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Blog Engage Membership Requires a One Time Signup Fee

July 5, 2011 - Last Modified: March 29, 2014 by Hesham Zebida

Blog Engage Membership

This news came to me from BlogEngage newsletter just today, the popular social bookmarks site announced membership signup one time fee for new members who would like to join the network. This news was a memory refreshing, it remind me with the history of BlogEngage, so I thought to share with you all how BlogEngage started and what its up to today.

The History of BlogEngage

I know Brian –the founder of BlogEngage– since long time back, probably more than two years now, and I know as a very active person, cool bloggers and avid internet marketer. During my relationship with Brian and my membership at BlogEngage I was watching closely all the phases that passed on the social bookmarking site, and I know that Brian had to put a huge amount of hard work to keep the site up and going.

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Blog Engage and Pligg challenges

Pligg is a popular social bookmarking CMS platform, I knew that Brian had to face several challenges while running the site, some of these challenges was restriction from the owners of Pligg themselves, I know this sounds weird, but it is the truth, he explained all this in a blog post back in Aug 2009, his main complain was that Pligg’s core was free but any cool module is costing money, this didn’t make sense to him especially that he had to figure out a way to fight the crazy amount of spammers that time, so he tried to find alternatives to Pligg but with no use as the BlogEngage community growth forced him to let go the idea and stick with Pligg.

Anyways, Brian competed with many other social bookmarking sites, and many webmasters and internet marketers copied his niche idea, but still BlogEngage is the most popular among them with no doubt.

Engage AdSense Revenue share program

To encourage and activate members to participate in the community and make it even more awarding, Brian was thinking how to share earning with members, he added AdSense revenue sharing program to network, then he added another advertising network to the site to test the revenue, but it wasn’t profiting, so he removed it and kept Google AdSense.

What I want to say here that BlogEngage was and still developing itself towards benefiting its members, and this is what I like most about how Brian manage it.

BlogEngage Invitations

As soon as Blog Engage reached a certain level of popularity, the community got spammed like crazy. Brian was thinking hard to avoid spammers and provide safe community for his members, so he decided to close the community and turn the signup into invitation only which was really good move.

BlogEngage RSS Syndication

Another great feature added to the network, it’s for those who want to Syndicate blog RSS feed to BlogEngage community without having to actually add it manually, this will guarantee a great exposure for all your blog posts, it’s really cool feature!

BlogEngage Monthly Contest

As we used to organize blogging contests on FamousBloggers, Brian contacted me a few months back and asking for some information on how I run the contests and manage them, so I shared with him some insights, then he came up with a really interesting concept for running a monthly blogging contests on BlogEngage and involving sponsors from inside the community, I consider it an amazing way of thinking!

The contest basically will increase awareness of your website of blog and will get you a few natural backlinks from the best kind!

Sponsor BlogEngage Contest now!

BlogEngage membership is Not Free anymore!

That was the last hot news from BlogEngage, so if you want to join this amazing community, you are required to pay $29.99 one time fee to signup, this amazing social bookmarking site is recommended by 100s of bloggers, and it’s not a place to hit and run, we had a lot of fun on BlogEngage community, I personally see it worthy.

Join BlogEngage Now!

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{ 31 Responses }

  1. Nicholas Scott says:
    I guess your site will also get decent traffic from BlogEngage particularly when your posts are published on the front page. I have been connecting to some great bloggers there and the relationships are very important for all. If you have many blog posts or some different blogs, I suggest you to give the RSS syndication a try.
  2. Ivin says:
    I can add that I started with BE a month ago and by being active received 300 backlinks through my blog. On of the reasons my blog jumped from Pr 0 - 4
  3. Ileane says:
    Hesham, many have tried to duplicate the success of Blog Engage but they have a long way to go. The best they can do is sit by the feet of the master - Brian - and hope that some of his magic will rub off on them. This is a nice history of Blog Engage. Thanks for sharing it my friend.
  4. Argie Monroy says:
    By the way Hesham. Brian has come up with a new contest for the month of July. Are you gonna take part in it?
    • Hesham says:
      I know about the contest Argie, but not sure if I will participate, I actually prefer sponsoring! Good luck!
      • Argie Monroy says:
        Hmm.. actually I'm still confused if I should join or not.. BTW.. why aren't you joining?
        • Hesham says:
          I think you should join, you will learn a lot and get to know new friends! Speaking about myself, I just don't have enough time!
  5. Salman says:
    Being a member at Blogengage is really profitable..... The community provides great exposure to my content !! Love the stay there .. :-)
    • Hesham says:
      Good to hear that Salman :)
  6. Nishadha says:
    I joined BlogEngage a long time ago and it is one of the few social bookmarking sites that I keep going back. One thins I like about it is its focused towards bloggers so the topics are more to my liking.
    • Hesham says:
      BlogEngage has a nice soul as a community! Thanks for sharing your thoughts Nishadha
  7. Paul Salmon says:
    I joined BlogEngage in September 2010 and have tried to be active on that network. Brian has worked very hard to keep BlogEngage going, and has been successful at doing it. Out of all the blog communities, BlogEngage seems to be the most successful, as you can see by the fact that its members are still active, and the site is still around.
    • Hesham says:
      I agree with you Paul, and I think it's not only you and me, but many bloggers would say and think the same! Thanks for stopping by.
  8. Latief says:
    Yes, this is to prevent spammer playing around and taking advantages from BlogEngage, I agree with Brian's decision. Cool ;)
    • Hesham says:
      I totally agree Latief!
  9. Usman says:
    Hi, Hesham ! well the pligg is really a big challenge to him but still he did a lot of hard work to make it use full for other, as I can see all his moves every where on the blogosphere. thanks
    • Hesham says:
      Yes, it was really big challenge, but I believe that Brian learned many cool things!
  10. Tiffany says:
    This is a really interesting concept and seems to be a great way to connect and get more traffic. There were several different sponsorship options discussed. Does any one give more value over the other?
    • Hesham says:
      mmm Tiffany, as I understand it, it depends on the position of your listing order in the contest, the more higher your links on the page the higher ranking your links will get. I hope this clear enough.
  11. Andreas says:
    I think it would be better to make the basic participation of blogengage free and make some essential features paid.
    • Tony says:
      I would love to using this service to submit site manually as free.
      • Hesham says:
        Same here :)
  12. Nawaz says:
    I am really interested in the " AdSense revenue sharing program " as I have worked for many individual for adsense revenue. I am now increasing my online activities and hopefully I will be an active member of BlogEngage.
    • Hesham says:
      The Adsense revenue sharing program is cool, but it won't profit you unless you are so active on the network, and you are actually promoting your submission, good luck
  13. Edgar says:
    I'm familiar with BlogEngage contests as i'm a fan of Brian's blog. Seems like he's been through a lot to come to this point. Thanks for sharing Hesham
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Edgar, Have you participated or sponsored any of BlogEngage contests? Yes, Brian went through a lot :) Thanks for stopping by.
  14. Ramcel says:
    Thanks. I am also hoping to get more juice from it.
    • Hesham says:
      That's great, I am actually looking forward to sponsor the contest my self.
  15. Ramcel says:
    Good thing I was able to join the party and sponsor at the same time before Brian called the shots for premium membership. BlogEngage has been working fairly well for me as I am still a noob. But Brian has been truly helpful in setting up my RSS syndication. Fantastic guy!
    • Hesham says:
      That's what I call "Good Luck" :) Thanks for stopping by Ramcel, enjoy your membership!

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