Clueless Blogger Tips

I was reading this post by a guy who seems to just hate anyone who gives advice about blogging and he seems to believe that if something did not work for him that it must not work for anyone else.

Ignore the bloggers grammar. I’m sure it isn’t his fault. He is posting about blogging tips that he considers outdated.

Submit Your Blog To Blog Directories. – How many of you have submitted your blogs to all those directories and gained from it? Some takes months for your blog to be listed and when it does gets listed, what did you get? Hundreds of hits? Got a good back-link which Google almost don’t recognise now? It’s an outdated tip.

There are still good blog directories that will get you some traffic. I’ll list my blog in a directory if it gets me one new reader. There are millions of blogs for people to choose from. The more exposure you get, the better. It doesn’t matter what google thinks of the link.

Ping Your Blogs To The hundreds of Ping Sites – Except for the few big ones today, all the rest can be ignored.

Again, it’s his opinion. But it’s like saying ignore the small search engines. Can you afford to ignore any new traffic? So pinging a lot of sites when you post is still not outdated.

Submit Articles to Ezines – This was a tip I used and got bitten. Did not get a single hit from the articles I submitted but all my articles got ripped from Ezines by some arseholes for their sites that has noting but stolen contents and full of Adsense.

This is not a blogging tip in the first place. This is a tip for anyone with a website and Article Marketing is still alive and well. His lack of response and lack of success at it could have something to do with the quality of the articles he submitted. I can’t be sure but after reading this blog post I can make an educated guess.

Join A Blog Carnival – The most you get will be from the same group that took part in that carnival and for the duration of that carnival. Total waste of time.

I don’t participate in these but any networking opportunity is only as good as you make it.

Join A Forum – Unless you go and participate actively in at least 10 Forums or unless you are an established blogger, Forums are also a waste of time. If you go and join a very popular forum like Digitalpoint, introduce yourself, do you think all the participants will rush to your blog and check you out? NO. You have to spend months getting to know them. Chat with them. Become their friends. Even that does not guarantee they will read your blog. And how many friends can you actually make? 50 is already an exaggerated figure. How many will become your blog’s reader? Out of the 50, maybe 5.

Again, joining forums is not really a blogging tip. But forums were the first social networking websites. And again, it seems this blogger did not have much success posting in forums so it must not be good for anyone else either. Networking is what you make of it. If your social skills are not very good then you won’t likely do well in a social atmosphere.

Comment in other blogs – This a social practice. Commenting in others blog shows you either appreciate what has been written or you have conflicting views. It is an interaction between bloggers. It is a polite thing to do. If you hope to get all your readers from your commenting practise, then be prepared to comment in a few thousand blogs each day. You can build a community of your own through your comments. Try commenting in some high profile blogs. You will never ever get that blogger to come and comment back in your blog. So don’t hang your hopes on building your blogs with your comments.

I love that, “You will never ever get that blogger to come and comment back in your blog”. Ok, Mr. Negative. I get people to come and comment back to my blogs all the time without asking them to, so just because your socializing on the web didn’t work out, don’t assume it won’t work for anyone else.

So where can you go for all the new age blogging tips? I am no guru, but here is a good start. As I learn, I will implement. If it works I will share. If it doesn’t I will shut up. How does that sound? You will only get the tips that works. Sorry.. can’t help whoring myself a bit, but you do know how to subscribe don’t you?

If I was to wait on this guy to find anything that works for him I’d be too old to do any blogging.

Sorry I had to pick on this “down in his luck, black cloud over his head, i hate blog gurus, nothing works guy”, but it was so negative I couldn’t resist.