My Problems with MyBlogLog

i have been having similar thoughts about mybloglog…i just cant understand its use till date. it brings no traffic..and the community there and the members…what are they supposed to do? nobody says anything except ‘come and see my blog’. if i want to srtike a conversation with someone, i better leave a comment on his blog.

maybe i’m thinking i’ll keep it for a few more weeks and see how it goes.

I’ve also noticed that their tracking script seems to slow down my page loads.

Chris, I agree and have designed a new community. Don’t look now it is a bit pants but will be very cool in two weeks with relaunch.if you want a look at new design, please mail me.

Cheers!

I’m on the fence with MyBlogLog. On the one hand, I like seeing who has visited my blog. On the other hand, it’s not a complete picture. Not everybody uses it.

It’s a neat thing but its utility is becoming questionable.

I’m finding Twitter much more useful at this time.

Just to play Devil’s Advocate on the MyBlogLog front, they seem to be moving in the right direction. With tags, at least now you have a way to find blogs that might actually be interesting. Not only that, but while the spammers are legion, there are also quite a few people on there who have a genuine interest in blogging.

I guess I have just been traveling the fantabulous world of MyBlogLog more recently, but I have definitely struck up many conversations that would have been impossible if I didn’t see the face behind the name.

I hear that somewhere on the pipeline, they are planning to let you hide yourself from prying eyes when you visit other people’s blogs.

I do agree that it’s a bit spammy for anyone’s tastes, but if you look beyond that there are a few kernels of gooey goodness.

I think the reason you have lots of problems with spam, and that is true of all the most vocal people about the problem, is the spammers are targeting the top50 communities more than anywhere else.

I appeared on the same page briefly a couple of days ago as a “hot community” - I immediately gained a small surge in people joining, and also a proportional surge in spam messages.

For larger blogs, in effect it is a bridge for traffic exchange. Anyone you introduce to MyBlogLog will find the other top50 blogs.

As long as all of the top50 are displaying the widget, it isn’t such a bad deal, and there are people who use only MBL and no other feed reader.

There are loads of things that will be possible once an API is released, and I have been told that won’t be too far off.

To #6 - what if you Are a hot chick? haha. Seriously though, MyBlogLog’s problems stem all from the fact that it’s too easy to game. If a person’s picture couldn’t show up on the widget until they’d done a certain number of things that the blog owner could determine? That would be awesome.

I’m probably going to ditch the code on my main blog. I’ll hopefully never be a hot community, but just in case, I’d rather have people on my site that actually care about the content than have a false inflation of numbers.

Still not going to abandon it completely, as I occasionally find people who actually want to get in touch with me in some mutually beneficial fashion from a first contact that has something to do with MyBlogLog.

But I’m with you on never going pro. Damn, this could have been a blog post. Oh well. :)

Hell, I can’t even use it!