DISQUS

Mike · 1 year ago

Say goodbye to your comment juice SEO! We tried Disqus on one blog and our traffic dropped by as much as 30% over the course of a month.

Andrew Chen · 1 year ago

sigh, already a problem... i had to convert my typepad to "advanced templates" and it removed all my typepad widgets I had lovingly installed. Sad.

Andrew Chen · 1 year ago

at least i got my subscriber counter and lijit search back up... will have to work on the other stuff tomorrow. Typepad = POS.

Barney Moran · 1 year ago

It’s also important for the folks working on blog tools to provide transparency on how they generate their revenue, and what % blog publishers get of this revenue.. Along with consideration of functionality is the critical sanctity of Publishers private statistics. We at P.U.B. consider the safety of the information any app or widget(s) may be gathering, unbeknownst to the unwitting Publisher who installs them.

P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has pending inquires to Widget Providers concerning how they generate their income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistic from Publishers Blogs are being used, hopefully with the Publisher’s permission!

P.U.B. expected to hear back from Lijit on these financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. So far all we’ve read is a public blog response from a Lijit employee advising Lijit has no money, and more recently, we received an email from Lijit’s CEO, Todd Vernon, attacking P.U.B. and falsely accusing we are writing fictitious emails. Any actual answers to our questions about the use of Publisher’s stats, or revenue as it applies to Lijit? Nada. Nothing. P.U.B.’s job is to fight for Publishers by asking the hard questions and demanding answers. If all Widget companies respond as Lijit’s done up to this point, P.U.B. has a big workload for our Publishers, and your membership and support helps us all as Publishers, thanks.

If P.U.B. gets a straight answer on topic from Lijit, not smoke and mirrors, we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their exact revenue/statistics use/sharing deal. Currently we are also working with Blog Publishers to track performance hit evaluations of Widgets, and the actual ownership of content pulled by widgets from our blogs.

Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.

Sincerely,


Barney Moran
Founder, P.U.B.

Pierre Henri Clouin · 1 year ago

Welcome to Disqus. I am also test driving it this week.

I have to say that the Wordpress integration is much smoother and quicker than with Typepad. It will be one more reason for me to switch my Typepad blogs to Wordpress.

As for the SEO and traffic concerns, I believe that increased user engagement will deliver some upside.

Andrew Chen · 1 year ago

yeah, the integration is not that great. I keep seeing scrollbars for all the IFRAMEs, for example. And the SEO stuff is definitely a concern, given that Google is my #2 referrer. We'll see how it goes ;-) Please feel free to share your experience as well, once you're a bit further along.

Product Sourcing · 1 year ago

i love your blogs, i am a regular reader, i have linked to your homepage from my pr6 website