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How To Be a Good Blogger: Karma

This article isn’t about how to make your blog good, it’s about how to be a good blogger. I don’t mean a skilled author; I mean a beneficial member of social networking society. Doing the right thing seems to be missing in many of our sites.

There are tons of ways to do good things, but this is about promoting and giving needed validity to your fellow community member’s articles. Being a “good person” is far more important than being popular or making money.

What is important in a blog? Obviously, the content is supposed to be. How do you make your content count? Making other people’s content count is my favourite method. Much of it depends on what yours is about and who your audience is. I could cure cancer in an article and put a picture of a cute puppy in another; the puppy will get all the attention and nobody will care if I save the world…haha (I’m ok with that and I love being sarcastic).

Unfortunately, mine will not be a “keyword targeting” success story. I’ve seen authors who incessantly game the system with a dedication to creating landing pages while they say viral marketing only brings useless, unrelated links.

They think they are better than someone who goes the viral route. I have news for you, it’s of the same ethical value; it’s gaming the system. One is more complex and difficult to employ than the other, but are both essentially “cheating the system”.

I don’t care which method of self promotion you use, it’s all cheating. Is it wrong? I say absolutely not. I am trying to get over my aversion to self-promotion because I do have something to say, and I want as many people as possible to hear my message.

I write about what I think humanity needs. I call people out on doing the wrong thing, and write about world peace and how each of us need to take responsibility for living. Without any effort on promotion, I am limiting myself.

Many of us, after writing for a while, say things like, “I don’t care about links, I don’t care about popularity. People that do are greedy idiots!”

What if your favourite music artists felt like that, saying, “I don’t care about recording an album or having listeners.”

I suppose all your favourite artists, musicians, writers and actors wouldn’t exist. What kind of world would that be? I have done nothing to promote my blog in a very long time. My page rank is still an unjustified zero. I’m not complaining though, because I do have a great base of readers and do well in natural search engine queries.

Some Solid Ideas For Your Blog

One thing many of us don’t do is write a weekly link post. Why don’t you? Like many people who put a lot of heartfelt work into valuable posts, I feel disappointed when no one notices or links to my good work. It’s not a “me thing”, it’s a “we thing”! I’m always on the lookout for good articles on lesser known blogs; you should too if you aren’t already.

I believe that if I have any popularity, it is because I give to others. It’s a byproduct of giving and helping others, not a goal. Here are my recommendations for some good things you should try:

  • You really should do a weekly link post; start one now (mine’s every Sunday)!
  • Find great articles written by your community members and link to their posts. Try to actually find and link to good work even if it’s unrelated to your content.
  • Look through their archives and find past posts that need a link.
  • Create a list of your most valuable posts and put it in your side bar (I’m working on that). You may have already written your best posts. Let people know what they are and you’ll increase your chances of being read or linked to.
  • If a niche blog is good enough, it could be a big hit with only a dozen posts – hardly ever adding a new one. It can become a well known reference for a plenitude of any type of content.
  • Remember, blogging is a social communication technology. It’s alright to want attention in moderation. Just don’t develop “Britney Spears Syndrome” or what I call BSS (it’s BS with an extra S). You may need to check into a blogaholics clinic to get clean if that happens…haha!
  • Memes and awards are great, but a link to deserved post is the greatest of all awards!
  • Be sure to check your incoming links regularly on Technorati. Go thank people for linking to you. It’s also a great way to see who maybe scraping your content.
  • Stick by your friends and don’t let money affect your judgment. Never forget where you came from.
  • We all start equally our first time here.
  • Don’t go around asking for links. Give, give and give some more. Participate in this digital society and it will come back to you.
  • Nothing is better than good Karma!

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Saturation Point of Blogging

The Evolution of Blogging

Blogging is much like a microcosm of real life in so many ways. The natural progression of how the Internet and blogging are evolving reflect how things really are. In the beginning of almost anything, the individuals count the most.

Growing up in my home town, small family owned stores and restaurants were very prevalent. Then, McDonalds and Walmart opened…making it much more difficult for the individual to move ahead. In the very beginning of the web, it was similar for individuals becoming successful.

I see this type of natural evolution taking place at an incredible rate right now. Look at Google for instance. In the beginning, Google was the coolest thing around. Now that it has become so huge, the individuals, like us bloggers, have become numbers rather than people. When you work for a small business, the owners know your name. Work for a giant corporation and you are a number. The bigger you are, the less you are expected to care.

