Contest is king , but your great article with great content isn't worth anything if you don't have visitors to your blog.Thats why services like Blogupp is great for expanding your reader base. Blogupp is similar to services like Spott where you are rewarded for your page impressions. They promise a 10:9 exchange ration which is far better that Spott.The best thing about this is it works very well with Entrecard. Same concept as Spott really , you get the impressions through Entrecard and in turn your blog is shown in Blogupp widget in other blogs.
Pros
- No sign up required.So you want have to worry about privacy or spam
- No effort, you don't have to drop cards etc ( I especially like this one
) - Multi Language Support
- Targeted readers
- 10:9 exchange ratio
Cons
- Two blogs are shown in the widget at the same time so you have competition
- Considerable amount of space required to add the widget
I'm not getting huge traffic through this , but since I don't have to do anything to get traffic from this it is worth a try. As I mentioned earlier this works very well with Entrecard since Entrecard generates the page impressions for you.
A snapshot of your blog is shown in the widget so if you have a unique blog design you have a much better chance of getting clicked by the user.You can see it in action in my sidebar.
Are you using Blogupp in your blog ? If so I would like to know how its performing for you.
Hi I’ve been running the widget about 2 months. I get about 500 visits a day. And I would say I’ve had maybe 10 people come through Blogupp. So i’ts not hurting anything, but that is a lot of page real estate. So probably it wont survive my next redesign.
Dave,
Have to agree , it might not be worth for the space its taking.
Peter,
You are welcome.Competition is good from the readers point of view , but not so good from the blogger point of view.Have to agree text being displayed is a cool move
Christine,
Thank you
Yeah, I try to give everything I try a fair trial. So I gave Text Links a shot, but the stress about Google made me quite at the beginning of this month. And Blogupp has had it’s 2 months so…
Nice find… will definitely give it a try. Thank you for the nice share.