Last week I decided to join MyBlogLog. I’ve seen more and more people using MyBlogLog over the last few months and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Also, since Yahoo was willing to pay $10 million for MyBlogLog it might be useful.
When you join MyBlogLog you get a 3 day trial of their Pro features. Having a Pro account gives you real time stats of where your visitors are coming from, what page they’re visiting and what links they clicked. After the 3 day trial you are downgraded to a free account and then you’ll only see stats for yesterday and the days before. You’ll also only see the top 10 results for each of the 3 tracking categories (referring link, what is being read and links clicked).
Pro Account
A Pro account is $3 per month or $25 for a whole year - that’s a common price range for web 2.0 websites (like flickr). Having a Pro account would make sense for popular blogs that get hundreds of pageviews a day where it’s vital for the success of your blog to know exactly what your readers are doing right now. But for small blogs where you only need to check your stats every now and then a free account might be enough. Combined with a normal web tracker (like StatCounter) you should get all the stats you need - Just check StatCounter for (close to) real-time stats of where your readers are coming from and what they’re reading and then check MyBlogLog to see what links the readers clicked yesterday (and the days before).
More Traffic
It looks like MyBlogLog can bring you some extra traffic. Just a few minutes after creating my account I already had a few people view my profile and one guy had added my as a contact in their profile - pretty cool :) I think MBL is a great tool for bloggers - it can only help you. Also, on your profile there is a link to your blog and we all want more links, right?
Don’t forget to add your picture to your MyBlogLog profile - Then, when you’re logged into MBL and you’re visiting blogs that have the “recent readers” widget your photo will appear there. Other readers might then click your photo and go to your profile - there they’ll see links to all your blogs.
A good way to get more exposure and more traffic is by joining communities in your niche. You can join my MyBlogLog community here.
Spam
But as with all hot services people are going to abuse them. Because you can leave messages on people’s MyBlogLog profiles with hyperlinks you get a lot of random people with messages like “Hey, like ur site. chk out my site thx…”. I’m already getting spam on the “recent readers” widget. But the MBL team is working on this issue.
Video Review
Just for fun I decided to record a short screen capture of me checking out MyBlogLog and all its features. This is the first video (of many?) that I’ll post on this blog. Enjoy :)
Let me know what you think of this video… (you might need to turn up the volume a little bit to hear me properly)
Update: The video is on: YouTube, Google Video and Revver (better quality).
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11 responses so far ↓
Mihaela Lica // Feb 11, 2007 at 2:29 am
Nice post. I think the MyBlogLog team is going to be pleased with it. But the sound of the video is really low. I coulnd’t hear anything. :(
Hannes Johnson // Feb 11, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Mihaela - yeah, I know… I might need to buy a proper microphone. But you should be able to hear it if you turn the volume way up ;)
alex // Feb 12, 2007 at 1:55 am
What software did you use to make that video Hannes? Or you capture it from an external video camera?
AAA Copywriter // Feb 12, 2007 at 9:09 am
I totally agree with your point of view, but I’d like to add a couple of things. Up to now spam is very low, and also, the atmosphere is very friendly, wich is not a bad extra, nowdays… :)
Alex
HMTKSteve // Feb 17, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I signed up for the pro account and I’m very happy with it. Knowing which articles garner the most attention (and the most conversions) is very important if you are looking to monetize your blog.
Webmaster Labor // Feb 18, 2007 at 4:09 am
I just signed up recently as well and I’m impressed at how it works. It’s definitely a great way for people to build a self-propelled community around great content and common interests. Another great implementation of Web 2.0 user-driven/community-driven content.
AAA Copywriter // Feb 18, 2007 at 4:58 am
It, simply easy. Things almost happenby theirseves. You check a blog and someone just say tanks for the vist and the next day you have one more contact and another member in your community.
Also, the general quality of what I readd is from good to very good.
Inpressive!
Alex
AAA Copywriter // Feb 18, 2007 at 4:59 am
Sorry for the typos, folks! :(
Alex
Nirmal // Feb 22, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Hi,
MyBloglog is a great community to find more and make your blog popular and also making new contacts.
The latest in this trend is Explode which is also a great site similar to myBloglog…
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