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BlogCatalog v MyBlogLog
Posted by Zmoney • 8/20/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Your opinion on which is the best?
I made a news post for all you bloggers who have been part of these communities for a long time or even the newbies like me lol who started recently. Feel free to leave a brief comment on your view =D
MyBlogLog still has my #1 spot 
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mybloglog appears to hate me ... i log in ... and then it tells me that i've logged in ... but it will only show me the login screen ... i gave up on them! dunno if it's my insistence on firefox or being a mac user or what. (and yes, the cookies are allowed, i've cleared caches and all the obvious stuff. no dice)-
I had a similar problem for the longest time. I could not sign up. Support was friendly and tried to help me, but they couldn't, so I got smart and signed up with a different computer. Now I can log in with my own.
I am on both, but I prefer BC, because of these forums.
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thanks stoneman ... ultimately, i'm too lazy! lol ... i have done loads of gui work and been involved with building sites and e-commerce sites for years, so it's just a quirky thing of mine ... if it doesn't work when i try it, it ain't worth my time. i'm sure i'm missing out on some good sites here and there, but that's my criteria and i'm sticking to it! lol
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Both are pretty naff to be honest no offense - but hey im a member of both so il shush.-
And yet you comment in these discussions all the time, and you initiate threads. Has that produced no results for your blog? Somehow I doubt that.
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I never said I didn't like it or haven't recieved traffic from it because that would be lying - but to be honest they offer very little.
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So what are you expecting? What kind of improvements would you like to see? Start a new thread and tell us.
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I'm on them both also, lol and I've never had a problem with either.
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Blog Catalog is better anytime, because you have so many resources out here. -
Something BlogCatalog lets you do, which MyBlogLog does not: you can list your accounts where with BlogCatalog's competitors, MyBlogLog and Bumpzee. That's class.
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I'm on both, but prefer BC. I still don't "get" MBL. -
I'm on both - but this has a more active community I think. I get a lot more out of BC. -
I think the way BlogCatalog is set up, it's so much easier to find other bloggers with similar interests/genres.
I look at the forums and the actual directory as almost separate entities. People looking for a blog in my genre tend to find me through the directory-- that's where typically the more repeat visitors come from. Whereas the forums have been really helpful for learning more about what's out there in HOW to blog and promote blogging.
I suppose it all depends on what kind of expectations you have. If you're viewing the forums as a primary lead generator for you, I can see where you might be a little disappointed. But I don't imagine MyBlogLog would end up being more effective.-
Actually, my sense is that the forums have been pretty good to me in terms of getting traffic. Not everyone is looking for history blogs, but they get curious what I'm on about, visit, and hang around a little.
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You're right-- I hadn't meant to be generalizing.
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I am on both and like both...I also like FMB FuelMyBlog they are a great forum also....fabulous mods and members!! So I am on all three and like them all:) -
Stoneman can you answer a question for me please? I am still fairly new and don't understand everything yet. If BC and MWL are truly competitors...then why is Eric always your first friend at each forum? I have always wondered about that?
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I'm not sure I understand you. There is an Eric who shows up as a friend when you sign up at MBL, basically as a contact there, at least there was for me. I haven't run into an Eric here though.
"Truly competitors"? You raise a good point. I think they compliment each other nicely, but try listing your BC profile page on MBL or Bumpzee. It's not gonna happen. There's no place for it. The people here seem to have a different attitude in that regard. -
Although I guess you could say the services are competitors I think the BC viewpoint is that a blogger should use all resources to promote their blog. As much as we would love to be your Favorite stop we still encourage you to promote your blog in other areas as well.
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Just my early impressions: I've only been using MBL for about a month and a half and BC for only week or two, but so far it appears that BC people tend visit my profile page and add me as a friend without ever looking at my blog-- and when I look at their blogs I have trouble figuring out why they would be interested in me in the first place.
MBL users, on the other hand, actually do visit my blog and sometimes even leave comments on either my blog or the MBL page that indicate they've at least read my blog. So despite the lack of forums at MBL, there seems to be more of a sense of community involvement. I'm also getting more useful data about my visitors.
The technology is comparable, but to what purpose is it being used?-
Indeed, I'm more likely to get readers (returning visitors) out of MBL but more likely to get visitors (one time visitors) are out BC. I guess it's because it' so hard to finally get to a blog when you're on BC. MBL is focused more on blog while BC is mostly focused on bloggers. -
I've experienced the exact opposite. I get far, far more traffic from here than mybloglog.
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Blog catalogue requires more jumping around than here so I like here but will visit there if thats makes sense-
I think you meant MBL?
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Ian Thal, it appears that BC people tend visit my profile page and add me as a friend without ever looking at my blog The people here want links not bogs to read at least that is what I have seen so far. Although a lot of the same people are both here and at my blog log. I think that is about the same for me. The my blog log people in my community read my blog for the most part and I read their blogs. I've develop relationships with many of them. I see this place as a promotional tool for many and as I'm not really interested in promotion I prefer my blog log for long term reader relationships. I routinely weed out the blogs I don't read and I think many people there do the same thing at my blog log. There are spammers at my blog log but less and less so every day, and the good thing is you can erase their spam.-
That's exactly the impression I'm getting about BlogCatalog, cooper. I just don't get the point about "blog promotion" if it isn't about getting actual readers to visit you and read. So many of the discussions I see here are not so much "How do I use technorati to navigate the blogosphere?" as opposed to "Hey, let's hatch up a scheme so that our technorati authority increases, without ever having to write anything interesting!"
