New Bloggers Tool – Creates Exposure!
January 23, 2009 by Adam
Filed under Blogging, Website Traffic
Social media is a proven method for marketing your business, blog, product, or personality. The past five years have seen the development of hundreds of online communities, some of which are geared to specific interest groups like artists, women, or eco-businesses. One of the newest additions to the social media melee is BloggersBase.com, a user-created magazine which caters to bloggers who want to gain more exposure and generate public awareness of their writing.
BloggersBase.com users can sign up for a free account and immediately begin adding blog posts, videos and photographs to different categories including Entertainment, Technology, and World Affairs. These contributions create an enormous resource-filled site that benefits both the writers and the readers. As a contributing blogger, you gain a vastly greater audience than you would by simply blogging on your own website. The administrators of BloggersBase encourage the participating bloggers to use content from their personal blogs on the site, and to fill out their profiles to include links to their bio and personal website.
Each contributor gains rank based on their seniority and their popularity among other bloggers and readers and the number of posts submitted. Ranking titles range from “Newbie” to “Scholar” and are clearly displayed on your user profile along with your avatar. Registered users have the ability to rank each post you make, as well as leave comments and feedback. The entire site is highly interactive, which can be both fun and useful in helping you fine tune your blogging skills. (Especially if you’re just starting out as a blogger)
But perhaps the most exciting part of the site is the aspect of competition between the users:
“Each blog in BloggersBase is in constant competition, which lasts a certain duration called a Timeslot. The end of each Timeslot marks the end of one competition and the beginning of a new one. The best bloggers in the previous Timeslot continue to co-author the blog and can receive special awards, while the ones with the lowest marks are forced to become contenders again…”
To make the competition even more exciting, BloggersBase offers cash prizes for the weekly winners in each of the blog categories. (Top poster in each section receives $40 and second prize winner receives $10) So, in addition to the prestige of winning each week, you have the chance to earn a little extra money with your blogging.
Finally, as a BloggersBase reader, members are able to gain a separate ranking based on the length of their membership and the number of blog posts that they vote and comment on. These titles range from “Subscriber” to “Oracle” and the higher the rank the more influence your votes have. Even individuals who have no interest in writing can enjoy the high quality site content and participation in the competition between the bloggers.
Very few other social media sites have been able to combine the value of content with an interactive competition. Bloggersbase.com is sure to keep you coming back time and again—for the sheer fun of it.
Very interesting concept going to take a look at this now.
This looks to be a pretty neat addition to the social marketing catalog. I have registered and signed up for the marketing tools from your previous post and I guess I’ll have a go at this one.
Thanks so much for the tip!
T
I don’t understand what makes it different to (say) Helium.
I like the layout of the site and the idea behind it but I can see what the BIG difference is to i.e. a site like Squidoo or some of the other blogging communities?
Where do you see the big difference?
blogger base seems quite interesting.
i like its theme and will check it out.
Thanks much for the tip on this one. I published one of my “You Might be a Millennial if…” articles there last week, and just received the following note
“The weekly competition at BloggersBase has just ended has just ended and you ranked second out of the six that published Nuggets in the Humor Goldmine. This means that you have earned the opportunity to publish posts to the surface Humor blog for the next week.” Check out their Entertainment -> Humor section to see a couple of my posts.
Looks like a nice platform for blog promotion however the biggest issue is time. I am having a tough time managing time trying to promote my blog on different internet forums,blog directories, social networking and bookmarking sites I am already on. I think it’s better to be active on 3-4 of such sites rather than make accounts on 10 and then not being active on any.
Thanx anyways, would try and take a look at Bloggers Base over the weekend.
Thanks for the tip, one more platform to check out.
seems to be a good tool, something new to check out for bloggers with new platform.
will surely try it out now
Hi,
I just visited BloggerBase. They asked me to submit my e-mail address to start. At first, i thought, it is a spam, but i tried by posting my e-mail address. Instantly, I received activation e-mail. After activating my account, I successfully created a blog post related to travel n tourism. And, at last i can see my post in real time. I just have one question, Is it posting at only blog or it is posting in different blogs at the same time?
Other than that, it is super.
Thanks for the information. It is always a pleasure getting recommendations from others. A couple of your comments had suggestion that this is just another site and that they have trouble maintaining the 10 or so social media sites that they already use. While I understand their frustration, I would like to point out that in order to drive traffic to your blog you must also have quality links. This is one way to reach more people. For more tips on driving traffic visit my blog.