So as a new blogger your told to get traffic give traffic !!! go post nice comments on others blogs and they will because they have good etiquette come back and post a nice comment on your blog. I have been blogging for 4 years now and have been religiously doing this reading, commenting and very often getting no comments back in return. Also i noticed that the more well standing a blogger is i:e up the food chain of bloggers the less comments they give. What does their shit not stink anymore have they forgotten where they come from??
As a noobie, I was confused, i was following all the advice from all those self help blog posts, but i was duped these posts were to get hits not give advise!!!
I am old skool and have traditional manners i would spend time every week visiting blogs reading and commenting often i would visit a blog 4-5 time leaving tuns of comments before giving up on that person who had obviously not understood the manners of blogging as they had not bothered to reciprocate the love of comments back to me. If a person came to comment on my blog i would often go back and write 1 - 3 comments on their blog perhaps going above and beyond what was expected, why, because i am nice like that i am good at commenting and a friendly blogger and i wanted to make friends.
Over the 4 years i can honestly say most of these "friends" would only be there if prompted by me with a visit to their blog and a few comments apart from one lady who has been there off and on through the four years and will pop a comment on from time to time and leave a comment .
2 years later, linkies started up a new and exciting way to come together, as many other bloggers were grumbling from the lack of comments and it all started out well and good. If you place a link your expected to comment on others links, great that seems fair! which did happen in the start great little communities sharing the same interested sprung up on cooking, gardening etc Now these linkies are just a waste of time, most often it will be just the host that pops by with a comment saying how nice your thing is and thank you for visiting their >>>insert advertising to their blog here. There are some linkies that have been going some time, so get about 30 hits for that link, so for me i would visit all 30 leave comments and you would imagine if you followed the rules that 30 people would come back to you and leave you a nice comment...... erm NO most of the time 5-7 ......great i am now more confused than ever, what am i doing wrong, i followed the rules, why is it failing?
Blogger also started taking the piss, they wont comment on your blog unless you comment on theirs ( how bloody selfish...oh lilly lilly dont be so mean share some love) so how the heck is all this commenting supposed to kick off with a crappy attitude like that. There are also the ninjas as i like to call them, people who just plain wont comment on anyone's post but still join the linkies, seriously i am shaking my head right now.... don't blog if you cant dish out some comments.
So fast forward now to today and this has been changing slowly for the last 6 mths more people have mobile devices so will read a post but wont comment. Also bloggers have found loop holes (see why i am removing Tots100, Foodie100, britmums, netmums and klout )
So now these clans are popping up all over where you can get loads of comment on your post, as long as you comment on everyone's else posts in that link day and you really can put any old shit up on your blog and you will get comments. They don't even have to be good comments as long as the person gets the hits for the scores on the doors as in the above link. One day i saw someone just right "COOL POST" on everyone's post ..... lazy, yes. No meaning behind the comment, yes. Did they read your post, prob not. Was it worth your time, again prob not. However this person had also cut and pasted this well meaning thought out comment of "COOL POST" on someone who had written about how they had lost their baby and how they were feeling about bereavement. OUCH!!!
Even now these closed groups are having in moaning about that they comment on people blogs but the Ninja bloggers that i mentioned earlier have become more prolific (ninja bloggers naturally breed more ninja bloggers). So what is the point in joining these closed groups ??? i think bloggers are just grateful for any scrap attention from comments and getting some comments is better than no comments.
NOW If only bloggers did what they said all those years ago with the polite etiquette of sharing the love of comments and traffic!! i wonder would we be in this predicament now???
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Why i am removing Tots100, Foodie100, britmums, netmums and klout
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Why i am removing Tots100, Foodie100 ,britmums, netmums and klout
Apart from never getting any traffic from these sites over the four years of blogging and scores fluctuating or not being correct, which gives loads of confidence for a blogger as to what systems these people are using to judge us.
Blogging has totally changed, long gone are the days when bloggers scores were a true reflection on how their blogs were performing. Which is great for SEOs and bloggers who want to work together as an advertising and earning revenue. Scores opened doors.
These are now being falsified and skewed by bloggers, which is pretty shit. One way through the etiquette or NOT of comments ( see Wot no comments) is through closed groups on facebook. There are many clans out there that bloggers can join where they round robin comment each other to create traffic, post hits, comments and even boost klout scores, ( Really !! thats kinda cheating isnt it ??? erm now i know why that tinned tuna and pasta post got 40 hits ).
i can understand the frustrations of bloggers spending time writing, taking photos, joining linkies and getting little or no action on their blogs, so this being a way to get action. But it feels and is fake and false. So now there are communities faking up the scores which feed into all of the above in my title making blogging a compleatly different animal a wolf in sheeps clothing, not a true representation of what and how a real blog is performing. So i am now removing them as they mean absolutely nothing.
Other grumbles
Wot no commnets
Why i wont beg for your votes
Blogging has totally changed, long gone are the days when bloggers scores were a true reflection on how their blogs were performing. Which is great for SEOs and bloggers who want to work together as an advertising and earning revenue. Scores opened doors.
