18 thoughts on “Top 50 Pet Blogs”

  1. The author of the best comment will receive an Amazon gift of their choice at Christmas! Please comment as they can add to the article and pass on your valuable experience.

  2. No Problems. I know Especially the ones that Have been before me too. Its amazing what a Different Point of View can change and help too. Hope you and Charlie are doing better.

  4. Hi Michael Congrats on Getting Number 1 on the Cat Site. Should be very Proud of what you have Acheived in 6 Years plus with Input from us Regulars 🙂

  5. Thanks for your thoughts Sylvie. The truth is the length of an article depends on the subject matter of the article. I have written many very long articles of 2-5,000 words in the early days when the subject matter presented itself. An example is this page:

    https://pictures-of-cats.org/largest-domestic-cat-breed.html

    There are many like that. Today, the subject matter available to me does not lend itself to long articles. If it did I’d do it.

    Also there is the question of SEO. You don’t necessarily need very long articles to get hits. It is about matching reward with effort.

    If you have a subject matter that requires a long article tell me please ;).

    On last point. Sometimes the article is a catalyst for discussion. Few websites have the kind of comments PoC has and they extend the article considerably.

  6. Your comment was misleading.

    My computer, for reasons known only to itself, couldn’t pull up this post until today. Which raised questions, in the interim, as to why PoC came in sixth. What did the other five have that nudged you into the background?

    If there was one, it would have been S.H.’s encyclopedic site. But not sure if hers offers a give and take with visitors and regulars, or if she writes everything herself.

    Whatever’s happening w/this computer, come to find out this morning that PoC won FIRST place: that the other five are dog fanciers’ sites!

    Question is, is it first place because it invites reader interaction and keeps its posts brief?

    You’ve driven home time and again that surfers don’t read lengthy posts. While this is true, at least on your site, there’s a shift going on. A ‘sea-change,’ as they say. (Or as Shakespeare said.)

    A new crop of websites is springing up that posts contributors’ essays running to 5,000 words and more, with an average of 3,000. Nor are these sites scaring off readers, if the lengthy & intelligent comments are any indication.

    Am not referring to long-established magazines for serious readers – the magazines going digital – but websites for readers who aren’t bonded to two-minute formats. Which doesn’t imply that your own posts aren’t substantive and varied. They usually are, brief as they are. Could they be more analytical, given the time you have to write them? Hardly. Yet your readership – as you’ve repeatedly pointed out (dogmatically?) – are so homogeneous in their likes, lengthier posts are dead in the water. At least on your site.

    But not on others.

    Are the newer ones – the ones you claim aren’t out there – into esoterica? Quantum mechanics? Not at all. They’re lucid to any lay reader who’s gotten beyond cyberspace flitting: who’s willing to delve – to give ten minutes of his time – to an essay that took quite a bit longer than that to write.

    It’s puzzling PoC leans to bing-bang brevity, bullets and ‘points’ popping up with two-fisted speed. E.B. White, one of America’s most beloved essayists, had a different take. He’d write an essay on world affairs that started out with a rambling portrayal of a mother raccoon on his farm, and how she climbed down the tree from her nest.

    But what matters is that your criteria work. Your website deserves to have garnered first place!

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