The End Of Financial Blog Carnivals?
Finally, an ad-free aggregator for personal finance, real estate, and investing blogs! That’s the tagline for an innovative financial blog PFBlogs.org. If I remembered correctly,
I really welcome PFBlogs’ efforts to unite all financial, investment and real-estate bloggers. PFBlogs is so comprehensive, that it can spell the end of Financial Blog Carnivals! I personally favour this format over blog carnivals (whom I have an unexplainable distaste).
I do see advantages to Blog Carnivals compared to PFBlogs. Bloggers will more likely submit their best posts to participate in the carnivals. However, I like the idea of being able to scan not just the ‘big boys’ but to sample all the less well-known Blogs for some hidden gems! I don’t mind taking the bad with the good as long as it is a complete view!
PFBlogs’ pledge to remain free of any advertising is admirable. I think most bloggers would not mind if they moved to a minimal advertising format on their webpage. It’s really the syndication feeds that will attract Bloggers like me, and that’s the format we will be leveraging. If PFBlogs ever decide to take up advertising, here are my suggestions!
- Restrict advertising for the blogs on your list! A feature financial blog of the week? Let them share their ad revenue with you to maintain the site!
- Combat feelings that being an aggregator gives you an unfair ad revenue advantage by instituting an opt-in, opt-out policy. So that only Blogs who don’t mind your aggregation remain on the list
P.S. To PFBlogs… how about allowing avatars/pictures besides those posts? Or maybe a ranking of sorts? PFBlogs might just become the
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One Response to “The End Of Financial Blog Carnivals?”
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Amy Says:
July 27th, 2006 at 3:51 pmPFBlogs.org should be towards the top of everybody favorites list
