Comments on: Brisbane SEO Blog — Community Consulting Summary

By: WEBOSIS

WEBOSIS — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:14:07 +0000

Great suggestions here. I would love to see a follow-up after changes are made to the blog.

By: Darshana

Darshana — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:40:55 +0000

This is a good idea to review a blog using the community. Not only it helps the actual blogger who gets reviewed but also everyone else, because they can discern similar problems in there blogs and rectify them.

Keep the good work going!

By: Chris Vincent

Chris Vincent — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:39:10 +0000

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Although you *unfortunately* didn’t understand everything i said, what you just quoted gave me all the answers i needed.

Thankyou.

By: Skellie

Skellie — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:40:08 +0000

@ Chris Vincent: I’m not sure I can properly respond to your comment because I never suggested that the content is too long. Maybe you misread the section which says post excerpts could be used to make the page lighter on its feet? I’m not sure.

While I’m personally quite interested in the content, my job is to summarize the elements that the community mentioned and provide my own commentary. The content wasn’t mentioned often, and when it was, it was mentioned in generally positive terms (and not in too much detail). To dedicate too much time to that would have been prizing my own biases over what grabbed the community, which isn’t really in the spirit of this process. Does that make sense?

By: Chris Vincent

Chris Vincent — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:15:47 +0000

I’ve noticed that you spent a whole lot of time examining the flaws of the whole blog and describing how these “should” be done, while leaving a small note at the bottom about the content. I fully know that to make an excellent blog all the following things that you mentioned should be up to a satisfactory level…. but doesn’t everyone say content is king?

This examination of this particular website basically says that the content is usualy too long, even though it’s quality. Does this mean that the content is not of the uppermost value in this blog because it’s been too long and the fact that you left it right to the bottom before stating how wonderful it was?

Should we have applauded the content more, for the quality it was a bit more, or is it in the minority of what you think a blog should look after?

I’m only writing this out of interest and arrogance as many people usually mistake my writing…

By: Kayla

Kayla — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:48:27 +0000

The candid comments on other blogs is so helpful to me as a reader of your blog – I always pick up ideas that I can use – so thank you for doing this and also to those who allow us all to learn from their blogs.

By: Sean Anderson

Sean Anderson — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:12:32 +0000

Are bloggers that simply aim to take advantage of advertising income misguided? Should bloggers offer a service or product beyond the content they provide?

I have recently started to blog. I am using a bum-blogging method. I have really started to see a lot of potential, but I am not sure I can get a good return from any investment unless I have something more to offer.

By: Anthony Lawrence

Anthony Lawrence — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:26:53 +0000

Boy you are so right about the lack of connection to Sitemost – I did not even realize that was something he wanted to send people to!

By: Custom Street Signs

Custom Street Signs — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:40:36 +0000

Good Article! Darren, you did not by chance buy a street sign on amazon yesterday did you?

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:26:33 +0000

The conclusion of your research is quite good to go through. I also have found out what my blog site, http://www.sangesh.com.np/blog is lacking. I will definitely try to resolve the problems which have been pointed out here by many blogger.

This article was quite helpful for me. Hope it is for other start-up bloggers as well.

Cheers.

By: Young

Young — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:26:52 +0000

I like the less is more.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:44:48 +0000

Hi Everyone… this is Pete (the author of SiteMost’s SEO Blog).

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who gave feedback and advice on how I can improve the site.

Over the next few weeks I’ll try and incorporate as many of the suggested changes as I can, and if you think of any additional advice or suggestions, feel free to email me or leave a comment on the blog.

Thanks again and I hope everyone has a very safe and happy holiday season.