Blog Tipz

We need to take a drastic step back from the “My blog is better than your blog” view.  While there are millions of blogs that have never been developed, mostly consisting of “dead” blogs, blogs craeted to promote a product, and those that were created simply for smacking Google AdSense/advertisements on the entire page; there has definitely been some negative view of the people running bloggers without the credentials, so to speak.

I don’t want to codone anyone for doing this, as it is a perfectly natural competition phase and is beneficial when you need to build your visitor base, readership levels, or whatever goals you are looking at attaining.  There is no supplement for this competition and drive that is in each of us to produce content that others want to read.  It is that simple.

However, referring back to the original purpose, healthy competition between each individual blogger, helps each blogger excel in the content that they are aiming to create.  In other words, what we have in the world today wouldn’t have been created if there were no “contests.”  To an extent, blogging should get away from this competitive nature in respect to the way that the blogger responds and interacts with their readers/members and other bloggers in their niche.

After all, bloggers wanted to get away from the typical mold that suited journalists—we wanted to create a community that was able to interact with one another through each others’ blogs.  Instead, everything we do today is about “money, money, money, traffic, page views, subscribers,” as a result of the way bloggers have turned into a cultural phenomenon that is now generally accepted in the mass media, a position that many people wanted to see it in five to ten years ago.

Although this may seem more like a rant than anything else, it is meant to break you away from the traditional ideas that have been formed in your head about what blogging was truly meant to do.  I have absolutely no problem with the monetization aspect of it, but there comes a point where it needs to end and we need to first focus on creating the content that bloggers are great at creating, then on developing the relationships through comments that used to bring everyone together.  It is a global marketplace when you look at the whole ‘sphere of blogging; inflicting harm on others won’t do anything but put you further in a hole.

It is important to remember the fact that monetization will grow once you develop a strong foundation of readers and content, inherently which will result in the addictions—pageviews, readers/members, and profits—that everyone dreams at attaining at some point in the time they happen to be blogging.

In the end, everyone is at the same level, except those that have challenged the “system” in place to reap their own benefits, ultimately gaining more than anyone else.