Why Blogging Zoom Is Headed For Its Demise
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For those of you who are not familiar with Blogging Zoom, it’s a place where bloggers can share and rate content much like digg.com. I’ve tried it a few times and each time was met with disappointment.In its early days, its interface was kludgy and very slow when I submitted articles. Today, it looks a lot better, but I haven’t tried using it again to see if it its service has improved. And after the email I received this evening, I most likely never will.
I think it was last week that I received an email they sent to all their users. It wasn’t written very well and lacked a certain level of professionalism. Today I got another one in my inbox and it was much worse.
You can click on the image to get the entire message.
A few things disturb me about this. First off, it’s written in broken English. If you’re going to communicate with your audience effectively, at least learn to write/speak in the language of your audience. Otherwise, people think you foolish might be.
Second, even someone who just started blogging today knows not to have “insert_your_email_address_here” in the email address that the email is coming from. Hell-ooooo? Let’s look like a company that knows what it’s doing, shall we?
But what disturbs me most is the way they talked down to their audience. It appears to be written by a very frustrated programmer who spent all night fixing things because someone didn’t follow their instructions.
“…and we hoped once they read all the post about submitting with copy paste, it would stopped.”
Argh, if my journalism degree had a voice it would be screaming right now!! Oh, but it gets worse.
Second reason was not an issue but we knew it would become and the day has arrived.
Translation (in god-like voice): “We showed mercy before and you did not heed our warning, and for that you shall suffer a mighty blow from our very expensive looking hammer we bought at Home Depot!”
Now we had to turn the editor off because people still not either because of serious laziness or simple ignorance are still making copy paste submissions and in the process pasting HTML mark ups that are not compatible with our theme, in return it breaks our side bar.
Translation (in god-like voice): “Okay, so our English sucks like a Hoover, but we really do have an expensive looking hammer and we’re not afraid to use it, you ignorant fools! And stop breaking our side bar!”
But I’m not all about pointing out their weaknesses. I’m a friendly and helpful guy, so I’m going to provide them with what they should have sent. (Note to Blogging Zoom: I’m for hire if you need someone to work on your communications.)
We strive hard to make Blogging Zoom a service you can rely on to promote your content and find other material to read. We believe that by strengthening our features we are also strengthening our community. This, in turn, will provide our readers with a reliable way to promote content they like, thus benefiting everyone. But to make Blogging Zoom grow into the service we know it can be, we need your help.
By providing original submissions instead of copying and pasting them, not only will you be able to continue using the HTML editor we’ve provided, but it will also help our community as a whole by not duplicating content. As you may know, search engines frown upon duplicated content. So what hurts Blogging Zoom has the unfortunate side effect of hurting you.
Blogging Zoom, when you want to make your way to the top, you don’t do it by alienating your audience. And when you’re competing against the likes of Sphinn.com and digg.com, you really can’t afford slip-ups like this.
Soooo, anyone want to submit this to Blogging Zoom?
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January 29, 2008 at 12:07 am
Being a fan of Blogging Zoom, I was very interested to read this post. Everything you’ve pointed out is true, especially about the quality of the email and the address it came from. However, to me Blogging Zoom is an attractive site and has sent me amazing amounts of visitors for its young age and the amount of time I’ve put into it.
If I am correct I think Vic (bloggerunleashed.com) was the one who sent out that email, but I might be wrong. He does have a habit of talking down to people (which I think is quite unprofessional) so if he was the one that sent that email, I think they need to get someone else to do it – or at least maybe someone to proofread it first.
Blogging Zoom is an amazing site with a lot of potential. However, some bits and pieces of it can be corrected, primarily the ones you pointed out. I do think I’ll still use it though, because it’s only proving to be to my advantage.
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January 29, 2008 at 12:08 am
I take it that you’re not happy with Blogging Zoom.
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January 29, 2008 at 12:15 am
@Tay
I’m glad it’s working for you. So they must have cleaned things up a bit; that’s good to know. After reading a few of Vic’s posts just now, there’s definitely a different quality to his writing, so it may be someone else who wrote the email, or if he did write it, maybe he was just having a bad day.
@Garry
Hehe…well, I’m not inclined to get back in the saddle just yet, but if I see an improvement in the way their audience is treated, then things could change.
