Blog discoverability

    Further to my previous comment on blog discoverability, the Scoblizer wrote a post in his blog about the topic. He makes interesting points about the pinging services. I must admit that I wasn't previously aware of those. I have also installed the referer logging plugin for Blosxom as a bit of an experiment. I'm never bothered before to work out who reads this site, and where they come from (I don't have access to the server logs on this hosted machine, and the ISP provide aggregate statistics only).

    Robert is right -- without pinging and tracking refers, what I have had for the last five or so years is a website that just happens to be published using a blogging tool (first my own, and now recently Blosxom). That would explain why in those five years I've got lots of traffic, but never once ended up in the sort of inter-blog conversation which I'm having now.

    I haven't had a chance to read Biz's post on the whole blog discoverability thing yet, but it certainly looks like it's worth the time. I have plugged him into my aggregator though, anf will catch up on reading when I have more coffee in my system. I do wonder if that is a factor -- I live in Australia, which is really the wrong timezone to be talking to Americans much. It's a bit of a pain, as I work for a company with quite a vibrant US office and my borther lives in Washington DC as a third of the US presence for annother Australian ISV. If I want to call them, then I have to ring at 11pm to get them at 9am, and I've never really been a big night person. Luckily my brother is a night owl at least.

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