Why blogs are bad

Well, to be completely honest I do read some blogs. But even those blogs I give very limited attention. I made so many mistakes and did things in a very inefficient way. And it still worked really well. Maybe 0. And within those select few blogs only a handful of the posts are either applicable to me or well written. I used to read a lot of blogs.

I am someone who likes to read a lot of anything I can get my hands on; autobiographies, biographies, news, fiction, philosophy, etc. So reading blogs and learning about my trade was something that I naturally thought was a good idea. But about a year ago I realized I was doing it as a way to procrastinate from the work I should be focusing on like creating my own content, products and building my own web assets.

I noticed that there was a lot less relevant content out there and there really was no reason for me to keep reading it. There are literally only two blogs where I read almost everything when it goes live.

But I am definitely not one of those guys who scours Mashable for hours a day trying to stay on top of every single trend that is going on. How do you know if your blog reading is procrastination or something genuinely useful? See all similar articles in this category We're glad you have chosen to leave a comment. Please keep in mind that all comments are moderated according to our privacy policy , and all links are nofollow.

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Learn how your comment data is processed. I actually only read two blogs — a comedy blog cracked. Anything else has to be exceptional or interesting for me to bother with it. Truth is, you get material from your audience, your experiences, and the communities you participate in.

That is my main objective. Interesting post. I think writing blogs is probably better than reading them because you have to do a lot more research to find great information and that helps expand your knowledge! It does often take a lot of research and that is absolutely not time wasting.

I totally agree. I used to read everything from everybody. Now my RSS Reader is clean and almost empty. I envy you for the empty reader. I subscribe to a lot of blogs. Most are as you say, a waste of time. I do skim them. If something useful to me pops up, I read it and use it, else, to the trash and quickly on with life.

I love this post. This has been so beneficial for me. I have several blogs and have been blogging for quite a while now. The whole point was to get them to write MORE on their blogs. I think the argument is that BLOGGERS spend less time reading the posts of others if this gets in the way of their own writing , not the general public…. So research the information that you want and make it your own. Help people with their problems by creating unique content that solve these problems.

Wow sir, Great article. People visit your blog. I always pay visit to some of the popular blogs everyday before logging into my blog. I cut back on the blogs I read about a year ago because I wanted to concentrate on other online and offline stuff. My brother Marc sends me links and I always have an initial read and sometimes subscribe. These days if I want to know something then I do some searching and get the info off sites and blogs but rarely subscribe anymore.

I always enjoy your comment and interactions so I hope to make content that keeps you coming back. Basically, I set up my email to send most stuff to directories. Then when I feel like it I show all the subject lines and peek at some — and for most, I then delete the rest. For me, the blog was just a tool, a platform to get my educational messages out to other photographers. That said, I can still identify lots of other diversions, besides blogs, that fulfill that desire for procrastination at times!

I used to read lots of stuff back when I had a day job with lots of down time where company policy said I could read the internet, but not create on it so no blogging of my own. And the cool thing is, it works. Well, to me, as a blogger, I must read as many blogs as possible to know wassup. To see the next big blog. To pitch guest posts etc…. I should really clean house with my own email subscriptions.

Because I value different aspects of every blog I read, I think it would be tough for me to decide which ones to kill and which ones to keep. Perhaps it might be better to remove some slowly. Hmmm…I really like that 3 in a row idea! I like your posts too much! Oh, right. Blog Tyrant unmasked! I only follow blogs on subjects I am not up to speed on and end up unsubing after a month or two. The rest of the stuff in my reader is just to quickly take a look at and skim for good nuggets to pass on on Twitter.

Not just blog posts. There will soon be a paradigm shift when people realize the internet has most of the content it needs already. Well I hope so at least. Am I adding to the noise for them, or might they find it so valuable they archive the post so they can always revisit the info? I know my blog reading is not worth the time if I have absolutely nothing to comment.

This is a quick and easy way for me to weed out irrelavent articles. Why else do we blog? No problem there. But I write to help people as well, and then I visit some of the blogs of people who can relate to my topic in efforts to build relationships and a community.

Holly that second paragraph is a really good point and something I totally forgot to mention in the article. I really should make an edit tomorrow. I only read blogs that give me a feeling I am a chick. Consistently that is inspiration. And that inspiration drives me to think, and create, and drive change. Other than that, as soon as I start to find a blog boring, I ditch it.