January 29, 2008 at 12:16 am
Yeah I can see the frustration with my English it might be the fact that you have problems reading as all of your submissions are Copy and Paste submissions. As for the insert_your_email_address_here yes you are right maybe it has to do with a full restore of a site after being hacked.
Let’s see I will learn to write and you learn to read how about if we do that.
January 29, 2008 at 12:30 am
@Vic
Hehe…well, it has been a while since I have used your service, but the latest email coupled with my experiences of submitting content on BZ didn’t exactly motivate me to try again. I don’t recall there being instructions about not pasting content a few months back when I did give your service a try, but I could be wrong. I’m glad to know things have improved since then.
I’m sorry to hear about your server being hacked though. I just read your post about that. It amazes me that people like that don’t have anything else better to do. I hope you get back to a full restoration soon.
Thanks for commenting, Vic!
January 29, 2008 at 1:15 am
Hi Mark,
I like Bloggingzoom. I will admit though, I think the first couple of submitions I made were probably copy and paste jobs. Fortunately, one of the posts on Vic’s blog turned the light blub on in my head … 350-400 words is just about the perfect amount to get your key words in one, maybe two more times … in a totally different format.
As for the “style” of the email. I think that’s just Vic … he sometimes seems to get (understandably) frustrated when people are stupid. And once you understand the reasons behind requiring an original description for submitted posts, it quickly becomes obvious that copy and paste is a pretty dumb thing to do … even more so now, when it breaks the theme.
lol, other than that, I commend you for your bravery (?) Vic’s not somebody I would want to mess with so publicly … especially since he’s probably a bit cranky after not getting much sleep this past week
Keep havin FuN!
Todd
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January 29, 2008 at 1:39 am
@Todd
You’re a first-time commenter! Good to see you here.
I commend Vic on his efforts to making BZ what it has become to date. I’m quite certain it’s no easy task. I love the look it has now compared to what it was when I first used it. Just having given my blog a new theme, I know how much effort that can take. But as for the email, my background includes marketing, so I’m naturally drawn to that sort of thing and give the messaging I see a more critical eye.
Hehe…your comment about being brave…I don’t know about that. I just saw an opportunity to give advice and throw in a little friendly humor. I suppose one might say we’re both passionate in the way we write, so we have that in common.
January 29, 2008 at 2:52 am
I’ve recently became active in the BZ community, and have enjoyed the site so far. I do believe you make some very valid points.
I completely understand where Vic is coming from as a programmer/webmaster dealing with a hacking, a new design, bugs, people breaking design, etc. That, and he hasn’t slept. It must be getting to him.
But, there does need to be a certain level of professionalism in communications. The problem right now is the site is 100% Court and Vic. They’re coders/webmasters/seo experts/bloggers. They’re not PR experts.
I think this type of criticism could be hurtful to BZ, because unlike many other link bait posts, you are making valid points.
I found this site through a post by Vic that was fairly unprofessional to come from the site owner. I would love to see the day that Digg attacked someone the way that he did. I feel that BZ is a “grassroots” type of site for bloggers. If they plan to expand to a greater degree, their PR and customer service must be improved.
I can forgive it due to shit going bad for them recently. But they’re going to be running into many many new problems as the site grows. This type of response can’t happen each time.
Good luck with this post. I hope you don’t get too much negative backlash.
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January 29, 2008 at 2:58 am
Turns out Vic is a little upset with your constructive criticism.
http://bloggingzoom.com/Blogging/Why_Blogging_Zoom_Is_Headed_For_Its_Demise__MeAndMyDrum/
BZ is a great social media site and I like it a lot, but you did prove some good points, especially about how the BZ audience is treated. Vic will say whatever is on his mind and he doesn’t care how that makes people feel – there’s even a post on his site talking about what an idiot I am. Even if he only looks at his side of the story, that’s his problem. I still like BZ though.
I do understand your post, Mark, and I know it wasn’t meant as an attack, obviously. At least you spoke your mind, even if some people totally twist it around. Vic isn’t an easy one to mess with, especially after he’s not gotten any sleep for a while.
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January 29, 2008 at 7:39 am
@Justin
Thank you, Justin. Clearly, he’s have one heck of a time getting BZ back to normal recently, but I’m glad you see my point about why it’s so important to handle communications in a professional manner when you’re talking to an audience to whom you’re providing a service to. My post was not meant as link bait by any means. I don’t do that. But I do speak my mind just like Vic does — we just take different approaches. The post he just made about me is a disappointment, no matter how tired he is. I wonder how much more successful BZ would be if he were a little happier. With emails like the one he sent and posts like the one he just made about me, I don’t understand how that can be a formula for success hence the reason I predicted a demise. Now, truly, will it crumble? No, I don’t think it will, but clearly it’s being held back.
