Comments on: How To Not Make The Mistake 15 Million Posterous Bloggers Made With 63 Million Pages

By: Scott Hopkins

Scott Hopkins — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:36:53 +0000

I followed this article from a recent Copyblogger link about Google+ authorship… I have to say, I agree 100% and cannot imagine investing too much in one of these services. I run a handful of blogs to cater to several different interests. One of the most minor ones is on Blogger. I have faith in this system because Google runs it but, it is risky to have my site over there. Thus I have made it my least interesting and the one that requires the least amount of work. I am also doing it to test the success of a particular blog as far as SERPs are concerned, given it is using the platform and on-page SEO Google loves.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:51:19 +0000

In reply to Michael Martinez.

I hear what you’re saying — and it’s a fair bit of realism — but I don’t think it invalidates the case of pushing best practices.

If a client wants to also have a presence on Tumblr; fine, awesome, go for it. If they want their blog to be ourbrand.tumblr.com — I’ll advise against it without hesitation.

And if they’re not a client? Then still! I rather be in the “I told you so” position when a blogger loses content, income, ranking, authority, or all of the above, than be on the end of “hell, why didn’t you tell me?!”

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:29:24 +0000

In reply to Michael Martinez.

Most active Websites are on subdomains. That’s just the way the Web works. It’s pointless to argue with people about whether they should register their own domains. That’s just not going to happen in most cases.

By: Tom Jamieson

Tom Jamieson — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:06:02 +0000

Sad to hear this news about Posterous. While I didn’t use it for my primary blog or content, it was nice to have it as a sideblog for fun stuff. Oh well, as they say in sports, “Next man up!”

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:40:09 +0000

In reply to Michael Martinez.

nice but not that important? Write good content, get it ranked. Have people reference it, quote it, copy it. Take your own content down; put it up somewhere else. No redirect. Google now thinks the other stuff is real and yours is fake.

But yes — we all have to use some sort of third party. But not owning your content’s location — really not a good idea.

By: Purbita Ditecha

Purbita Ditecha — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:23:23 +0000

Free blogging services always gives a painful ending to our hard works.It is seen that some of free service providers say that there is no limitation but every thing has a limit such blogger.com will deactivate or delete any blog with prior notice and never gives an chance to take a backup due huge traffic [ bandwidth problem] , similarly tumblr also does the same.
You are exactly 200% right as we doing hard work in contents creation and we have to full control on it which can give only a self hosted blog.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:35:57 +0000

301-redirects are nice but they’re not THAT important. There is, by the way, no way that people can avoid using third-party services. If your Webhost goes down, you’re screwed. If your server goes down, you’re screwed. If your Webhosting service provider goes out of business, you’re screwed. If your domain registrar goes out of business, you’re screwed.

15 million Websites is not very many. A lot of them will be inactive anyway.