Comments on: all our blogs belong to us

By: Joy Smith

Joy Smith — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:48:30 +0000

Two Words. “Well Said.”

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:16:22 +0000

Mine went down as well, but oh well….life goes on. I’m not doing anything different these days than I did before the google fiasco and I don’t plan on doing anything different in the future. I figure everything in life usually balances out in the end anyway.

By: dingmoEd

dingmoEd — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:05:49 +0000

I agree, page rank is no big deal. The only people who obsess about it are people who make spam sites and target very specific niche keywords and what not. In the end, the golden rule of blogging always applies. Write good content, let people know about it, and the traffic will come. As far as advertisers caring about page rank, you can just show them a page of traffic stats to legitimize your site.

By: homemom3

homemom3 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:31:51 +0000

I may write paid reviews, product reviews and even family life things, but I’m not focusing on just one thing. Never have, never will. I’ll tell it how it is and rant about the stupid things like I always have. While having a high PR would be nice, I can careless. I think if I keep up what I’m obviously doing I’m doing something right. Don’t think people are visiting me because of my page rank anyways.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:56:59 +0000

I used to care about PR only b/c advertisers seem to care about it so much, but I’ve actually received more private offers for advertising since the big PR crash. I admit I only dropped 1 notch on my 2 blogs that fell, but now I’m more or less laughing at Google and their attempt to try to change the way we blog.

My blog is my own content, and it’s going to stay that way. If I want to link to another blog, website, or product, I’ll do it because I would do it anyway whether or not I”m writing paid posts.

I do agree that PPP should be taking a stand on the quality of blogs in the system, but just like Cass I’m not going to go out of my way to make sure I put another non-sponsored post between two posts containing contextual links when those two posts are my own content. If i can find a way to work a contextual link into a post I would write anyway, so be it.

If I have to go out of my way to come up with a post just to work in that contextual link, then I treat it like any other sponsored post with an interim on each side of my own content. If you’ve got a quality blog, none of that should be an issue, but if you’re nothing but a paid sponsor farm you don’t deserve any of the traffic that heads your way.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:51:53 +0000

Here I am! Your content only reader! LOL

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:02:44 +0000

Ladonna – Losing PR is kind of like…breaking up with a jerk of a boyfriend. You’re free to move on and focus on more important stuff without trying to please him. LOL!

By: LaDonna

LaDonna — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:01:38 +0000

Hear, Hear, Colleen. I’m not changing anything from the past, either. I have cleaned out my sidebar, but that’s a personal thing. I never cared about my PR up until now and I’m not going to start. Though I haven’t been in much of a blogging mood, it will come back and if some of those posts can be sponsored content, great. If not, that’s fine, too.

I’m actually a little thrilled that mine tanked. Now I won’t feel so bad when I move everything to the new domain.

I agree that a lot of people out there are trying too hard to monetize their blogs for the sake of monetization alone and are totally losing the personality of their blogs. I understand the need for income, but where’s the value for advertisers if you have no readership? I, too, have been guilty of scanning posts that all seem to be sponsored. I’ve quit visiting quite a few blogs that I used to for that very reason.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:52:34 +0000

I agree. I got spanked, but I am not going to waste my time screwing with what I am doing. There are more important things in life than what my PR is.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:29:33 +0000

Your content keeps me coming back!

My review blog is the only 1 of my 3 blogs that ever has a paid/sponsored post and those are few and far between. When I do have them, I make sure to have non-paid reviews before and after. I do however have links in nearly every post I write on my personal blog and I always have a link to the item or items I discuss in my review and scrapbooking blogs. I am a link happy person with an average of 2 per post. Is linking looked down on?