Came upon you site in Entrecard (great tool for finding blogs by topic). Your article is to timely for me. I have been struggling with my blog for the past six months trying to find and write useful content, visiting all the big bloggers to learn how to grow my blog, etc. I basically burned out right away. I have the knowledge, I have the skills, but could not drum up interest. Now I know why. Look forward to reading future posts.
thanks for the insight on the chow. I’ve never visited his blog — just haven’t made the time. Thanks for saving me the effort as it seems to be even less interesting than my own blog (where I also talk about what we had to eat sometimes, but at least I give you the recipe for it).
As for what’s the secret to being an “a” blogger — content, daily, original content my friend.
Since I’m on this subject, I now have something to post on my own blog, so off I go — check me out to read the rest of the story!
Yes, good point! The Boring Me To Death blog epidemic - and… WTF are all blogs looking the same with the same widgets on the right … the most freaking blogs are just a complete turn off at all…
And why do all people use peel ads just to promote “peel ads” themselves (I hope that I made a difference with my blog at http://www.semmy.name and my peel ad :-)!
Suzanne, great post. I couldn’t agree more. I just noticed I’m on your blogroll, thank-you so much. Also apparently we are both fans of Lost Ball in High Weeds. Talk to you soon, Emma
It’s my first visit and I found this to be a really well written and above all, interesting post.
I have noticed more and more bloggers echoing your sentiments towards the A-List and specifically John Chow. I think it’s worth mentioning that John Chow became well known because of his gaming Digg, Technorati and Google and not because of his content or writing abilities.
Darren Rowse and Jeremy Shoemaker made it through their writing so it’s not surprising that they still write good posts while Chow is forced to come up with topics as he has run out of tricks - Chow used gimmicks to get known unlike the others whopaid their dues. I suppose he should get credit for being a good salesman as he has been selling himself for a while now and making a buck doing it.
Grizzly … thanks for the background info. I never visited Chow in his earlier blogging … only became interested in his blog as a case study lately. It will be interesting to see how long the blog remains as profitable as it is on terrible content, particularly since he is positioned so poorly in Google.
[…] title of his post was Dare to Be Interesting. His summary was John Chow was awful, ProBlogger was mediocre and that ShoeMoney still wrote good […]
Suzanne
March 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Where did you read that Problogger was mediocre in my post. I did write that Problogger is outstanding, as a matter of fact. Did you really read the article? As for John Chow … yeah … he’s boring. I could care less what a blogger eats, particularly a MMO blog, and when there is an interesting post, it is written by a guest blogger.
Isn’t internet marketing all about generating as much traffic as possible and converting this traffic into signups and sales?
I know it is… that’s why I concentrate on getting as much free traffic to my website as possible. Here is one great source that has helped me a lot. http://www.easy-viral-traffic.com/members.php
January 21st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Suzanne,
Came upon you site in Entrecard (great tool for finding blogs by topic). Your article is to timely for me. I have been struggling with my blog for the past six months trying to find and write useful content, visiting all the big bloggers to learn how to grow my blog, etc. I basically burned out right away. I have the knowledge, I have the skills, but could not drum up interest. Now I know why. Look forward to reading future posts.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 am
thanks for the insight on the chow. I’ve never visited his blog — just haven’t made the time. Thanks for saving me the effort as it seems to be even less interesting than my own blog (where I also talk about what we had to eat sometimes, but at least I give you the recipe for it).
As for what’s the secret to being an “a” blogger — content, daily, original content my friend.
Since I’m on this subject, I now have something to post on my own blog, so off I go — check me out to read the rest of the story!
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January 22nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Yes, good point! The Boring Me To Death blog epidemic - and… WTF are all blogs looking the same with the same widgets on the right … the most freaking blogs are just a complete turn off at all…
And why do all people use peel ads just to promote “peel ads” themselves (I hope that I made a difference with my blog at http://www.semmy.name and my peel ad :-)!
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January 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I’m a wannabee to, unfortunately I don’t think I have the talent nor the writing skills to actually bee.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Suzanne, great post. I couldn’t agree more. I just noticed I’m on your blogroll, thank-you so much. Also apparently we are both fans of Lost Ball in High Weeds. Talk to you soon, Emma
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January 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 am
Hi Suzanne
It’s my first visit and I found this to be a really well written and above all, interesting post.
I have noticed more and more bloggers echoing your sentiments towards the A-List and specifically John Chow. I think it’s worth mentioning that John Chow became well known because of his gaming Digg, Technorati and Google and not because of his content or writing abilities.
Darren Rowse and Jeremy Shoemaker made it through their writing so it’s not surprising that they still write good posts while Chow is forced to come up with topics as he has run out of tricks - Chow used gimmicks to get known unlike the others whopaid their dues. I suppose he should get credit for being a good salesman as he has been selling himself for a while now and making a buck doing it.
Like a fad he is beginning to grow thin though.
Love your blog - you’re a very good writer!
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January 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Grizzly … thanks for the background info. I never visited Chow in his earlier blogging … only became interested in his blog as a case study lately. It will be interesting to see how long the blog remains as profitable as it is on terrible content, particularly since he is positioned so poorly in Google.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:28 am
[…] title of his post was Dare to Be Interesting. His summary was John Chow was awful, ProBlogger was mediocre and that ShoeMoney still wrote good […]
March 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Where did you read that Problogger was mediocre in my post. I did write that Problogger is outstanding, as a matter of fact. Did you really read the article? As for John Chow … yeah … he’s boring. I could care less what a blogger eats, particularly a MMO blog, and when there is an interesting post, it is written by a guest blogger.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Isn’t internet marketing all about generating as much traffic as possible and converting this traffic into signups and sales?
I know it is… that’s why I concentrate on getting as much free traffic to my website as possible. Here is one great source that has helped me a lot. http://www.easy-viral-traffic.com/members.php