BlogCatalog is Using SezWho

Posted by Pixelhead

I was just on Blogcatalog and noticed that Blogcatalog is now teaming up with SezWho, which is a service that tracks blog comments across the blogosphere. According to SezWho the service is a â€œcomment rating and reputation management platformâ€.

When you comment on one of the blogs that are using SezWho, other visitors will have the ability to rate your comments. However, I believe if your comments are made on a blog that is not tied into the SezWho network, such as this one currently, then the comments will not be tracked across the network.

If you have made comments on a SezWho participating blog, you already have a profile waiting to be claimed. As long as you have used the same email, it will track comments made with that email address.

I just claimed mine,and edited my profile by adding more personalized info such as a web site url, blog url, and another avatar.

Pros of Using SezWho

First, whether you enable SezWho on your blog or not, you will be able to benefit from it because BlogCatalog is partnering with SezWho. You don’t need to install a SezWho widget on your blog, but your BlogCatalog Avatar will appear on SezWho enabled sites,and link back to your Blogcatalog profile.
SezWho allows people to see your other comments, which should drive traffic to the blogs that you visit and comment on.
Enables you to develop a reputation in certain areas of the blogosphere. For example if you regularly comment on Personal Development blogs, you will develop a reputation that carries over into those types of blogs and which can be tracked.
Allows you to hide comments that you don’t want others to see on your profile page. This is part of the reputation management system.

Cons of SezWho

The main problem I have with SezWho is that when a comment is made on a blog using SezWho, the link love is cut down to zip because the link to the bloggers blog in the url field is first redirected to a SezWho url.
Of course, the issue of passing link love could be over come just by the use of links with in the comment. However, many people are unaware of how to put a basic link into a comment form using basic html.
If you make a comment that someone does not agree with, or if someone wants to attack you, they can visit the sites you have commented on and vote your “star power” down, much like being attacked on Digg. Could this be called a SezWho Attack?

SezWho for You?

I am not going to use SezWho on this blog at this time, but I will be keeping an eye on it, and the possibility of using it in the future does exist.

What do you think? Will you use it on your blog?

Update: I was just on Andy Beard’s post Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership – Passes MyBlogLog Traffic and learned that there is an option to remain a dofollow blog if you choose. That little bit of information pushes me a little closer to installing SezWho. Check out Andy’s post, as he does a really thorough review of the SezWho program.
Tags: SezWho, BlogCatalog, blog commenting

Written by Pixelhead on February 8th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Winning Ponies
#1. February 8th, 2008, at 9:10 PM.

Hmm, I’ve never used Sezwho but I’m going to take a look at it and possibly start using it on my blog. That’s funny though what you are saying about a SezWho attack… there is always somebody that wants to leave negative feedback no matter how much you contribute.

Good Manager
#2. February 10th, 2008, at 11:28 PM.

I might have to start using this on my blog. Nice information!

Holly
#3. February 11th, 2008, at 7:01 AM.

I’ve never even heard of this program before now, but from what you’ve stated about it, I don’t think that I will. I don’t like the idea of it–The fact that people can just go and peruse comments you’ve left on other people’s blogs…Is it really any of other people’s business? I don’t think so. However, now I’m wondering if I’m already on there!

Pixelhead
#4. February 11th, 2008, at 1:28 PM.

You very well might be there already. Visit the Blogcatalog post above and make a comment to see your if your email profile has already been logged.
You could also use different emails for different types of comments. If you wanted to develop a political type profile have an email for those types of comments.

You can also chose to hide comments if you don’t want others to see them.

Jitendra
#5. February 12th, 2008, at 7:09 PM.

Holly, SezWho allows users full control over their profile and a way to fully opt out…Also when a user participates in a public forum like this one, we try to provide context on the participants…of course users can change their information if they don’t want to be identified but if the user information is changed then the community knows that this is a new user and they can weight the comment appropriately…

Pixelhead, We require users to identify themselves in order to leave a comment (currently using email address, we are working on a more secure login based identification approach)…This allows us to weigh the ratings based on the reputation of the user…This approach makes a digg like attach harder.

Give it a shot and let me know what you think?

Thanks, Jitendra

Pixelhead
#6. February 12th, 2008, at 7:59 PM.

Thanks Jitendra, I surely will give it a try. Thanks for stopping by and answering questions.

Dwayne Charrington
#7. February 13th, 2008, at 3:22 AM.

It’s a perfect idea and to think I only just heard about this from reading your blog post. I think I’ll implement it into my blog shortly, I’ll read a bit more about it. I’m still a little indecisive.

- Dwayne Charrington.
http://www.dwaynecharrington.com

Nabil
#8. November 25th, 2010, at 12:54 AM.