USA Today picked up my TV Blog

It actually was just simple. Anyone can have their entry up on a major news site.

I tried submitting my blog to BlogBurst for their approval. I had to wait for their notice (usually a day or two) and when my blog feeds have been approved and entered into their system, news agencies like Reuters and in my case, USA Today, are free to pick up my content and put it on theirs.

What that means to me is --- I'm going to get free traffic with it.

If you're trying to gain an audience or building up viewership because you've got to monetize your blog, then BlogBurst helps. I thought of submitting my blog to them, not really knowing if they'd approve it, when another blogger friend of mine got linked up by Reuters for her entries about mental health. She's kinda crazy. LOL.

Although, I did not expect picking up contents from my site by BlogBurst would be this quick. I just had their badge up on my TV blog for less than a week.

I do think that they picked up my content because when I posted that, it was "fresh scoop". None of the other news wires carried it yet, except the original source I've identified.

The USA Today link-up
From my original blog entry

Timing is really everything when you're building up your blog.

The same thing happened to my site when GMA picked up my blog during the Desperate Housewives brouhaha. What happened there was, I was the first one to put up a video of the "controversial scene" and then other blogs linked to me. Minutes later, the press eventually picked up on it. It was my blog and the videos there that were credited for the news. It was my blog that was shown on GMA News for three days straight.

Of course, several videos of it, some even better edited, were up on Youtube hours and days after the news broke out. But I had the first one up.

Unfortunately/fortunately... fame is a two-edged sword. That one drove tons of traffic to me, which raised my $ a few percent. But it also drove people to comment like crazy, that I had to moderate on my hobby blog. I was waiting for the issue to die down so people would stop coming!

Now, I'm gonna sit back, track my stats and see if this new link-up is going to do wonders.