oddsod - 4:43 pm on Apr 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

>> Isn't that just asking for duplicate content hell?
What's "duplicate content hell"?

You've got to realise that it's a different mindset. You want to build a tribe, get people to join your group, develop connections, get your friends to invite their friends and install your applications and give you space on their desktops; you want to organise events, generate buzz and get people to send more people; you want to kiss asses and find ways to get double those ass-kisses back...

It's a mindset that may not even pause to consider the effect on SEO. What's Google? He never gets any traffic from that site - and doesn't need to - so why bother?

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fully subscribed member of the grumpy-old-so-and-so-club and find it difficult to get enthused about those juvenile popularity contest whorehouses, but I can understand life that doesn't need Google.

Posting to multiple blogging may have these benefits: 1) Reaching audiences who only use one type of service. 2) Getting preferential treatment from each platform owner (it is rumoured that Google gives blogs on its own service higher visibility) 3) P*mping, p*mping, p*mping - or the Web 2.0 equivalent of submitting to every directory.