It just becomes noise then. So yeah, I have seen to many blogs that where the auther is just stuggling for content, and just makes up stuff. Bloggin for the sake of it. Ramsay, I think its about not getting distracted. This is a wake up call for me to spring clean my Reader. A sign,if you will. I recently discovered that blog-hopping is SO time-consuming. For me the magnet is — besides loving to read — getting along with the blogger. And then, before I know it, I am a regular there. Still, I really ought to cut down.

Many times after reading too much of content online I just forget that what I was searching for. I like to read every article posted on these blogs but there some exceptions. When I am scanning the words instead of processing the message. I find wonderful inspiration and affirmations through others stories and messages, yet I also find if I read before I write or create my own stuff I run the risk of incorporating another voice into my work.

I honor my own creative process first, while my creative surge is fresh…I take a break and re-center, then read others stuff if there is time in the day. I might not read as much volume, but the connection with the material and the author is genuine and enriching.

That voice incorporation is a really interesting point. I often think about that for myself. When I first got Google Reader, I went nuts and subscribed to a ton of blogs, then I never looked at them again. What I found useful was subscribing by email to a select few blogs, and then processing their emails with my greymail every morning. Interesting title i. Gets read. Uninteresting title i. Gets deleted. After too many deletes, I unsubscribe.

So I recently unsubscribed from John Chow and ZacJohnson, because they only send me rubbish and webinars major problem with webinars, people talk four times slower than I can read and I have to get up at 2am to attend most of them. Very inefficient. One thing I will say is that all the people who have explicitly mentioned what blogs they read have only named blogging-for-money blogs.

Go broaden your minds people! The rest are just doing it on a topic I am interested in. Now, having said all that, I actually started commenting because I was interested in knowing what blogs you, Ramsay, actually read? Sounds like a good insight to have. My most popular post was one that I wrote for mainly myself, but with someone else looking over my shoulder point of view. There is still a lot of valuable information on ProBlogger.

The hard thing is being able to sort through it all. I just get a bit overwhelmed. I totally agree with you. Most blogs are total crap. One of the big pieces of advice everybody gives is to connect with other bloggers in your market. I blog about kids and sleep and one of the big reasons I do so is that so many of the parenting bloggers are pretty useless. So I provide an alternative. Am I now supposed to go network with the bloggers who were so lame that they prompted me to start my own?

There is one peer-parenting blog in there. But your post makes me feel better about the whole scene. There are a lot of good parenting blogs out there. I think Dooce is sort of a parenting blog and she is one of the most successful there is! The goal for you, then, might be to become that authority in the niche that others want to connect to.

Perhaps even set up a page promoting that and asking for tips and submission, etc. Yeah I agree Ramsay. Appreciate your stuff. I have to agree with you on the low value of most blogs now.

It seems everyone feels they have to keep pumping out content whether they have anything to say or not. I was running out of things to talk about and starting to repeat myself. Nor am I content to accept a bunch of bland guest posts just so that I can get content on my blog. Yeah I know what you mean. There was even one big blogger who posted and promoted a product that was blatantly a scam.

I have a question. How about reading blogs of your direct competitors or rather people in your niche who you are trying to connect with and network with? Yeah that is something I really failed to mention in the post. Someone else brought that up above in the comments. Not a tricky question at all. And these two blogs I read specifically because I know I will find useful truly useful information that I will somehow incorporate in my own blog or business. I have been working hard to model my blog after yours.

This time will be much better thanks to you! A thought provoking post Ramsay. I waste so much time visiting blogs, often those on my feeder or those who have left comments on my posts. I do declutter my feeder occasionally and I visit some blogs because I have developed a relationship with the person, rather than feel inspired or excited by what they write.

I do need to think about this more. Thanks for sparking this. When you get a new email in your inbox, you get excited when you see who it came from and you feel compelled to not put it off as something to read later, or something that is not important enough to read right now , you know you have subscribed to one of those Top 2 blogs. Man, this post hit home. In the beginning, I justified my binge blog reading because I was a newbie and needed to learn. Need to balance that out. Being a perfectionist is a barrier.

