Another development, tying together two of my previous entries.......abuse of websites for personal gain and lack of professional and financial support for a venue.
A fourth blog has appeared tied to the sales venue previously mentioned, this time parading as a means of communication for sellers and buyers apparently. So, besides a main blog (which I have no problem with...this is, after all, my business blog, right here) there are now three (count 'em, 3) acting as content pages of a 'for profit' business site. Any website wanting to be taken seriously would have this pages as an integral part of the site not sending traffic elsewhere.
To their credit, one person has commented on the excessive number of blogs but the owner has given a somewhat disingenuous reply, saying the blogs open in a different window, thus not driving traffic away. This misses the point entirely.
The current trend of abusing free websites for personal gain is gaining prevalence and before long the plug will be pulled if we aren't careful. You can't expect something for nothing. I will freely admit to having this blog for my business and any day now will have a personal one, which seems an accepted behavior, but to have several, providing essentially a host for parts of a website for which you accept payment for, seems abusive. How long will it be before blogger.com decides to curb this and pulls anything business related and we all lose out, thanks to the greedy behavior of a few?
It's already happening.
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I read every word of your blog. It's so cute! I think I luv you! (I am teasing you!)
ReplyDeleteBut in truth I love the fact that there is at least one more person (we're a minority) who can shoot straight from the hip without malice and I don't get a sugar high from reading it! Kudos!