What Value is the ActiveRain Outside Blog?
Many members many not even be aware, but ActiveRain gives you the option of not only blogging on this platform, but choosing a second option, second url and a second chance to publish content. I found this out early and published my content there for quite some time. AR has a few tutorials on how to make it happen and where to go to set this up. Once you set it up the content you publish here can easily be sent to that location. Okay, sounds good? One more opportunity to get out the word.
I recently had some major issues with my WP website transfer and photos and ended up with broken links galore. It seems to all be fixed now, but the last leg of my journey to keep links intact was found on my outside blog. I used a tool called Free Broken Link Check to find them all. I typed in the url of my blog and within a few minutes it brought back each and every single broken link I had. It told me where I could find them. Since they were on the outside blog and you can't edit from that location, i had to look for them on my AR blog. 1583 broken links later I am now with ten broken links that don't matter. Phew!! This was exhausting.
So, with that said, do you use the outside blog and if so what are your results. I have very low stats there compared to this blog and also to my WP site. Putting out content that could need updating now and again that is hard to locate is not a good thing. Not all the tags and categories were easily found. Most probably due to the many AR glitches. Some took me quite along time to relocate for editting. I wish I could say that was time well spent. Those links went to my WP blog so it was a priorty.
I'm looking for feedback here, so please enlighten me who uses their outside blog and what gains have you seen. If you thoughts were like me, it can't hurt that makes sense. I don't know if I will continue to use mine. I just can't see the value. Your thoughts please!!!
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