Skip to main content

The New "Next Blog" Link Is Lame Because (Insert Complaint Here)

By
The new Next Blog link has been out for almost a full year, and we still see daily complaints.
When I press "Next Blog", I get only religious blogs (My name is Jude).
or
When I use "Next Blog", I only get blogs in Spanish (I only speak English).
or
"Next Blog" is boring now - it only gives me "crafts" blogs by American housewives (I hate crafts blogs).
These are all complaints by people who want to randomly surf blogs, but don't care for truly random results.

If you can't accept random surfing results, try less random surfing techniques.
  • Blogger Profile surfing.
  • Following surfing.
  • Google Blog Search (Advanced Mode) surfing.
Focus your activity just slightly, and see if you don't get better results.

If you start your "Next Blog" surfing from your blog, and don't like the results, put more content into your blog. The more focused your blog content is, the more obvious your abilities and interests will be to "Next Blog" too. Or start surfing from any blog that's more mature and better filled out.

There are better ways to surf Blogger blogs - just ones that are not quite so convenient or tempting - or impulsive.

>> Top
Labels:

Comments

VDay NQ said…
because I never use it. I code it out.
29/10/10 15:40
Jan said…
I would say that my blog http://jamjaragain.blogspot.com/ is not too restrictive with it's content, yet that doesn't seem to help with the Next Blog feature. I still end up with American craft blogs, or American God-fearing family blogs. Maybe that's because there are so many of them? In any case if the Next Blog button is supposed to be random, then random it should be and not get stuck in a theme. Sometimes I don't want to search for a particular type of blog, I just want lots of different ones.
30/10/10 23:42
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Add A Custom Redirect, If You Change A Post URL

By
When you rename a blog, the most that you can do, to keep the old URL useful, is to setup a stub post , with a clickable link to the new URL. Yo! The blog is now at xxxxxxx.blogspot.com!! Blogger forbids gateway blogs, and similar blog to blog redirections . When you rename a post, you can setup a custom redirect - and automatically redirect your readers to the post, under its new URL. You should take advantage of this option, if you change a post URL.
Post a Comment
Read more

Jump Break Is Visible Only In An Index Page

By
Some blog owners are unsure what a Jump Break looks like, when applied to their blogs. Occasionally, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue , we see the confusion. Where's the Jump Break? or I added a Jump Break to several posts, but it never shows up! When asked for a screen print of what they're seeing, they may provide a image of the post, in the Post Editor Preview window - or possibly, the published post, but in post page view.
Post a Comment
Read more

Leave Comments Here

By
Like any blogger, I appreciate polite comments, when they are relevant to the blog, and posted to the relevant article in the right blog . If you want to ask me a question thats relevant to blogging, but you can't find the right post to start with (I haven't written about everything blogger related, yet, nor the way things are going I don't expect to either), ask your questions here, or leave an entry in my guestbook . As noted above, please note my commenting policy . If you post a comment to this post , I will probably treat it as a "Contact Me" post . If you have an issue that's relevant to any technical issue in the blog, please leave a comment on the specific post , not here. This post is for general comments, and for non posted contact to me. If the form below does not work for you, check your third party cookies setting! For actual technical issues, note that peer support in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , or Nitecruzr Dot Net - Bloggin...
313 comments
Read more