WHY DO VOTES IN ORBLE MATTER? VOTE-Spotting
November 8th 2007 05:03
I have come to a realization whilst using Orble. The eternal chase for votes is irrelevant. A part from an ego boost and the mandatory 10 (to get noticed) there is not much point in them. When you get your blogging stats you get rated on the amount of hits, and individual readers – the votes do not come into this at all. It has to make you think.
An article like “Greatest Athlete of all time” or “Best Movies ever” can be as short as a couple of sentences but easily rack up over 100 votes….(I’m not having a go, just using it as an example)
But then, a really ingenious, well researched – hard hitting article will struggle to 30. So what do votes really mean? They serve an Orble ‘in-house’ purpose but not really anything a part from that.
From my experience, votes aren’t overly important. They don’t effect your position or rating out of the almost 3000 separate blogs…
When you get your blog stats, votes are not mentioned… funny that… Its all about how many readers you can attract to your blog. So whilst votes can attract a small amount of interest from fellow Orbler’s – you need to look at the bigger picture. There is a whole World Wide Web out there!
To quote someone from the community who shall remain nameless…
“Unfortunately, everything that Orble admin does is not about the Bigger picture. It's all about what happens 'in-house' and most of the writers write that way. They don't think outside of the orb.”
So when you write an absolute master piece and it gets no votes, don’t worry, because Orble does provide very good hits from search engines such as Google. You may only get a handful of votes, but you will be attracting hundreds of people to your blog on a daily basis.
I have been experimenting with this recently and this is what I’ve found…
An article written on Ben Cousins – whilst not attracting votes- continues to get heaps of hits every day. The search Engine is working… and thus, for me the Orble experience is paying off.
If you can pick and chose your topics, your articles, and what you want to say, you can build a hefty reader base. So don’t be perturbed if you’re not getting votes. They don’t matter in the big scheme of things.
And the Women Disadvantaged in sport article I wrote yonks ago continues to be my hit blog – despite never reaching 50 votes. Which is very gratifying. I know that people are reading what I write and it doesn’t matter if I get 10 votes or 100.
Don’t modify your writing in a lame attempt to gain votes is my advice. Orble is a very good tool for practicing your writing, and also building up a port-folio. And you have a ready made community that can give you feedback and help you out.
The votes are a good ego boost, but anybody can get votes without writing anything of substance or importance. Be creative, write articles that you would want to read, don’t sell your blog short for the sake of a couple of votes.
Remember, there is a whole World Wide Web that might want to read what you have to say… Don’t ignore them. Orble provides a great platform to build up a regular reader base. Using google and similar search engines you may find your blog is one of the first pages out of 10,000 in a search. This is a very powerful medium – don’t forget that.
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Voting is a nice community feature and can be fun, however is it definitely not what you should be primarily chasing if you want a really large readership -- at least until the Orble readership grows by few orders of magnitude.
This is what the new email subscriptions are about btw -- and in 48 hours we have had over 200 subscribers which is great.
Just about all of the top 50 blogs get the vast majority of their readers from the search engines. Orble is a great place to get SE traffic (if you have a domain blog) because all of the blogs are linked together. This is one of the prime functions of a blogging network.
If you want to write posts to attract SE traffic have a read of This Post and all of the other posts on Blog Adviser which will get you moving in the right direction.
Please send me a PM if you would like any advice or have a question.
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One benefit, though, that I've noticed: if I write a post, and it gets popular quickly, that post will be indexed well in Google. That's just anecdotal evidence, though.
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I agree -- and that's because it either makes it to the front page of Google or gets onto the Popular list or the Breaking Posts list which means that it's linked to on every Orble Blog -- which in turn makes Google take notice.
I did some digging in the stats and a post on the popular list with a catchy title that people want to click on (makes a big difference) will provide a boost of about 50 to 200 readers. Not bad and hopefully we can improve this, however a post which attracts 50 readers every day for months or even years from Google is obviously better.
One point -- if you do write a well researched article on a stable topic make sure you submit it to the breaking posts blog so we can give it a bit of a boost.
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Shall keep blogging along. (might ponder the idea of a breaking post one day)