codyg1985’s Think Tank

Blogger is a great blogging tool. Many websites support it, and it is easy to use. Best of all, it is free and no hosting is required to get it up and running.

However, as a frequent viewer to other blogs and as a former forum administrator, there are a few things that I would suggest that the folks at Blogger add:

• Categories - most other blog software provide the option for categories, even the inferior MySpace blog software. Categories would make the blog much more organized, especially for me since I write on various subjects. No more tagging each title with tags.
• Blog backup - As a former forum and website administrator, I cherished and appreciated the ability to backup our database on a regular basis. It saved our tail a few times, that’s for sure. Given that the webmasters here probably perform regular backups, this should not be a problem, but what if something did go wrong, and everything was lost? Or what if you wanted to move blogs to another blog website or another blog software? It would be a painful process either way, so backing up the blog would be something to ease that pain.
• Visit tracking - If you have a blog, would you be curious about who is visiting your blog, and how those people are discovering your blog? Moreover, would you like to know what people are searching for to arrive at your blog? There are various outside tracking services that monitors who is coming to visit your webpage. For most reputable hosting services, website administration software called CPanel is used for many, many under-the-hood things, including tracking visitors. It would be nice if Blogger put those stats in each blog to see where people are coming from. If the blogger had an idea as to what keywords brought people to his/her blog< then that blogger could perhaps fine-tune his/her content to take advantage of those hits already coming in.

It seems like I have written about this before, but I can’t find the post on here to prove it.