Pimp My Blog

I’ve very recently started to subscribe to performancing.com - seems good, though I think I’ve missed something, hasn’t there been a lot of fuss over this site recently? That aside, Nick Wilson has posted his view on how blog bling can adversely affect your blog. I tend to agree with his points to a degree about snap’s preview anywhere feature, especially his second point…

Click stalling: Quite often, when trying to click a link that features the Snap abomination, I have to click several times to get the damn thing to work. This is too much effort. If your site is that hard to use, you can bet I wont be back, and neither will others.

I too find this annoying, the “preview is being queued” or whatever it comes up with and it does start to grate after a while and can put you off a site.

When snap previews work I like them, but when they don’t, I don’t.

I’ve succumbed to blog bling myself though. For a week or so I’ve been using the widgets available at mybloglog. You’ll see on mine and many other blogs a recent readers list with little profile photos of the mybloglog visitors. Click on a photo and you’re off in to the mybloglog world of fellow bloggers (mostly search engine marketers and the like) and you’re spending precious time nosing at others peoples blogs. Actually, that’s demeaning it somewhat - I’ve come across some interesting sites that I now subscribe too.

I pimped my blog with technorati almost from day one and I still try and remember to add the appropriate tags to my posts. Not convinced though that’s it having bugger all effect!

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