@Tay
Thank you so much, Tay, for standing up for me over at Vic’s site. He lost me as a user many months ago and does not acknowledge the fact that back when I used BZ that it had it’s problems. For him to have gone to the trouble of looking up my profile and seeing that I’ve only submitted four posts and read none should tell him something. “Self-centered?” Come on.
January 29, 2008 at 8:04 am
Hi there,
I understand that you feel BZ didn’t work for you. How many articles did you submit?
I am also curious as to how many other people’s articles you read, zoomed and commented on.
The reason I ask these questions, is that from my research of BZ user profiles, those who helped others really got zoomed and then got quite a bit of traffic from Blogging Zoom. If you only submitted a few articles, then threw up your hands and said ” I hate you, Blogging Zoom!” then you lose, not the rest of us BZ users.
As well, if you bothered to read the entire site and all of the articles in the first few weeks when it started up, there was a post by Vic pointing out that cut and paste was a bad idea. I know this is the case because I used cut and paste for my first few submissions, then said ‘oops’ and got on with life.
If you have only barely used BZ, like it sounds, and haven’t put the time in to build a bit of a network by reading other’s articles and visiting blogs etc, then like all social networks you won’t gain the benefits. However, by your ranting you will get all of us who love Vic a little mad at you.
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January 29, 2008 at 8:45 am
Good post Mark.
I received the same email and had the same impression. Actually the last two emails gave me the same impresssion; very unprofessional. I was inclined to give the benefit of the doubt the first time because of the recent hack, ut twice in a row is silly.
Like you, I have not been too imressed with blogging zoom. Has never seemed too user friendly and the crowd seeems rather cliquish (think displaced and frustrated Diggers).
While I have nothing but respect for Courtney Tuttle and have never had any interaction with Vic, I have witnessed a number of instances where Vic has reacted to any question or criticism with some sort of, “You’re stupid and I’m smart, if you don’t understand that then get a life!” response. Why they would choose to put a guy with an attitude like that out front in a public relations possition is beyond me.
I was inclined not to use BZ before the hack and less inclined after the emails but now that I have witnessed the whiny, childish response written by Vic to your well thought out and proffessionally written article, I doubt I’ll participate again.
Of course, I probably won’t have to worry about it now anyway. I would not be surprised if Vic were to throw a temper tantrum and kick me out of BZ
January 29, 2008 at 9:04 am
Maybe you’ll let this one through?
Ad Tracker said:
“Like you, I have not been too imressed with blogging zoom. Has never seemed too user friendly and the crowd seeems rather cliquish (think displaced and frustrated Diggers).”
That is totally insane…there is a great community there, people help each other, Vic helps you, Court helps you, others zoom your articles, etc.
You guys are missing the main point there I think, but whatever.
I can’t believe you are getting so bent out of shape because an email was “unprofessional” when all Vic does is try to HELP people make money online.
This BZ site will do nothing but give you backlinks and extra search engine links…yet you are mad at his style of writing?
I just wish you’d guys see the big picture…that’s all.
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January 29, 2008 at 9:57 am
Great post! I also got those 2 emails and was not impressed at all by them. I also am not impressed by the “I’m better than you” attitude that Vic displays. This could have been a great way to promote. However, I agree with you — they have too many issues going on.
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January 29, 2008 at 10:59 am
Actually, I got the same email and it made me double check my submissions to the site. Like you mentioned, I don’t remember reading anything about not copying and pasting when I originally joined and submitted to the site. It was probably there, but I was so new to joining and submitting to social network sites that I was more intent on typing my URL correctly. HehHeh!
Just went back and tried the site again and it is remarkably easy to use. I think it is attractive and I like the way my submission looks, so I can only hope that Blogging Zoom experiences fantastic success, and that I do too!
BTW, I know I’m still kinda a newbie, but who’s Vic?
All I can say is that you should take a look at how good my latest (not copied-and-pasted) submission looks on BloggingZoom. Check it out!
http://www.bloggingzoom.com/GeneralNationalNews/School_Violence_Prevention-1/
Have a terrific day!
