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Over the last few months, I've run across quite a lot of companies who have avoided blogging on Joomla and instead posted on free blog sites such as Blogger.com, Blogster.com or Wordpress.com.
Today's post is a quick rundown of the reasons why you should only blog on your own domain.
Of course, if you go to a Blogger or Wordpress.com page all your navigation is lost and the user has to learn how to navigate all over again.
Comments (17)
![]() written by Lawrence Meckan, April 13, 2007
Steve,
I'd suggest you do a rethink on Wordpress.com http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/04/09/why-wordpresscom-is-virtually-spam-free/ Matt Mullenweg, with the way Akismet, Automattic, Bad Behaviour and Spam Karma work, means that any free Wordpress.com account, not to mention the restriction of commercial advertising on a free Wordpress.com account, means that Wordpress have the tools and expertise to combat and negate spam. This is why 75% of Blogger (and probably Blogspot / LiveJournal) accounts are high in 'spam' friendly keyword searches and burdened with poor quality advertising. Sure, Joomla! is slowing getting the same feature set that is available to Wordpress.com users, but if there is no flow on from trust (i.e. Joomla! domains being hammered by spam bots e.g. issues with OpenComment and other Joomla! specific comment tools), there can be no buy-in. written by Justin Whittaker, April 14, 2007
I prefer using the default Joomla blogs. Looking forward to future articles on this next week!
Spam
written by Zorro, April 14, 2007 In terms of Joomla spam, I've had sites hit really hard via logins (spammers seem to have that cracked with both the default registration and CB) but not with comments yet - fingers crossed. Steve, JomComment is holding up well on my blog as well, but haven't the spammers detected your contact form yet? I have received a lot of spam through these forms on my site and will have to do something about it soon.
Spam + Blogs = Trouble
written by Brian Teeman, April 14, 2007
I highly recommend reaing this article from Wired magaine.
And then do some google blog searches for joomla and see the volume of splogs There is another article in the wired archive somewhere that shows how the spam blog farmers can setup tens of thousands of fake blogs every hour written by Barrie North, April 15, 2007
I have always advocated Joomla over WP as a blog platform. The reality is that very soon in most blog's lifecycle they soon need to add this function or that feature. This is effortless with Joomla, but much harder with WP.
Interestingly, one of the most read blog posts I have is comparing the two... www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/joomla-reviews/why-you-want-to-use-joomla-instead-of-wordpress.html written by Lawrence Meckan, April 16, 2007
The main areas my clients get hit are the contact form, since most don't want to run comments. As for the ongoing fight between WP and Joomla! as a blog platform, perhaps Barrie might consider the reason his article is popular is that it conforms to a known linkbaiting technique (The contrary hook).
Content management systems should be deployed on usage behaviour of the client, since at the end of the day, the client has to understand the system they use. In this way, WP fulfills a different task for the end user than Joomla!, and any usability expert worth his salt would recognise this. Blind marketing for Joomla! just gets shown up as blind by the wider community (as per the ClueTrain Manifesto and IdeasVirus), actually lessening the credibility across the blogosphere for it. Perhaps this is why people consider Joomla! a "monster" app and "bloat" ?
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written by Anthony, May 22, 2007
Actually we have just released the Start Blogging package for free. Its essentially a mix of the Blog Sidebar, Ja Submit, JosComment, RD Rss feed and a few other handy things like mycontent and some other mambots - that aim to turn Joomla into an easy to use blog without needing to log in to the backend after the user has set it up.
I think it is going to be handy for some people but its missing some stuff like trackback and I think that Jomcomment would be a much more suitable addon but its not GNU - so the user will have to add that on later. Anyway thought I would let you all know. Thanks Anthony. written by bhupen, July 06, 2007
spend a few bucks, host your own blog, you own it, you manage it, you have the power to do what you want! There is always a string attached when someone says FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ? Free ? for what ?
written by stelam, August 07, 2007
so this isnt an actual post about joomla itself but about people just getting their own domains. why can't someone just use wordpress on their own domain then?? why in gods name would anyone bother to install joomla bloatware just for a blogging site??? ridiculous.
written by Jason, September 20, 2007
Great feedback! THank you...I really appreciate the perspective.
written by Avene, August 16, 2008
Thank you for your comments but which work better as a Blog Joomla, Blogger or Wordpress?
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