What features would you want in a blog host?

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by Glen Stansberry, May 15, 2006.

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    I'm a blogger starting a blog hosting company focused on pro bloggers, or bloggers trying to make money from their blogs. I've felt before that blog hosts don't really cater to people actually wanting to monetize or market their blogs, so I decided to do something about it. I'm in an early beta/late alpha stage in the software development, and a private beta should be out sometime within the month. So far, the software has:

    • Manage multiple blogs with one login
    • a better way for users to social bookmark posts
    • SEO template optimization by a top SEO firm

    and a few others. My question for all those serious bloggers out there is this: What would you want to see in a blog host, that hasn't been done yet? I know I have lots more ideas, but you'll have great ones too. Probably even better than mine ;)

    [Note: I'm not trying to plug my company here, as you'll see I haven't included a link to it. I'm just trying to do something even more useful: get your ideas :)]
     
    Glen Stansberry, May 15, 2006 IP
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    websiteideas Well-Known Member

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    Are you trying to offer something on the same level as blogger.com?
     
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  3. Glen Stansberry

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    yes, much like Blogger in the fact that you can host multiple blogs with one login. However, without some serious template customization, it is a limited service. There is no native support for social bookmarking, you can't really use any 3rd party services, and there are some things that could be tweaked in the templates in terms of SEO. But this is just scratching the surface. I can think of at least a dozen things I would change about Blogger to help the posting process alone. But this post isn't about my ideas... it's about yours ;)
     
    Glen Stansberry, May 15, 2006 IP