Comments on: Why don’t knit bloggers ping Technorati?

By: Jutta Mestas

Jutta Mestas — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:35:03 +0000

Hi, my name is Jutta and I have the Brother 260 and the 930E. Also the Linker DL 1000 plus all the extras
you can think of and odles of Yarn. Since I don’t have time anymore to knitt, do you know where Ican sell everything. I hope to hear from you soon, thank you,
Jutta Mestas

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:57:28 +0000

Full-post feeds are soooooo much better for the time-crunched using RSS feeds to keep up. If you just post a snippet, then I have to leave the feed-reader to read the rest of the post. Oh my, when I’m tired … it just overwhelms me.

Ping-o-matic rocks though!

By: lucia

lucia — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:04:05 +0000

Weird! You’re comment arrived in my “in” box with after a 2 day delay. I have no idea what’s up with that. They usually arrive nearly instantly. (I notice only now that it is here at the blog, wedged between two from my mom. I answered my mom and not you. )

My apologies for not answering!

I agree that many bloggers just use it as a journal. I think even some who post “I updated my blog” do it for that reason and don’t care that much about hits. In fact, I’m *darn* sure the ones at Machine Knitters Yahoo list do it for that reason; the rest of the people on the list like seeing the new articles, and often discuss the aticles on the list instead of at the list subscriber’s blog. As long as the list owner, Roz in the case of “knittingmachines” doesn’t mind, I don’t really understand why the knitters on knit flame go batty. (That said, the knitters on knitflame rarely overlap with those on “knittingmachines”) .

Still, for some reason, people posting “I updated” seems to be lots of knitflamers pet peeve. It’s not really mine. I just think, if someone happens to be motivated to do it to increase traffic, they at least need to know there are other things they should also be doing.

By: Kitt

Kitt — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:57:34 +0000

I use RSS but there are many knitters who do not, many who do not blog but enjoy reading them. There is a yahoo group list expressly for posting “I’ve updated” and nothing more. I think it’s good for some folks and really don’t see anything wrong with it, if it’s done in the right place. Knitting newsgroups and yahoo groups, I wouldn’t post “I’ve updated”, I’d feel like a fool for one and I’m not into having x amount of hits a day. The main purpose of my journal is just that, to journalize my knitting, for me.
JMHO!
Kitt (the one with 12 kittykats!)

By: lucia

lucia — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:44:14 +0000

The Salon TableTalk pattern makes sense. I know I usually don’t set a book mark or blogroll something until I’ve visited several times and a visit again during one of my bookmarking phases. There are lots of good sites I’ve visited, never bookmarked, and don’t visit again.

I am getting more systematic about bookmarking though!

By: Gail

Gail — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:39:53 +0000

I publish a full feed mainly for the livejournal folks – when I moved my knitting stuff to its own blog, I was concerned that no one would make a special trip to read. That is a good tip to keep a look out – I could actulaly keep a better eye on where I’m getting image hits from as a means of finding out who is using my syndication feed.

I posted in Salon’s TableTalk once a link to an ancient size chart, and got massive amounts of traffic. But none of it stuck.

By: lucia

lucia — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:15:29 +0000

I don’t know how many read my feed, probably not many. Right now I use WordPress, and think I publish a short feed, I remember looking at it when I set up the aggregators.

The main thing with publishing a long feed is the person needs to be aware someone can view the whole blog article. Tiffany at Princess knits had a problem with someone basically just reposting her posts in their entirety disguised it as their post at their blog. Clearly, that’s not what you want!

Posting at forums does seem to bring more traffic than email lists. It also lasts longer because the forums are organized to let people find information.

Now, I can tell you where I posted and caused traffic to zoom! (Don’t do this, it’s pointless. It wasn’t what I intended!) I like to read the Volokh Conspiracy. One of the bloggers was discussing footwear and traveling on airplanes. So, I commented that I solved the problem of taking my shoes off by wearing flip flops. To be funny, posted the URL to my crocheted fun fur flip flops. I got 80 visits from that site the next hour! I kept getting visits. To date, I’ve gotten 450 visits from that comment. I’m still getting visitors!

Likely very few or none, are knitters. So, it’s pointless to post there as a method of getting long term traffic. Still, it’s amazing. I wonder what would happen if I posted a link at Instapundit?

Crafster is the one knitting forum that does bring in traffic fairly consistently. Crafster lets me post pictures, and people do like to visit free pattern sites.