Last weekend I noticed a mysterious email in my Yahoo! email inbox from something called the DogTime Blog Network. I have never heard of this 'group,' nor was I positive at first that this was anything legit. I did some research online to see if there were any mainstream media articles - or ANY legitimate sourced articles - written about this Network to verify whether or not the email I had received was junk mail. Spam, in other words.
After a day of taking time to think about this, I decided that perhaps it was legit and replied to the email I was sent with the information they were requesting in return. What were they asking for? The URL of my PET BLOG, as well as the RSS feed. Quite honestly? Not positive about this "RSS feed" thing because my blogging knowledge is only what I have learned on my own. I've tried blogging on MySpace before. I have 2 blogs on Blogger.com - one being my PET BLOG. But I'm ALLLLLLLWAYS thinking of how to increase readership of my blogs. I've tried to do a contest recently where the deadline for entries/guesses is next Friday evening and as of this very moment (7pm, 4/25/09) I've only had 3 entries in the contest to win a mystery DVD. The DVD of my favorite all-time movie, actually. When I've done or said something negatively toward someone has been the only time I've known of several people to have read my blog.
Needless to say when I got this email from DogTime Blog Network I was curious what they could do, how it would increase my blog traffic and get my blog out there to attract more people reading it. After all...the purpose of writing a blog - well, one of them anyway - is to attract as many viewers as the writer can get. So what difference has it done for my PET BLOG?
Zero. After responding to the email from DogTime Blog Network I have not heard at all back from them. No response, no messages, nothing. I received their email invitation to join their "network" and I replied with the URL/RSS feed information I thought they were looking for and I have not heard back from them.
What am I to think at this point?
It is curious that I replied to them with the two non-sensitive bits of information and have not heard back from them. Maybe if they read this online they can respond back to me and tell me exactly what's going on. When I'll be joining 'the network'. What exactly joining them is going to do for me and my blog.
Until then I will be left guessing whether or not I've been had....
By the Network.