Due to the success of gaining new members, greater popularity brought about from our Bukisa authors, an increasing amount of advertising spending online and increased optimization of our monetization efforts, we are happy to announce that we are able to raise the Bukisa Index from 3.42 to 3.53.

Hopes are high that we will able to further increase the Bukisa Index in the near future.

Keep up the good work,

Simon & the Bukisa Team

http://www.bukisa.com

We are happy to announce our new integration with “After the Deadline” into the Bukisa content editor.

“After the Deadline” is much more than just a simple spellchecker, and also offers:

• Contextual Spell Checking
• Advanced Style Checking
• Intelligent Grammar Checking

To use it just click the “ABC” icon (located furthest to the right).

We hope you enjoy this and that it helps you take your writing to a whole new level.

Simon & the Bukisa Team

I am happy to announce the latest Bukisa release, and I’d like to tell you a little bit about what has been added and fixed.

New Features

Image Upload Tool

This tool will allow you to upload files from your local computer, as well as online sources, files in bulk and also the ability to share images between your different articles. You will also be able to use these uploaded images as an article thumbnail.

A full guide explaining the usage of the new tool will be released soon.

New Facebook &Twitter widgets

We have added two new eye catching widgets in all article pages. This will help increase your promotion on two of the largest social sites – Twitter & Facebook — just click, approve & share.

Featured Content

We have added a new tab called “Featured” to the top menu to give a better showcase for some of the top quality content published. These content items were handed picked by Aviv, our Community manager.

Check it out: http://www.bukisa.com/featured

Integration with Get Satisfaction

I am sure you have noticed that we have started using Get Satisfaction to handle part of our support – this contains a knowledge base of past answered questions along with the option for you to answer each other – its called “People Powered Community Support”

Check it out: http://getsatisfaction.com/bukisa

Fixed Issues

- The Bukisa stats have been rebuilt and the information you receive in your dashboards is accurate across all your reports.

All the best & happy publishing

Simon & the Bukisa Team

Your new content gets automatically tweeted, along with your comments and your content ratings.

We have decided to help everyone who has added their Twitter info, get more followers!

How do we do that? Very simple! Instead of the static twitter banner on your profile pages, we have now included the Twitter approved widget, so people can see your updates and easily start following you.

You can see how it looks on my profile page: http://www.bukisa.com/people/simon

For those of you that have added your Twitter info (hint, hint), now would be a good chance to do so at http://www.bukisa.com/myhome/account

For more information about Twitter, the Twitter 101 Business guide is a great start – http://business.twitter.com/twitter101

Simon.

Due to popular demand we have added 2 new banners to your arsenal of your Bukisa promo banners.

These 2 banners fit in really nicely with most blogging platform page designs.

You can use these banners to build your network of Bukisa publishers.

Enjoy!

As usual if you have any feedback, please drop us a line.

Do to this in all your reports you will no longer be seeing “Unique Views” but instead you will be seeing “Qualified Views”

What does this mean for you?

Well, if you are a regular user not engaging in sneaky techniques to drive traffic, you will see no difference in your reports, but if on the other hand you engage with some “black hat” techniques you are likely to see much less impressions for your content.

What do we consider to be a “Qualified View” ?

A qualified view is the same as a unique view (a single visitor that viewed your content in a 24 hour period), but in addition we also check for the following:

1. Cookies are Set (required for unique user tracking)
2. JavaScript is active (we can’t pay for views if teh client viewing doesn’t support ads)
3. A valid referrer (not a traffic exchange site, PTC site, auto surf, junk traffic purchases)
4. Activity patterns

If you have any questions please leave them in our comments section and we will address them.

Simon & The Bukisa Team

Below is a list of the new features that we have added over the last few days:

Private Messaging
You can now use our new private message feature to send messages to your friends, people in your network and so forth, thus helping to motivate your followers and network to create more content and become more active.

New Invite Banners
We now offer a choice of five flashy banners that you can use to invite all your friends and family to your Bukisa site, in order to grow your network of Bukisa publishers.

Network & Friends Notifications
Want to see what’s happening in your network and with your Bukisa friends? Now you can see who signed up for your network, listed you as a friend, see the new content that was created within your network and see who your Bukisa fans are.

New Stat Displays
We have created awesome graphs that allow you to see how many total views you received each and every day! This latest feature allows you to see which sites referred viewers to your content, as well as the top keywords that led them to your content.

Twitter Widget
Have Twitter? Well, we have created a badge to user profile pages for users who have added their twitter info with us. This will help you all gain more followers and also drive you greater exposure and a larger reader audience when your content is published, as it will automatically publish on Twitter. Please be sure to list your Twitter info with us and make sure to get our new Bukisa Twitter Widget!!! http://www.bukisa.com/myhome/account

Manual Invite Feature
We’ve now added a feature for you to add your friends manually for those that can’t use our automatic email importer.

Comments Tab
We created a new tab where you can see all the comments that you received. You can also view the comments that you left.

Important Notice

We are starting to review our content more strictly. Content that is not up to par, against our TOS, inappropriate, badly edited and written in poor grammar will be rejected. Sloppy and quick work that looks unprofessional gives a poor look to Bukisa and you can help us by sending us a comment if you read content that is of poor quality or inappropriate for our site.

We will also be rejecting articles with Author Biographies, written in caps, bold, having links in titles, self-advertisement, and without paragraphs and good format. Articles that look like self-advertisement will, likewise, be rejected. We will only be publishing quality and well-written work.

If you haven’t yet joined, do so now! Many exciting things are coming up on Bukisa over the next few months – make sure you don’t miss out on the fun.

Don’t forget we are also on Twitter – if you have any small issues, go ahead and send us a tweet and we’ll try to get back to you as quickly as possible.

Let us know what you like about Abukia and what you’d like to see added to the site.

Join us on Facebook and Twitter today!

We wanted to share some online metrics demonstrating the excellent growth Bukisa has been getting over the past few months.

Compete.com

Alexa

Quantcast

What this means for you, more viewers and more earnings from your content.

Now is a great time to start building your network of publishers, invite your friends to join today.

This month, we are lowering the Index quite a bit (by 30 cents to $3.42). In the spirit of transparency that we believe in, we would like to clarify the reason.

Although we were not hit quite as bad as the rest of the internet market (thanks to the advertisement systems we use), in general online advertising budgets are still being cut due to the ongoing financial crisis in the US, inevitably it affects the way we calculate the Bukisa Index.

We at Bukisa will continue our ongoing efforts to better optimize the sites ad performance in order to give our publishers the highest CPM possible.

The good news that I would like to point out is, that the traffic in March grew over 100% meaning more and more people are viewing your content and Bukisa is gaining better traction online.

So if on one hand the Bukisa Index is a bit lower, on the other hand the number of views keeps increasing dramatically.

Even at $3.42, Bukisa continues to offer the highest CPM rev-share over any of our competitors, and we do believe – as the markets will hopefully improve in the next 6 months – the index will go up again accordingly.