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2 years ago
in MyBlogLog New Features – The Abusive and the Incomplete on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Andy,
Thanks for the feedback. Meg had suggested an 'opt out of mass messages', so I'm sure we'll discuss it on Monday. We'll also talk about the tags that you mentioned.
When we changed the layout of the community page, it really was intended to drive conversation and traffic back you the community owner's blog. If the tags are not doing that, we need to put our heads together.
As far as the suggestion board goes, when I note in the backend that I've seen the message, it disappears from the queue. I certainly could stop noting that so that all of the messages stay, but at what point *should* they disappear? I'd love your feedback on this as we want this to be as useful as possible for all of you and for us. Thanks, great post as usual.
Thanks for the feedback. Meg had suggested an 'opt out of mass messages', so I'm sure we'll discuss it on Monday. We'll also talk about the tags that you mentioned.
When we changed the layout of the community page, it really was intended to drive conversation and traffic back you the community owner's blog. If the tags are not doing that, we need to put our heads together.
As far as the suggestion board goes, when I note in the backend that I've seen the message, it disappears from the queue. I certainly could stop noting that so that all of the messages stay, but at what point *should* they disappear? I'd love your feedback on this as we want this to be as useful as possible for all of you and for us. Thanks, great post as usual.
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Most of this post was written before you had even mentioned the messaging system on the blog.
The moment I received a first message from Jonathan at smartwealthyrich.com I knew this was going to be a problem.
That was just after 6pm PST yesterday.
Tags need to point to content that is related which in turn point back to related profiles and blogs.
I am not going to suggest you have to have followable external links from all the tag pages - Bumpzee does, Blogcatalog doesn't but it would be good to have interrelated tagging all over the place.
An alternative would be to have a Megite like aggregator for a tag.
It is important to think that a blog could have 1000s of tags, and have only mentioned a topic once.
You should be aggregating tags looking to have a weighted tag cloud for each blog in the future.
Whether you have all the tag links indexed is a complicated issue, I write a lot about the SEO ways to use tagging, but it can be equally argued that it shouldn't be indexed.
I wouldn't might some tag based feeds as well as I would like some way to grab a little content legally to make my tag pages more useful.
I have written so many suggestions in the past, but not knowing what is coming down the track now 6 months after I suggested them, it is hard to even consider using the suggest board.
Start at the beginning and work your way forward.
http://andybeard.eu/tag/mybloglog/page/4
The content is paged for now, but that will change in the future - supplemental results = lack of pagerank
I just visited suggest and Yahoo Pipes.
I made a suggestion there a while back, but there is no "my suggestions" feature to allow me to track, and the suggestion seems to have disappeared totally because you can no longer even find it on a search.
Most of my "suggestions" are fairly geeky and your mass audience is either
1. Not understand what I write, so not vote on it
2. Vote for it just because it sounds good, even though they don't understand what I am writing.
Yahoo suggest doesn't have the kind of interface suitable for a 3000 word post with 5 to 10 pictures to try to explain anything.
The good news is that my "situation" with Blogcatalog doesn't prevent me offering some advice though things in email stay private, as they have done with MBL in the past.
I would however have to avoid discussing anything feature related in email as I notified Eric about a while back.
The good news is I have only left 4 communities so far due to this, so an early post was pre-emptive.