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What the famous bloggers say and do not say and my comments

I have been in many discussions on what can be done in the international blogosphere and I started to realize a few things. In general I saw that all well known blogs have same principles that are the ingredients of success. I am not a guru yet I am realistic by writing and reading in various blogs.

Some issues encountered, or general advices.

A blog site, also enriched with additional services like video, podcasts, etc has POWER. It influences and directs through the personal opinion of the blogger or the blog team. It must not simply reproduce press releases because there is no use on this. Bloggers ought to write with the hand on their heart. In time and after information cross checking visitors will discover the truth and they will probably comment alike in your blog. You loose.

Do not start a blog if you are not able or willing to sacrifice more of your (free) time for research and presentation of your content. Unfortunately I see many sites in WWW that are moving in this direction.

IMPORTANT: We see successful blogs with 2-4 posts per day and others write 10-15 per day. Who ever knows what effort is required to write a post will laugh. The last one is only achieved if you don’t sleep. Ever. Unless of course there is a team and not a single person. Otherwise is just space-filling in order to get higher in Alexa or exploit more Adsense. Many serious journalists can explain why and why not. Posting is not about simply writing but give also evidence for what you write.

We see examples in one-person blogs with 10 mobile phone reviews in 10 days (!!!). Hey, did you use all of them? In one day per device you managed to validate each one? How can someone be objective about any subjects written like this?

Same happens for car reviews? Hey, blogger-not-car-journalist friend, a non professional can say about a car or bike after he has some experience with it. And I mean after some months. Not on a simple test-drive for 2 hours! And all pros? No cons? Hey!

How to make money from blogging? Commitment, sacrifice, love, time, research, deep knowledge for the subject, market knowledge, research (again), study, research (and again), long tail tactics, etc

Do you have a good quantity and quality of visitors? Meaning over 60.000 unique per month? Then blog channels and advertising companies start to listen…

The time needed is usually 1-2 years. For now.

Being a good developer doesn’t make someone a good article writer or marketer.

Somewhere (it is good to be at the beginning) the blogger must determine why he is doing such a thing. What is the goal and purpose. How he will cope with success.

See other blogs and bloggers as associates not competition. Link, use and learn from them. This requires a change on life and business philosophy.

Cooperation’s, cooperation’s, cooperation’s. Increase your visitors number. This is your strength. Plus their profile.

Do not use link farms.

CLOSING…: You will try, sweat and cry for your blog. Before that choose for what is worth blogging if you can serve this and cash it after.

I applause all those who do it for fun

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