When we started working on Blogitive, we knew the idea would have it’s opponents, and we knew we would quickly see competitors in the space. We have tried to learn from both. Here are some of the complaints we get from bloggers: (more…)
I want to thank everyone for their patience while we updated the Blogitive application. The original system was never built to handle as many bloggers, or offers as we were pushing out. That of course was causing some issues in the system being slow and throwing up the occasional errors. We also figured out that not everybody was seeing offers when they were posted. The old system was really a victim of Blogitive’s success, so I want to thank you all for that too. It was a big shock for me to hear that had pushed out hundreds of thousands of posts for clients through our network. Those are really impressive numbers. (more…)
In light of the recent news regarding Blogitive removing some of the blogs hosts that are not Blogitive friendly I decided to write about some of the options available. First of all those of you who have blogs hosted on the “blacklist”, try not to panic.
You may not realize this but transferring your blog to your own host is actually better for you in the long run. Blogging has becoming a way for regular “Joes” to generate an income. Paid blogging, Affiliate Marketing and Adsense are a few of the options available to bloggers these days. Whatever you choose to do don’t limit yourself by limiting your blog growth. (more…)
In a rare instance of helpfulness, our hosting provider, Media Temple, has let us know that they will be performing a major update on our servers between 11:30pm – 3:30am. They did not specify the time zone, but I would assume that it is PST.
So, Blogitive MAY be down between those times, but hopefully not.
The goal for Blogitive is to create a market place for all bloggers to make money. Unfortunately some companies disagree with that vision, and have a limited ability to block it, at least for their users.
Starting on Dec. 4th, we will no longer be able to accept or provide offers to blog hosted on services like writingup.com and blogparty.com. There is a short list of these types of sites that allow you to post content on their site, and then add your AdSense account info to earn money trough clicks. I will not name the companies, but we have gotten at least two companies like these that object to Blogitive being used on their network and have pulled down pages, as well as closed accounts. We are going through our network one-by-one, if you use one of the networks we are discontinuing, we will let you know through email. (more…)
I get the occasional email from people asking me how I would suggest they create posts for Blogitive. There is also a lot of debate right now about disclosing sponsored postings, and whether or not Blogitive should insist on it. I invite your feedback below, but here are my personal feelings on this issue.
First, feel free to check out how I use Blogitive. My personal blog is www.oneblogtoomany.com. (It’s under a little construction right now, so please excuse the potential mess when you get there) You will notice that I don’t get to post as many Blogitive releases as I would like, and I of course don’t want to take opportunities from our users by doing them myself. But when I do post I use 2 different ways of posting. (more…)
As some of you may have noticed, Blogitive has been down a few times over the past couple weeks. We recently moved our site and application over to the Media Temple Grid Server, which is a newer technology. This of course has caused some down time that has been inconvenient for everyone involved.
We are hoping that this won’t continue, but if it does we will obviously be switching back to a standard dedicated server platform, with the entire load balancing needs. We will be monitoring the situation over the course of the month and make a final decision then. (more…)
This is a question we get from time to time. People want to know how much they can make by blogging for Blogitive. The answer is obviously dependent on how much you are willing to work. We have bloggers who post once per month, and we have some that post constantly. The smallest pay out has been $5, and the biggest has been $1,200!
As Blogitive grows and brings on more clients, we have more offers to put out. So one consistent is that bloggers make more money month after month at Blogitive. (more…)
It’s our goal to help people make money blogging. So to that end, we have created a new job board to help companies who are looking to hire bloggers reach out to our blogging community.
The board is just starting, so give it some time to ramp up. We have set the fee for posting fairly low, so we should start to see some good postings through out next week. (more…)
Welcome to the official launch of Blogitive. To those of you already participating in Blogitive, thank you for your support in helping us get to this point. For those of you who are new, this is the time to start making money through blogging.
There have been a few copycats launched since we started this project 18 months ago. We are proud to say that we will continue to create innovative opportunities for bloggers to earn money without selling their souls. (more…)