But you have to be bad at things first before you get good. Perfectionism is the enemy of getting started. I think of how ugly my travel blog used to look like before I re-designed it. The lighting is terrible! An entrepreneur friend of mine said he remembers that the motivational speaker Tony Robbins used to sell cassette tapes at his seminars. Derek, thanks for this article.

I realize I am spending too much time creating content for a small audience. In fact, I was sitting here at my computer just now trying to figure out what else I could write about I have written so much I am running out of content ideas. I am very poor at link building. In the last 2 months I have published 42 blogs and have created only 4 links. This article cleared up a lot of me. Thank you so much Ryan.

Do I need to guest blog there , or can they just give me a shout-out? Reason being he is a famous entrepreneur who has strong connections to both travel and sports industries. If need, I could niche into the California Bay Area sports scene. Andrew Baggarly has strong connections to all sports related events around San Francisco. If my site was able to connect to TripAdvisor, I would be able to connect to travelers that would fall into my sports travel niche.

The connections that could be made with other entrepreneurs both the same niche as well as topics more broadly related. Thanks a lot for your posts. I just discovered you site last week. Your tips have already help bring in more traffic to my site. Traffic that has signed up to follow. Hey Derek, Great question that really got me thinking.

My dream links would be: 1. Huff Post, who also talk about my topic often! Therefore they are the audience I want. I would love to be connected to such a world and word. It is a website about personal development and the author has a way with words, that I can relate to what he is saying. He is such a funny guy and his mission to help other people with sharing his knowledge is so inspiring. Getting a link from him? I really want to thank you for sharing your knowledge!

It helped me a lot. Hopefully my blog will boom soon with these useful advices! Love, Saskia. Thanks for the sound advice. But I do have a plan, a strategy, a goal, a target audience and very little content. As a Personal Stylist and Image Consultant as well as Life Coach, understanding the Psychology behind the reason why we do things the way we do has been the key to my business success offline.

My business is now online as I can share techniques to a much larger audience and see more people having personal success. I believe that once I have my target audience buying from me, I can then expand particularly around e-courses into teaching others how to get their business online and making money from their own blogs.

Again using the YES principles. I live in Melbourne, Australia and there is a small but well known group of Fashion bloggers who are often in the media.

Her visibility is unparalleled. His reach is enormous. His endorsements are selective and, therefore, trusted. His ebiz model and mine are very much alike, so what has worked for him will work for me. Hi Derek, firstly, a dream would be to get a PR8 or higher mention ye right.

Secondly any PR2 or above linkback would make me quite happy. Anyway thanks for the tips, if anything learned, i can relate to your points which fires a new spark. Thanks again, Jimi. So very glad to have found you. My 1 choice would be girlsgonechild. I respect Rebecca Wolff for her candid humor as well as her writing cred. In addition, I would love to be shared by littlebabygarvin. Each blog inspires me, makes me laugh, and teaches me. My target would be first time or young moms who are just trying to figure it all out!

I believe I have the content to share and as you stated, I am willing to put the work in. I realize these are major mistakes and I am open to your course to help me create a successful blog. So it is like a library that people reference. I have a few ideas that again would compliment what she already puts out there. Thanks for this post, Derek. Really good timing. I am about to start my blog and am busy re-working my offerings and web copy as I finish up some awesome niche-focusing work.

Helps to understand how to maximize my efforts going forward!! My goal is to inspire moms at home to get out of the rut and start empowering themselves to be the very best they can be by following their heart and intuition.

I agree with you,the more time you spend working on something without a reward, the harder it is to continue doing it. Considering the fact that you are not the only one writing a blog in order to generate leads,you really have to think for a unique strategy and to be patient. Thanks for this article Derek! Smaller blogs would be regional counselors or psychologists.

The reason why Zen Habits is because that site promotes what I teach in my divorce guidance and support business. Her open heart project provides meditation instruction for people. Shambhala Sunspace for the same reasons as above — that magazine promotes mindfulness and meditation and so do I with my clients. I think a lot of my peeps would be reading Shambhala Sun. The other 3? This has already helped me in my approach to my blog, shegofit. I just signed up for email updates today and I am looking forward to reading all of the other great articles!

She has a global reach and also with the launch of her network, Oprah has been able to create shows and documentaries that peer into the unseen lives of others and shows, such as lifeclass, that focus on increasing the potential that we all have inside of us.

