Comments on: Blogs to overtake Forums? http://www.yugatech.com/blog/the-internet/blogs-to-overtake-forums/ Philippines, Technology News & Reviews Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: tatiana http://www.yugatech.com/blog/the-internet/blogs-to-overtake-forums/#comment-135612 tatiana Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:08:07 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=352#comment-135612 Good to see great bloggers here. Anyone from Makati? I"m currenly looking for bloggers who have passion in music specially classicals. Sorry moderator if you think this post is inappropriate and should not be here. Good to see great bloggers here. Anyone from Makati? I”m currenly looking for bloggers who have passion in music specially classicals. Sorry moderator if you think this post is inappropriate and should not be here.

]]> By: rosh http://www.yugatech.com/blog/the-internet/blogs-to-overtake-forums/#comment-14138 rosh Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:53:39 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=352#comment-14138 Blogs cannot be compared to forums directly. Blogging today has become a 'serious' web publishing phenomena rather than "hi, this is me blog". So you may have a corporate blog reaching out to the mass audience without a 'personality into it. Forums on the other hand lend stickiness to a website by letting people have informal and friendly discussions. Forums can also be used to drive traffic to your blog or site. These are my personal views....... Blogs cannot be compared to forums directly. Blogging today has become a ’serious’ web publishing phenomena rather than “hi, this is me blog”. So you may have a corporate blog reaching out to the mass audience without a ‘personality into it. Forums on the other hand lend stickiness to a website
by letting people have informal and friendly discussions. Forums can also be used to drive traffic to your blog or site.
These are my personal views…….

]]> By: yuga http://www.yugatech.com/blog/the-internet/blogs-to-overtake-forums/#comment-6274 yuga Sun, 06 Nov 2005 06:23:28 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=352#comment-6274 You have veyr good points there, dre. But again, if we are to compare one forum against one blog then there's a big difference there altogether. I am more leaning towards organized blog networks and organized forums and then you'll see the inherent advantages of a blog. In any case, you just gave me a topic for PTB. :D You have veyr good points there, dre. But again, if we are to compare one forum against one blog then there’s a big difference there altogether. I am more leaning towards organized blog networks and organized forums and then you’ll see the inherent advantages of a blog.

In any case, you just gave me a topic for PTB. :D

]]> By: Andre http://www.yugatech.com/blog/the-internet/blogs-to-overtake-forums/#comment-6147 Andre Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:56:24 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=352#comment-6147 Nope never ever, unless some blog software like Evo Dev develops some integration for Blogs then they will get more traffic, blogs are not stickier than forums, people come back to blogs once a day or a few times a day, people refresh forums every 5 minutes. Forums not ranking well used to be a problem but Google has overcome that, in general forums are like pages of content, and a lot of it which is updated frequently, a lot more than blogs. While forums are more open and need moderation, there is some authority with blogs, but blogs have a lot of power in the linking and trackbacks, one blog links and story and so on, forums dont really link to other forums that much, so thats one reason for some higher serps but it has nothing to do with dynamic urls and file names I gurantee it. There is aggregation for forums also. Forums are like a chat room, you meet people, get to know them, talk about all kinds of things. In blogs, theres no community, just the Authors and the people who post comments frequently. Also forums are well organized, blog comments are probably the biggest disappointment of blogs, 1 linear thread with no option for branching of discussions. One thing about Blogs though is that they are focused on a certain topic, so your reader of a blog is more likely to click on ads than a forum viewer is since the forum viewer is just browsing for an interesting discussion. All in all they're apples and oranges, blogs are made to be blogs and forums are made to be forums. Now why don't you open up a forum here, it wouldn't hurt, traffic would definitely increase :) oh wait open one on http://www.WebDev.ph/ :) Nope never ever, unless some blog software like Evo Dev develops some integration for Blogs then they will get more traffic, blogs are not stickier than forums, people come back to blogs once a day or a few times a day, people refresh forums every 5 minutes. Forums not ranking well used to be a problem but Google has overcome that, in general forums are like pages of content, and a lot of it which is updated frequently, a lot more than blogs. While forums are more open and need moderation, there is some authority with blogs, but blogs have a lot of power in the linking and trackbacks, one blog links and story and so on, forums dont really link to other forums that much, so thats one reason for some higher serps but it has nothing to do with dynamic urls and file names I gurantee it.

There is aggregation for forums also.

Forums are like a chat room, you meet people, get to know them, talk about all kinds of things. In blogs, theres no community, just the Authors and the people who post comments frequently.

Also forums are well organized, blog comments are probably the biggest disappointment of blogs, 1 linear thread with no option for branching of discussions.

One thing about Blogs though is that they are focused on a certain topic, so your reader of a blog is more likely to click on ads than a forum viewer is since the forum viewer is just browsing for an interesting discussion.

All in all they’re apples and oranges, blogs are made to be blogs and forums are made to be forums.

Now why don’t you open up a forum here, it wouldn’t hurt, traffic would definitely increase :) oh wait open one on http://www.WebDev.ph/ :)

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