Where's The Relative Content? >> Bloggers listen up!

Agreed, all, and Thanks, George.  If we were limited to a handful of industry specific topics where bloggers felt unable to find places for unique posts, okay.....  But not only is AR a full all-you-can-eat-buffet of groups, anyone may start their own!  There is really no proper reason, let alone excuse, for inappropriately placed posts.  Is it laziness?  Ignorance?  Shotgun marketing?  Inconsideration? 

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Howdy George

Thank you for your fine post. Very good point.

Have a good one

So, let me ask a question.  Was this really about marketing? 

I noticed that you had the blog posted to that group (not a member, just read the locations you'd posted it to).

I agree that it is a problem.  We all need to work harder to make sure that we only post things to relative groups.  Sometimes, I only post a blog to one or two groups.  My localism posts often don't go to any group (although most of them do go to the Atlanta groups). 

Thanks for the reminder. 

Hello, George!  Thank you for your additional input on this subject.  I've now read yours and Karen Hurst's blog about about posting to appropriate groups.  If we can just take the time to read the guidelines before posting, we can always find the appropriate group for our blogs.  Thank you, and I hope you get a lot of readers to agree and comply.

George, I hear ya! There are many groups I have joined and go there to find information only to see there are posts there that have nothing to do with the subject matter.

I have one group I started and I delete the posts that have nothing to do with the group. Others like WooHoo Sally and Gena Riede maintain their groups perfectly. (among many others).

Maybe AR should put out a post (or email) to all owners of a group(s) to make sure the content posted in appropriate for the group intended.

Hi George,

We appreciate your point and have found people here on AR posting things from other areas into towns where it doesn't belong.  We find this to be a watering down of the true intent of "Local"-ism.  We're very happy that the AR Gods have limited the number of groups you can put a blog into here on AR.  Probably the overwhelming details of Blogging just needs more people to stay focused.  It can be difficult to do in the Blogoshpere but it's so nice to have concerned members such as yourself along the way!

George, it also comes down to the group administrator creating a group they will monitor daily and removing the posts that aren't relevant. If the same person posts again after you have made it clear then you remove them from the group.

Like one of your commenters mentioned above, if they don't post in a group it won't get read with there being seemingly 3,000 new articles daily. So groups are essential but need to be well run also. Once it gets out of hand.....it's hard to get it back.

Now if we could do something about taking property listings off the main blog lists that would be just dandy.