Comments on: State of the golf blogosphere http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere The #1 Blog In Golf Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:20:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DeepRough http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/comment-page-1#comment-12372 DeepRough Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:41:13 +0000 http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/#comment-12372 One piece of advice I would add for these people who want to monetize...keep it slim. Build a base, focus on creating great content...for at least a year before you start worrying about actually making any decent money. As Tony said...going to a new site, with little content, but tons of ads...total turn off. One piece of advice I would add for these people who want to monetize…keep it slim. Build a base, focus on creating great content…for at least a year before you start worrying about actually making any decent money.

As Tony said…going to a new site, with little content, but tons of ads…total turn off.

]]> By: Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/comment-page-1#comment-12369 Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:21:57 +0000 http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/#comment-12369 Bunker Mulligan.. Man I had forgotten about him, RIP. I think blogs who stop posting should do what my pal did who had the biggest political blog ever at one point called The Command Post at http://www.command-post.org/ . Do one final post saying you're done and that the site will stay up as an weblog landmark. If you're done, you definitely should NOT keep the thing up and let it get taken over by spam bots like what's her name....Oh yeah MUSEY. Remember her? Bunker Mulligan.. Man I had forgotten about him, RIP.

I think blogs who stop posting should do what my pal did who had the biggest political blog ever at one point called The Command Post at http://www.command-post.org/ . Do one final post saying you’re done and that the site will stay up as an weblog landmark.

If you’re done, you definitely should NOT keep the thing up and let it get taken over by spam bots like what’s her name….Oh yeah MUSEY. Remember her?

]]> By: Eat Golf http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/comment-page-1#comment-12368 Eat Golf Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:45:47 +0000 http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/#comment-12368 For me, my favorite golf blogs to read are when they just talk about their personal golf game. Whether it is "hey I figured this swing thought out" or "today on the 13th hole guess what happened" type stuff. I also love reading bloggers opinions on what is going on in the golf world - but like Miranda said, reporting the golf news is not something I want to read - Unless it is Masters week or something big. Every round of golf you play has a potential blog post. Golf is about so much more than what the pros are doing. It's not a spectator sport - we're all playing it too. My least favorite kind of golf blog is one that never updates - one that consistently gets taken down for a months at a time because of all the stupid comment spam bots DOS attacking it -haha I’m looking at you eatgolf.com. I’m humbled and bummed that eat has become my own opinion of the worst kind of golf blog - a dead one! The thing that bugs me about eat’s troubles is having my email account never even receiving anything.. Who knows how many people out there think I snubbed them because I never replied to something. It’s been over a year of intermittent email. Now that it’s moved again - I lost about 20% or so of eat’s content. And I’m still not even sure that I can make a new post yet without it crashing - but I’ll get it that’s just details. I probably won’t be playing golf or posting for 6 more months or so anyway. One of these days I’ll be back though- eat is in it for the long term and will always be there. As Bunker Mulligan once told me, keeping up and consistently posting to a golf blog can get tough sometimes. For me, my favorite golf blogs to read are when they just talk about their personal golf game. Whether it is “hey I figured this swing thought out” or “today on the 13th hole guess what happened” type stuff. I also love reading bloggers opinions on what is going on in the golf world – but like Miranda said, reporting the golf news is not something I want to read – Unless it is Masters week or something big. Every round of golf you play has a potential blog post. Golf is about so much more than what the pros are doing. It’s not a spectator sport – we’re all playing it too.

My least favorite kind of golf blog is one that never updates – one that consistently gets taken down for a months at a time because of all the stupid comment spam bots DOS attacking it -haha I’m looking at you eatgolf.com. I’m humbled and bummed that eat has become my own opinion of the worst kind of golf blog – a dead one! The thing that bugs me about eat’s troubles is having my email account never even receiving anything.. Who knows how many people out there think I snubbed them because I never replied to something. It’s been over a year of intermittent email. Now that it’s moved again – I lost about 20% or so of eat’s content. And I’m still not even sure that I can make a new post yet without it crashing – but I’ll get it that’s just details. I probably won’t be playing golf or posting for 6 more months or so anyway. One of these days I’ll be back though- eat is in it for the long term and will always be there.

As Bunker Mulligan once told me, keeping up and consistently posting to a golf blog can get tough sometimes.

]]> By: Eat Golf http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/comment-page-1#comment-12367 Eat Golf Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:30:35 +0000 http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/#comment-12367 Miranda always comments like a God Tony :) Miranda always comments like a God Tony :)

]]> By: Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/comment-page-1#comment-12366 Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:16:14 +0000 http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/#comment-12366 God comment Miranda. I didn't specifically say anything about what purpose a person may be golf blogging for. God comment Miranda. I didn’t specifically say anything about what purpose a person may be golf blogging for.

]]> By: Miranda http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/comment-page-1#comment-12364 Miranda Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:37:52 +0000 http://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2008/04/04/state-of-the-golf-blogosphere/#comment-12364 I would add to the 'to do' list deciding what you want to do with your blog when you create it - do you want to have 'the best golf blog out there' or do you just want to have your own forum to voice your opinions and observations. I knew when I started my blog that I wasn't going to have a news reporting blog, and I wasn't going to have a bunch of ads on the blog. I just wanted to have a space to post my thoughts and put a few links in the sidebar to make searching the web for golf content easier for anyone who happened to find their way to my blog. For me, I knew if I started out trying to have a news reporting blog I wouldn't keep that up and people who followed the blog would lose interest. Blogging can take up a lot of time and a new blogger needs to consider that when starting out. I would add to the ‘to do’ list deciding what you want to do with your blog when you create it – do you want to have ‘the best golf blog out there’ or do you just want to have your own forum to voice your opinions and observations. I knew when I started my blog that I wasn’t going to have a news reporting blog, and I wasn’t going to have a bunch of ads on the blog. I just wanted to have a space to post my thoughts and put a few links in the sidebar to make searching the web for golf content easier for anyone who happened to find their way to my blog. For me, I knew if I started out trying to have a news reporting blog I wouldn’t keep that up and people who followed the blog would lose interest. Blogging can take up a lot of time and a new blogger needs to consider that when starting out.

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