I will be talking here about bloggers involved in advertising, money making, seo and sem. The rest … please do not feel offended!
First of all let's understand the meaning of Bloggers are Scottish. The scots are renowned for: bravery (see BraveHeart), for manly dresses (check photo) and for cheapness (as in really tight pockets). And cheapness is where I wanted to get.
I'm rather new to blogging and I'm not a blogger myself. This is a content site and does not act, look and feel like a regular blog. Maybe a bit but it's my own custom job. This is a content site because I post mostly tutorials and some articles on different subjects. And I do not nofollow, I completely maks links with robots.txt. I nuke them!
And I do pay from time to time. For example I bought Aaron Wall's Seo Book even if I had it cracked because I wanted the latest version and because what the older one I had taught me was worth the money. It was my way of giving back! ( not to forget the free updates he offers ;) )
In my short experience with bloggers, especially those oriented to making a buck online, I found out they are cheap in two ways: They won't pay for services & informations and they won't give you any link juice and they won't click ads!
I will give you some simple examples: read what Tadeusz Szewczyk, a disappointed blogger with a nice blog has to say. He complains he doesn't sell virtually anything from his site with decent traffic.
And sadly, it is true. Bloggers are freebies who only dream of making big online. They hope people will buy what they advertise and become their subaffiliates and, eventually, make them money! But money bloggers miss a point. Their entire audience usually consists of the same kind of individuals. Other involved in the industry who visit their sites just to see what's new and what free advice they can get.
This is the problem bloggers who try to sell something have. Would you buy your own 'sheet'? If you wouldn't why would you expect others to? If you never buy anything from any other blogger why would you expect others to buy from you? If you do contribute, you're one of the good guyz, otherwise you're a freebie!
I just discovered another proof of Bloggers always willing to get but almost never to give!
I disabled AdSense from the site two days ago but yesterday had a 1k visitors StumbleUpon stampede. I enabled AdSense, as an experiment, during that time and I never got one click which is statistically impossible. From 1000 visits no clicks is amazing.
Diggers do the same and you soon realize that, even if they are interested in the ad, they will not click it! I'll tell you why:
So you don't make more than they do! If they don't earn you should not either … this is a concept as old as the world!
Nofollow, nofollow, nofollow and … nofollow. Except few bloggers such as: Lucia's, Hamlet's, Tad's and few others, most nofollow or if they do … the won't link to you!. And worst is most never mention the newbies as Manish Pandey carefully observes in his post.
They just keep their links between a group of friends exactly like Diggers' Backrub regardless of the quality of others' content. When Google pushed nofollow the changed the face of the internet forever.
Lack of links, lack of readers and lack of income make many new bloggers quit. And, maybe, what they had to say needed to be heard even by the Guruz!
Support blogger siblings who show promise and consider that a long term investment. Maybe, in the near future, you'll learn from them!
… of forever hold you peace!
I ask any Scottish / UK: How does it feel to be labeled by some jokes? Your newspapers wrongfully label us at least weekly about my kind (Eastern Europeans) and they never do it in a positive way and with no real fundament! It socks, doesn't it?
Representatives of several nations meet in a restaurant. They all ask for a glass of wine but each glass has a fly in it.
- The Swedish asks for new wine in the same glass.
- The British asks for new wine in new glass.
- The Finnish removes the fly and drinks the wine.
- The Russian drinks the wine with the fly.
- The Chinese eats the fly and leaves the wine.
- The Jew catches the fly and sells it to The Chinese.
- The Gipsy drinks three querters and asks for a new one.
- The Norvegian catches the fly and goes fishing.
- The Irish slices the fly into little pieces and sends it to The English.
- The American sues the restaurant for 50mil dollars, moral damage.
- The Scottish grabs the fly by the neck and says: Right now, spit everything you drank!
and
A Scottish comes home late at night, hanving a Whiskey bottle in his pants' poket. Due to darkness he stumbles on the stairs, feels something wet on his leg and says: I hope it's blood!
And just to show you that labels exist for others too read this!
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