Hi All,
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.
It’s that time of the month for the Bukisa Index update.
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.
We are happy to announce today that we are adding two new minimum payout levels:
$10 and $25
Where the new default minimum payout is $10 (instead of the current $50 minimum payout), these changes will have an immediate effect and will be active for the upcoming payout in March.
We have done this due to great feedback from our community.
If you wish to receive a higher minimum payout, please login at http://www.bukisa.com/login using your display name and password, and go to your account settings to change your minimum payout.
And don’t forget to stay tuned, our latest updates & features are coming very soon…
All the best!
Simon and the Bukisa Team.
Some of you might have seen our tweet from the other day regarding enhancing articles using the letter ‘e’ on your keyboards, so here is what its all about.
There is a new service called ‘Apture’ that allows our site visitors and users to enhance existing articles (only people that have allowed this under their CC license will have this active on their articles).
So what can be added you ask?
So for example you link to a Youtube video, so before Apture the user would have to click and leave Bukisa to go watch the movie, now with an enhanced article all the reader needs to do is hover over the link and they will be able to watch the movie in a nice little pop-up window, you can even choose to embed the video in to the page at a click of a button if you wish.
So, any article boasting this CC license – 
(which is our default license for new content) will be able to have their article ‘enhanced’ – all that you need to do is click the letter ‘e’ on your keyboard and signup for free with Apture.
You can try it on this article (which I enhanced by adding Wikipedia information for each country mentioned in the article).
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/26055_top-10-tourist-destinations
By enhancing articles users visiting will remain longer on our site and enjoy exposure to more materials and thus contribute to a better overall performance for our site and content.
You can learn more about the features of Apture here: http://www.apture.com/bloggers/
If you are also interested in becoming an editor of Apture enhancements for Bukisa please drop us a line and let us know.
On Bukisa they are a couple of way of inviting users:
In order to use the automated email invite tool, you must have an email account with at least one of these email providers: http://www.bukisa.com/myhome/supported_email_services
You are required to enter your email address and password (for your email provider, not your Bukisa credentials).
You will only be able to email people you have had a prior conversation with.
We offer two different private invite links:
http://www.bukisa.com/join/1 – this we will redirect the person you have invited directly to the Bukisa signup page. This way of inviting someone is less personal, if the visitor signs up they will be placed in your network. You can find this link on the MyBukisa page after you login.
http://www.bukisa.com/r/simon – the preferred method, this will redirect the person you have invited to your Bukisa profile page, from here they can learn about you and visit your content and if they decide to join they will still be placed in your network. To use your own link like this one, just change the “simon†part to your Display Name on Bukisa
Please remember, any sort of invite spam is a gross violation of our TOS and will result in the suspension of your account and all accumulated earnings.
We would like to let everyone know that we have now completed the upgrade to version 1.0 Beta of Bukisa
With this new version we hope that all you will have a smoother time on our site, better features and better opportunities to produce quality content and get traffic to it.
Below is a list of the new features that have been added over the past 3 weeks:
Some of planed features for the next version:
Some open issues that are still undecided (from our feedback forum)
As always we are eager to get your feedback on the above features and any new ideas you may have to our feedback forum – http://bukisa.uservoice.com/
I would I also like to let everyone know that very soon we will be making some changes to how we calculate our Bukisa Index – based on the activity and the performance of Bukisa over the past few months – this will benefit the active and “good†users and not so benefit the “bad†spammers & abusers of our system.
A separate email regarding the Bukisa Index will be released if and when any changes are made.
Hi Everyone,
I would like to inform everyone about some policy changes and clarifications that will be taking full effect from the 1st of January 2009.
Bukisa will no longer be accepting content that is being published in a language other than English. The reason for this is that advertising placed on non English content brings in less revenue for the website and thus we cannot give out a high Bukisa Index to these contents.
We do plan to offer more languages in the future and with each language would come a unique rev-share model that will work best for the publishers, us and our advertisers, but for now this is our decision.
We just wanted to also make sure that everyone knows what kind of content we are willing to have published on our network:
Another question we frequently get via our support email is “Why was my content sent for reviewâ€. Well, the answer is pretty simple – we run several checks on content that is submitted and we select content to be reviewed but our editorial team for Quality control and testing proposes. (This includes: length, grammar, keywords, copyright checks and more).
Please let us known if you have any more questions.
P.S. lookout for some neat changes to the website tomorrow ….
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