What with Blogged.com’s coverage in the past day or so, as Duncan remarked, its amazing what a little PR can do for you. Any one else amazed yet? For the love of pete its a Blog *DIRECTORY* — of which there are literally a dime a dozen if you so wish to Google it. More incredible, there are other players who have literally been around (in their domain name, form), for more than 10 years! Allen calls it “hand-curated”, but with all due respect, I think that’s a euphism if I ever saw one. Blog directories have their time and place, but there’s nothing about Blogged.com that ought to raise much of an eye brow, let alone two (except, maybe that domain name — that’s a great one). Further of all, if you’re looking for some established SEO/Link pimpage, there are at least a few other directories PR7 and higher (if you still care about such things) that are accepting submissions, like BlogCatalog and EatonWeb (both of which are quite aged properties as well).
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February 25th, 2008 at 9:07 am | Permalink
Uhm, I agree with you completely - my “hand curated” was a bit of sarcasm :) Guess I should have air quoted it lol.
You have come back with some fire!
February 25th, 2008 at 9:12 am | Permalink
Hand curated? So how did my blog (and I’m sure most others in the directory) turn up with no reviews and seemingly no action taken?
Sure, I like the idea that I can be found in another directory, but if there are supposed to be editor’s reviews of all the blogs in there, where’s mine?
How did a directory get good coverage? Is it because it looks web 2.0?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am | Permalink
@allen — or added tags. ;)
February 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am | Permalink
@Phil — I think the ones that actually have ratings are hand-curated (the big ones).
The others are just scraped/indexed the usual way, I’m thinking.
Cheers
t @ dji
February 25th, 2008 at 11:09 am | Permalink
see - i didn’t even realize that they had blogs listed with no ratings - i went thru the first few pages…
as i wrote in my writeup - this type of service is meant to pump a few blogs - just like technorati
February 25th, 2008 at 8:17 pm | Permalink
Thank god it wasn’t just me seeing it that way :-) Glorified PHPLD install, pretty, but it’s still JUST a directory. Credit to Brian Solis though (the PR rep), the man could sell ice to eskimos :-)
February 25th, 2008 at 10:27 pm | Permalink
@Duncan — well, Brian Solis could certainly promote the event, get eskimoes to go to said ice-selling event, but once the eskimoes see that its ice, and that they’ve had ice for a long time (say, since 1994), most people will probably shrug their shoulders and walk away.
… I mean *they* will probably shrug their shoulders and walk away.
That’s what I meant. :)
Cheers
t @ dji
February 26th, 2008 at 5:25 am | Permalink
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February 26th, 2008 at 1:02 pm | Permalink
Thank you for your comments for Blogged.com. I understand that there are a lot of blog directories out there and people generally don’t like to hear that yet another one is created. But at Blogged.com, we try to do more than just listing blog sites under different categories. We filter through the large number of blogs in the blogosphere today, remove SPAM and outdated blogs. Then have our editors provide a rating to help users find quality blogs in the topic they’re interested in. We also open it up to the community for users to share their comments on blogs that they like or dislike. I know that we have not gotten around to rate all the blogs in our directory yet, but rest assured that we’re working very hard every day to get to all of them. We do not prefer big blogs over small ones, we look at the quality of the content for all of them. We like to hear feedback from the community, that way we could continue to improve our site. Thank again for your feedback.