The Top 10 Clues That You Are an Amateur Blogger
Feb 24th, 2007
The Top 10 Clues That You Are an Amateur Blogger « Lorelle on WordPress
She says, “Lists suck. I hate lists. To me, they are a sign of a potential splog (spam blog) that uses links to ferment search engine page rank.”. Well, I am sorry you think that way, Lorelle - you will certainly hate my blog, but you know what? You might just end up loving it - it sticks to its plan, and delivers what it promises, consistently. Oh, by the way, Lorelle’s article also references the excellent article, “Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See“. Though I hate to tell Lorelle that she did not have to reproduce the entire list - linking to it and highlighting what she found good would have been enough. You know you are not being creative when you reproduce something someone wrote in its entirety.
Apples and oranges.
If all you have on the blog are a list of links on every page, with posts titled “Links 2-23-07″, then you suck. Especially if there is no content to explain why the links are worth linking to.
From a quick glimpse, you are just being an echo chamber. A specialized echo chamber, though. You find lists of things and then write a couple sentences and link to the post with the list.
You asked on my site if your site brings value to the blogosphere. You specialize in lists, which makes you a specialist, but it would be better if you were writing the lists and having people link to you, and not just you linking to other people’s lists.
You have a LOT of competition because there are a lot of bloggers, social bookmarking and networking sites, and list-oriented sites who specialize in pointing people to lists. You are one of the crowd.
I bet you’d have more fun in a smaller crowd.
But you don’t qualify as one of those link listers who suck. They are the orange. You are the apple.
Oh, by the way, that’s “my summary” with my words of the list on that article. With my points and my opinions. Just wanted to clear that up for you.