Comments on: TechCrunch isn’t good. Why is it so popular?

By: Peter Pan

Peter Pan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:25:33 +0000

Yeah, techcrunch makes too much money and its changed because of it.. they only feature companies that are very well funded… i duno how techcrunch even became so big so fast…well I found this one new blog http://www.business2press.com, seems like a good web 2.0 blog…but ya tech crunch although its changed, its still pretty good…

By: Patrick Curl

Patrick Curl — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:54:17 +0000

Joe, I’d say that techcrunch is as popular as it is, simply due to it’s sheer number of posts. We’re talking 20+ per day most days. That’s google juice, and also builds reader loyalty. People also believe that just because a blog has a lot of readers its a great blog.

It’s very true that Techcrunch is very blah sometimes, but they are fast, and quick to post new posts on their topic of tech news and startups. I’ve beefed up my blogging a lot the past month.

From an average of 15-20 posts per month, to 51 posts just in the past 2 weeks.

My traffic shows for this – from about 3,000 total hits (100-200 uniques), to an average of 10,000+ hits and at least 1000 uniques.

Content is king. It also helps to try and work in a lot of google trends related articles – these bring tremendous amounts of traffic.

By: WebSight

WebSight — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:59:18 +0000

I am just beginning to blog but I find that the “little guy” is definately very cool in the blog world.

By: Azhar

Azhar — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:07:37 +0000

I agree with you. Some really meh blogs have huge followings. To some extent BoingBoing. Its sad because i know there are a lot of fantastic focused tiny blogs out there but I’ll never know about them.