Brennan AKA tuxedoxpress
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January 29, 2008 at 11:35 am
Hey Mark,
Sorry to see this unfold like this. Coincidentally, I just joined BZ just a couple of days back and have recently become a reader of Vic & Courtney’s blogs. BZ seems to have all the right ingredients except for the PR part. You have to take that with a lot of salt as I am new to all of this. But, one common sense aspect of all this is, it is never a good idea to insult someone like that, especially when someone provides you with some good critcism to improve their service.
Just my 0.02 cents.
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January 29, 2008 at 1:43 pm
@Tim
Hi Tim, first, thanks for taking the time to comment here.
I think I can best answer your question by explaining it this way. If you were to test drive a car and the ride was not the most pleasant one you’ve had — maybe it was noisy, was slow to respond to your steering and such — would you continue to purchase that car if you knew a better car existed? I don’t think any of us would, so you most likely would have gotten out to drive another one. That’s precisely what happened to me: I got in the car, drove it for a while and got out before I even had the opportunity to (or had the motivation to) zoom other articles.
Clearly, there’s a strong following at BZ and I think that’s great – I sincerely mean that. But while the community is growing, just think how much more it could grow if just a few modifications could be made?
@Ad Tracker
Thank you! I do find it ironic that with a slogan that says, “The truth hurts, so be ready” isn’t meant to be used both ways. Always good to see you here, AT!
@Mike
I appreciate you taking another try at your comment.
Btw, you have a nice looking blog. I particularly found the post about the upcoming Star Trek movie interesting. I’m a fan as well.
Anyway, I can’t speak to the details of how the comments being made about BZ being cliquish, but I will say that’s most not a surprising outcome when you have a social community, otherwise, it wouldn’t be very social.
As for your comment about being bent out of shape, please consider this: I made a simple post about how communication is so important when speaking to one’s customers. I wouldn’t consider my post a rant, but if it could be called that, then at least I stepped up and offered a solution, which is something you don’t normally find in rants — something positive.
What did I get in return? Well, aside from supporters, I get called a “SCB” and raked over the coals by some BZ followers on Vic’s response post. So, exactly who is it that’s getting bent out of shape?
Truly, Mike, I do appreciate your time and respect your position.
@Lisa
You’re a first-time commenter here, too. Thanks for doing so.
@Brennan
Thanks for commenting, too. The improvements are obviously making a hit and I think that’s wonderful. Vic is one of them people behind Blogging Zoom. Had I been a frequent user of the service I probably would have gleaned that from the email that was sent, but not only was there no salutation, but no signature on it as well, which caused me to be suspicious. Again, communication is key.
@K
Thank you, buddy. Your 2 cents are worth $50 here.
January 29, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Mark…yes, maybe Vic shouldn’t have gone off like he did, but if you know him, he’s under a lot of stress and tends to not waste time trying to be nice about things. I like that about him because it skips the BS and gets you right to the point.
But when I say “bent out of shape”, I mean this:
“Why Blogging Zoom is headed for its Demise”
If you wanted to offer a suggestion on how they could better their PR front, you could have titled it many different ways.
“How I would improve Blogging Zoom”
“Blogging Zoom need to rethink its PR image”
But putting the words “demise” in there insinuates that it’s doomed, dying and on its way out. That this ONE email from Vic would stir you to write an article with such a big-time headline like that is just too much for me.
You’ve only posted 4 things to BZ, yet you felt that based off of one email you could write a blog like this is incredible.
You may deny it, but you got the traffic and comments you wanted with the headline you chose.
I love BZ, it gives me almost 50% of search traffic everyday that I get from Google because if you know how to use it, it’s like having another blog somewhere that links to your site with original content.
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January 29, 2008 at 11:46 pm
There is never any excuse for a webmaster to act the way Vic does, especially with an article like this. If someone has “attacked” me or given constructive criticism you don’t act that way, at least if you want people to respect you.
Mark you handled him very professionally, not sure i would
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January 29, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Vic’s post and name-calling on BZ was just crude and unprofessional. This is what you got when coder or programmer starts a project without taking care of or considering about the PR aspect.
No matter how perfect or hack-proof a site is, you are dealing with human beings at the end of the day. And that kind of negative reactions were totally uncalled for.
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January 30, 2008 at 12:27 am
I appreciate all your points of view, but you do realize that the email Vic sent out was fine, albeit with the wrong “from address”. That was a simple mistake though, anyone can do it.