Her brand is one comprised of positivity and self improvement through self discovery. In my personal health and fitness journey, I have utilized theses sites to assist me and my clients. They all present valuable information in a way that is attractive to me. Many things in fitness have been repeated at length, however, what I like about these sites is that the information is presented in a fresh new way and from a totally different perspective.

I resonate strongly with all three of these individualists, their business philosophies and believe their audiences of self-employed folks would get what I do and really find benefit from it!

Great job Derek!! Dream linkage: chriskresser. I would love to get a link to my blog from him, because I am a Naturopathic and Chinese Medical Student. I think his audience is similar to the audience I hope to build, but for people who want to take a nature cure approach and want to learn more about the philosophy of the medicine.

She focuses on emotion, gratitude, and positivity, but writes about Chinese Medicine concepts occasionally. Her readers who enjoy those posts would love my content that explores those concepts further. I would love to be linked to from them or some day write a guest post for them on how I use their whole 30 program with my other naturopathic therapies, or better yet on how to evaluate digestive health from a naturopathic standpoint and how to tweak their program for people with certain digestive conditions or symptoms.

They dig deep to figure out why they are stuck and move forward. My smaller websites would be 3BStreey and Etsy, because they have the handmade artist community I want to present myself to. People who are already looking for great information and content. Then I have a few friends who blog and have a decent reader base, so why not? I could return some favors. It would be great for them to reference a post on my blog as an update. It would be great for them to share a feature we have done on a plus size model.

My dream site: 1- Ellentv. I think that people who enjoy Ellen would have many shared interests with me, and that my blog and website would cater to those interests.

I have a line of jewellery inspired by gay pride, I am gay myself, and I do lots of nonprofit work that is featured on my blog and I use my jewellery business to fundraise for many causes. I think that the exposure I could get from Ellentv. I think that the kind of people who think and care about their physical and spiritual well-being would appreciate my connections to the nonprofit sector and the fundraising I do for various organizations through my jewellery business.

Also, my blog has a couple of things in common with TinyBuddha, so I think that the people who like TinyBuddha would enjoy my blog as well. This is a widely read magazine, and it would expose me to a lot of like-minded individuals who could potentially be customers, and I would also maybe learn a few things from them. I would love to get some more comic book fans following my blog and checking out my jewellery! I am working on getting content published on sites 2 and 3.

I have yet to devise a plan for 1. An idea for 4 is in the works. Four words … Jedi Kittens Strike Back. The Dr. Oz would be ideal from the leading authority in the field. What an honor to be connected with this blog in some way, shape or form. Good, good advice. I have been blogging for awhile and I have had blogs shared on local community sites and have been added to the blog roll for sites like Working Mother and ABOW.

I would love to know if there is a benefit to sharing your blog content when you are a voice among a number of other blogs on a site. I also had a column on examiner. I would also like Dr. Lisa Rankin to share a blog post. Dream Website: The Huffington Post, because it has a huge, well-read readership, and it will give me props as a legit writer. The third would be one of the mommy blogs, because they are sharp-witted and funny ex.

I know all of the young women who view this site are image- and lifestyle-aspirational and inspired by Nicole, the blog author. They aspire to live a life they imagine hers to be like — one full of light, love with her soulmate, travel, beauty, fashion, assumed money and financial stability, and a dream career.

THESE are the women I want to empower to create a wave of empowerment throughout this generation of young women. Alix is a French blogger who seems to embody a dreamy life full of travel, perfect true love romance, beauty, shopping, pastries, friends, and Parisian perfection. I want to tap into the audience of young women who dream of living like they think she does — who want to feel the sense of fulfillment and joy they assume she experiences and feels every minute of her life.

Young women become obsessed with fashion bloggers, idealize their lives, and become addicted to living vicariously through them. The rest will follow! Most travel bloggers go from place to place, not living in one country for as long as I am. Haha, thanks for your post! I use this blog for financial advice frequently. People who like that genre would definitely appreciate my spiritual line.

A Reiki website like Reiki. It serves the New Age category, again catering to my spiritual work. And yes, the more people who view my site, the more chance I have to find a new client. Guest posts in, more posts on my site out. As an aside, noticing how many people are listing sites like Marie Forleo … who does not do guest posts. Wow, thanks! Love these ideas. So logical. How can that not have been obvious to me before this??

