There is a revolution going on right now in the blogging world. Can you feel it? Change is coming and there is a new crop of bloggers that are quickly taking over. These new school bloggers all share some common traits. They are passionate and most importantly they give more than they take. Bloggers helping other bloggers is a beautiful thing.
Talkin About a Revolution
I am sick and tired of seeing the selfish bloggers succeed and just watch hordes of people follow along like lemmings. Take for example John Chow. Hey John, I do not give a f*ck about what you are eating for lunch or the next convention you are going to. Stop already with the Shoemoney promotion crap. Every day I scratch my head and really try to figure out why this guy is famous. Sorry for going off on a tangent, but that has been building up inside me for a while now.
I am not really sure where I am going with the post. I guess the point I am trying to make is that we as bloggers should support and help each other get to the top. I like to think that I spread the blogging luv around but I will commit to making a more concerted effort to helping my fellow bloggers that are working hard.
I welcome you all to join me, if you are spreading the luv, thanks and please continue. If you are looking for ways that you can help your fellow blogger brethren, here are some quick ideas.
- Retweet. Try and double your retweeting efforts
- Make your blog “Do Follow” – share your link juice
- Install Comment Luv – Let your blog readers know what your commentators are blogging about
- Install Keyword Luv – help your blog readers build links towards their keywords
- Vote. Whether it is Blog Engage, Digg, Stumble Upon or any other social media site, it only takes a second to click the vote button.
- Write a blog post and link to some other cool bloggers
- Use your blogroll to highlight other bloggers that share the luv.
There are 7 quick ways that you can join the blogging revolution and be a cool blogger instead of a dick.
Help me build out this list in the comments… What other ways can you think of.
Yes I’m spreading the luv.
I guess you should consider moderating comments. I don’t know how the comments by the previous commentator are related to this post.
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@selurus, Thanks for the heads up on the comment spam. I am not sure how that slipped by as I have a good spam plugin and I usually also monitor what is going on. Anyhow, I am glad you are spreading the blogging luv and glad to see your blog is part of the do follow movement.
Spread the luv it is! Rightly said. All the bloggers out there should be helping each other climb up the ladder of success and not just a go-to-one-man success. Pulling others down is such a bad thing. Anyway, thank for this plain and honest post. It makes us even more determined to strive harder with our blogging and to share with gladness.
I’m following most of the points given by you. And guess what I’m gonna make my blog dofollow in just a few days.
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Thanks for a great post, Dan. I fully agree with you, blogging is more of a community than a competition. Helping each other to grow is what it is all about.
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@Jim Clary, well said Jum, I will stopping by your blog to check out the top 5 seo strategies you mention
Add another +1 to the list. I’m new, so not very experienced, but if there’s ever anything I can do to help another blogger out, I’m game. I haven’t done any blog-author-guest-post things yet, but I’m up for that… if anyone is interested, find me @teleglass on Twitter and let’s connect. Ready to put my bandwidth where my mouth is.
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@Gomez@windshield appointment,
Hey Gomez, nice to meet you! Good luck as you look to build your blog community. I will be stopping by to check things out.
Amen brother! Ya know i’m always available for help.
Don’t even get me started on JC…
@Dennis Edell, Dennis,
You are the man indeed and I appreciate your support and comments..TY.
@Tycoon Blogger @promote your blog, eh, ain’t nothin my man.
You’ll want to catch an upcoming post on the how/why of my blog subscriptions.
i greatly love this post..i think its time for us all to do something.count me in…
we should encourage others to guest post and should welcome guest post from upcoming bloggers…
Agreed. Folks should also realize the benefits of not only giving through enabling the plugins you mentioned and promoting social media references, but also just joining the conversation on a few helpful blogs. By leaving helpful comments and joining other bloggers’ communities, you’re providing a benefit to that blogger, his community at-large, and are also reaping the benefits of some self-promotion. Engage, engage, engage!
Well said Will. Contributing to other blogger’s communities is huge.
I have plenty of company. The most obvious example is Glenn Reynolds, a hyperactive law professor who churns out dozens of posts a day and has quickly become a huge presence in opinion journalism. This is democratic journalism at its purest. Eventually, you can envision a world in which most successful writers will use this medium as a form of self-declared independence.
Great minds think alike. I’ve been working on an article very similar to this, and posted it today about the Bloggers Of Tomorrow, as opposed to the tired way that a lot of bloggers have been told to operate for the past few years…
Yeah, the blogosphere is definitely changing. There is something of a counter culture movement happening in the blogging world. I, for one, am part of it, and hope to become a bigger part of it.
Wow Dan, seems you really have big issues with John. I also don’t any big names as they have forgotten how they got there and some are just to vain for me.
I think if we remember how we started and who helped us and we help others, then it’s just a matter of time before we all make it.
I am of the same mind – far from taking away readership, most of the niche readers out there are always looking for more on the topic. A rising tide raises all ships, and interaction between blogs helps everyone out, including better content.
After a few MMO niche blogs I have decided to share what I have learned about blogging for those who also want to blog about MMO’s. I am no expert, but feel I can help many others from making the same mistakes I made initially.
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Hello Dan, you gotta watch that “dick” stuff, not all dicks are dicks! Just pullin your chain man, I agree 100% with what you say here, the newbies seem to be getting it but the shortcutters still far outweigh the legit bloggers.
It’s guys like you that keep real bloggers going, give us hope that if we keep doing the right thing, we will get our rewards. I love blogging and had I ever had a job where I worked as many hours for such small renumeration as I do blogging I would have shot myself a long time ago!
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John Chow branded himself so people trust him. He can talk about food and get paid for it. He is no different than the BS you see on TV because the person is “famous”.
-Kai Lo
Twitter @lomak1985
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I find your view on bloggers like John Chow interesting. By any chance, do you work for Google?
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Journalist and author Antony Loewenstein has just released his new book, The Blogging Revolution, which examines the power of blogging in six different countries — Iran, Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt.
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You are right about sharing more of our love by commenting, voting and retweeting.
We help others and help ourselves at the same time.
By the way, I have also not been reading too much of John Chow lately. Gone are the days when he provides really useful blogging tips.
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For as long as journalism has existed, writers of whatever kind have had one route to readers: They needed an editor and a publisher. Even in the most benign scenario, this process subtly distorts journalism. You find yourself almost unconsciously writing to please a handful of people – the editors looking for a certain kind of story.
I have already implemented quite a few of your tips, but the one I am going to try and focus on over the next couple of months is Twitter. I want to become much more of an active participant – and focus on promoting others instead of myself.
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The colonists had no desire for independence or union with the United States, and complaining to Santa Anna himself of the injustice of the law of April 6, 1830, and of the military tyranny to which the people had been subjected. Santa Ana ignored his pleas. Thus war was the only recourse.
They are passionate and most importantly they give more than they take. Bloggers helping other bloggers is a beautiful thing.
Blogging Revolutions is the really revolution in the world of blogging, it contains lots of learning things for blogging.
Martin