My blogging chum Ari Herzog recently gave a shout out to Blogburst.

Blogburst is a blog syndication system that is subscribe to by the likes of Reuters, Biospace, USAToday, FoxNews and dwindling numbers of US daily newspapers any many other outlets. I mentioned it some time ago on Sciencetext.com

The people who run it, Pluck, approached me some time in late 2006, or early 2007, I can’t quite remember, and persuaded me to sign up. At the time I was running partial RSS feeds on my then primary blog, Sciencebase.com, and to be part of the BlogBurst network you have to switch to fulltext feed. That was the first boost as fulltext gets you a lot more regular subscribers than partial feeds ever will and getting people to read your words is what this is all about.

Anyway, there have been a lot of eyeballs reading Sciencebase via the BlogBurst syndicatees, several million in fact (see graphic).

I didn’t expect so many from readers from the likes of BioSpace, Reuters, FoxNews, or USAToday, to be honest. It’s rather gratifying, to say the least, and averages out at about half a million extra readers each month that I wouldn’t otherwise have and Sciencebase is currently #78 on the BlogBurst leaderboard. Now, if only more of those extra eyeballs would get their hands to click through to the blog itself…

Sciencetext.com is also in the BlogBurst network and is gaining traction on Reuters and Computer Shopper for instance. The total extra readers number in the tens of thousands as opposed to the millions of Sciencebase, but Sciencetext has only been in the system since Summer 2008.

So, your mileage can vary, it obviously depends on content, Ari seems to be doing well, as do some of the commenters on his post. I’d suggest giving it a try, even if you don’t get clicks at least you’re being read.