Hi all, we've just launched our next project: WordJot Simple Online Newsletters, the easy way to set up an email newsletter that's also online for easy reading.
Check it out at wordjot.com

Bla.st is for sale, you can see the auction at sitepoint.com. The site is ticking along nicely, but I just don't have time to develop or promote the site any more.

It really has been a blast working on the site, I've learned huge amounts about setting up sites and marketing. Our next project is WordJot.com, a simple online newsletters system, somewhat more of a traditional business.

If anyone is has any queries about bla.st, please get in touch.

Entrecard - "Looks a lot like bla.st"...

1st February 2008 08:40AM

...a quote from this discussion on Entrecard.

Well done to them, looks like their traffic is going the right direction!

bla.st downtime

15th November 2007 08:53PM

Thanks to the super efficient spam filter of Google Mail, the notifications that the domain bla.st was about to expire didn't reach us! Luckily the .st registrar allows 14 days after a domain expires to reregister it, so we're all up and running again.

The lesson learned is not to rely on email notifications for your domain name renewals. We've now set up an annual calendar alarm so this won't happen again.

Total downtime was about 12 hours, and we've added 2 days to the expiration time of all cards to cover this.

New card feature: Headings! Some simple SEO tips

22nd October 2007 10:08AM

We've added a new field to the card editing screen, you can now add a heading to your card as well as a description. Now, anywhere a card description is displayed, so is the heading.

While not a very exciting change, this should help a lot with search engine optimisation (SEO). We recommend adding a heading to your existing bla.st cards. We've added headings to the top 36 cards so you can see what the new hover window looks like with a heading and caption.

Each card detail page now has a proper title and heading on the page which is very basic SEO- I didn't even realise it wasn't set up properly. If you're trying to attract search engine traffic don't forget to check the basics!

Another tip I learned recently is to make sure you don't use heading tags ie. h1 or h2, for your logo in the header of your site. This is exactly what we were doing with the bla.st name and slogan. The reasoning is if those headings are repeated throughout your entire site it looks like spam to search engines, and at the same time takes the emphasis away from the actual page headings. Instead simply use span tags to style them up how you want.

No doubt there are other changes needed, let us know if you have any other ideas, or check out ProBloggers tips for more ideas.

Make money online with the bla.st referral link

5th October 2007 02:26AM

If you're writing about bla.st, be sure to use the new bla.st referral link. If you send a visitor to bla.st through this link who then upgrades their bla.st card, you will earn 50% of the sale. This is a big percentage compared to many referral programmes. Read all the details here.

Joe from Joe Tech has recently had success with the referral programme, and has written a lovely article "I Quadrupled My Blog Income In 12 Days With Bla.st". Good work Joe and thanks for the write-up.

Several subtle bla.st changes

27th September 2007 10:30AM

Cards on bla.st look so much better in 'big' view, we've decided to make that the default size again everywhere except the homepage, where 'small' is the order of the day. Although small cards look impressive as a whole, the impact of each card is reduced.

The number of cards visible in big view has been increased from 24 to 36, so users will see more cards on each page view.

If you have any feedback, please send it on.

5 Reasons BlogRush Has Already Failed and Why Bla.st Will Take Over

24th September 2007 09:31AM

joetech.com have just written a lovely article discussing bla.st and blog rush. I haven't tried blog rush out at all, but from what I've read there isn't much of a "rush" and even if there was it won't be sustainable.

Thanks Joe for the blog mention!

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