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Re: 30 Most Popular Blogs

Ryan Kazinec — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:25:06 -0000

Trey, page ranks take time and many, many links. Three weeks is very new to be expecting a page rank. If you keep up the hard work you will see a lot of progress, but it takes time. You're taking the right approach. My mother has some amazing content on her blog but because she doesn't spend any time networking no one gets to enjoy it. Putting the time in to marketing and blog post quality is what pays off.

Re: 30 Most Popular Blogs

SlashBe — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:43:13 -0000

Anthony - You're a turd. Leaving me for your Civ 4 boyfriends. How dare you. :-D

Michael - I don't think bloggins itself is to blame here, rather the marketing of websites and webzines as blogs, because lets face blog are fucking kewl, has blurred the line that once separated us from them.

Ryan - Exactly. ONE person. I spend upwards of 18 hours a day reading, researching, writing, posting, socializing, networking and marketing. My blog is 3 weeks old, has a page rank of ZERO, lol, and has an Alexa rank somewhere near the national debt level. I'm sure if I had a team of 10 persons I could take this one man blog and make it a top "blog" in a 1/10th of the time it is going to take me going alone. Oh and thanks for the tip about the "more" tag in posts!

Re: 30 Most Popular Blogs

Ryan Kazinec — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:34:03 -0000

Trey, I have been wondering the same thing. A lot of the top 30 should be classified as something else, not a blog. "A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual [1], with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video." (quoted from WIKIpedia.com) The key word here is INDIVIDUAL! Websites like Mashable have far exceeded the works of an individual. Sure some bloggers use guest posts but the blog is still primarily compiled by an individual.

Re: 30 Most Popular Blogs

Michael Cruse — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:01:55 -0000

I could not agree more. I visited a few "blogs" this afternoon and several of them were Web-zines or "blogs" that just re-published articles from news sites. Blogging has reached a sad state of affairs.

Re: 30 Most Popular Blogs

Anthony — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:03:51 -0000

Apparently if you're just lazy with web design you can be classified as a blog.