Blogs

Nice to get the inbounds, but...

[Stefan]

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I'm sure I'm not the only one here getting blog inbound links on a daily basis. I like to think that this steadily growing pile of inbounds might accomplish something in the end (other than eating my bandwidth) - but why must they all be one enormously long page? I see the referers in the logs, I check it out, and it takes ten minutes for my dial-up connection to load the entire page. Then, I have to search the page text to find the new inbound, if I don't want to scroll forever. Does anyone actually read through all this stuff? I see dozens of hits the first day that the link is in the blog, then a few the next day, then down to nothing. But still it sits there in this ever lengthening blog page. What kind of site only has one long page? It winds me up, man - it's ridiculous.

So, the point of my post - I don't know blogs other than the links - is there some law that says they all have to be one long page?

</rant>

[Car_Guy]

It's just the format that's commonly used for what is often a long, rambling string of supposedly-related thoughts.

With my site, the traffic from blogs is relatively small. Unless somebody's stealing my images, I just ignore it.

[Stefan]

Hey, thanks Car_Guy.

I'm mostly getting them to just a few pages out of the over 450 on the site, which have to do with a rather controversial subject in the country that the website is focussed on. Totally off-topic for the rest of the site, and I even cut all the internal links to them so that they now exist as a separate entity. Still the links keep appearing, and I'm getting hundreds of hits a day to those separated pages. I don't mind that much, cause there are links on those pages to the rest of the site, so in theory it should be boosting all the pertinent ones (they all rocked before anyway, so who knows). But, man, they can call them blogs, or clogs, or shlogs - it's still ridiculous. All I ever see are pages that require you to lube the scroll wheel to get through them, and that have no real original content - just "comments" and links to other sites. They must be counting on their best friends and maiden aunts in Moose Jaw to read this stuff. In the serps now, too, it's blogs, blogs and more blogs. None of them compete with me on those particular searches of course, cause they're all linking to my site - I'm always on top of them. But if the whole works disappeared tomorrow, it would be fine with me. It's just like people who throw hundreds of plastic pop bottles into the ocean with their name and address in them in hopes of someone stumbling across it on a beach somewhere; at the end of the day, it's still just a piece of temporarily floating garbage.

[truezeta]

I like the concept of blogs but I only read about 3 or so on a consistent basis. I agree that the LONG page to scroll is ridiculous. Hopefully, the "blog software" will progress and then it won't be so bad.

[pele]

What I always check when I notice them in my stats is if they have ripped off my data and images. This seems to be increasing more and more unfortunately.

[Cratima]

My company has a web site and a blog. There is a lot of traffic on the web site and a lot lesser traffic on the blog. Almost no visit goes from the blog to the web site. Why do I keep the blog though? One reason and only one: brand image. The traffic is just extra points.

[jsinger]

Explain how a blog helps a brand image

One reason and only one: brand image

[Cratima]

It attracts customers and it retains old ones. Customers get to know you better. Then the word of mouth regarding the blog can be impressive.

[Cratima]

Three reasons:
1. Old customers know you better;
2. New customers know you;
3. Simple people (no clients) viewing your web site get to know you.

Now that's branding.