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.
Reporting Improvements
We made a small change this past weekend to allow bloggers with multiple blogs on their accounts to see the existing reports sliced by blog. Also, over the next 30 days or so, we plan to release new reports highlighting where your posts are showing up on the publisher sites and how many referral clicks you are getting from each publisher where your blog displays. We will continue to roll out new reporting updates as we complete the behind the scenes work to make sure we are tracking the data accurately, so please stay tuned for details.
BlogBurst section/Headline widget improvements on publisher sites
This is an important element to scaling BlogBurst on publisher sites. We have some big plans to make the headline widgets richer and more interactive to draw more readers into your posts, and ultimately your blog sites. More on this in the next 30 days.
Nice to know that you are working on these things. I have got good headline impression so far but not traffic to my blog. Well, I am not dishearted for it because my posts are getting selected by the publishers to display daily and this is very important for me.
Glad to see your progess and I appreciate the update. As someone with a photography blog (www.photoblasko.blogspot.com), the Photo Proxy stuff is good to know.
Thanks for the update. Your success is our success, and when it comes to keeping people safe, every message sharing conduit is valued.
Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department