Comments on: BlogCatalog- A Social Network for Bloggers

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:02:17 +0000

I’ve been on BlogCatalog for a while, but I find that I don’t log in too often. While it’s a good place to list your sites, I find them a little disorganized. Topics are hard to find, unless you do a search, and they’re often very repetitive/spammy. I’ve found that my traffic hasn’t increased that much since I joined.

But it might just be me.

By: chrisbrogan

chrisbrogan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:57:58 +0000

Hi Kevin- Blog Catalog isn’t a bad place. It’s a place. It’s somewhere people can have discussions. If the people are good and motivated, the discussions are good. From what I saw, there were some great topics on the go.

I’m not crapping on it, nor do I consider myself elite (meet me and you’ll get that sense for yourself).

Enjoy it. : )

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:58:22 +0000

Yeah but Chris you looked at it for what 15 minutes? Glad you see there is value and you’d want to make changes but did you get a feeling how the community actually works? How to leverage it? How to use their social stream which was actually launched before people were even really using friend feed?

The thing is there is like a web 2.0 “elite” that all use the same tools, converse with the same people, and don’t look out the little box they are in. Blog catalog is ripe for so many things and any blogger can use it to expand their natural network, they just need to look at it for more than a couple of minutes.

By: 1 Niche, 2 Niche, 3 Niche 4...How Many Niche Sites is Too Many?

1 Niche, 2 Niche, 3 Niche 4...How Many Niche Sites is Too Many? — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:35:35 +0000

I am a member of BC and have been for a while, it’s great for networking and really works for blog promotion, IF you reach out, make friends and network with other bloggers.
Thanks,
JR

By: zeeol

zeeol — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:56 +0000

What can Blogcatalog do? Before I read this article, I had no idea. Now I maybe need to register somewhere.

By: Tony Berkman

Tony Berkman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:27:03 +0000

Chris,

Thanks for posting about BlogCatalog and for starting this useful discussion about it’s value.

BlogCatalog is a member driven community and the BlogCatalog discussions are designed to be the water cooler/town hall area of the site, where all kinds of bloggers, from rockstars to mainstream bloggers, from mom bloggers to doctor bloggers, can quickly connect, ask questions, engage each other — with the one common element being that each person in the discussions is a blogger.

Because the discussions flow fast and there are over 130,000 bloggers in BlogCatalog it’s easy to feel that you don’t know anyone. Though, post a question and within seconds you’ll have an answer and opinions from incredibly smart and funny bloggers with many different perspectives.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:39:28 +0000

Considering that there are now so many social networks catering to such a wide range of niches, my biggest problem is finding ones relevant to me and related to my specific interests or product niches. Google seems to be inefficient and returns alot of irrelevant results. A good resource that I use to find them is this search engine for social networking sites.

By: Carol Capan

Carol Capan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:18:59 +0000

Thanks, I hadn’t heard of this before so I just created an account.

By: Adam(PixelHead)

Adam(PixelHead) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:53:30 +0000

I have been using Blogcatalog for several years off and on. I think that if you use it consistently, you can actually get some good traffic out of it, and meet some groovy bloggers.
It also has some good advertising opportunities. Sponsoring a category in the directory gives you a pretty good link.

By: Rahsheen

Rahsheen — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:25:20 +0000

I have an account with BC and also an account with MyBlogLog. I really don’t understand how to use either one. I can see the potential in being able to network with other bloggers, but I don’t really see how to leverage that.

I get a lot of Broadcasts (spam?) from BC from people who want me to check out their blogs and MyBlogLog is pretty silent for the most part.

I think it goes back to what Chris says. It’s hard to find stuff on these sites that I want to engage in without doing some digging and I’m just not sure if it’s worth it.

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/rahsheen/
http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/rahsheen