Company Blogs Are DEAD!!!!!

[mandy]

It's semi-official. Blogs have now joined hula hoops, Pro-Keds and lava lamps in the attic of abandoned obsessions.

When fast food companies start making TV commercials in which a guy considers blogging about his sandwich for his "readers" and his wife chimes in with "Your mother," you know the dirty little secret is out-most of those millions of blogs claimed by Blogger and Moveable Type are read mainly by their creators and immediate family, rarely updated, or quickly abandoned altogether.

The evidence is still mainly anecdotal (or perhaps early adopters are too embarassed to say so) but it appears that companies that rushed to offer a blog to any employee who wanted one are finding the abandonment rate inside corporations is just about as high as it is on consumer side...

full article: http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogt...sDead.html

[xppman]

Told you ALL... It was just a fad months ago.  :

[cranky_hippie]

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Told you ALL... It was just a fad months ago.  :
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Maybe this kind of blog is dead and WAS a fad but the usefulness of blogs for the little guys like us is not dead. Content is still king.

[xppman]

Maybe so.
I just don't know.
I just usually have better things to do that write an online diary
or "articles" about my socks
in an effort to place higher on the search engine to sell my socks. :

But I hear that's what it does.
Just remember peeps, the search gurus change thier mind and algorithms
at will and what may be being crawled today may be considered search
Spam tomorrow. ???

[cranky_hippie]

Keep it relevant and you should have no worries 

[regic]

"articles" about my socks

I bet they'd be "short" articles. 

[BellisimaJ.]

Maybe this kind of blog is dead and WAS a fad but the usefulness of blogs for the little guys like us is not dead. Content is still king.

Yep. Mine is going to be a trend watch and will also evaluate other sites.

[xppman]

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"articles" about my socks

I bet they'd be "short" articles. 
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I wear tube socks so I don't think so.    ;D

No really I just can't imagine me writing a bunch of articles about
wood/wine and decorative ideas for the home. :
Besides. I've already added content like that to my site.

Mark my words peeps. xppman knows of what he speaks.
I predict blogs will be excluded in search engine crawls soon.
See the other articles about Yahoo Shopping sites and others.
Search companies are gearing up to STOP FREE exposure opting for us all to pay
for CPC ads and ad space.

So every time we find a new FREE way to get ranked higher.
They will eventually shut it down because they are loosing ad revenue.

[cranky_hippie]

I predict blogs will be excluded in search engine crawls soon.
See the other articles about Yahoo Shopping sites and others.
Search companies are gearing up to STOP FREE exposure opting for us all to pay
for CPC ads and ad space.

I don't think so because the internet public likes blogs. But if they do, then blogging (or just doing articles fairly often) on your own website can serve the same function.

[BellisimaJ.]

I don't think so because the internet public likes blogs. But if they do, then blogging (or just doing articles fairly often) on your own website can serve the same function.

Cranky, I agree.

And, my tongue is damn near bleeding from frickin biting it. But hey, everything's good. :blinkie: