Reasons why I like to blog and reasons why you shouldn’t blog

Posted on April 1, 2007 at 8:33 pm

I’m writing this post because I was talking to one of my friends just a little while ago and he was just really annoyed at why some people blog! So what happened was that he just started blogging a couple of months back and there’s this guy who keeps posting comments on his blog that go something like “Great post, blah blah blah” and then he writes where he blogs and puts a link in at the bottom to his blog. Nothing major and I think everyone has done that a few times (I did recently), but this guy keeps doing it! But the best part about the whole thing is that my friend read a post off his blog and decided that he would post a comment because he enjoyed the post, but the guy had his blog set to APPROVE comments!!!

I mean come on man!! First you’re going around dropping a link to your blog over and over on people’s blogs (to get higher in the Google rankings I’m sure) and then you turn off your own comments!!! FOR WHAT!!?!? The whole point of a damn blog is that you’re supposed to write about what you like and have other people comment and tell what they like or dislike or just for discussion! I would love to have more comments on my site, whatever you write!

So anyway after hearing that, I got a little annoyed and decided to write about why I like to blog because I have to say that in the begining, which was about a month ago, I got into the whole hype thing with Google AdSense money and affiliate programs and so thought I would start posting and see what happens. And the first week, I put on the good ol AdSense ads on the top and bottom and the right hand margin, etc, trying to capitalize on the whole thing. Basically, trying to blog for the money…

But we all know what happens when you try to go only for the money…you will eventually fail. And if you don’t fail, you’ll have done it for the wrong reasons and that’s just not satisfying. After about three weeks into it, I started realizing that I wasn’t blogging so much to try and get lots of visitors, but because I was actually having fun!!! It really IS FUN! Almost immediately that day I felt a burden life off my shoulders, almost like up to that point I was in competition with other bloggers to write about the latest news or coolest hack. It was my own set of interests and my own set of ideas at my own time.

If you’re blogging to get more readers so that you can make more money off AdSense or whatever, I just don’t think it’ll work out for most people becuase then you have to be a salesman rather than a writer. You have to think about how to attract people, which topics to write about, what’s the best topic to get the most readers. Maybe that’s why those blogs about naked celebrities or naken women seem to do so well, but unless the person writing that blog truly enjoys that stuff, in the end that blog will not last very long.

Definitely though, if your blog is doing well and you enjoy your work, then by all means make some money off of it, I don’t think there is anything wrong with earning money off of hard work. But do hard work that means somehting to you. One thing I don’t believe in is Blogger Burnout, what the hell is that? Why would you get burned out unless you’re trying too hard and you don’t really want to be doing that much work. If you were really working hard and you were having lots of fun doing it, then there wouldn’t be any burnout! So that basically means if you’re getting burned out, you’re trying to compete or you’re trying too hard to get people to come to your site!

Anyway, that’s just a little rambling about blogging that I felt the need to post. Boy, I just wish I had more time to post. The best part of the whole process is that you learn so much stuff while reading other people’s blog, news articles, etc. I think I’ve learned more about technology in the last month than I have in the last 5 years! It’s a great way to stay up to date on the latest technologies and gadgets.

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2 Responses to “Reasons why I like to blog and reasons why you shouldn’t blog”

rambochai said on : January 12th, 2009 at 2:16 am

agreed with what you wrote on here . cheers .

FriendlyDutch said on : March 30th, 2009 at 8:03 am

this post was definitely worth the read – so, thanks for writing it in the first place. Doing things and enjoying it is of course a good golden rule to avoid burn-out, but there are things that just need to be done. The challenge is to do them with a smile anyway – that way you may end up enjoying it despite the fact that they ‘need to be done’.