I got an email today that has me wondering...is this a good thing? a real thing?  a way to grab & spam?  Wondering if others have heard and/or have opinions.

The email came from Hugh Hedley.  Here's the body of the email...

"I am pleased to announce the launch of WeavingBlogs.com, a FREE blog news site for both the community of Weaving blog writers and readers. We are inviting all Weaving bloggers to add their blog to our site as a way to bring you extra readers to your blog. Since we have just now launched we have little to no active bloggers on the site as we are contacting and adding them now.

Homepage the site: http://www.weavingblogs.com

Fully operational sample site for you to see us in action: http://www.recipeblogs.com

If it is OK to list your blog on our site, please reply to this email and let me know and I will add you personally. Or you can always register an account and add your blog that way: http://www.weavingblogs.com/registration.html

Please visit our Spectacular.com Media Network site to see our list of blogs currently developed (30+) and ones planned for the future:
http://www.spectacular.com"

So fellow weavers, waddya think?

 

Comments

Wed, 06/26/2013 - 23:44

sarahnopp (not verified)

So they aggregate blogs of a specific type. My questions: How does the blogger benefit, who else benefits and how, and what are the costs to the blogger?

Their About Us page isn't awful, but it is full of feel-good fluff and not much detail. From their page, "We help bloggers by aggregating topic-specific RSS feeds on our network of domain names and then sending our traffic to them."

So aggregration is nothing really new, they are just asking for volunteers. I might spend some time looking at their different topic specific networks to see if it answers any of my questions.

Thu, 06/27/2013 - 18:48

Sara von Tresckow

I occasionally get such postings - they are trying to get content to support advertising - paid advertising.

Trouble with sites like this is that they have no name recognition and don't work at all to  publicize your efforts.

Best to get your own domain or blog and then post links on various lists.

Thu, 06/27/2013 - 20:42

Peg.Cherre (not verified)

...for the insights, Sarah & Sara.  Not sure why I even opened this particular email.

Thu, 06/27/2013 - 20:58

kerstinfroberg

Last week I got something not at all similar (but I think it is a "cousin") - a person wanting to contribute to my blog, oh-so-fantastic; "I can write about everything" and "help you get popular/good content" (can't remember the exact wording) and bla, bla...

 

Fri, 06/28/2013 - 13:17

tien (not verified)

I get "please let me contribute to your blog" all the time. Usually they request a link to their website in the body of the article, to help their Google ranking. And, usually what they're offering is content about the subject of their website - which, needless to say, is generally totally unrelated to the subject of my blog. Which they would have known if they had taken the time to read anything.

I do usually read the messages, and if it's clearly a hand-crafted email targeted at me personally, I take the time to say "no". Mostly they're obviously computer-generated, in which case I not only delete but mark as spam. At some point I'll probably just delete them all without reading.

The original site just looks like an aggregation of blogs. If they get enough traffic they might be helpful in driving traffic to your site, but I doubt a weaving version is going to get enough traffic to be useful. I wouldn't sign up for it, personally - it wouldn't hurt my site rankings, but it probably isn't going to help enough to be worth the bother, IMO.