When and where to draw the line!

[bbrian017]

I recently launched a website that is for blogger to submit their blog articles (which you all know about) and I seem to be stuck in a tight situation. I was wondering what you wold personally do in this situation. Most of the blogs being submitted are of great quality but I have a few I don't personally like much and they also contain little to no original content.

What's happening is these sites have blogs on their main websites so they are submitting their blogs at my site and I don't think it's fair to the real bloggers that take time and write their own articles.

In this situation what would you do as a website owner. Would you ban these specific Blogs and not allow them to submit to the site or would you continue letting them add their blogs? On one hand i feel it's okay and I want their traffic but as I mentioned before it's really not fair to the real bloggers trying to generate traffic to their Blogs.

My Website: Blog Engage / Published Blog Articles

I'm just asking your opinion and wondering if you would continue to allow these specific blogs to submit to blogengage, or would you consider it spam and not allow these url's to submit any more?

[PaulR]

If a person or a company has a blog as a compliment to their main website and they actually use the blog productively (produces good content, ect) I dont see the problem.

If your getting hit with bad MFA and splogs then tighten your requirements.

[Ferox]

Are the articles things that they haven't written, bt have taken from somewhere else? If so then it's not really blogging, it's cut-pasting.

If they are writing the articles themselves though, I suppose they could be published under the right topic. I'm not quite sure what's happening here

[bbrian017]

Originally Posted by PaulR

If a person or a company has a blog as a compliment to their main website and they actually use the blog productively (produces good content, ect) I dont see the problem.

If your getting hit with bad MFA and splogs then tighten your requirements.

Very good point I will work on the FAQ's this weekend! I will also work on the acceptance agreement when signing up I guess so it says it in there too.

thanks!

[cerebralmum]

I agree with PaulR. A FAQ should help, specifying the URL submitted must be to the blog, not the homepage. To avoid the businesses that don't really use their blog, you could specify that all blogs listed must post regularly, perhaps.

As for sploggers etc... I wish I new how to get rid of them entirely! Constant screening, and hard work. Depending on the traffic volume, you could require each site to be screened before listing but it's a lot of work. However, it's possible worth it if you want to maintain a high quality list. Real bloggers would understand the delay.

[Bloggeries]

Whenever you start a new service you don't want to turn anyone away as you want everyone to use it. you are basically thrilled that people are using at and it's important for there to be activity so that other new people come by they think that it's actually an active service instead of just a brand-new site or a ghost town.

What I have learned from personal experience is in a very very very beginning you can be a tiny bit more lenient but as soon as possible start drawing a line in the sand. It may take a little longer for there to be some activity but I believe in the long run it will be better.

when I say better, I mean it will attract people who will actually use the service properly. If you are scared to turn sploggers and people who aren't posting quality way what happens is you just attract more people like that and people who would've posted quality content are turned away so in fact you may get a faster "start" but it won't last and it may very well fizzle out.

A FAQ is a great idea.

Best of luck it's hard I know!

[bbrian017]

The goal right now is to set up the FAQ's better and also set up the signing up agreement to ensure I can in fact remove these non real blogs without question.

Regarding your statement cerebralmum I have changed that specific rule and I now allow bloggers to submit their .com website I thought it was only fair. It's almost like an introductory to the site. The cool thing about pligg is you can only submit a url once as the database won't allow the same url to be submitted again. So it's easier to allow the first submission to be a .com then to chase everyone around saying no you can't do that.

It's working out great and thanks for the advice everyone I will be updating everything you mentioned this weekend.