By “we” I mean affiliate marketers, which is my prime readership.
Why do you spend time blogging and sharing ideas, thoughts and whatever you want with people? When you really look at it, blogging is probably the biggest waste of time considering most of our blogs probably don’t make much money compared to what we make doing affiliate marketing.
For me personally, I started blogging for fun. I started doing posts similar to what others were doing, because I had no clue what the hell to talk about. I have since realized that you should never blog simply because you haven’t in a few days. If you got something to write, then write it. Screw if your readers will like it or not, this is YOUR personal blog.
Write stuff that YOU are interested in and never write something because you think it’s going to rank well or people will like it. We can all read through the BS.
Keep your posts real and don’t try to impress people or be something you aren’t, it’s lame.
Oh and fuck ‘buzz words’, like super affiliate.
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I just love the whole idea of writing and seeing whether people enjoy it or not. Then it turned to seeing how much I could improve my writing.
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Why do I blog. Well yes sharing is one reason I like to do it. Some people besides the normal bloggers read my blog. Personal friends do also. I think it will be neat in a few years to read what you write also.
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blogging is a huge waste of time no doubt about it.
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I blog because I use it as a diary to look back at what I did and where my mistakes are. When I am strategizing, I blog because it helps me put my ideas into words and that opens up a whole different view of things.
It is sort of like speaking your ideas out loud. Even if you are talking to a mirror or a wall, sometimes talking out loud just opens up your mind. Very helpful.
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I blog because I work at home, alone, and my dog is pretty boring to talk to. In a typical office, I’d have people to complain to, or share stories… being self-employed, nobody I work with on a regular basis wants to hear that. Blogging is my water-cooler.
I also blog to help people. Instead of always complaining, or talking about what I just did, I try to post informative stuff, like my post on geotargeting.
What I can’t stand are bloggers who blog, only to get people to sign up under their network referral ID.
BTW, Bryn, I was looking for you at the 202 Meetup in Vegas but didn’t see you. I spotted you once in the Exhibit Hall, but you were busy & I figured I’d catch you later. Hopefully I’ll see you in Toronto in a few months.
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:29 am
Ahh dude shoulda just came up too me! I was a the meetup202 but only briefly…it was pretty boring.
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For most affiliate marketers (especially who use CPA networks) blogging is a complete waste of time. Unless you are driving traffic to an landing page on your blog in which you wouldn’t unless you were trying to offset ad cost with advertising sales on the blog.
And as far as personal blog, it’s totally a waste unless you were trying to turn it into a different business all together. And You should talk about whatever you want on your personal blog, who cares what others think.
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I love it; got 3 going nicely at the moment. I like it, it’s liked by others, so why not?
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i think its because the hype of blogging has affected us as well. kinda sad, blogging has become an epidemic…
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I blog because I like to write and have an outlet for what I’m thinking. Lst’s face it, spouses, family, friends have no interest in hearing about this stuff but the people who read my blog have a similar mindset as myself. It’s just an outlet and I have a lot of fun doing it.
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