A few months ago I joined a community that allows me to share my blog posts to a much larger community, while at the same time meeting new bloggers. The community is Blog Engage is is a great service to register with if you manage a blog.
When I first started I didn’t know what to expect, so I did spend some time learning the ropes. At first I thought it was just another blog-related community, where members come, talk about everything under the sun, and then leave. I eventually learned it was a way to share the content of your blog easily, and effortlessly.
Sharing Your Posts – The Easy Way
Blog Engage is mainly about sharing the posts on your blog with many other bloggers. Once you sign up, you have the ability to submit a post to the Blog Engage community, and they in turn vote on each post you submit.
Once a post reaches a certain number of votes, it is considered published and it appears on the main page of the site. Posts that aren’t published are simply considered submitted, but are shown on other pages on the site.
When submitting a post, you can specify the following information:
- Post URL.
- Title of the blog post.
- Category where the post should appear on Blog Engage.
- A description of the post.
- A summary of the post.
- Tags related to the post.
When I started out it took about a minute or two to submit one post. If you publish posts once or twice a week, then manually submitting each of your posts may work for you. For those that publish many times each week, then a more automatic approach may be beneficial.
Automatically Submit Your Posts to Blog Engage
You can manually submit each of your posts to Blog Engage, as mentioned above. For those that publish many posts you should look at becoming a paid member of Blog Engage.
As you can see from the banner above, there are 4 packages the you can sign up for. The packages start at $1.99/month and go up to $9.99/month, with each package offering something a little different. Each package, however, will automatically submit each of your blog’s posts to Blog Engage, so you don’t have to worry about the submission process. Depending on how much you post, this can save you quite a bit of time each month for a service that only changes $1.99.
While you may be wondering why you should pay a monthly fee to use the service, there are a few ways you can make the money back with BlogEngage.
Making Money with Blog Engage
Blog Engage provides you with the ability to earn some of your monthly fee back through AdSense-sharing. Basically, on each of the Blog Engage pages that link to your posts, there is also an AdSense ad box.
By updating your profile with your AdSense publisher ID, Blog Engage will start showing those same AdSense ad units using your ID. This means that if a visitor clicks one of the ads, you will get the income generated from that click. The more posts you submit, the better the chance that you will start receiving a small income from Blog Engage.
The second method of making money with Blog Engage is through affiliation. Blog Engage has an affiliate program that you can sign up with, and each time someone signs up for a paid membership, you can earn 25% recurring commission. This means each month that person is a paid member, you will automatically earn 25%. Having a few members sign up under you can quickly pay for the service in no time.
There are many benefits to joining Blog Engage, but the best way to find out is to join the community yourself.
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on April 1, 2011 at 8:37 am
I did not join RSS Syndication program for long but after I joined BlogEngage RSS program I feel it much comfortable. I can log on into BlogEngage just to vote and check what new posts are coming in sphere. The posts are submitted automatically immediately after I hit the publish button. Its a great service.
Now I wish Blokube, WordPressJunkie, MMOSocialNetwork too offer similar service, I am willing to pay.
Thanks for the nice overview. Hope more friends will be aware with the feature and join the program.
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on April 1, 2011 at 8:59 am
Hi Suresh, you know it’s amazing because everyone who joins the RSS Service is always happy. I haven’t had one account cancel from poor service or someone not happy. It’s mainly because people have issues with their blog or simply stopped blogging.
I personally love the idea of the blogengage service it has so much potential to bloggers looking to market and promote. Thanks for the feedback and being such a great customer Suresh.
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on April 1, 2011 at 9:04 am
BlogEngage is the only RSS service that I pay for, and it has helped promote my posts to a larger audience. I like the fact that I can now log in and just have to worry about voting without having to submit each post. Since I post five times a week, it really helps for sure.
on April 1, 2011 at 9:01 am
Hi Paul, thanks so much for writing about our service. I wish you the best of luck in the affiliate program. I’ll tweet this a few times today and hopefully we can drive a sale and some traffic your way!
Best of luck my friend!
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on April 1, 2011 at 9:04 am
No problem, Brian. I figured it was about time I mentioned BlogEngage. After being a member for several months I was do for a post on the service. Keep up the good work.
on April 1, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Hi Paull. Yes, blogengage is a boon to all bloggers. I realized how important the site is for getting niche traffic only after I recently joined RSS syndication service,
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on April 1, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Blog is definitely a site all Bloggers should check out. I’m glad you realized the potential from the BlogEngage service.
on April 2, 2011 at 10:13 am
Blog Engage is good bookmarking website that help us gain a lot of traffic.
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on April 2, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Hi Paul,
Are there any requirements to join? For example, I joined a similar program called the Yardbarker network and they require that you add their script, widget, and ads. I notice you have the Blog Engage “ad” on your right sidebar. Is that required, or is that your affiliate ad?
Great information. I’m certainly interested in joining. Thanks!
Stephen
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on April 3, 2011 at 9:02 am
Hi Stephen,
There is no requirement except for a blog with an RSS feed. I do recommend, however, that if you do join that you place the BlogEngage vote button on all your posts (as I have done). This allows other BlogEngage members to easily vote for your post.
The ad on my right-sidebar is an affiliate ad, and it isn’t a required, unless you join the affiliate program and would like to advertise BlogEngage.
on April 5, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Oh, okay! Very good.
Kind of seems like a bad idea NOT to join, haha. I’m certainly going to have to look into that more. Thanks for the information and another great suggestion!
on April 6, 2011 at 8:06 am
No problem, Stephen.
on August 3, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Oh so you have to pay for membership. Monthly payment is very affordable. Blog Engage is a good move for one who made this. Your blog would pass the test of those fellow bloggers before publishing it is like ensuring your blog has good enough contents to be posted.
on August 4, 2011 at 8:31 am
It is important to ensure the quality of blogs that are part of a blogging community. Quality is always preferred over quantity. The quality of the blogs on BlogEngage puts that network above many of the other blogging networks.
on September 22, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Hi there. Thanks for sharing this. It’s a very interesting post you’ve shared here. Ensure the quality first, then you can get money from it, I guess.
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