Frequently Asked Questions

1)Reach more People
Most bloggers are familiar with marketing their content to their friends on various social networks. Unified Social Media allows you to promote your content directly to your friends’ readers. This increases tells more people about your website with less effort.

2) Simplicity through Automation
Our service automatically discovers your new blog posts from your RSS feed. Adding a friend puts your links on your new friend’s website. Just register then focus on adding friends and writing content. It’s as simple as that.

3) Targeting
Unified Social Media implements semantic analysis to intelligently place your links on web pages that contain related content. This puts your links in front of readers interested in the topics you write about. The can make it more likely that they visit your site.

4) Organic Readership Growth
The goal of targeting, automation, and greater reach is to organically grow your readership. To do so, your visitors must come to your website solely because of their interest in your content.

Other social networking sites generate users who visit your blog in the hopes that you will reciprocate. This limits your growth and potential. There are only so many blogs you can visit. The key to a successful blog is to attract and retain loyal and dependable long term readers.

Unified Social Media can help. First, rather than publicizing your content to other bloggers we market it directly to their readers. Since they are end users, they will visit your website only because they are interested in your content, not because they expect you to return in kind. Second, we simplify and automate the process of sharing your content, so you have time to focus on your writing. Third, we implement technologies to target your links to those readers who are interested in what you have to say. Finally, we do not offer any incentives for clicking on any of your links.

Unified Social Media’s unique approach helps ensure that every click is genuine, and every new visitor interested in your site.

NO. Once you register your blog Unified Social Media automatically import your blog posts from your RSS Feed. Each post will be transformed into a unit including a linked title and a short teaser text. Our service places your links on related web pages from your network of websites.

We work hard to ensure that all members can expect to be treated fairly by others when they use our service.

Unified Social Media implements a number of automatic and manual checks to make sure that all users are abiding by the Terms of Service and displaying the link sharing widget on every page of their blog. In general we try to provide an environment in which all users have the proper incentive to properly publicize their friends’ links, as required by the TOS. The following are important parts of creating this environment:

1) Automated Checking Prior to Website Approval. Unified Social Media checks to ensure that the link sharing widget code is installed on a user’s website before it is approved. None of the users links will be promoted until the widget is installed on the user’s website.

2) Ongoing Automated Checking of Individual Posts. Every posts that a user submits via their RSS feed for sharing on Unified Social Media is checked for the link sharing widget code. If the code in not present, the post will be blocked from being shared. Only blog posts that contain the widget code will be distributed through the user’s network of websites.

If you find that one of your blog posts has been blocked, log in to your account and click on the Blocked Posts link on the My Account section at the top left of the page. Here you can select the posts you would like to un-block and re-check them for the widget code. If the widget code is found, the block will be lifted and your post will be publicized through your network.

3) The Social Networking System. Members should connect only with members that behave fairly. You should hold the people you are connected with accountable. If you see that someone is behaving unfairly with regard to how they display their friends’ links, let them know. If they do not change, consider dropping them as a friend. This will help everyone adhere to established standards of fairness, and make for a more vibrant community.

4) Unified Social Media Manual Checking. We manually check websites to ensure they meet our standards and properly display the link sharing widget.

Unified Social Media implements semantic analysis to intelligently place your links on web pages that contain related content. We analyze the content of your blog post as well as the content or your friends’ web pages. Our technology then assesses the similarity topics discussed in both pages with the aim of displaying the most related links. The goal is to show readers links to content that is similar to the content they are reading, and thus increase their likelihood of visiting your site.

NO. The links you distribute through the system must be to content on the website subdomain that is registered with the account. If you register the url myblog.example.com, then every link you distribute must lead to a web page on the myblog.example.com subdomain.

NO. Only the blog posts that are available through the RSS that you register with your account will be publicized through your network.

You maintain your copyright. Unified Social Media receives a right to use and redistribute the content available through your RSS feed and content you may post manually on the Unified Social Media website. Check the Terms of Service for details. Unified Social Media needs to have the right to redistribute your content, in order to publicize it through your network of websites.

YES.

YES. The ad displayed on your link sharing widget lets us offer our unique cutting-edge blog promotion service for free. In the future we plan on releasing a premium version of our service that will not include the advertisement at the bottom of the link sharing widget.

NO. Opening more than one account is a violation of the Terms of Service.

Not yet. We understand that since you cannot open more than one account, you may want to register more than one blog. This is not currently possible, but we are working on adding this feature.

Unified Social Media is now in a Beta Release. This means that testing of website features is still ongoing. We have released the website because a core set of features has been implemented, the major testing has been completed, and we want your feedback about how to improve this website.

Whenever you use a software or service that is in Beta, you should be aware that you may discover some features that do not work as expected, or may result in errors. We hope that, as a beta user, you will bring these issues to our attention so that we our entire community can benefit. Simply to go the contact page and describe your issue, or suggestion.

Being a Beta user can have many benefits. You will have early access to the Unified Social Media service and be able to enjoy the benefits before others. You can also have input into the direction that the website should take, including what features should be emphasized or deemphasized. So you can help ensure the service will be useful for your needs.

First, make sure that the new blog entry is included in your RSS Feed. Unified Social Media reads your feed to discover new material when it is posted. Your RSS feed is read periodically, so it can take some time before your new post is discovered by our system. You may want to check back later to see if the problem has been resolved.

Second, make sure the link sharing widget is displayed on your website along with your blog posts. If the widget code cannot be found at the url of your new blog entry, your entry will be blocked.

Third, check to see if your widget has been blocked from being distributed. Log in to your account. Click on the ‘Blocked Posts’ link in the ‘My Account’ section. All the posts listed have been blocked from distribution because the widget code could not be found. You can select the posts you would like to un-block and re-check them for the widget code. If the widget code is found, the block will be lifted and your post will be publicized through your network. Be sure to install the widget code so that it displays on your website along with these blog posts.

1) Log into your account.
2) Click ‘My Account’ Link
3) Click the Edit tab along the top of your profile page
4) Update the information you would like to change.
5) Click save

Login to your account and click the “Statistics” link in the My Account section on the top left. You will statistics for the number of daily clicks you have received as well as information about who your top referring friends are.

Login to your account and click the “Widget Code” link in the My Account section on the top left.

Login to your account and click the “Edit Blog Settings” link in the My Account section on the top left. Change the url and rss feed as desired. Click resubmit for review.

Blog posts are blocked from being distributed if the link sharing widget code is not found at the same url as the blog post. To resolve this problem make sure your website displays the links sharing widget alongside your blog post. Then, log into your account. Click on the ‘Blocked Posts’ link in the ‘My Account’ section. All the posts listed have been blocked from distribution because the widget code could not be found. You can select the posts you would like to un-block and re-check them for the widget code. If the widget code is found, the block will be lifted and your post will be publicized through your network. .

You can invite other bloggers to join Unified Social Media. They will automatically become your friends when they join the site. To invite new members log into your account and click the ‘Invite Friends’ link in the ‘My Account’ section on the left. You can import email addresses from Hotmail, Gmail, and other popular webmail services. When you send your invitation, your friends will receive a link they can follow to join the site, and become part of your network.

You can also connect with existing members on the website. Browse through the Blog Directory to see who is on the site. When you visit a member profile page just click the “Add Friend” link next to their profile picture. When they accept your request the friend relationship is established.