Comments on: Thinking Outside The Blog

By: mikecrimmins

mikecrimmins — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:24:55 +0000

With a blog name like Daily Shot Of Coffee, having the date always seemed natural. I have plenty of posts and a small team of writers helping out to keep the posts going daily, but I can see a lot of advantages to taking off the dates. I can't decide, I keep going back and forth since first reading this article.

By: Julius

Julius — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:07:45 +0000

I like the idea of removing the dates in our blog. You gave a good glimpse of how our readers think and view our blog in that aspect.

By: Kapil Apshankar

Kapil Apshankar — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:53:59 +0000

David – there are too many strong arguments supporting both sides of the camp.

I think we need some more statistics and success (or horror) stories to make an objective call on this.

I was reviewing a bunch of other “problogger” blogs – and have a write up on Social Media Notebook that talks about this upheaval.

And at the end of the day, every baby (and blog) is different – so a catch-all approach might not work for everyone.

I'll wait for some more details to come out from Jordan, Nathan, Mike and you

By: Joe Gilder

Joe Gilder — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:40:07 +0000

Awesome idea. I would imagine a “Best Of” page would work fairly well, and
various “best of” articles.

By: David Risley

David Risley — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:10:32 +0000

Well, one thing I'm doing on the new PCMech (to be launched perhaps even today) is to tag some of the best posts with a particular tag, then have a box on the site that randomly lists some posts with that tag. It is a way to put older, quality posts in front of people.

By: familycalamity

familycalamity — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:56:56 +0000

I've been thinking of doing something like this as well, and have noticed it seems to be coming a trend. I look forward to seeing how you implement it.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:45:53 +0000

Very likely Website In A Weekend will be doing this in the future. I don't really even need a blog there, just the relevant 25 pages for the course. I'd want to move a fair number of existing pages, and of web logging would continue elsewhere, unabated. (I write, always have, it's what I do.)

By: Joe Gilder

Joe Gilder — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:07:31 +0000

Any specific suggestions as to how to keep older posts fresh? Both you and Jordan mention it, but I'd be interested to know what you mean by that…practically.

By: Hurshaw

Hurshaw — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:52:11 +0000

I hope you'll do an AB test. Your thinking makes sense, but in the end, readers might not like it confronting that squeeze page first and the last think you'd want is to lose people at that point

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:32:45 +0000

836 posts? Wow! I guess you can use deeplinking techniques, but with that many articles who has the time to search which articles in your archives to link to.

I think what you are thinking of doing is a great idea. Wondering though if it would be more relevant to blogs that have high levels of traffic and are more 'destination' blogs and oppose to blogs with substantially less posts and still working on attracting more traffic???

What I currently did is add a sitemap plugin so all my article headlines show up on one page. It works chronologically but may be interesting to see if it could be categorized instead, especially for blogs that have hundreds of post, for easier viewing.

Can't wait to see the new design!