Blogging Don’ts
There are a lot of things you can do to make your blog make money. But, of course, there are as many you can do to make it a slacker. Everybody probably knows the basics of a good moneymaking blog by now - good content, good SEO techniques, syndication, good choice of blog hosting site, etc. However, there remain things that one needs to stay away from in order not to negate whatever positive results any blogging strategy may bring. First off, although blogs are a personal form of writing, they can’t be used as an excuse to vent your anger towards or disapproval of things around you. In other words, if you blog to bash people such as politicians and celebrities, there might be a very little chance that you will succeed as a problogger. For a while, this can be entertaining especially for readers who themselves want to bash the same people. But after a while, things can become too dragging and you’ll simply come across as some whiny, bitter and unhappy soul. There are those who may get away with a blog like this but it obviously takes someone with an extra charismatic personality to do so. Besides, readers generally don’t like to read anything that sends negative vibes. If there’s any emotion that must be prominent in a blog, anger is probably on the bottom of the list. One more blog subject that people generally don’t like to read is an individual’s personal life. Unless you’re a celebrity, readers just won’t care what happens to you especially if they don’t even know you. If you’re in the habit of narrating how excited you were on your child’s first day in school or your husband’s first big promotion, it’s just not going to hold water when it comes to readers who are always looking for useful information and not some life story they’ve heard many times before. Naturally, the one and only cardinal sin that any writer or blogger can commit is plagiarism. If you’ve ever entertained the thought of copying and pasting on your blog what you find to be good content on another blogger’s page, that could get you in legal trouble. Yet even if it doesn’t, word will get around that you’ve been copying other people’s work and that’s not going to sound very good to your valuable readers. Put differently, to make money blogging, you have to pay attention to what you put on your page because ultimately, this will decide the fate of your blog. Whether or not people are going to come back will be determined by what you write and unless you write good information, you will never be successful in your goal of creating a blog making money.
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