Blogging about Blogging: The Snake Eats its Tale

Why is every other blog telling bloggers how to blog? I read a lot of blogs. I am a feed addict. My OPML file from Google Reader would make you weep. Recently I’ve noticed that I’ve been reading a lot of blogs that are telling me how to blog. If I do these 20 things, I will drive more traffic to my blog, sell more ads, and soon my blog will pay for itself (and possibly a nice Georgetown-style townhome here in Raleigh). If I stop doing these 15 things, I will be a more effective blogger. If I link here and here, use tags, hop on my right foot in a circle while patting my head and rubbing my tummy in a videoblog posted to this site it will be regurgitated to YouTube, then it will be Dugg, and I will be the famousest of bloggers for about two hours. Lately it just seems that I am getting hammered with blogging tips and tricks. The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) gurus are out there pushing their tips on the masses. Oy! A lot of the tips are great and make a lot of sense. If you’re a professional blogging consultant and the sole purpose of your blog is to teach other people how to live off of their blogs, blogging about blogging and telling people how to blog makes sense. If you are just a blogger and you spend half of your time regurgitating the awesome knowledge that the SEO gurus have blessed you with, and your daily link roundup is simply an ode to Problogger.com, what excatly have you done? You probably haven’t used any of the tips you’re regurgitating, furthermore you’ve just taken your eyes off the prize and wasted time you could’ve been working on your own content. You’ve just given lip service and driven more traffic from your blog to a blog that already gets astronomical hits and has a loyal following.

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t read the SEO guru blogs and try to use the tips. I just think it’s a bad idea to spend a lot of your own time advertising someone else’s ideas. Time which you could’ve used to write a compelling post or tweak your blog’s appearance.

At any rate, I feel as though I’ve just done what I’m complaining about (says the chick who filed her post about blogging about blogging in a category she has defined on her blog about blogging). Thanks very much I’ll be here all week.

Tags: blog, Geek, WordPress

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