Sep. 12, 2007

If you are reading Discover Columbus....

If you are reading this... Thank YOU. 

Soon Discover Columbus is going to look different.  Soon Discover Columbus is going to be part of a Beta for RealTown.com.  What does that mean to you?  Not much just that hopefully it will be more crowded here.  Not that it matters if it is crowded reading a website does it?  You won't feel crowded at all.  It's not like a real place where traffic causes elbows and noise and claustrophobia.  You if you return will probably never be aware of the increased traffic on Discover Columbus.

What will change?  The look.  Discover Columbus will probably  look better.  There will not be so many distractions in the side bar.  I am going to use the RealTown Blogs default template rather than a custom template.  RealTownBlogs did not have a default template... or maybe it did, it's been so long. 

I am not sure if there will be a way with the default template for me to add back in things like Twitter, Andertoons, ActiveRain badges, etc. only time will tell. 

It looks like the default template is a three column blog and the right side bar is all about RealTown.com   That does not thrill me... but hey it's free.  It's theirs.

I will miss some of the bells and whistles I have put into my custom template, but if there are people to read what I write, who needs Twitter, cartoons, links to ActiveRain etc.

Will the changes on Discover Columbus be only skin deep?  Hopefully not.  My url is going to change. Don't worry this url will be redirected.  The reason for the change IMHO is because no one could find blogs on RealTownBlogs.com.  RealTownBlogs have been virtually invisible to many of the search engines.  

Gosh I might even have to start writing entries here again, rather than posting Market Reports that no one could find and an upcoming events thing when I could make myself do it... Maybe you will find interesting entries here again.  

I wonder... 

• will I use the Comic Sans MS font...   
• will I use cartoony images?
• will I be able to put Twitter etc. back on?
• can I put Google Analytics back on so I can see the traffic or lack of traffic on Discover Columbus or will I have to trust what RealTown tells me about traffic on RealTown and my blog?

What does RealTown tell me?  That they have lots of traffic... that consumers like RealTown Blogs.  Only time will tell. I am excited though. Watch for changes.  Hopefully all for the better.... remember you don't need to change anything.. I do. Again thanks for being here.

In a recent interview with Todd Carpenter of Rembex Blog Fiesta in answer to a question about having more than one blog I said:

Q. How do you determine where you post one topic or another?

A. "ColumbusBestBlog on WordPress.org is the real deal for me, that’s where most everything goes.

Talking to other real estate agents - ActiveRain
Link Direction posts to local content on ColumbusBestBlog - ActiveRain / Localism
Upcoming events, market reports, cows, cartoons - Discover Columbus my RealTown blog.
When I lock myself out of ColumbusBestBlog or have technical difficulities there I post to  Discover Columbus, my RealTown blog just because I have had so much experience there I can easily put stuff up."

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe