The Age of The Amateur Blogger (Part 1)

The Age of the Amateur Blogger (Part 2)

The Age of the Blogger The Near-Extinct “Pro” Blogger:

I feel like I am some kind of “Save the Wildlife, Feed a bear“ scenario here. However, for those just tuning in, this is a continuation of Part 1.

As much as we all love free internet and net neutrality for all, it is cluttering up the internet.

I read in magazines that by 2012, the internet will be considered ‘full’ because of all the spam sites that are being created out there. That is depressing.

A Message to all Bloggers and Webmasters:

Though I may appear a bit off or rude here, it is fact. In no way am I directing this at you, I am just stating that if you do not blog anymore or do not care about blogging, then clean up after yourselves ;).

Entrecard Scraper-Blogs

Entrecard is becoming filled up with these types of blogs and it is rather sad to see. Half of the blogs in any given category are filled with those that have not posted in over a month. or even checked for a week. With Entrecard continuously growing in popularity since its late 2007 release, it is getting more cluttered as well.

Ok.. I was harsh. Forgive Me?

Sorry for this bit of rant, but you all know that deep down inside it is true. You have all seen the blogs that are just left sitting in the dust. The majority of blogs do not make it passed 3 months and that is because they were misinformed about blogging.

Sure, it can be fun but if you do not like writing, why subject yourself to it on a daily basis? If you do not like being creative in your writing or find a way to contribute or create a community through hard work, why bother? