Sometimes you end up at a blog, enjoy a nice read, have a look around, and decide you want to subscribe to the feed. Right? If you arrive at a new blog through some means (other than in a referral from a post on an established blog) such as using Google or while reading comments, for example, and it happens to be hosted on BlogSpot, are you less likely to find that the blog has something to offer you? Do alarms go off in your head when you see the blogspot url? And, if so, would you say that there are circumstances that can sometimes reassure you that the blog is an exceptional case almost immediately?
Well. I am trying to decipher exactly what you are asking but I will have a crack at it. I think what you are trying to ask if a url is a free hosted url do we still hold the content in it just as valued as if it was on a normal domain? If this is your question then my answer would be yes and no. Yes, most likely the blogspot domain will have pingbacks and more likely the content value is more visible. No, for the same reason. If content is on paid hosting domain then there's a chance it is not SEO'd correctly. From just a readers point of view it makes no difference at all. If the content is good then it it is good and I question what would the alarm bells be for anyway? Col
Well. I didn't say it, but the reason I ask is that I just hadn't noticed that I felt that way until tonight. I just started reading RSS feeds this month, about 20 of them, all of high quality and none on blogspot url's. One of them is on typepad.com, and it's the only blog I know of that's on typepad.com. I think consequently I will see typepad.com url's much differently. Pingbacks... are those undesirable in some way?
I believe there can be no difference of quality content between blogspot and paid hosted domains. For example, check out this amazing blog by and Indian (its not mine) hosted on blogspot: labnol.blogspot.com (this blog has more than 6000 feed subscribers!!)
Pleasure. I'm sure the thread starter now understands that good content does not depend on your spending power. It depends more on your will power