Blogger community TheGoodBlogs and ad-supported mobile services company Wattpad, the creator of FeedM8, have announced a strategic alliance between the two companies. Through the strategic alliance, FeedM8 will enable TheGoodBlogs community of bloggers to mobilize their blogs, enabling them to reach the mobile masses. FeedM8 will also utilize TheGoodBlogs recommendation technology for its users to discover new blogs.
Founded in 2006, TheGoodBlogs is a distributed community of bloggers who actively promote each other to their readers. By embedding the TheGoodBlogs widget on their site, a blogger can recommend other blogs of interest within the community to their visitors. A different and fresh set of blogs are shown each time, and the service is free. Today, TheGoodBlogs has already served close to 100 million blog promotions.  With FeedM8, says Watttpad, bloggers can now further extend their reach to 3 billion mobile users effortlessly.
TheGoodBlogs service is all about reaching out to a broader audience,” says TheGoodBlogs Co-founder, Vernon Lun. With FeedM8, bloggers can now further extend their reach to 3 billion mobile users effortlessly.”
Launched last month, FeedM8 is helping numerous bloggers and web content publishers to mobilize and monetize their content. For bloggers, the one-step sign up process of FeedM8 Publisher Network takes just a few seconds. FeedM8 automatically creates a phone model-specific version of the blog in real time for display. The transformation takes into account handset specific capabilities and dramatically reduces mobile network bandwidth required to support rich Internet traffic. This delivers optimal speed, presentation, usability and content quality across mass-market handsets and high-tier handsets with full HTML browsers. FeedM8 also includes mobile appropriate advertisements and splits advertising revenue with the bloggers. The bloggers can earn even more by becoming an affiliate.
TheGoodBlogs is a very popular community for bloggers,” says Wattpad Co-founder Ivan Yuen. Partnering with TheGoodBlogs will introduce FeedM8 to thousands of bloggers and help them to mobilize their blogs.”