Blogging....For Idiots

[SteveHardeman]

Hey, I just got done sucking everyone's cocks and thought of a question before I go out antiqueing. I'll be home in time to hit the soup kitchen though. So, don't worry about me.

Question:

What the F is a blog? No, seriously. I've never read a blog in my life. Well, till I read one from another post on here.

"Short for "Web log," a specialized site that allows an individual or group of individuals to share a running log of events and personal insights with online audiences. Blogs with political or current-events themes have grown in popularity and become "soap boxes" for instant mass-audience commentary."

If my understanding is correct, then a blog is no more than a website but instead of selling pics, videos, weightloss pills, whatever, it's just some turd writing stuff he hopes someone will find interesting. Then, you slap some ads on there and hope people click on them. Am I wrong?

For some reason I thought a blog was something more special or different.

Next Q: Why do search engines get all hot and bothered for blogs? How does the engine even know it's a blog rather than a non-blog site?

I'm So Confused. !?!?!?!?! In fact, I think I may start a new screenname and come back in here as ImSoConfused.

[sunfunbill]

a blog can be many things. It's just software, a platform. What you do with it can be quite different than what it was originally designed for. That's why we have so many splogs.

Each post is it's own page, so you can write many different pages using many different key words, and it never ends. So, it's great for SEO because of the many, unlimited pages you can make at any time.

Also it's mostly text, which is what the whole web is about. See my blog and poke around here:
bilinda's blog

Go to the word press home page, that is the software you should use, most here use WP. Just google it.

[phuckbunny]

[If my understanding is correct, then a blog is no more than a website but instead of selling pics, videos, weightloss pills, whatever, it's just some turd writing stuff he hopes someone will find interesting. Then, you slap some ads on there and hope people click on them. Am I wrong?]


You're not entirely wrong. That was what blogs were when they first started, vanity publishing for vain people who didn't have much to say, it was like putting up your diary online, a bit of an exhibitionist thing in some ways.

I didn't understand it for a long time.

Actually, the same thing was true of webcams. Remember JennyCam?

Of course smarter people soon realized potential for making money from both cams and blogs, though I think cams for sex started earlier than adult webmasters picking up the blogging platform.

Anyway, as Bill said the good thing about a blog is each page can almost be it's own site as far as search engines go.

Where you're wrong is when you say it's just some turd writing stuff he hopes someone will find interesting. Doesn't always have to be a turd, there are thousands of interesting blogs on every subject and in every way shape and form the way you want your site to look like. It can be a one man band or it could have several writers, it's what every you want it to be.

Think of it this way. How much money do you think the NY, LA or London Times make from people actually purchasing the print edition? My guess is that it's around 2% of their gross. The other 98% percent comes from advertising sales; it's a formula that's worked since newspapers became common 150 years ago. Now, I find plenty of people on all of those who I would classify as turds, but I and a hundred million other people read them because we do find them interesting. OK, you can say that it's just news reporting, then how about magazines ? Harpers, the New Yorker, the Economist, you name it... those are all turds and/or non turds hoping that someone finds their shit interesting.

Happy antiquing. See you at the soup kitchen in a few hours.

[SteveHardeman]

I'm only 10% thru reading this but it seems good enough that I wanted to post it for other NewBerts to see.

A blog about building a successful blog. Where does it end, I ask, where does it end?


http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...rom-your-blog/

OK, back to sucking everyone's cocks.

[phuckbunny]

It does NOT end. Once the cocks are out of your mouth, I'll let you in a little secret. A perfunctory look at that site leads me to believe that's actually not a real blog. It's essentially an adsense splog.

That guy is telling the same information that everyone knows, he relies on people googling "how to make money from your blog", tells you the same basic info that is replicated on thousands of other sites and makes money from adsense clicks on his sidebars.

Get it? It's like, want to make money from SEO tips? Start an SEO blog and like the newspaper example, 2% of your your income will come from consulting and the rest will be ad clicks.

[Hammer]

Actually that is a blog and a very good one and Steve Pavlina is worth reading and provides excellent information. Google his name sometime if you want to see what other serious bloggers think of him.

And Phuckbunny if after reading a few of his VERY LONG posts you still think he's just spouting stuff that you already know, then you must know a hell of a lot . Check out his categories. Everything from podcasting to metaphysics.

[phuckbunny]

Whoops. My bad, Hammer. I actually only looked at that blog for about ten seconds before posting and once you mentioned Steve Pavlina, I do know who he is and had looked at his sites before that do provide valuable info. But on first look, it did indeed look like the other gazillions of sites who are doing exactly what I was describing which you know what I'm describing.

But since I never can resist playing the 's advocate, why would anyone want to give away their secrets for free? Kind of like a guy making money from speaking tours about how to get rich quick, or a guy who made his fortune from selling "how to make a million bucks" books, wherein it was that very book that made him the million, no?

Surely we're not all in the charity business.
Otherwise I'd be helping out Out4ca$$$ in the soup kitchen or helping Brangelina and Razor to hold orphans back in SA.

[Cozy Monica]

When someone makes money telling their secrets, it's because they realized that revealing the secrets won't serve to reduce their income, and it will also serve to bring in more income.

[Hammer]

True dat, Monica and Pavlina was supposedly making over $1000 a day from Adsense over a year ago and I'm sure it's way more than that now, so I wouldn't say it was for free. However, his blog is about personal development and he covers a wide range of topics so I don't really see it as giving away secrets.

Like I've said many times, you find something you're interested in and are knowledgeable about and you blog about it. Other people that want to learn what you have to teach, or find what you write about interesting will visit your blog and you'll make money.

[razor]

Happy antiquing. See you at the soup kitchen in a few hours.

You lucky you have decent soup kitchens - in Bloem they piss in the soup .....

[Hammer]

Originally posted by razor
You lucky you have decent soup kitchens - in Bloem they piss in the soup .....

They do it at all the soupkitchens, you're not special.

[SteveHardeman]

Bloem? Where's Bloem? Is that Australia? Is that how Outback Steakhouse came up with a "Bloemin Onion"?

You should check out the American Soup Kitchens. Steak, Turkey, Mashed taters. Good stuff.

The other guests smell a lil bit but besides that.....good eatin.

[phuckbunny]

Bloem is short for Bloemfontein, Sarf Effrica.

They piss in the university workers' food, too, after making them "perform athletic exercises". WTF was that all about?

I went to an Outback and ordered the Bloomin Onion once and was shocked!

[razor]

WTF was that all about?

student fun

[mynameisjim]

Where I go, you pay extra for the piss.

[phuckbunny]

Come out to SA, it's not only free, it's everywhere.

[phuckbunny]

Hey Raz, I just watched the video. The guy clearly pulls out a water bottle! Seems they don't piss in the soup Bloem after all.

[nolimits4]

who do you make a customize wp theme?

beside css what else is necesaary?

[razor]

Originally posted by phuckbunny
Hey Raz, I just watched the video. The guy clearly pulls out a water bottle! Seems they don't piss in the soup Bloem after all.

Claims it was just a hoax , I haven't seen the video , just saw the report on CNN.