Comments on: Why Not to Join Blog Networks

By: Carmelo Lisciotto

Carmelo Lisciotto — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:31:46 +0000

Some very interesting Pro/Con points being made here.
I can see merit in both views.

Carmelo Lisciotto

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sat, 14 May 2005 12:17:02 +0000

there are pros and cons on either side, and I think detailing the negatives are a positive, but I’d note that although you don’t get 100% of the revenue in a network, but I’d argue for 99% of people the revenue would be higher in a network due to the ability to cross-promote and do bigger advertising deals. Sure, they aren’t for everyone, but they can make life easier

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Fri, 13 May 2005 18:07:14 +0000

From the sound of it I get the impression that the community being formed within 9rules is excellent. It seems to me that for a beginning blogger having some encouragement and help is probably more useful than a few extra incoming links. Way to go Scrivs, I hope this really works out for you.

By: FMF

FMF — Fri, 13 May 2005 17:40:08 +0000

I joined a focused network (what you would call a network clustered around one theme) a month or so ago and it’s been a great experience. It’s a financial site that can be found at http://www.pfblog.com.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Fri, 13 May 2005 13:45:58 +0000

Cluster Blogs Around Themes – This was in the works 2 months ago, but with the limited number of sites we have there really is no point clustering at the moment when we have a dominate amount of personal/design sites and only one sports site for example. Not fair to the sports site I think. But yes we are working on a whole directory setup that allows fans of food sites for example to view all our food sites and even get one RSS feed that includes just those food sites.

Interlinking Between Bloggers – Again something that has been discussed and worked on. When starting the network I made the conscious decision to take things at a slow pace so that everyone involved can see where we are going with this. If you jump headfirst and try to build up too quickly your message tends to get lost and that is one of the reasons why we don’t have an open submission process because otherwise we would be spending our time evaluating sites instead of helping the ones we currently have.

Cliques – Well in a sense once you become a member and see how quickly our forums are working for our members you can see how a clique is forming, but this is good thing. The clique isn’t causing us to only read our own sites, but it is creating a better sense of helping one another out. We have already gotten tips and design help from the programming and designing blog people that we would never have gotten otherwise and the great thing is every member is open to see this information.

Hope that answers some of the questions or non-questions, whatever you wish to call them :-) Again thanks for your thoughts Darren and we would love to hear what other people think of the network.