It wasn’t until this blog here posted about its “demise” that he got upset.
Please don’t go thinking that he started name-calling and losing his temper BEFORE Mark posted this blog.
If you were Vic and put all the work into BZ that you have, and some guy comes along who has only submitted FOUR things to BZ, sees one email and decides it’s “demise” is evident, would you not be annoyed?
Mark obviously has a lot of readers here, and that’s fine…but this blog post was done in complete ignorance.
Mark’s profile on BZ:
4 submissions
4 zooms
That’s it. And yet he felt that this blog was warranted and that he somehow possessed the knowledge to believe it to be true.
You guys are ripping Vic for name-calling, but all Mark did in his blog was insult Vic’s writing skills over and over and in a pretty condescending manner.
Listen, you all can believe what you want, but all Vic and Court do at BZ is help people. The are so busy, all the time, yet they take the time EVERYDAY to help people like you to improve their blog rankings and make money online. He truly CARES about helping you out.
I really feel bad that Mark felt this kind of blog was necessary. He got a nice reaction and probably a lot of pageviews and hits over this, so I hope you are happy Mark.
But I honestly believe you were JUST as insulting to Vic and BZ as he was in his post back to you and that you are probably both in the wrong.
More importantly though, BZ is there to help you and every one of your readers, so put away your “English journalism major” and come be part of something special.
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January 30, 2008 at 8:23 am
@Mike
BZ has a very loyal member in you and I think that’s great. But your facts are a little fuzzy.
The name-calling did, in fact, start with Vic. You know it and I know it. You’ve already agreed that he should not have done that. All I did was comment on his PR skills. He clearly has a reputation for calling people names and being insulting. That history speaks for itself. No matter how much you think of Vic, please, let us at least agree on that point.
And before this train goes off track, let’s not bring Court into this. And I should remind everyone that this is not an attack on Vic. I’ve pointed out earlier that the email he sent was not signed, so with you being an active member in BZ, it stands to reason that you knew who it was coming from. I was only commenting on the email’s message, which I hope that we could agree could have been done a little more tastefully, despite Vic’s staying up all hours of the night.
This is also not about a missing email address. I’m sure you didn’t mean that the way it sounded, but I have bigger fish to fry than to go write about that. That’s why I was responding to the overall message.
Given your support for BZ (of which I’m totally fine with, so please don’t think I’m coming down on you for that), I can see where you think this is an attack on the service. It’s not. What it is, is an observation in how it could be improved upon, and that improvement rests in its PR strategy. Now, you may not agree with the way I’ve done that, but that’s what it was all about. Not an attack on anyone or anything.
It should be pointed out that ALL bloggers want traffic, so please don’t accuse me of link baiting. Granted, you didn’t use those exact words, but that’s the intent that came across when you commented about getting a “nice reaction and …” and your earlier comment about getting the traffic I wanted. My goal, as it has always been, is to write about things that strike a chord with me or I have an interest in and sharing that. Of course, I want people to read my content just as much as you want people to read yours and for BZ to send you traffic. Don’t confuse a post that gets a reaction as one that has an evil intent behind it.
And somehow this is another hurdle that just can’t be overcome. My profile, the number of submissions and number of zooms I’ve made has absolutely nothing to do with making my observation more credible. As I explained earlier in a comment above, I got in the car months ago to test drive it, I didn’t like the way it was performing, and I saw another car on the lot to try out. You may have come at a time when the kinks were worked out or perhaps have a higher level of tolerance than I did. That’s okay. But that does not give you the authority to call me ignorant. I show respect to my readers and authors alike. Feel free to comment here whenever you like, but when I say “Please comment responsibly.” at the top of each comment box, I mean for commenters to refrain from making comments like that.
Let’s take a step back for a minute. If Digg, CNN, Yahoo or any number of big players on the Web sent an email out like the one Vic did, how would you respond? Honestly? Would you say, “Ah well, I know CNN is just having a bad day.” I’ve only known you for just over 24 hours and already I feel confident in saying, no, you wouldn’t. You would be upset, right? Whether or not you decided to leave that service at that moment or simply ignore it is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is, that message has just tarnished the way people think about CNN because there will be users who will have decided to drop their service or take some similar action. Given the relationship you have with Vic I can see how you could play down this fact when he sent the email he did, but not everyone has that same relationship, Mike. This is about marketing, pure and simple.
