Blog sites "2.0"-style vs. Old School Hosts?
Posted: October 26th, 2011, 11:56 pm
Wordpress.com, Blogger, and Tumblr seem to be the "big three" in terms of blog platforms right now. But in the "old days" of the WWW (when I was just a little mini-byte!), people hosted pages on Tripod, Angelfire, and the now-defunct Yahoo! Geocities.
Anyone remember these? (Bueller? Bueller?)
Tripod and Angelfire are still active (owned by Lycos), although not as popular as WP.com, Tumblr, and of course, Blogger, which is a product of the Almighty "G" Spot. (Which itself is obviously more popular than Lycos, by the way.) LiveJournal still gets a lot of activity, although I've read that it's more popular in Russia than in the U.S. or most parts of Europe (including the U.K.).
If I was to have a site on Tripod, Angelfire, or LJ, rather than WP.com, Blogger, or Tumblr, how "SEO-friendly" are these services on the "G"reat monolith Googleplex, and is this considered (for someone seeking exposure, namely an aspiring author) to be too "old school" by today's standards, whatever they may be?
I tried Blogger just as a test and found that it doesn't allow me to enter my real birth date in the profile. Apparently not enough people in the world were born on a Leap Day to be included in the database. Never even started one there. Not sure about WP.com or Tumblr, or for that matter, Tripod, Angelfire, or LiveJournal. I even thought of starting one on the Pirate Bay's platform, called BayWords, because I really am very counterculture and 99 Percent-ish when it comes to things I want to say. But BayWords has sporadic up-time, and actually, I doubt a legitimate agent would be happy with me putting my platform on a site whose mission is to encourage grand theft media distribution of wealth.
What do people think of using old-school interfaces versus the newer, "2.0" ones? Even the old-school ones have gotten a total overhaul in recent years with the dawn of the "sharing is caring" era. You can blog and link to FB/Twitter/etc. on Tripod as much as you can Blogger or WP.com, although the others are supposedly "natively optimized" for the modern social-media realm...
Anyone remember these? (Bueller? Bueller?)
Tripod and Angelfire are still active (owned by Lycos), although not as popular as WP.com, Tumblr, and of course, Blogger, which is a product of the Almighty "G" Spot. (Which itself is obviously more popular than Lycos, by the way.) LiveJournal still gets a lot of activity, although I've read that it's more popular in Russia than in the U.S. or most parts of Europe (including the U.K.).
If I was to have a site on Tripod, Angelfire, or LJ, rather than WP.com, Blogger, or Tumblr, how "SEO-friendly" are these services on the "G"reat monolith Googleplex, and is this considered (for someone seeking exposure, namely an aspiring author) to be too "old school" by today's standards, whatever they may be?
I tried Blogger just as a test and found that it doesn't allow me to enter my real birth date in the profile. Apparently not enough people in the world were born on a Leap Day to be included in the database. Never even started one there. Not sure about WP.com or Tumblr, or for that matter, Tripod, Angelfire, or LiveJournal. I even thought of starting one on the Pirate Bay's platform, called BayWords, because I really am very counterculture and 99 Percent-ish when it comes to things I want to say. But BayWords has sporadic up-time, and actually, I doubt a legitimate agent would be happy with me putting my platform on a site whose mission is to encourage grand theft media distribution of wealth.
What do people think of using old-school interfaces versus the newer, "2.0" ones? Even the old-school ones have gotten a total overhaul in recent years with the dawn of the "sharing is caring" era. You can blog and link to FB/Twitter/etc. on Tripod as much as you can Blogger or WP.com, although the others are supposedly "natively optimized" for the modern social-media realm...