It was interesting to see lots of kittens entering into the blogosphere this week and caused the discussions enflamed.
Blogging has evolved and spanned over multitude of human activities. It is no longer just a personal web log. Informing, educating, networking, sharing, socializing, marketing, promoting, advertising, making money and many other actions are already entered and the show is already on!
Foreign exchange rates offering relative benefits to the low economy countries prompted more youngsters to dive into the field. A few hundreds earning per month makes possible to have a happy and comfortable life. Low investment and very low cost for blogging is more attractive to drive a test – to test a fortune. More people are added to learn blogging everyday.
Blogging is not that easy either – nothing is easy. They are only ‘make money online’ ads say it is easy. Devotion, diligence, intelligence and art of expression along with good strategy, networking and value makes you successful.
It is really hard for a new blog to build up readership and mark its presence. BlogEngage, BloggerLuv, MMOSocialNetwork, FAQPal are some boon where these new bloggers meet up with well grown, experienced and enthusiasts. These notworks are doing great service to provide a platform where a blogger learns, shares and promotes his posts.
It is time and experience that will burn and purify to grow as a mature blogger. Every newbie will try to imitate the adults as an infant starts speaking with ma-ma. There is nothing wrong that you said something you heard somebody else speaking about.
So, Where are the kittens?
You might have gone through many top blogging tips in many blogs and collected the post ideas on which you will write about. Did you notice kittens entering?
BigJohn from Barselona expressed his grumbles “the same old crap rehashed again and again, with nothing new to say. So don’t you dare write about this crap, or the kitten gets it.” The post is really great and original in its idea. Let me quote the topics that has really been irritating due to over uses:
- Benefits of guest posting
- Top 5 plugins for wordpress
- How to engage your readers and get them to leave comments
- Writers block
- Promoting your blog through blog comments
- How to use social networks to promote the crap you post on your blog
- How to be a successful blogger
- How you can make money blogging by buying my ebook on how to make money blogging, when I have yet to make any money blogging
- Top 5 SEO tips from someone who has never ranked a website in google even for mildy competitive keywords
- How to use twitter to fail to get any traffic to your crap blog post
- Facebook pages: how to spend many hours getting about 25 fans, then fail to monetize them or “leverage” them in any significnt way
- How social networks can show everyone you know, and plenty of people you don´t know, who now have no inclination to get to know you, what a clueless dufus you are
- How to write an enticing headline
- Write about what you are PASSIONATE about
- How to build a blog that makes money on autopilot, apart from the 60 hours a week you will spend failing to promote it then failing to make any money from it
- How to set up a business becoming a marketing coach with no experience in marketing apart from that job you once had years ago giving out flyers
- How to increase your twitter followers
- How to annoy the hell out of your twitter followers by posting nothing but links to your crap blog about getting twitter followers
- How to write an ebook on how to write an ebook
- How to write a list blog post
It was an interesting chat over the topic and I truely respect his feeling for freshness – something original that adds value to blogsphere. (http://www.blogengage.com/story.php?title=do-not-blog-about-any-of-these-subjects-or-i-will-kill-a-kitten)
Daniel Snyder referred in his blog InfoCarnivore to the original post and observes:
But unfortunately for the most part there is nothing purely original. Now I’m not big fan of cats, in fact I’m allergic, and I can’t stand them… so don’t see this post as me trying to protect a sweet little kitten. In fact as far as my input goes… whatever, get rid of the kitten. If I can add another blog post to the blogosphere that will help keep kittens far away from me, I probably will.
Here requires a proper guidance and suggestions of a more experienced bloggers like John Paul. Paul not only raised the grumbles vividly audible in blogsphere these days but presents some worthy tips to save your kittens. His recent post “Be A Blogger That Stands On His Own Two Feet” teaches how you can save those kittens on your blog.
Are you saving those kittens?
Though you leaned mimic and started to lift your first few steps, has it not be time to stand on your won feet? Are you too writing those posts BigJohn warned? Hey save those sweet kittens.
Saying this I wish to ask you, “Do you really think bloggers can’t write on a topic that was already written by somebody else?” How original are your posts? Original in form, theme, concept and value?
Would love to read your comments!
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Hi Suresh
I try to make my posts original in that they are written in my writing style and sometimes presented more like a conversation whereby I am sharing my new finds about the lovely lavender with friends. Other times I try to find something interesting that can be discussed in a unique way. Hope I am keeping my readers happy. From their comments they seem to be.
You continue to challenge us to think ouside the box and that’s great. Thanks
Patricia Perth Australia
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Thank you Patricia. There’s no doubt you’re doing good with your posts and your readers. I’m glad you like the post.
Awesome points you made Suresh!
I bet there are not many “original” post on the Internet. There are only a few of them.
We are on the Internet, where people copy each other and modify the ideas, sentences, words, or even images. This is a common problem or facts.
I guess this is why the article spinners softwares were born.
Thank you for writing such a long and awesome post, you might want to correct “inceae” on “how to increase your twitter followers” point above
Regards,
Kimi.
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Thank you Kimi. I truely appreciate the suggestions of John Paul in his post. He shows how you can be different – its not can be – I should say how you must be different than all other bloggers.
Great points raised, Suresh.
There is very little in the blogging niche that has not been said already, but having said that, it is important to realize that to stand out, one must find a way to be different. So trying to be different while writing the same things that others are writing will be a tough go. Find a unique slant on the topic and start a conversation in that manner.
The world is a very large place, so there are plenty of things to write or tell stories about.
Great posts are great posts for a reason… they educate/entertain/enlighten/etc. They fill some need.
