BlogBurst – Sharing your blog content
However, this post is about one service that makes it possible to achieve both objectives. I joined BlogBurst about a year back. I had a personal email exchange with one of their founders who invited me to add my blogs on their network. Now this isn’t one of those online syndication services but instead a service that attempts to bridge the gap between mainstream media and the blogosphere. Both these mediums have often been labeled as being in direct conflict with each other although it never was true. I have always believed that the mainstream media and the blogosphere work symbiotically often filling the information gaps that each medium individually can never close. We still need the professionalism and fact-checking abilities of the mainstream media but also love the spontaneity and instant-news, personal accounts and opinions of the blogosphere. Many mainstream media outlets have already recognized this and seek reader inputs.
BlogBurst helps put your blog content on major media sites. Nope, it doesn’t pay you when it does but your content gets a wider audience. Don’t real bloggers who blog for the love of it enjoy that attention? This blog’s content has been featured occasionally on Reuters, Palm Beach Post, Austin American Stateman, and Coxohio.com. My Urban Planning Blog is now regularly tracked by the McGraw-Hill Publishing company blog and DesiPundit’s links are also regularly featured on Reuter’s blog feature.
So how does this help you financially, some might ask? Well, it doesn’t. At least not for all. I wasn’t aware of BlogBurst’s Leaderboard feature when I joined the site. So I was pleasantly surprised when I got an email that this blog was ranked #76 last quarter in terms of headline impressions (thanks to the Harry Potter leak post). That ranking entitled me to a $75 cash reward. Considering that I had joined BlogBurst only to promote my blogs and get my word out to mainstream media outlets, this was a welcome and pleasant surprise.
So why should you join BlogBurst? Because, it brings your blog content to the attention of top mainstream media publishers like Reuters, USA Today, Fox News, Gannett, McGraw-Hill, etc. If some of your posts are relevant, well-written, and offer a new insight not covered by the mainstream media, it might go viral on multiple media sites and garner you new readers (and subscribers). If you end up in the top 100 blogs at the end of the quarter, you get paid at least $50 ($1500 for the top dog..err…blog). Even if you aren’t in the top 100, you have the satisfaction of being featured in those newspaper websites (SEO junkies, you get link-love from highly-ranked domains). After all, content rules and that’s what matters, right?
PS. Nope, the BlogBurst link above is not an affiliate link because there is no such thing. Thankfully.
“BlogBurst – Sharing your blog content” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2287] was published Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 2:26 pm by Patrix, filed under Media, Weblogs, and tagged as blogging, blogs, Media. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
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still by invitation only !!
2 years ago replyArzan, strange! I would have thought they must have opened up. I checked. No invites that I can send. Why don’t you email them and ask for one?
2 years ago replyIpatrix,
A very well written article on what should be important to bloggers as well as the impact that blogburst represents. In my opinion too many bloggers lose the focus of what separates them from the pack, how they create this separation, and why they are in existence in the first place.
Radical transparency is the currency of the blogishphere. What separates “us” is our willingness and appetite for “telling it like it is” without editors-bosses-media conglomerates censoring our efforts.
The separation from bloggers only interested in monitization and bloggers who are creative in expressing their “voice”, is content. Bloggers who express their voice with passion crush most of the “money for your blog” authors that litter the landscape.
Why are bloggers in existence with a blogisphere in the first place? Because of the censorship experienced by the mass media during the 9/11 tragedy. Blogging was the source of liberal voices throughout America. It was a call to arms and the birth of “citizen journalism” as we know it today.
Congratulations on a great explanation of blogburst and blogging.
dean
2 years ago replyIt’s not by invitation as I asked them and they took my blog a while back (6 months?).
Although I’ve not gotten any cash back from them as yet, I’m dead chuffed to see from the stats that 11,000 odd folk have seen my stuff via Reuters in the last week.
I sort-of half the impression that this is a site that will be very worthwhile being listed by in due course as the number of viewers of my site via their syndication has gone up drastically in the last few weeks. On the assumption that my writing hasn’t become suddenly much more attractive, it implies that they’re really getting somewhere with their marketing.
2 years ago replyWow, I do hope that they stood well back when they lit the fuse for that rocket they’ve given me in Reuters!
The last seven days are now showing 149,000 views!
2 years ago replyAs a daily blogger I have been really surprised at the number of times Blog Burst has put my work up on Reuters alone. I don’t see myself ever being in the top one hundred but I like to think that they see my work worth recommending to the world and for that I simply say, thank you.
2 years ago reply