I think some people here are a little confused about wordpress.com (wordpress’ free blog platform, similiar to blogspot) and wordpress.org (the open source blog platform you use with your own hosting and domain.)

This is why we started with them, and it’s why we’ve stayed with them. That and the benefit of the social networking.

Our company is a new business, we provide roadworthy tests and other vehicle testing services in South Africa; we want to get our brand out there on the web so we decided to setup some social media pages that will hopefully interact with the web and get us new clients in the long run, we hope. After a meeting, we decided to avoid the trap of just setting stuff up and that’s all so we divided responsibility of the social networking aspects between the bosses.

We’ve setup a twitter page where we talk about our favourite car/ motor related sites and this is fine simple enough so far. Our company also has a facebook group where we offer roadworthy tips and allow anyone to sell their cars on our group, we need to do more work on it but that is going ok. The facebook group has been going on for a few months.

Recently we decided we should get our CEO to blog, especially since there are lots of things he has come across that he should talk about and it is an avenue for him to talk to our customers. The problem is setting up a wordpress blog on your site and maintaining it takes so much time, simply is it worth it? Especially since most companies run a shoe string budget so you and after reading this article, we have doubts Blogger and Blogspot, it seems like there is no difference between them since they sound like they are owned by Google.

What do people think we should go for?

So you’re reaction to feedback is to besmirch your readers’ by claiming a posting on your site went to a spam folder? Huh? That doesn’t even make any sense – anyone with enough knowledge of Internet technology knows this.

Moreover, that’s a pretty weak response to a constructive critique of this article. My main criticism was there was no real reporting or research conducted for this article.

But now it is apparent to anyone who reads this thread that your official editiorial response to my criticism is troubling, immature and not consistent with standards of journalism or professionalism.

In general, my post are indexed on Google in 2 hours after the publish and are in the first positions on Google search result for several keywords.

In july I received in average 13.000-18.000 visits every day and every times my site is under “Delicious” or “StumbleUpon” effect I receive over 32.000 visits.

My actual google page rank is 6, in six months. I earn enough money to buy each month an iMac :) Without expenses, with a free service.

I simply love Blogger.

Wow, you seem to jump to conclusions in questioning credibility. Your post was held in a spam filtering folder.

“The failure to provide a ’search’ article as indicated by the headline is the fault of the writer and editor, if not just plain lazy.”

The headline says nothing about search. This is about blogging and a lot of bloggers are not aware of the BlogSpot TOS.

“What would have been helpful is if the article was ‘SEO oriented,’ since that’s what we expect from a site called Search Engine Journal.”

The site is not SEOJournal.

“Therefore, the credibility of Search Engine Journal on a number of levels comes into question. How can I trust what you publish if you’re not willing to accept and publish constructive criticism?

Censorship of proper critiques of your coverage shows a lack of responsibility as well, such as writing a reply that addresses the constructive criticism in a professional and honest way. ”

Like I said, you were caught in a spam filter. I think it may be better to question the credibility of SEOWebPros or Akismet/SpamKarma before jumping to conclusions.

If you would like to contribute a follow up post, please feel free to do so.

Therefore, the credibility of Search Engine Journal on a number of levels comes into question. How can I trust what you publish if you’re not willing to accept and publish constructive criticism?

Censorship of proper critiques of your coverage shows a lack of responsibility as well, such as writing a reply that addresses the constructive criticism in a professional and honest way.

Therefore, I hope you will publish this post to at least show some kohanas and ethics.

thank you
respectfully,
phillip e daoust
web seo analytics specialist