As BlogBurst has expanded its reach across destination sites over the last year, we’re increasingly hearing success stories from our esteemed participating bloggers. These folks have some good things to say about their experience so far:
Patrix talks about gaining exposure and dollars here.
And Chuck is happy to be appearing on Reuters.com as well as a few other major sites recently.
Earth & Sky is known as “A Clear Voice for Science”, and with BlogBurst, they’ve made that voice a bit louder on sites like USAToday.
What we’re happy about is that they’ve reaped those benefits just by doing what they were already doing in the first place — writing great independent content that people find interesting.
What has BlogBurst done for you? Good or bad, please let us know.
I’ve been very pleased to see some of my book reviews picked up by Reuters, usatoday.com, and IBS. The authors and publishers whose books I’ve reviewed have also been very pleased to receive wider recognition. In turn, I’ve had more authors and publishers ask me to review books. Thank you.
Curious about how the leaderboard works. I’ve been hanging in there; actually doing quite well (#16 yesterday; I took a screen shot of it!). Then today — Boom! My blog’s nowhere to be found? Just curious how I fell off so dramatically, especially since I’m having a record day (on my traffic directly to my blog, which I know is not the same as BB traffic). Also, I corresponded with the tech guys earlier and htey had to “re-set” my blog because of trouble at Pluck’s end; could that be part of the reason I’ve become BB invisible? Finally, I noticed that #77 on the leaderboard takes me to a broken link. I’m guessing that’s not happening with its feeds or it wouldn’t be #77 … or would it?
Early stages of Blogburst and the blog was doing great, but nowadays it’s not being published as much. Would appreciate some advice, as it’s a very popular blog and is featured on high profile sites outside of Blogburst.
I notice traffic on my blog, Views from the Left Coast, has picked up since Reuters.com picked up on of my posts from BlogBurst. That’s tremendously exciting and inspiring. Other syndicators have contacted me, too. So far, I’m very happy with BlogBurst.
Two of my posts made it to Reuters.com thanks to BlogBurst. My August 31 post “muclear Iran” and September 10 post “who’s the foe, I says Hu”.
Both appearances caught me by surprise and left me feeling thrilled, proud but mostly and humbled. For mine it is not about $, moreso about exposure and promoting my particular message.
How’s BlogBurst treating me? It’s all good, thanks…
I’ve dealt with the same. Only, I from #10 last quarter to clean off the board, to this quarter seeing me be as high as #2 last weekend, drop to #6 by Tues. and in the span of 6 hours (the night) drop off the Leaderboard.
I have gotten word through tech support that has been anywhere from, “We’ve been trying to tell of this defect for some time, but no one will listen to us.” To, “it may be due to the velocity metrics.” As a senior software test lead for over 12 years, this isn’t about the velocity metrics, it’s a defect.
I’m back on the board at #98. Plainly put, this issue has moved me from being interested in using BlogBurst as a key barometer by which I look to post content by. The system is too sketchy at this time to place the effort into BlogBurst as the driver.
I have no complaints with the service as I am regularly placed within some of your larger clients websites, but I do have a problem with the workbench. Whenever I appear on Reuters it does not show up in my workbench until almost a week later, sometimes longer. One of my articles was on there on October 25 and I was unaware until November 16. Why is this?
Anyone going to answer Kay?
I was absolutely thrilled to see my blog on a bunch of news site recently. I’ve heard a lot of good feedback from my visitors, but there’s no validation quite like seeing an article you’ve written pop up on some well-known web destinations.
Thanks BlogBurst!
I discovered my content was being repurposed to aviation week today — even though I don’t recall ever setting up an account. God knows I’ve never seen any money from this. I’d like someone from BlogBurst to contact me about this asap BTW.
Frankly, I’m poised to post at blogbusinesssummit.com about not understanding how complete posts being repurposed in full with no direct inbound link benfits a publisher. A link to blogburst that only redirects to a publisher’s site seems pointless at best, and predatory at worst.
From time to time I’ve created sites that aggregate other’s posts on focused topics. I take care to attribute fully, publish only brief extracts, and link back directly to the original site. The point is to drive link love and encourage traffic back to a publisher. How does BlogBurst achieve this when the entire post is lifted, and there is not a direct link back?
Answers for Kay@ Don’t Mess with Taxes–
Hi Kay, I followed-up with the more technically inclined guys. What I learned was that your RSS feed was broken and your posts were not updating in BlogBurst. That would explain the steep drop-off. No new posts = no pick-up. The link for #77 was working for me. I do know that Blog changed their URL recently. I hope that helps. Please let me know if you have additional questions.
Hi Dc–
Shoot me an email with your blog’s name and I’ll see if I can lend some insight for improving your pick-up.
Tina Nelson
Sr. Editor