DropInBlog All‑in‑One Blog App
Powerful blogging made easy. Rank better and showcase products
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May 8, 2024
In general, this app is only suitable for complete beginners, and it's best if your store doesn't have any existing blogs. If you need to customize blog pages extensively, I would suggest using a page builder (I won't mention the names of these apps to avoid suspicion, but you know, they're easy to search for), or just contact a web development team. Pros: 1. Easy to use, can quickly create a medium SEO quality, rich-media blog 2. Customer service is responsive, with a good attitude, and helped solve many problems together Cons: 1. Don't expect the blog pages to have many customizable features. Compared to the native Shopify blog, the biggest advantage here is just text-to-speech conversion. 2. The product placement function is very limited, basically only including product titles, images, descriptions, "read more," and "add to cart" buttons. If you don't have web coding skills, you basically can't modify anything. 3. If you have a bunch of old blogs, after importing them into this app, the same number of new pages will be created without any notice, with identical content. I think there is a risk of Google considering it duplicate content or spam, and if you later abandon the app, all these links will become 404, and you will need to redirect them yourself.
Thanks for your feedback! We really appreciate it. Yes as you mentioned we're focused on creating clear usable blog posts (our main post design is based on usability testing). So if you're looking for super complex blog post layouts a page builder is the way to go. Our main focus is SEO and getting more potential customers to your blog. Appreciate the feedback on the Embeded Products feature. Our users love this and we're always working to add new layouts and features to it, so thanks for the feedback. We'll keep improving this.
April 26, 2023
5 stars on their customer service, as they were very responsive to a few questions I had. 2 stars for the software, as it feels a little clunky and doesn't separate itself from apps that have free versions. For instance, you can't change the font (that I've seen), but that's standard free feature in a competitive app. Images are difficult to place and wrap text around (really made an awkward preview for Mobile viewing). The ability to upload a Shopify product into the post is helpful. All in all, can't justify the monthly price tag associated with the app.
I invite you to try our app again. We now have the Design Customizations section that allows you to set your fonts, sizes, link colors etc. Sine you tried us last we also have a slick new editor that has many ways to wrap text around images or put them in columns. Appreciate your feedback! We're always building and took all your notes into our last year of development updates :)