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Bored With Blogging
By admin | June 21, 2007
It doesn’t matter if you’ve started blogging years ago or if you recently started; at one point you will get bored with blogging. At the moment I have had a 2 week break and really have to force myself to write this post. Blogging has lost the charm all new things have and seems more like a task now. This must be the make or break point for a blog. I have seen some great things happen in my short blogging career and think I miss the rush of getting an article featured on the front-page of Digg or Reddit or getting 50+ backlinks overnight. I’m used to raise the bar too high and find it hard to deal with what in my eyes seems like a big loss. For example: I can have 200 RSS readers today, 300 tomorrow and if I have 299 the day after … I’ll be bummed I lost one reader even-though I’ve gained 99. Hope that’s an example that makes sense 
I’ve decided for now not to participate in any meme’s like the Feed My Feed, ViraLink and Technorati Fave Train because they are nothing more than a sugar rush really. If I want this blog to be taken serious and have a shot at becoming an A-lister (what did I say about me and raising bars again?) I feel that I need to deserve the traffic in an honest way. Having said that, I don’t judge the people who are using these memes but my personal goal has changed somewhat and I think that gaining numbers like this will not provide a solid base for my blog to work from. I’ve found out that there is no fast and easy “getting rich online” scheme that works. Blogging is hard work and by manipulating the numbers you will probably end up fooling yourself.
If your new to the game you’ll probably stumble across some popular money making blogs and get the idea that anyone with a blog can make loads of money online. I can tell you now; Snap out of it, not gonna happen. Not overnight anyway.
Ask yourself; There’s over 70.000.000 bloggers out there, how many do you know that make enough money blogging to quit their regular jobs?
From a personal perspective I don’t need to make money online, it’s more the challenge to see if I can. There is money to be made on the Internet for sure but it requires a lot of hard work and some luck. I am making money online but the percentage this blog contributes to the total sum is negligible.
Bored or not, I’ll keep going because I have invested a lot of time already in this blog and its a great learning experience. I’m certain there are many more rushes to come and in the meantime your just gonna have to put up with me.
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June 21st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Keep plugging away buddy, we’ll do this together. Except I want 25% of your profits.
June 21st, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Sure, give me your PayPal address
June 21st, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Know how you feel. I dreamed of making the Technorati top 10K and now I have I complain that I didn’t do it ‘properly’ because it’s mainly thanks to viral links.
You’re one of the original voices, Bob, don’t go! If you quit I’ll be like one of the blue faces in your masthead.
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:46 am
Put up with you? I wouldn’t have it any other way Bob.
There are some blogs that I don’t read anymore because I got bored of their blog. Yours….’aint never gonna happen.
Your blog is actually very unique from a lot of them out there and I like that. I honestly never know what I’m going to find out about when I visit your blog.
I know it can get old trying to find things to write about. I’ve been in that rut lately. I think you’re right though. This probalbly is the make or break point in your blog. I hope you will continue.
Are you glad to be back home now?
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:00 am
Yeah the link trains have definitely been a sugar rush! My traffic was 50% down yesterday on the day before but looks like it is making up for it this morning!
I was thinking about this yesterday, does the amount of time your blog has been going for have a direct relation to your daily earnings? I guess we’ll all just have to keep plugging away to see what happens next!
Can i have 25% of your proffits too and you can have 25% of mine? lol
Andy
June 23rd, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Minx, Glad to hear someone understands what I mean
Thanks Julie, you start to sound like my number 1 fan! And yeah, it’s nice to be back home. Finally get some dedicated online time again
Andy, like I said, the money I make with this blog is negligible. Don’t see your blog as a money maker. Its more of a powerful marketing tool you can use to reach out to thousands of potential customers.
June 24th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Although there are a few memes that have been constructive or otherwise worthwhile, I liked your comparison of how many (most?) memes are like a fleeting sugar rush.
I’ve been feeling this but didn’t quite know how to say it…
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