GrendelKhan_TSU - 10:24 am on Apr 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

I don't get why people don't get this?

* I'll repeat the point said: Stop thinking like a SEOer. Take that OUT of the equation completely.

* Blogger perspective: People on different blog networks are... different. So, more is better. one login full distribution of your words to all these differnt blog worlds. Yay!

End.

But for the sake of discussion, how about this angle?
Nowadays many "netizens" maintain THE same identity on multiple networks. Yes, people also use multiple identities on the same network. Or a combination of both.

This services aims at the first group.

Why would someone have signed up for multiple services in the first place? Its kinda a moot point, but for the geezers' sake (yes, I'm with ya) .... well, do you have a hotmail email? do have an yahoo and gmail one as well? Skype AND msn? (and sometimes find an email from that guy that never got your "new" primary email address?). Watch Veoh AND youtube? Search on Google AND gasp...yahoo as well? Do you have more than one website? Do you use the same ID/pw to login at the different sites? Use the same ID on various forums (ahem. WebmasterWorld AND searchengineworld)?

Why?

Reasons really are not all that different.

Now, would it be easier to post the same content at both places if you could (not have to login to two different sites)? (again, "would it be EASIER?" is the question. not "what would the effect of duplicate content be?")

Different networks, different people...so same content, different audience and different REPLIES.

In the end, doesn't REALLY matter why people use same id/pw at multiple sites (insert your own reasons here: convenience, consistency, self-brand identity, etc)... The fact is, they do. I'd say MOST do in fact (have multiple ids or same id on multiple services). Blogs and websites and.. THE INTERNET is still about exposure (same with SEO no?). as such... again, more is better. And casting a wide net is still often the best (only?) way to get it. Social networking in particular is (as of yet) very much more about horizontals, not verticals, so this is great for them.

Simple, value proposition:
A single "one-stop" platform for multiple site distribution of your blog (or whatever) is just making that persons life easier and gets the word out more.

Don't know ppl are analyzing or naysaying about here... really not much more to need to think about than that.

SIDEBAR:
And honestly, if we were to go back to SEO for a second: Blogspot and facebook and wordpress blogger et al... I assume are largely a different set of people, no? So, given different people REPLY to blogs with various assumably varied but related content, and different people will link TO your blogs from assumably varied but related blogs/sites ...

would the effect of duplicate content for that one (first) entry really have an significant effect that you should be worried about if everyone seeing, replying and linking to it are different?

ie:
Risk of penalty from duplication content < increased exposure of otherwise unpublished words across multiple blog networks (which in turn will generate more new content).

Certainly is true in Korea, where Social Networking / WEb 2.0 was born and DOMINATES far more than web search... and where webmasters/netizens don't know even know what "SEO" is (esp. yes, even compared to elsewhere else).

food for thought.

-- so sayeth GrendelKhan{TSU}

[edited by: GrendelKhan_TSU at 10:36 am (utc) on April 17, 2008]