I wouldn’t have trouble believing your statement about Vic truly caring for people and wanting to help them out if it weren’t for the fact that he chooses to degrade people by calling them names. You can defend him all you want, but it lacks merit, I’m sorry to say, because people don’t like being treated the way he has treated others and done so repeatedly. I’ll take your word that he has helped people, but can we at least agree that the name-calling not only started with him, but that it’s simply not a strategy to help build community and take BZ to the next level?
And lastly (finally), my use of the word “demise” I think is spot on. If you saw someone walking on the highway in the middle of traffic, wouldn’t you agree that was a bad decision? Would you not feel compelled to yell out, “Hey, what are you doing?! Get out of there before you get hurt!” That’s precisely what I’ve done with my post. While I did use humor in my post, I’m totally serious about that. If that sort of email continues to be sent out to the BZ community, it may not cause BZ to be hit by that car today, tomorrow, or even next year, but it certainly won’t get them off the highway either. Again, this is about marketing, about communicating with one’s audience. It’s not about attacking Vic, so please put your feelings for him aside and look at the core issue here (and btw, I don’t mean that in an “affectionate” way, if you know what I mean. I’m just clarifying that I understand you to be a supporter of him. That’s all.
)
So there has been a lot of healthy discussion here on MAMD. I appreciate your comments, Mike, and everyone elses, no matter what side of the table they’re sitting on.
January 30, 2008 at 11:52 am
OMG! I got this email too. Honestly, I dismissed it after reading it. I thought it was a joke or that someone had accidentally emailed it. Why did I think that? Due to all the points you made. Furthermore, the fact that it lacked an appropriate address…I really thought it was a hoax.
I’m shocked to find it wasn’t an accident. Wow, the tone of the email was condescending and very angry.
Anger management, anyone?
January 30, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I’m not sure why your amount of posts and zooms were called into question. I have used the service plenty and have the same opinion.
I commented on your blogging zoom submission that the article is relevant and if you can’t take criticism like that, you don’t belong with a site like that.
The end result was my account being deleted.
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January 30, 2008 at 10:41 pm
@Matthew
It’s disappointing to know how that ended, but that means more business for BAYB.
January 30, 2008 at 11:36 pm
@supermom_in_ny
You’re a first-time commenter. Welcome! Thanks for taking the time to do so.
January 31, 2008 at 10:15 am
Hey I love it a bad review is great for me
I own http://www.blogengage.com and were a lot nicer and friendly 
Thanks for the awesome post I’m submitting it!
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February 1, 2008 at 4:57 pm
“Second, even someone who just started blogging today knows not to have “insert_your_email_address_here” in the email address that the email is coming from. Hell-ooooo?”
LOL, now that’s classic!
February 1, 2008 at 9:23 pm
@Aaron
Hey buddy, good to see you here.
February 6, 2008 at 4:30 am
Hi Mark
This post was linked to me as an “example” of bad communication (no, not your post – but your write up
).
Something that I don’t think has been mentioned, is the reference to BZ being “month ahead in traffic for the same time of digg” on Alexa. No possible way can I see BZ being anything but a blip? Or maybe I’m not reading Alexa goodly…
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February 6, 2008 at 7:52 am
@Meg
You’re a first-time commenter. Thanks!
I’m not entirely clear on what you mean by being an example. Could you clarify please?
As for the Alexa ranking info, overall it can be a good way to measure performance when comparing it to other like sites. I don’t put much stock in the ranking myself, but I do acknowledge that advertisers look at it as a factor when considering where to advertise. So on that point, BZ must be doing pretty well on that.
February 6, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Sorry Mark, my comment was a bit ambiguous. We were sending out a newsletter to a few hundred people and it had a typo in it. I was reassured that at least it wasn’t as bad as the email BZ sent out!
I had a look at the Alexa comparison for both sites. Maybe I’m missing something, but I couldn’t see evidence that BZ were even close to Digg at any stage.
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February 6, 2008 at 5:08 pm
@Meg
Oh, I understand now. Thanks for clarifying.
February 10, 2008 at 12:28 am
@blogengage
I must apologize. For some reason your comment got picked up by my spam filter. I rarely check that queue, but since I hadn’t in a while, I did just now and saw your comment.
Welcome to MeAndMyDrum! (albeit belatedly
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March 7, 2008 at 10:51 am
Thanks it’s no worries I seen it got posted
All is good!
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