Mga Blog na Magiging Pampunong sa mga Forum?

Dahil sa kasalukuyang mga trend sa mga gawi ng pag-surf ngayon, maaaring magiging malapit na ang posibilidad na maipagkakatiwalaan na ang mga blog ay lalong mamamatay na sa mga forum. Kahit anong paraan, sa timpla ng traffic at sticky-ness. Tinanong ako ng parehong tanong noong 1st Blogging Summit at kung tama ang aking alaala, sinabi ko noon na wala pang malakas na tanda nito noon.

Kasalukuyang nakatuon ako sa pag-asa ng mga blog dahil sa mga sumusunod na dahilan.

Nagpapatibay ang mga blog sa kredibilidad at kakayahang pampamagasin ng blogger. Ang mga forum ay halong-halo lamang.
Ayak na umakyat ang mga blog sa SERPs kaysa sa mga forum dahil sa mga custom URLs at mod_rewrite. Ang mga forum ay nakatalaga sa mga thread IDs at topic IDs.
Nakatutulong ang RSS aggregation.
Kasalukuyang katumbas na ng popularidad ng mga forum noong tatlong taon ang mga blog, at ng IRC noong limang taon.
Maaari kang makakuha ng mas maraming mapagkatiwalaang tao na makilahok sa mga blog kaysa sa mga forum.
Ang pagbablog ay isang medium. Ang mga forum, malamang hindi.

Gayunpaman, ang tanging benepisyo na nakikita ko sa mga forum ngayon ay kung saan karami (o kaya'y lahat) ng aking "teknikal na pananaliksik" ay makikita doon, kung saan nagbabahagi ang mga tao ng teknikal na impormasyon at mga gabay para sa komunidad. Gayundin, nakakapag-post ako ng tanong tungkol sa isang partikular na problema at makakatanggap ng mga sagot o mungkahi mula sa mga taong eksperto sa larangan o kung saan mayroon silang karanasan sa parehong problema.

Ang mga ito ay aking mga obserbasyon lamang. Noong apat o limang taon na ang nakalilipas, napakalakas ko sa paggamit ng mga forum, pero ngayon, bihira na akong pumunta doon. Ang aking regular na pag-surf at pagbabasa online ay halos umiikot na lamang sa blogging.

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/ :)