I joined MyBlogLog back in November and have seen a big jump in traffic to my blogs. I like to see who’s been lurking around ;) I’ve also come across many other bloggers who create quality content. It’ll be interesting to see what Yahoo! will do with it now!

I just signed up for the service and found that it sent me a good number of visitors and also the first email from a reader. So, for me it’s worked wonders.

Though I have seen a few *not-so-professional* user names that Dave mentioned about on the site. While it is still nowhere close to the MySpace junkies, it surely is alarming. Dave, I believe you have brought up a great point about community owners deciding on membership. However, one cannot always distinguish/discriminate amongst readers just because they have funky usernames/photos. Notice that I mention funky and not objectionable.

Overall, I find it a great way to find new blogs and feel that it could do well with a few suggestions.

Can none of you see? You’ve been SMAMMED!!!!

Well, I’ll wait it out and see what happens. I’ve got the widget on my site, though so far it does not really do anything interesting.

… GTL

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this service seems good for getting more readers to your blog and some of them may link to you thus improving your blogs rank and ultimately help in your seo efforts.

I wish the crew @ MBL success (they are going to need it fitting themselves into the giant corporate world of the Y!), and success to those who find it useful.

We older bloggers (30+) are old enough not to have to follow the herd. Just because you can use these tools doesn’t mean you have to.

Good food for thought there, Dave,

Like many such services ( performancing, even Google analytics itself) I found it slowed down page loading times. It also doesn’t ‘catch’ all the visitors … there’s no 100% service I have found yet, except the free logs provided by my site host.

Although I removed the tracking code from the sites I was using MBL on, MBL provided no way for me to take my listings off their page, so was consistently advertising zero visitors and zero clicks … how nice. They have yet to respond to several emails asking for help on this issue. It’s kind of like one of those spammy Internet marketers “squeeze pages” where once you give up your email it is “pwned” forever.

A few months ago they began the process of re-making themselves into a “Web 2.0 Social Network” … whatever that really is … seems as if Darren was just mentioned excessive hype in another post today.

I found, to my dismay that anyone could “join my community” without any interaction with me. Most of the people “joining my community” used phony, silly names and resembled the children of MySpace, having no interest in my blogs just an interest in trying to have the most communities joined. A few have downright objectionable screen names/profiles.

I again emailed MBL about a way to opt out and received no response, so I canceled my account and sent a sixth email explaining why … but again, no response. Small wonder since that was the week they were completing their multi-million dollar deal with Yahoo!, so why bother with an insignificant customer who got them to that position … we’re done with you, Dave, is their attitude and I, for sure am done with them.

Those of you who are actually in this game with any thought of building reputation … or are older than middle school age …remember a precept I’ve always found of value:

You are known by the company you keep. Who are those people who are keeping company with you on MBL, and why would you provide valuable free real estate on your site to Yahoo! in return for slowing your load times?

Darren Rowse from ProBlogger asks what MyBlogLog has done for him lately. I don’t disagree with Darren – but I see some fantastic potential with this service. I do love seeing the faces of other bloggers, especially new ones on my blog utilizin…

Good question!

so it’s to allow author and reader to interact each other :)

but of course with the recent growth, it becomes more and more of like traffic source, which is not the original idea :P though it does now bring some traffic ;)

this was due to that each user can have it’s own community so that, users that are registered can browse through other communities too, more and more like social network now :)

but basically it was to interact with your reader ;)

Hey scot it a great idea to actually generate ideas from your community..I think I’ll try it