Blog Friends Have Ideas To Level The Blogosphere Playing Field
Ok, one more time, What is Allan’s Favourite Facebook Application?
Go to the top of the class if your answer was Blog Friends.
An application that is so simple to use, and yet delivers so much in terms of ease of use, and ability to spread your coverage!
Luke, Benje and Jof continue to amaze me with their commitment to this application, and I can tell you that of all the other apps that I have used on facebook, none are upgraded or refined as often as this one.
Please note here that I am not connected with these guys other than being a fan, and user of their product, and connecting with them on MyBlogLog!
Here are some of the upcoming features on Blog Friends:
* Blog Friends 100: a leaderboard of top recent blog posts by our blogger users, where quality is judged by the proportion of readers for each post who say they like it, rather than by sheer reader numbers or incoming link count.
* “Blog Friend me!” blog badges that encourage blog readers to favourite the blogger within Blog Friends, which will also put the blogger’s posts in front of that reader’s own fans. A social way to spread blog readership!
* “Reach” reward points for sending new users to Blog Friends and for skillful “curating” (recommending great authors and posts). These Reach points could then be “spent” on increasing the number of views your posts get in others’ profiles and Rivers.
* Better recommendations in users’ Rivers. By factoring in the number of positive ratings posts and/or authors receive, we can hope to reward quality bloggers with more readers. At the same time, we hope to improve our Reader users’ experience too.
* Statistics for bloggers, helping them to work out which posts and which kinds of posts are popular with their readership.
* Twitter / Tumblr integration, making it easy for you to share post recommendations with friends—and for others to share your posts with their friends.
All in all, a great addition to the already great features that their thousands of subscribers benefit from.
If you are a blogger, and are on Facebook, then you absolutely MUST HAVE the application linked to your blog.
Let me tell you a secret: if you add me as a friend on Facebook, and use blog friends as well, you gain my friends as viewers of your blog too!
That’s an instant increase in visitors at zero cost!