Thank you so much — it felt like you were speaking directly to me. I will work on which blogs to approach and why and dedicate some of the time I have spent on creating great content that only a very small reader base was even seeing doing just that. Getting it out there! Just like that — you have changed my focus!!

The people that read his blog are looking for alternative information to that which the media, conventional doctors, and other outlets put out. His blog is more informative versus actually connecting with the consumer. I want to establish and grow that relationship. I want my blog to be personable and encouraging of others on their health and wellness journey. Part of me feels like it is because the people reading the blog come from all of those walks of life.

I AM working to get a mention by way of writing for their blog, though. Thank you for the powerful advice in this post. You gave me a lot to think about. I completely reinvented my blog and relaunched it literally less than a month ago.

It was just my own personal random musings blog. My target audience: women who are looking for ways to change their lives after experiencing trauma or leaving dysfunctional relationships.

I escaped and reclaimed my life. It took many, many years to turn my life around. I did much of my healing on my own. Professionally, I was a business strategist for Fortune companies for the past 15 years before I left corporate world to stay at home with my children.

I decided that was time to focus on my message and dream. I launched a radio show and podcast and in the past month already seeing about listens each episode and I received about unique visits in the past 3 weeks.

Just putting things out there to see what resonates with people. I am getting over my fear of promoting myself, which is something I think you neglect to talk about in your post here.

I long kept my blog pretty darned quiet as a place to practice my writing. This may not be the same for everyone, but the fear of being seen and quite possibly rejected I think keeps many people holding their greatest works back from being released to the world.

Practice, practice, practice. Than you for assisting me in clarifying my goals. I have a long road ahead of me. But commitment, practice and patience are on my side.

Great things in this post. Thanks a million! I agree with Derek about going specific with topics. My one concern is that is my niche too small or only appealing to professional investors. I guess I will find out. I write columns syndicated on a more popular site Seeking Alpha , but my traffic drawn from there is limited. I need to link up with bigger blogs. The top three for me to be linked would be: yahoo, cnbx or google finance zerohedge.

Great job at adequately summing up the biggest failings most people have. I see this all the time myself. Our mission is to provide people with dental health questions the best, unbiased medical information.

Traffic from these sites might appreciate what our site has to offer more. My dream blog would be fourhourworkweek.

His attitude to providing value is epic. Sincerely though its because since travelling minimalism has taken over my life and I owe a lot to his inspiring content. Should I now set about making plans on how to engage with this bloggers, build relationships and seek to guest post on their websites? First, my dream website would be Problogger.

I feel that Darren Rowse started out like I did and has turned his site into a mega-blogging empire, and we write on many of the same topics, though in different ways, even though he now has way too many guest posts for my taste. My three sites are:. This site would help me because many of the topics on the site touch upon the same types of issues mine do, even if a majority are guest posts.

Still, the balance between my talking about blogging, writing and content versus most of the posts owner of the blog, Ileane, who often talks about technology used for blogging and social media, would be a nice mix. I think seeing another side of the same issues could benefit us both. Frankly, you and I write on the same subject once again, but on different aspects of it. There you have it; completed homework, just the way you asked for it.

Hey Derek, Really inspiring post. Thanks so much for sharing these tips. She writes about figuring out what you want to do with your life after college. I feel that all of those ladies have audiences that share some key values of mine and fit in age and gender. Dream site would probably be michaelhyatt.

Reason being it has to do with Leadership and my site would complement it well with a Christian perspective. Other 3 sites would probably include: thegospelcoalition. Goal is to Glorify God by sharing the love of Christ and that can fit into multiple topics with many personal applications. Derek, I have been enjoying this recent series of posts — the takeaway that is bouncing through my head is this:.

Derek, I had to really think about this homework. I am a Holistic Health coach.. I found Kris Carr.. I hope they would generate buyers through my website for my ebooks and eclasses.. I also do health coaching via skype and phone. Thanks for the homework. Where can I verify the readership of some of the blogs? I heard you on an old social media examiner podcast and wanted to check out your blog. I ended up on this post from the sidebar link.

First — I agree with your idea that blogs fail because people write rubbish then expect it to be read and shared. Most readers are smarter than that. That said, I think most of today top bloggers would fail if they were starting today. It was just the luck of the draw for those who started in and road the wave of easy SEO and backlinks. Third — I think success in this new era will have to be purchased and earned. Either by paying Google for adwords, or by paying service like your own, or by knowing the right people.