When blogs share networks of readers – and the reader is reading the same thing in 20 blogs – then redundancy is apparent. However what I find is that most blogs have a a percentage of very loyal fans that only read a few other blogs. These fans depend on your blog to educate them.
I had fans begging me for my top 10 plugin list – and poking me to remind me to do my top 25.
I’ll keep the kitten and the kontent thanks!
Kimberly
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Hi Suresh,
you’re right that many topics have been done before, but one can still put a fresh spin on old ideas. I try to write about many of these concepts in a fresh and original way on my blog. I had some positive comments on some of my posts like the one that analogized blogging to dating.
I think it’s important to think of unique content and present then in an original manner. Even the old concepts can be presented in a fresh way.
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Thank you Richard for the comment. I agree, there is hardly anything untold in this course of human history. But still every story is interesting because it is told in different ways. You are right to say old concepts can be presented in a fresh way!
On most of the blogs repetition is observed. One thing with different words is posted. What you have presented is novice and in this technical world has literary touch
Thank you Jhon, I’m lot flattered
Thanks for the comment.
I don’t want to be a meanie but isn’t that just an other post about others posting crap? Just saying.
As I can see even this posts about someone saying that the others are posting content posted before was already posted. I mean we are not here to reinvent the wheel (it’s a fair invention in my opinion, and I sure can’t make it rounder), and most bloggers don’t just get inspired by others but they are putting their own vision, own words and hearts into their content (if that is enough for copyright laws it’s enough for me)
Although I don’t write a lot of blog posts I do write articles and I am a strong believer in this philosophy “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else” but this doesn’t mean you can always write about topic that no one else ever discussed. Most topic about SEO, Internet marketing, affiliate have been discussed but this doesn’t mean you can’t put your own twist (or thoughts) in a blog post about this domains.
Maybe someone can’t write just super awesome articles all the time, but he tries to make all the post his own, I think that is good enough.
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Thanks Alex for your input. I wished to bring these two extremes into my community discussion and alert how bigger bloggers have already listed those sterotypic blog post titles. I don’t believe you can’t cook pizza because it was already cooked by many before you. Its a matter of taste. I just try to look for a new angle or a new way of perception if possible.
It is very difficult to be original when you try to create a new post, but the problem is that if you were to post about something that’s part of a big niche, your most likely going find everything about that niche already covered and all you can really do is perhaps present it better.
The other problem is that posting about something already created before, wont really help your post getting ranked high since other posts with similar information already existed long before your post was made, so the search engines would probably favor the older posts.
Unless your new post (even if it contains similar content) produces new and unique views/ideas, you most likely wont get that many visitors for that post.
I never post about something already covered in other sources unless its under 1 condition:
The condition is that I’m posting based on my “Own Experience” with things I applied in that post for example. That way I’m sharing my own unique experience of methods that I applied and wanted to post the results to share it with everyone.
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No Sayed, it not difficult to be original, we all are different in essence and whatever we do ourselves are original, isn’t it. I agree when we create post its hard to something that nobody ever told. And you are very correct to say ‘new and unique views/iceas’ are certainly worthy.
Talking about search engine favor, I have a very recent post talking about ‘how to install wordpress via FTP or file manager’. I wonder how many thousands times it is already written but this is the post where I’m getting search engine visitors. If search engines finds your post close to what user is searching, there are chances it will send some traffic to your post.
I think you misunderstood what I meant a bit Suresh, I didn’t mean that when creating any new post regarding any subject that its difficult to be original, I just meant that if your blog is about a very popular subject, and if your blog is new, then chances are that any ideas your going to try and write about is already been done before, so to be original in that case will be a bit difficult, but you have have to find new ways to be unique and to try to present your ideas better than whats already available.
But for example if your blog is about a unique subject that noone really blogs about that much or blogged about before, then when you create a new post, your head will be swimming with ideas that haven’t been mentioned before, since the subject your talking about is rare.
I just meant between a topic that is popular and another that is unpopular, you will always find it much easier coming up with original content for the unpopular topic than for the popular one, and that also helps you when it comes to search engines rankings, because all their focus will be on your rare blog, as for posting something about a popular topic that’s already been mentioned, your right, if your content is good and close to what the user is searching the chances are that you will be able to get some traffic out of that too.
Thanks for your reply Suresh.
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Hey! I made a joke to remind we all have DNA. I understand you very well and agree with you. I just rephrased your words that to be original is not difficult but to produce worthy post on a topic already popular requires more work as you said.
Ha, thanks for referencing my post – even if you did pull some bits out of context.
it’s okay. I like how you visited this topic with a fresh look – the same thing I was attempting to do with a sarcastic edge. You wrote well, and I appreciated reading it. I think the topics we write about will always have been touched on in some form or another – it is up to us to find an original spin for every rehashed topic. You’ve done it here, so it’s not impossible at all…
Thank you Daniel for stopping by and I’m sorry if I pulled it too much
I’m grateful for the comment and glad you like how it read.
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Hi Suresh,
Buddy, Flossie May, Pansy, Bob, Matilda, Peeper, Katie, Buster, Little Bit, Ring Tail, One Spot, Two Spot, and the Copper Kittie all want to thank you for a well written post!
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Haaaa….. thank you Jeffrey for that well written comment
Thanks Suresh
very informative post,i really like your way of writing and explaining anything,that,s why reading your back posts also…great work dude keep on
Thank you Bilal. Your words inspires me to work harder.
I love your perspective about kittens, you are plug-ins, guest posting can generate traffic actually. Thanks for sharing this wonderful informative post it really means a lot to me.
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Your post is quite interesting and I love your elaboration about kittens. Originality is very much important after all, being original translates into lots of traffic.
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