I joined BlogCatalog months ago, I don’t know exactly when, but I do know they absolutely sucked at the time. Their little banner you have to include on your pages wouldn’t load, their whole site was sluggish, but luckily all that changed.
In late March I wrote about an announcement by BlogCatalog. They were going to be adding social networking tools (and they now compete against sites like MyBlogLog). Even better, one of the employees dropped a comment and let us know they have a new owner and the entire site has been completely redone, so I decided to try it out again.
After logging in I was amazed. The interface is much better than sites like MyBlogLog, there is much less spam, the userbase is small but growing larger every day, it has a nice friendly user discussion board, and to top it all off their blog directory is much larger.
There are, however, two complains I have about it currently, the userbase is too small. and their blog stats counter is not particularly accurate. It says nusuni.com only has 25 hits total, but it gets much more than that per day plus last night it got hit by a nice 200+ hit Stumble attack.
Luckily problem number one will be solved soon. Iwebis.com started a BlogCatalog Mass Buzz Experiment to inform everyone across the net about BlogCatalog. Obviously this is one of those posts.
By the way, my BlogCatalog username is nusuni.
Update: Daniel from BlogCatalog just said the hits reported are click-throughs from BlogCatalog only (not total hits). See comment below.
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May 14th, 2007 at 9:58 am
I like the changes at BC too–I’d already joined before the improvements. But my hits are the same as yours–the site I get the most traffic to, Covering Florida, has nowhere near the actual number listed. I figure they’ll get around to doing something about that,tho. I do like the community; very friendly and very helpful. Enjoyed reading your post–Kay
May 14th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Thanks for the post Jeremy.
There has been a lot of confusion as to what ‘hits’ are on BlogCatalog. The hits are how many people clicked onto your site from within BlogCatalog and not total hits on your site. It’s more to see how well your blog is doing in our system. Blogs not getting a lot of hits or views proably need to update their description or tags.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Ah, good to know.
I was kind of wondering how it could be that far off, heh.
Thanks.
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November 19th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Ah, awesome catalog for blogs. There is also lots of catagories of blogs like home and garden blogs, entertainment blog, business blog etc., listed in the blog Catalog. i found my favourite category, amazing more than thousands of blogs listed, thanks for giving such a wonderful blogcatalog, jeremy.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Only thing I really don’t like about them is the forums are quite unmoderated, and the creators don’t really appear to do much public relations stuff. Oh well, guess they don’t need to. Like you said, there’s literally thousands of blogs in each category and most of that is purely because of word-to-mouth stuff.