Comments on: Is MyBlogLog Still Relevant?

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:45:31 +0000

Thanks for stopping by David. It’s been awhile since we’ve run into each other. I remember you using MBL a lot more in the past. I find the communities aren’t all that easy to sort through and I agree too many of the comments are spam. I really don’t use MyBlogLog as a vehicle for networking.

I still think there’s potential in MBL and I’ve been thinking since last night about how I use the site and some changes they could implement to make MBL better.

It doesn’t bring me a lot of traffic either Kristine, though I think it’s slowly increased since I joined. That would make sense why you didn’t notice the new login. Is your login the same as a Yahoo ID? I would think at some point the system might log you out until you made the changeover to a Yahoo ID.

I agree Scott. I stopped looking at any messages I got a few months ago. Way too much spam. Of course the spam has slowed now that the site has fallen out of favor.

John I don’t think it’s so much SEOs not caring about Yahoo as it is them not finding much use in MyBlogLog. At the beginning of the year everyone was jumping on the MBL bandwagon. It was hard to go more than a few hours without seeing a post about it. There were contests to get people to join your community and competitions to collect more friends.

And then nothing. I think most people saw the situation like David and Scott and just moved on to other things.

I think MBL can work as a form of branding since you can leave a trail of your avatar as you travel around. And the only effort there is to grab the MBL cookie before you start visiting sites.

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:33:14 +0000

I never used MBL. My guess is the SEO universe just doesn’t care about Yahoo. They were dominant early on, and they’ve held on from the beginning, but I think they just aren’t seen as a search presence. Their TV adds with the yoddling cowboy disturb me, and probably others, and I think we just stopped paying attention. Sometime in 1997 or 1998.

By: webprofessor

webprofessor — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:37:33 +0000

I dropped it. As David said it was just to spammy and filled with holes.

By: Kristine Shreve

Kristine Shreve — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:36:40 +0000

I still use MyBlogLog, although it is a shortcut on my desktop and I am always logged in. Since I don’t log in and out I hadn’t noticed the new log-in requirements.

As to whether or not it brings me traffic, that’s hard to say. I’d say it probably hasn’t done a whole lot, but I’m not really sure what would be better. It seems like a new blog search engine or publicity site pops up almost every day. How do you know which ones will be useful and which ones won’t?

By: David Temple

David Temple — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:34:29 +0000

I too have fallen away off the MyBlogLog bandwagon even though I was an advocate before. I have too many communities (no way to sort and group as far as I can tell). Also has gotten very spammy with people’s comments; come see my blog, yet the don’t even look at mine. I think you’re right they should super mash all those other social media apps. I guess I spend more time on Facebook keeping in touch with my friends. Plus I seem to be blogging less and that might have something to do with it. Anyway good post.