Being a blogger right now is totally different than when I started only a year ago. If you are wanting to make money, putting up a bunch of ads and hoping is not going to get you there…hahahaha!!!! Listening or following the way someone else says is NOT going to lead you to the promised land either.

The Art of Blog Sales?

Making money with a blog is based on your ability to sell…period…that’s all there is to it. The only reason the big money bloggers make big money is because they have convinced you…or sold you on the fact that they have the answers. This is the biggest lie in blogging. You just need to sell people on the idea that YOU have the answers they need to make money. In other words…you have to SELL them. You have to sell yourself…if that’s what you want. There are plenty of followers out there that will follow those on top or those who want to be!

Whatever you do in your blogging…do it honestly and know who you are…know what you want. I used to care about traffic and stats…but now, I do not care. I let go of all that. I make enough money to run this blog free.

Blogging is reaching a saturation point. With so many bloggers doing the same thing and trying to do things the same way…the common methods for doing anything are becoming more and more useless.

If you want to make money…you have to get out and SELL. I don’t read any of the big blogs anymore. I no longer need to read 500 articles on how to gain traffic. It is redundant. It’s all been written already. I feel so much better about blogging now that I don’t care about traffic.

I became a member of the upcoming money making machine uVme, perhaps you’ve heard of it. Basically, it’s on line gambling. I lost respect for uVme because they claimed that because their on line games (for winning money), are based on skill, thus is not gambling…hahaha!!!! Well…poker is based on skill, so I guess it’s not gambling either. I cannot stand a business that lies to suck people in. Especially a business that will destroy the credit of millions of people by getting them hooked on gambling. On line gaming for money is GAMBLING…no matter what they claim :!:

Enjoy Your Blog

I am just here to write whatever I want and have fun. It took a while but I am so much happier!!!!!!! I don’t want to sell anything. I just want to relax and enjoy. So many of you fight for traffic and check stats over and over. I haven’t even glanced at mine!!! I quit doing that. Maybe I’ll check it next year (or the year after next). If you want loads of traffic…ask yourself why.

I am just over any “How To” type of articles. Been there…read that, a million times. As many of you know…I have had some serious problems, but I feel GREAT right now. I lost sight of my original intentions and got all caught up in stats and other stupid competitive stuff. I got so pissed off about Google dropping my pagerank…that made me truly let go, for the first time.

It feels good to be free. It is my nature to be good at whatever I do. I have to learn every aspect and understand all of it from every angle and perspective. When I truly realized that pagerank made no sense and was ridiculous…I laughed. It’s not worth understanding. No matter what anyone thinks…it is just a theory. You don’t know and you cannot explain exactly how or why it works.

HAVE FUN BLOGGING!!!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!!

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What Blogging Needs: Fresh Ideas

Recently I began looking into the that madness that’s given thousands blog-gold fever; making money from your blog. Everybody would like to make a fist full of dollars from their blog – I know I would. I do see many people becoming burned out and just drifting along, and most will never earn a decent cash flow. I’ve noticed thousands trying to follow the big league bloggers, imitating them and thinking if they copy success maybe some will come their way. It’s no fun when your blog becomes only about numbers, not to mention that your blog loses it’s humanistic quality. After checking out the popular options I have decided that joining the blood-thirsty mob isn’t for me.

I started blogging February 1st of this year. I have been writing for years and blogging was loads of fun to get into. This is my 70th post in my short blog life. I love competition, but I don’t want to drive my readers away with too much advertising. I guess that’s why so many people have their real blog and a separate cash blog.

Now, I will tell you this: You and I and everybody else has a better chance of being successful by developing our own ideas as opposed to following everybody else’s. There are several blogs that have nothing to do with money or business on the web, yet have stats like those who do. Those writers have for the most part made it because of web friendships, personality, a caring attitude and quality content. The way I see it, all those people following the pack are always going to be there. That is pre-eliminated competition. There are uncharted territories that have never been seen; this is where we’ll find the future’s most successful people. Anyone can produce a blog with roughly the same content as for example, ProBlogger. You might even have one that’s actually better. Swaying the crowd your way isn’t going to work because you are seen as their equals!

I believe soon there will rise a new type of blogger that is much needed. Think about this statement: If you can’t write great content year round, then write about someone who can and does. There is a need for “blog-reporters” who write about other peoples blogs. Like for example bvibes, which I am writing this for. I want to get several other bloggers together with me and create a blog reporter group. The days of writing stories about national news events doesn’t appeal to me, mostly because I already know about it.

Please contact me, Bobby Revell – if you might be interested in forming an equal partnered group to discuss this. Of course this is only one idea that could be something. There are endless others also!

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