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BlogCatalog is far more user friendly, i can't work out bloglog -
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I think once you get used to it you will like it, not so frantic sort of laid back. I never used anything and was not reading new blogs but started using it a few months back and am having fun with it.
I joined your community and hope to get to read you more later this week. -
I Was on mybloglog 1st and withing 2 days I found out about BC via some1's blog and everyone since BC is giving me way more hits than MBL but I still like MBL maybe because it was my 1st
Today I had my most ever hits around 170 and climbing and I believe its from here. My blogstats shows clicks coming from MBL and BC so its close =O
Feel free to leave a review o this news post and maybe a vote. Voting is simple and sense so many discussed it here why not show some support and leave a vote =)
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BC = more friendly MBL = easier to find hot blog with Communities -
The way I find people on MBL is by looking for things that interest me. I do that here too, but I make other, more serendipitous discoveries through these forums. You see, sometimes someone here says something that makes me think or laugh. And when that happens, I check out their profile page and blog, maybe not right away, but soon. I never would have found those blogs on MBL, because I wasn't looking for them and there is no place for bloggers to just talk.
Cooper, I would not have known about your Darfur blog through MBL. It is only because you chat here that I stumbled onto the thing. And I'm glad I've met Jenn (aka ThriftShopRomantic), who I never would have run across in the blog directory, because I don't craft. I could give more examples, but you get the idea. -
A couple more examples of serendipitous discoveries that these forums made possible:
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/10-blogs-you-should-give-a-chance
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/blogs-that-affect-me (Ignore the 2nd blog in the list; it's mine.)-
you do have a interesting blog O_o
BC is winning my heart : \
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I will say blog catalog is very good because its a have a discussion section where you create topics, etc. xD and thats what i love to do. my blog log is ok but at 1st i could not understand anything.
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I like both, to be honest, and both have sent me valuable readers and friends, for which I am grateful.
BC has the edge, though, with the great interactivity it offers, such as these very discussion boards I am writing in right now. I like this feature a lot. -
I like both BC and MBL. I prefer MBL more.. -
I found out about BumpZee but thats VERY inactive : \
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No Doubt, BlogCatalog is alot better than MBL or BZ or any other related sites I've joined. -
I'm a member at both. I was at MBL for a lot longer than here and I'm just learning BC. So my "network" is a mash of both places. I've found a lot of folks at MBL do join my community and I can't figure out why they would. MBL put me as a Hot Community last week and I got 75 new members but only about 10 of them are going to return. I feel like at BC the people that join my community are more interested in my actual blog.
What I've found it that BC is helpful to me in that I've found a good number of amazing blogs. I use my neighborhood to keep track and I read those blogs every single day and eventually link them on my blog.
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I think I haven't figured out how to use MyBlogLog -- I'll have to take some time to explore there some more.
Here, I like the forums, the sense of personal connection with other bloggers. -
We joined both and dropped mybloglog like a bad habit, blog catalog does it for us flowers!
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i liked mybloglog but after integrating it with my yahoo acct, it ceased working (kaide.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-mybloglog-went-bonkers.html)...
so now i'm trying blogcatalog (i forgot i joined two years ago)...i like it...the discussions and the directory listing by topic are very nice...blogcatalog users get to interact more with one another -
I like BC much better now that groups have been added-- but I think that the features that BC provides needs to be reorganized in a way that makes sense. MBL's interface at least makes some sense from an organizational point of few.
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havent' really tried out MBL as yet for i am always addicted to BC. Am i missing out a lot?
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Blog Catalog Rules.....
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so far so good for both community. Good or bad is too subjective -
I am member of both, but for me BCL is much better than MBL.MBL doesn't let me to create any community nor discuss in MBL but here is many resources in BCL. -
Blog catalog seems to work better but my blog log is great. -
I'm on both as well and I definitely prefer BlogCatalog. I find it a lot easier to use and I like that I don't have to have a Yahoo account to join BC. As a person who doesn't even use Yahoo, I found that a bit annoying. -
MyBlogLog has more traffic. It is in the top 500 sites on Alexa.
BlogCatalog is about 1,500. Not bad at all though. They both have a page rank of 7. BlogCatalog is the best blog site online I think.
I would use both in getting more traffic. -
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I just can't "get" mybloglog.
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MyblogLog works the same way almost. You try to make contacts and join neighborhoods. I see more spam on there though.
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BC rules... the discussion board, the groups and THE profiles are much much better made then on TBL. -
Until there is a competing Blog Catalog Sunday feature from the Pisstakers, MyBlogLog will always be slightly better! (See www.thepisstakers.com/archives/mainindex_files/category-mybloglog-sunday.ht... ) However, the forums here are streets ahead of MBL for interactivity.-
I didn't know this existed. Cool! Thanks for the link!
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You can't compare apples and oranges. Mybloglog doesn't have the same functions and purpose as BC. I use mybloglog to check my stats and see what weird search terms people put into Google or Yahoo to accidentally find my page. That can be humorous. I also spend a lot of time deleting spam from my messages over there. Thats annoying.
This site is better. Hands down. -
Although MyBlogLog seems to have more traffic, I prefer the Blog Catalog interface and community so far.
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No comparison. I'm on both, but I vastly prefer BC. I get plenty of repeat traffic from it, have made wonderful friends, find it way easier to get around on.
I'm with Arvind. I think I just don't "get" MBL.
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