These are now being falsified and skewed by bloggers, which is pretty shit. One way through the etiquette or NOT of comments ( see Wot no comments) is through closed groups on facebook. There are many clans out there that bloggers can join where they round robin comment each other to create traffic, post hits, comments and even boost klout scores, ( Really !! thats kinda cheating isnt it ??? erm now i know why that tinned tuna and pasta post got 40 hits ).
i can understand the frustrations of bloggers spending time writing, taking photos, joining linkies and getting little or no action on their blogs, so this being a way to get action. But it feels and is fake and false. So now there are communities faking up the scores which feed into all of the above in my title making blogging a compleatly different animal a wolf in sheeps clothing, not a true representation of what and how a real blog is performing. So i am now removing them as they mean absolutely nothing.
Other grumbles
Wot no commnets
Why i wont beg for your votes
Why i wont beg for your votes
There are so many awards up all the time and so often i see loads of bloggers shamelessly grovelling that their readers vote for them so they can win the bestest blogger ever award and get some self satisfaction that they are achieving all their blogging dreams and feel worthy that all those posts are worth it.
However i find all these awards and back slapping to be not about who is actually writing and presenting a great blog but a popularity contest on how many bloggers can convert readers to votes which seems a total false.
I see a constant flow of dull posts, such as i mixed a can of tune with a tin of tomatoes and plonked it on some pasta or i chucked some sweets on a cake or i bought this from Primark as a post (Seriously!!!), or something as equally hum drum filling up the bloggersphere from bloggers that not only have 40 comments after them (WHAT how did you manage that !!!). (See wot no comments as to why ) They also are the ones getting all the votes, just because they are constantly verbally vomiting their voices with these above mentioned posts and managed to get readership, have loads of mates or are shaking down the right people at the top.
Seriously these are not ground braking inspiring posts worthy of awards but lazy. I read many beautiful blog with wonderful writing and gorgeous photography, inspired stories and recipes that just seem left in the ditch, ignored with no one handing out a pixel badge saying how fab they are. There really are quite a few out there where the writer has taken their time to create something that really looks like it belongs in a magazine.
So why is it that the creators of these pixel awards are not delivering and handing out what they propose on the tin instead of choosing from the pool of the well connect bloggers at the top, most of which you see year in and year out winning. yer yer they have the new blogger category but most of the time its the same old faces.
Now i am not saying my blog is great, boy it really isn't, just that i wont play the stupid games, my feelings go to all those that enter that do have nice blogs and don't get picked as they just were not popular enough, or the big boys at the top just wont step aside to let new fresh voices through. This must be very demotivating to bloggers of talent trying to make a go of it. Perhaps if you win one year you cant enter the next just to give a bit of space for others, Afterall those at the top stay at the top, they have been their for years, all know each other, all vote for each other, massaging each others egos and lots of back slapping. which is naturally tipping the scales of voting a askew. They say the work place is like an old boys club, were woman find it hard to break through as the men hold fast their positions of power. i think us woman are doing the same thing here. Is it fair?
Other grumbles
Wot no comments
Why i am removing Tots100, Foodie100, britmums, netmums and klout
However i find all these awards and back slapping to be not about who is actually writing and presenting a great blog but a popularity contest on how many bloggers can convert readers to votes which seems a total false.
I see a constant flow of dull posts, such as i mixed a can of tune with a tin of tomatoes and plonked it on some pasta or i chucked some sweets on a cake or i bought this from Primark as a post (Seriously!!!), or something as equally hum drum filling up the bloggersphere from bloggers that not only have 40 comments after them (WHAT how did you manage that !!!). (See wot no comments as to why ) They also are the ones getting all the votes, just because they are constantly verbally vomiting their voices with these above mentioned posts and managed to get readership, have loads of mates or are shaking down the right people at the top.
Seriously these are not ground braking inspiring posts worthy of awards but lazy. I read many beautiful blog with wonderful writing and gorgeous photography, inspired stories and recipes that just seem left in the ditch, ignored with no one handing out a pixel badge saying how fab they are. There really are quite a few out there where the writer has taken their time to create something that really looks like it belongs in a magazine.
So why is it that the creators of these pixel awards are not delivering and handing out what they propose on the tin instead of choosing from the pool of the well connect bloggers at the top, most of which you see year in and year out winning. yer yer they have the new blogger category but most of the time its the same old faces.
Now i am not saying my blog is great, boy it really isn't, just that i wont play the stupid games, my feelings go to all those that enter that do have nice blogs and don't get picked as they just were not popular enough, or the big boys at the top just wont step aside to let new fresh voices through. This must be very demotivating to bloggers of talent trying to make a go of it. Perhaps if you win one year you cant enter the next just to give a bit of space for others, Afterall those at the top stay at the top, they have been their for years, all know each other, all vote for each other, massaging each others egos and lots of back slapping. which is naturally tipping the scales of voting a askew. They say the work place is like an old boys club, were woman find it hard to break through as the men hold fast their positions of power. i think us woman are doing the same thing here. Is it fair?
Other grumbles
Wot no comments
Why i am removing Tots100, Foodie100, britmums, netmums and klout
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