When Should You Add A Forum, Social Network Or Pligg Site To Your Blog?
By admin on May 14, 2008 in Blogging Ideas
It is now extremely easy to create a forum on a subdomain of your blog or put up a ning.com network for your readers to network in, but does that mean every blogger should?
There are already a fair few blogging forums, but the fact is that if your blog is popular enough the forums would end up growing anyway and increase the overall monetary value of your blog.
Most bloggers are also capable of making a pligg site (a digg clone using free pligg software) and adding that to their blog. Another alternative is to allow bloggers to write there own blog posts that are moved to the front page if they are good enough, like Performancing.
If you try adding one of these social communities to your blog too soon, they will not take off and will just get filled with spammers. You would end up having to constantly delete their spam or delete the site altogethor. If your blog is very popular is seems like a no-brainier, why not add these communities? Imagine Problogger with a ning.com network and a pligg voting site, it would get popular incredibly fast.
When do you think the crossover point is? How many RSS subscribers do you need to “have the authority” to launch something like this?
Hmmm, I like the mobile phone link. subscribed to it. Seems to work better then the current one I am using!