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What's your take on 'blog awards'?
Posted by court • 12/21/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: annoying, blog awards, blog help, question, thoughts
I'm wondering about these blog awards. Part of me likes them and part of me doesn't but I wonder if people find them annoying or distracting?
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I'm not into them. You can nominate your own blog and vote for it too. The sponsors of the awards require you to have a button or badge on your site that links back to them. Their site gets tons of hits because they make everyone click through from the blogs to it to vote there. IMHO blog awards all basically boil down to popularity contests. The most competitive bloggers with the largest armies of "friends" win. last year I stopped visiting blogs that were involved in a blog awards battle because they had a stupid drop down ad that slowed page loading time and annoyed me to no end.-
i agree. but at least you will know you have a lot of "friends". -
Basically you ask all your cyber friends to vote for your blog in the category(ies) that it's nominated in, and then you do the same for their blogs. IMO it's a all sham so I don't get involved in them.
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Isn't everything a popularity contest?
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@court
I'm thinking you don't know what this Shameless Blog Promotion category is actually for. So what follows is just for reference sake.
A shameless blog promotion thread is a thread with enough information to hook someone and make them want to read further, and has the added advantage of not getting lost in a long thread of other blogs and descriptions. It is probably one of the two most effective things a blogger can do to promote their blog. These questions will give you an idea about what such a thread may contain.
(1) What do you blog about?
(2) What is your primary reason for establishing and maintaining your blog? And, what are your goals for your blog?
(3) What makes your blog unique from the millions of other blogs out there in the same niche?
(4) WIIFM? (What's in it for me?) Why should I visit your blog? -
It's certainly nice to know that other bloggers think mine is good enough to give it awards. At the same time, I'm not going to let awards take over my site. When somebody gives me one, I say thank you and give a link-back on my blog, but that's it. -
They are circle jerks and thus a waste of my time.-
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Hey, don't knock circle jerks, buddy...
...just kidding....
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Awards are very nice and like Drjay was saying it is nice to know someone appreciates you or your blog. I have a special page on my blog for any reviews, rewards etc so it doesn't clutter up my other pages. When or if it starts getting too full I will start gleaning out the older ones if I have too. No big deal!
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I'm not into them ...
Because I'd never win -
-shrugs- They're not a bad thing. I mean we're all trying to do what, reach more people? Isn't this just another way to do that? Blog awards force bloggers to focus on more than just their own blogs. I'll throw myself against the grain here and say I support them.
newsday.today.com -
It is an entertaining gesture that is kind. -
thanks for the info... including the visit from the blog police. nice to hear from both sides too.
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that would be the disscussion thread police...please be more accurate next time, or I may have to report you.
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@skwguitar
Blog awards force bloggers to focus on more than just their own blogs. I'll throw myself against the grain here and say I support them.
I've never thought of blog awards as forcing me to do anything I don't already do. I'm always focused on the blogs of the bloggers found in my blogroll.
@court
I guess you missed the part that said: So what follows is just for reference sake.
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Blog awards are either overrated or just link traffic generators. I could draw up a real fancy award and hand them out like candy for the purpose of generating traffic to my site like a shameless website promotion on other people's sites. -
complete waste of time pulling traffic for award presenting sites :-) -
It is just so these sites can get backlinks... it isn't anything really that is actual recognition -
Last ditch media move to garner readership? “The People’s Awards” ... “Reader’s Choice” ... “The Popularity Contest”...
When editors and programmers no longer sustain the vision to sufficiently infotain viewership, it seems easiest to pillow-fluff peer validation dreams of players and viewers alike... into the form of pyrite-plated pot metal...
And so we see into this alternate universe there’s an attempt at quantifying artistic merit counting the uncountable by snickering desk jockeys and seat-sniffing tastefakers...
Mere awards are but belt notches on modern culture’s muffin-top waistline on any particular day. It takes time itself to know what art is timeless, and what will become canon...
pungeon.blogspot.com/2006/05/on-artists-and-awards.html -
@timethief I didn't really 'miss it' I just feel that my question is relevant, though I can concede that perhaps a better category would have been 'Blogging Help.' Awards almost seem like the exact definiton of 'shameless blog promotion' because usually there is a self-serving motive behind, eh?
About the responses it seems the nays have it. Math wasn't my strong suit though and for some reason my bleeping computer keeps scrolling back so I gave up counting. Was helpful though to hear people's thoughts as I'm new to this and the first award I got confused the heck out of me. I have to confess though, I like making them because it's like a little card for people and it makes me happy to make others happy, probably because I'm insecure but at least I can sing about it. (that made sense in my head)
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