Women & Blogging

April 2nd, 2007

Women & Blogging
by Laura Thieme

Danny Sullivan wrote about women and blogging today on Searchengineland.com.  He’s asked those of us to blogroll, but unfortunately whichever Wordpress version I have, does not blogroll.  The Laurathieme.com blog, which uses a later version of Wordpress, offers blogroll, only I don’t know yet how to use it.

The funniest blog I’ve seen in terms of name, is www.vanessafoxnude.com - you can check it out - and yes, it’s the Vanessa Fox from Google, not the adult-related industry Vanessa Fox, which I was unaware of until tonight’s SearchCap from Danny.

It’s also good to see blogs from people in search write about something totally unrelated to search.  Vanessa has three entries to date, and they have basically nothing to do with search at all.  I like that - it shows that we really do have lives outside of search.  Her entries are about book club, frenetic pace, cats and working out and what she listens to while working out at the gym.  Jennifer Laycock, editor of Search Engine Guide, has the personal blog www.thelactivist.com, which many of you might be aware raised a bit of an uproar at the National Pork Board and is now quite visible in Google for unrelated keyword phrases. 

A lot of people have asked me why I have a blog about "birds" - well, it’s not about birds, but that is what someone thought recently.

www.laurathieme.com is about global warming and anything environmental or to do with living creatures that I care to talk about.  I’ve seen a lot of traffic coming to my site as a result of my blog, and not always traffic I want.  However, I think we’ll see a new form of web analytics tied to blogs.  Do blogs matter?  Do they affect our business, and if so, how?  More on that at next week’s SES New York in our Measuring Success & Web Analytics session on Thursday and in our luncheon.

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