Comments on: Know your viewer with blog widget – BlogCatalog vs MyBlogLog vs Bumpzee

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:26:23 +0000

@Marvia:

Thank you for stopping by. I use it to check who visit my site without annoying some viewers.

By: Marvia

Marvia — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:48:11 +0000

Thanks as usual for your great tips Terence. I never thought of hiding..(ahem)i mean, placing the widgets on a separate page. Lovely:-)

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:09:26 +0000

@bbZuSh:

Thank you for visiting. I hope it help you knowing your viewers.

By: bbZuSh

bbZuSh — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:48:01 +0000

Thanks for the tips!

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:41:51 +0000

@Thomas:

Just got up and had my big cup of coffee.

I did not use MBL’s state. I know you can even pay for the pro account to get more historical state and number of outgoing click state. I try not to pay for any of those.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:33:38 +0000

Wow, fast reply Terence
Yeah that is a good idea. I like the stats you get from MBL so that is why I had it up. Maybe you could do a write up on how do it for the clueless people?

Think I sent the email a few weeks ago. I didn’t experience the problem until today myself. Got some reports from people with small resolution.

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:28:46 +0000

@Thomas:

Great photos! Personally I don’t see the point to put the widget at footer, since you might be the only one see it and care about it. I would rather hide it and create a new page to view it.

You have such great photos, which will grab all your viewer’s attention, who is going to care about all those faces on your site?

MyBlogLog is part of Yahoo now. Don’t expect they react as fast as Google. They should know how to fix their Javascript.

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:19:24 +0000

@dcr:

Personally. I like BlogCatalog the most. It shows me when my friend visited last time. If I saw some familiar faces not visited my site for a week, I will contact them and say hi.

@Mosley:
One think I like about MyBlogLog is the avatar in the comment. I have not implement it because I don't get a lot of visitors from MyBlogLog.

MyBlogLog have too much spam. If you look closely in my post. There is a link Is blog widget your friend? Someone is watching you., which contains the tricks I used to hide the widget.

The easily ways to hide it is to add

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:14:57 +0000

A bit off topic.
I just had to remove the MBL widget from my sidebar because I use lightbox on my photos. When a photo “popped out” with lightbox the avatars would actually cover the photo.
Have emailed MBL about it, but never heard anything from them.

For now I have placed the widget in footer. Looks out of place..

By: Mosley

Mosley — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:58:35 +0000

I use mybloglog too. But I think the community is gettting a little to spammy and I am not finding any new readers on it. I look at the other too and they dont feel that much diffrent.

I think you just have to use the one that your readers use the most…. also can you tell me how you did your sercrt page… i would like to do that too.