This weeks discussion topic is should you post your prices on your site? 

I have visited a lot of sites being an online business. If I need business cards, shirts or anything I usually look online. I have found that business that do not post prices on there site I just pass over them and look down the list to one that is relevant that do post a price.

How about you? Do you find that in today’s information age that you want prices to be posted on the site?

What about a service where the price is complicated? Should they work out  an online quote tool or at least post a minimum price so you have an idea?

Last weeks discussion was great. This week we open the discussion with should you allow nofollow on your blog or not?

It is a widely known SEO fact that if you have a website you should limit the number of outbound links to other sites. This leaks your Google Page Rank (PR) from your site to other sites. To stop this leak you can add rel=”nofollow” to your links.

If you have a link on a blog or in a forum post most likely that link has a nofollow tag in it.

I believe that the nofollow is something that you should use on your site if you are not getting paid for the link. What do you think?

I am adding a new feature to the blog where each week (on Saturday) we will through out a new web or business discussion topic. You can answer in the comments as to how you feel.

 This week I have been visiting a lot of blogs. Of the 350 I visited I kept tally of those that allow you to comment and those that do not. I also kept track of those that allow you to comment and notify you of a reply.

The stats are in and 56% of the blogs did allow for comments but of those 56% only 10% of them allowed you to be notified of a reply. I was a little shocked by both stats personally and though it would be closer to 90% allowing comments and 50% or more for a notify of reply. Personally I think this is a missed opportunity by bloggers to build there communities.

For example, I was reading Seth Godin’s blog and wanted to comment on one of his topics. I didn’t see the ability to do so,  so I email him. Amazingly enough he replied as to why he does not allow comments…

 ”I think comments are terrific, and they are the key attraction for some blogs and some bloggers. Not for me, though. First, I feel compelled to clarify or to answer every objection or to point out every flaw in reasoning. Second, it takes way too much of my time to even think about them, never mind curate them. And finally, and most important for you, it permanently changes the way I write. Instead of writing for everyone, I find myself writing in anticipation of the commenters. I’m already itching to rewrite my traffic post below. So, given a choice between a blog with comments or no blog at all, I think I’d have to choose the latter.”

This got me to think why those 44% don’t allow comments.

So I through this out to you the readers. Should commenting be allowed on blogs? and why?