The exceptions will be the famous. Forth — I predict many of those lucky bloggers will soon begin to feel the pressure from the search changes Google is making. Fifth — I appreciate that you have decided to not fill your podcast episodes with the same recycled interviews that are now making their second and third rounds on all the marketing and social media podcast.

Hi Derek, thanks for the challenging post. Human nature…. I have been blogging for about 5 months. Basically my focus is on thoughts and observations. I think that maybe some of my blogs could be shared by him. Hi Derek, first of all thanks for your work, I find it so interesting and instructive. Now I have a question. I live in Spain, and my business is thai massage, I have a school in Barcelona. Once again, thanks, and greetings from Spain.

This is probably due to the demographic nature of most Spanish owns being a free flow of holiday foot traffic, use of directories and TripAdvisor recommendations,. Maybe searching for Thai Massage blogs in Spain to get referrals to your own post is going to waste a lot of your time, since its mostly non-existent. You basically need a different strategy to attract more customers and in essence make more money. There, I said it because if they are stupid enough to not leverage the distribution channels available to them, no matter how successful they are, then you can make more money from their own neglectful viewpoint!

Do you know your human demographic? Where the average holiday goer visits in Spain? Local customers needs and the average locations? Traffic is like you know where you want to go from your starting point and you must have a vehicle and fuel to get to your end destination.

Knowing who you are speaking to helps. Now you have a blog post title also converts into a hard hitting headline that grabs immediate attention, creates emotion, positions you and SELLS your opportunity to receive a relaxing professional massage in one of the best holiday locations in the world…something to tell their friends on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram well look to that, word-of-mouth referrals, lol!

Derek have taught a lot about creating content with a call-to-action such as 15 minutes Thai Massage as a gift for you friend when you buy a luxurious 60 minutes for yourself. You could joint-venture with a professional photographer and sell an upgrade package of their experience. So once you have done that, you need to implement an aggressive strategy to attract readers and convert them into customers.

Oh and personally, even if you have a duplicate of your blog post to many content channels, I doubt very much you will be sandboxed due to the lack of blogs in your line of work, and even if you do, so what? Google have done more to strike fear into bloggers about this issue. If you get sandboxed yet still getting readers into buying customers, who care. Ever though Google wants tons of tons of daily fresh content…just to make them look amazing, whilst your pockets are still empty?

Look for a Travel Forum on TripAdvisor and do a short summary of the blog post. Create a video for that same blog post and distribute to YouTube. Look for non-Thai Massage social media channels, twitters, video channels, etc, who look for massage or could do with your service and comment on their blogs instead. Look for ways to joint venture. If you find a client who cannot reach you…arrange the appointment for another business, take off your price markup, get the receipt to pass to the customer, keep them on your mailing list.

Have someone interview you on their podcast or local radio show with your post. Now you can position yourself and your blog to get more prospects into your own list to make extra money from. I believe the time is fast coming where there are so much blog content on the webisphere that the only way to get noticed as a blogger and ensure readability is to truly think as a business in that every blog you create have a direct intention of profitability and positioning.

In the past I was thrilled to have links from HuffingtonPost and MSNMoney but those are like having Chinese food for dinner… eat, burp, move on to the next thing.

I think the top website that I would like link from is Golf Digest — it seems to be one of the most widely read on the planet by all the fanatical golfers No. My business offers story development, editing, and author branding services. His fan base is the motherload! I really do enjoy the information that you put out there. It has been helpful and i hope that i have been doing it somewhat right. This is a company that we already market with and are trying to target the distributor customer.

If they where to have us as an authority on print with them it would be HUGE! These are two places that i think would probably bring more industry people than potential buyers yet i think that they both would help with credibility. Dream blog appearance — Social Triggers. Because its respected as a blog that is original and very authentic and any link would carry a lot of weight. An appearance here would be seen by a lot of entrepreuners around the world and would demonstrate I had a very high level of expertise.

Its audience is perfect for me as its made up of creative entrepreneurs. Oh this is easy, a girl can dream right? Awesome insight as always. My blog directly targets the readers of his books so a link from Richdad. These are all based in the Philippines — the first one is a personal finance blogger with huge traffic, the 2nd is also a personal finance blog of a famous preacher and the 3rd is one of the biggest newspaper companies in the Philippines.

