Don’t Be a Copy-and-Paste Blogger
by Charlie on February 11, 2008 in Content
Try to be as original as you possibly in all of your blog posts. While visiting other blogs about making money with blogging, I always see the same tired information that has been repeated on the internet thousands of times before. A copy-and-paste blogger will never reach his or her peak at the top of the blogging domain because people are not interested in posts they have seen dozens of times before. Their blog will be characterized as boring by their audience.
For example, on multiple money making blogs, I see people listing methods of SEO, but each method is so common and trite that the reader never actually learns anything new. It’s better to focus on one unknown method of SEO, and dedicate a whole post on the explanation of the method. Some people may have a difficult time thinking about information on a single aspect of SEO, but go in-depth on the method. Introduce the method, explain how the method works, and most importantly, follow up your post with results of the method. Covering the results really gives people a sense of the worth of the author. “Wow, this method must really work” appears in the minds of the audience. They will begin to contribute to your post with their own ideas and links will shortly follow. There, now you have your own dedicated audience! Now, if you stop copying and pasting common information and develop your own unique ideas, people will definitely become interested in your website and give your blogging URL to everybody.
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I totally agree. In the world of SEO blogs (and every genre of blogging — I maintain my own pop culture blog and write for a gaming one — both being genres we see the same posts recycled over and over in) repetitiveness is a real problem. Would you maybe be able to write a post linking to some of the SEO blogs you enjoy that don’t suffer from this?
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I’m not so sure… Originality and new information is good, but can’t it also be useful to pass on an oldie-but-goodie?
I agree though that it should not dominate your blog. I mean, at the very least you should try to put an original spin on information you glean from other sources. This makes it fit better with the rest of your site, as well as proving that you are a real person.
Yes, I can see your perspective on it. That is definitely a viable option. Reused content can be used to clarify subjects or just bring an audience back to a peculiar subject.
I know in weightlifting, with all the new research and such, some people still rely on old routines from the day to get them in shape and bulked up.