My Fellow SBN bloggers:
I am pleased to announce some exciting news about the future of the SBN. As you know since Google/Feedburner is discontinuing networks I have been looking for a good solution to continue the SBN feed and make it better than ever. I am pleased to tell you that working with the folks at Lijit (http://www.lijit.com), we have a new home for the SBN. I have been testing the spliced feed with them for the last few days and it seems to be working great. When we're done, not only will we have the spliced feed in html and the ability to subscribe to the feed, but we will have some other cool features:
- The entire SBN will be searchable using Lijit search. So someone searching a particular term can search across the entire network at once. Including comments!
- Lijit ad network. Lijit will have an ad revenue sharing network for your site in Q1. You can also use Google/Feedburner ads for your feed and site as well.
- Lijit stats. Lijit has great stats for your site and search visitors. Feed stats will continue courtesy of Feedburner/Google
Additionally we have some more ideas on what we can do with the SBN site that might help our members. As we get closer we will keep you all advised. Once we are ready to launch under the new domain, I am going to ask you all to help out by announcing the new site and feed. We will also do a new SBN badge widget for your own blogs. As always, we are open to any ideas you have as well.
Will keep you posted and thanks for hanging in there as we transition!
Alan
ISO
Keep me updated!