to share it with you.
While it is early in the process to claim victory, we are seeing two distinct and compelling sets of results for blogs that have been picked up on publisher sites.
Growing visibility for your blog via headline impressions
The first opportunity for your site to be discovered on a mainstream media site is through the page components that typically display headlines, a teaser sentence and your blog’s name in a clickable widget (see example by clicking “more”) Continue reading ‘BlogBurst results for the first two weeks’
Now that we are live with the service, we want to expose more of the inner-workings of the BlogBurst development process so everyone can follow along as we layer in more capabilities into the system. We are gathering feedback from the bloggers who submit requests/issues, as well as from some of our formal (and informal) blogger advisors, whose job it is to keep us headed in the right direction and accountable to the bloggers in our network. Going forward, we plan to provide more product roadmap information to you through the BurstBlog, so stay tuned right here for more information as we progress. In the mean time, here are some of the key product development initiatives you should know about for the next 30 days or so.
Photo Proxy to eliminate photo deep linking
As more of our publishers go live, more of your content is being put in front of larger audiences. While the exposure is great, we’re aware that inline images in your posts displayed on major destination sites could run up some serious bandwidth. Within the week, we will unveil the capability to automatically re-host your images before they are displayed on our publishers’ sites - so your photos can be delivered to publisher sites on our bandwidth nickel, not yours.
Continue reading ‘Upcoming BlogBurst improvements for bloggers’
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