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On your typical message board like this one anyone can start a new thread and anyone can comment on it. On your typical blog only the blog's owner can start a new thread but everyone can still comment on it.
The names change but it's same old thing recycled with a twist of lime.
The next step would be a blog with threaded comments. Unless someone already made it...
For example, instead of writing all your own html to create a web page, you just sign up for a blog account at blogger or wherever and just start typing text into a form input field and hit submit and *poof* what you posted is online.
What is a Blog exactly?
The most over-rated nonsense on the internet. It's essentially someone's rambling, online diary, that links to real sites in order to pretend that there is actual content, (other than the self-absorbed, indulgent crap that makes up most of it).
I'm in tears, I thought I was the only person who thought blogs were stupid, but was afraid to tell it ... I'm so peaceful now .... :)
I'm sorry, but does it really matter?
Ok, then, just Stefan thinks alike me ... do you feel better now? Ooh, kids :)
Take care! ;)
Bottom-line, it's typical North American me-generation self-indulgent crap, (in my humble opinion).
Sadly, that's pretty universal these days. Ahhh... for the good ol days when we carried water for the neighbor.
You seem to attribute the new blog technology to the problem of rambling tripe web sites when it existed before blogs in other forms. Look at most web sites, total and complete self-indulgent garbage but we don't discard HTML and web servers because of that.
I've seen some companies use blogs in place of the old "company news" page and other things, which is acutally kind of cool as it let's the non-technical types like the marketing guy or the CEO publish content directly without going thru web developers or CMS systems.
Don't blame the technology for how it's used, blame the user.
That's the stance gun manufacturers, fast food and cigarette companies have used to cover their backsides for years :)
All the time is about, again the "self indulgent crap", i.e. the bloggers, specially those that fall in this category.
I personally do visit, technology blogs that I found from time to time, but, overall, there are lots of garbage.
Just search google on almost any topic and you'll hit 99% of that garbage with AdSense running on it.
Not that all AdSense sites are bad, but most of them are NonSense.
However, if someone puts up an online diary who are we to complain? I'm sure their friends and family enjoy it, it's just not FOR us, so I just move on.
But the fact that all the garabge does surface highlights why I think search engines fail overall is there is no filter for a) corporate sites b) private sites c) info sites d) blogs, etc. If you see where I'm going with this being able to select my sources to filter out the noise site would bring back some sanity to this mess.
What tools are available to accomplish this?
- directories
- hosting
I'm all about seeing what good I can make out of the bad.
However, each to their own. Its like the second generation of GeoCity sites which had "my vacation photos" or a diary of the birth of someone's baby or endless rantings and ravings about this politician or that actor.
There really should be filters for these sites or at least some way to categorize them which are recognized by the search engines.
Stupid ... yeah, most I've seen are pretty stupid. But some people like them. Live and let live!
You don't need a blog. Blogs can be used to hype products, services, etc without risking your primary website. They have been used to experiment with SEO and to route traffic to the primary website or other target websites. There are a number of inventive ways to use them to your advantage.
-->There are a number of inventive ways to use them to your advantage.
I'm using a blog to compliment my commerce site and become a subject matter expert on the main topic. It's completely a marketing effort and it's paying off very nicely in click through conversions.
I'm sure their friends and family enjoy it, it's just not FOR us, so I just move on.
If it isn't for us, why is it polluting the serps? I'm sure they can email the URL's to their friends and families...
I don't have a problem with the technology, or those who want to use it, or the mindless drivel that they feel a compulsion to announce to the world; it's the steadily increasing presence in the serps.
(My apologies to those bloggers who have suffered though my tirades in this thread. Don't take it personally - I'm sure that all of yours are very spiffy, considering you have the wherewithal to be a member of WW).
If it isn't for us, why is it polluting the serps? I'm sure they can email the URL's to their friends and families...
It's polluting the SERPs because the search engines don't let you classify your content and one lousy link to the site and BOOM! it's in the search engine.
Basically, we've gotten to the point that site popularity, buzz words and page rank simply aren't enough for relevance. We need a few classifications of sites so that surfers can check a few boxes and eliminate the noise they don't want to see.
It's just TOO MUCH DATA and most of it USELESS.
Google, MSN and Yahoo will figure it out, if not some new upstart will that buries them.
Sua cuique voluptas--Every man has his own pleasures. I'm just sayin'!
