¿Los blogs reemplazarán a los foros?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief November 3, 2005 · 2 min read

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Con las tendencias actuales en los hábitos de navegación, ¿será una posibilidad cercana que los blogs pronto superen a los foros? Al menos en términos de tráfico y retención. Me hicieron esa misma pregunta durante el 1er Blogging Summit y si recuerdo bien, dije que entonces no había señales claras de ello.

Ahora, estoy inclinado a apoyar los blogs por las siguientes razones.

Los blogs mantienen la credibilidad y el rigor periodístico del blogger. Los foros son un mosaico desordenado.
Los blogs tienden a posicionarse más alto en los SERPs que los foros debido a las URL personalizadas y mod_rewrite. Los foros están condenados por usar IDs de hilo e IDs de tema.
La agregación RSS ayuda.
Los blogs son ahora tan populares como lo fueron los foros hace 3 años y el IRC hace 5 años.
Puedes conseguir que muchas más personas influyentes participen en blogs que en foros.
Blogging es un medio. Los foros, probablemente no.

Sin embargo, el único beneficio que estoy viendo con los foros en este momento es que la mayoría (si no todos) de mis "investigaciones técnicas" se encuentran allí, con personas compartiendo información técnica y guías paso a paso con la comunidad. Asimismo, puedo publicar una pregunta sobre un problema determinado y obtener respuestas o sugerencias de personas expertas en el campo o que han experimentado el mismo problema.

Estas son solo mis observaciones, sin embargo. Solía ser muy activo en los foros hace cuatro o cinco años, pero ahora apenas los visito. Mi navegación habitual y lectura en línea ahora giran casi exclusivamente alrededor de los blogs.

What factors help blogs appear higher in search engine results pages?

Custom URLs and mod_rewrite help blogs appear higher in search engine results pages.

How do forums assist with technical inquiries?

Forums allow posting questions and receiving answers from experts with technical knowledge.

What is the current role of blogs in online reading habits?

Online reading now almost revolves around blogging.

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6 Comments

rosh · 20 years ago

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…….

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

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

Andre · 21 years ago

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/ :)