I would say it honestly, I have wasted too much of time writing just the content and hardly any promotion for the blog. The tricks you mentioned are really worthy. What should we do in that case? Thanks so much for this post. It was what I needed to make a decision about the content focus of my blog.

Your post, one from Chris Brogan, and a guest post at Problogger all seemed to echo each other this week. Yes…Amazingly I paid thousands of dollars for a 5 lesson blogging coaching class to learn 2 of these time wasters.

Nu Skin is mostly promoted off line. Here is my home work: 1. Thanks for the informative blog. V stylish marketing. Have successfully had 1 link to it already. Will try to maintain good contacts! I would love to connect with the guy for a few fast exchanges even. Being mentioned there would be awesome. Derek — We appreciate the targeted homework! You said dream big — and on all fronts, we are! It would totally rock our socks if she linked her extensive readership to us!

And if Harold Jarche, a thought leader in workplace learning, linked to us, we would be tickled pink. I work for international development experts. I think our dream links are: 1. If they talk about a blog, it is because it is relevant and timely for their work, which would be one of our goals.

By your criteria, I must be incredibly pig headed, stupid or determined. I would prefer to call it typical baby boomer generation determination. I have been publishing between 2 and 5 posts a week on my blog for almost 4 years. I get between and visitors a month, sometimes more. Towards the end of last year I realised that blind perseverance was not going to increase my visitor numbers or income.

Since then, I have had 4 guest posts published on a totally unrelated blog. Not good for business but good for both practice and confidence I have just this week submitted a post to an authority blog in my niche.

There are others, some mentioned in other comments, that I have put into a second tier to be approached later. Visitors to these four have a closer demographic profile to my ideal reader. I find it extremely difficult to shoe horn time into my diary to sorting out my blog when I have had such an ambivalant relationship with it up to this point.

And then realised how hugely ironic that was…. She has created a very successful business creating e-products and blogging, completely from scratch. No business school or formal training. She is a complete individual and does not care what anyone thinks, and is loved by her followers for it. She is a role model for making it happen. They post out daily, and have a huge archive, so my blog could go out to a large list of their subscribers and be knocking around for future reference and visitors to their website.

She has a very successful coaching and creative empowerment studios in Toronto so is another role model for me. Although we both offer coaching so she may not want to actively promote me I might be able to offer something of value to her blog or audience?!

Thanks for getting me thinking Derek, you have given me a few ideas for sure. I hope you are having a great weekend. My end goal for is to drive traffic to my near future online shop with useful products for kids on the go. I launched my blog in October and have between and visitors a month and even though that is under 1, I really love blogging and will never quit no matter what because I am open to learning and tweaking until I get it right.

I have done a bunch of guest posts but not for anyone who has a huge audience yet. Also my Alexa rankings keep getting better and better which is encouraging but not sure what it actually means.

My website is about healing Irritable Bowel Syndrome naturally. No one really does this well yet so there is plenty of space to grow in this field. My dream is to have Chriskresser. I really respect him and have many of the same views on health.

Four others would be:. The reason for choosing all of those famous websites is the same — they have HUGE audiences. I have PTSD and was recently diagnosed with an allergy to grain. Both are huge issues and not enough is said about them to the public. Even though PTSD is being talked about, there is still very little understanding.

I have been blogging about PTSD ever since it began and am in the process of writing a book about my experience. By being connected with those public figures, I could help people understand the disorder from an average person who had a life changing experience when I was just going to work on a normal day. I think since I am a new graduate from college and I am trying to break through into the copywriting realm, my top 3 would have to be: Themiddlefingerproject.

Or is the secret in leaving valuable comments in the post? What I hope to see in the future is it drive me towards more consistency in my blogging, and an increase in my learning as well. Thanks for always posting epic greatness. And then sharing that quality. My main inspiration. This website will help me as that have a large following of beginner to amateur golfers who would really benefit from my golf instruction content.

I think all 3 websites with this loyal list of followers would enjoy reading the fresh weekly content I provide. They would comment regularly and most likely share the content with their friends.

Awesome post. I feel like you punched me in the gut, but then helped me back up and handed me a hundred bucks. The gut punch was worth it. Points like bad formatting, bad links, and hard to make a comment are good points, and common errors.

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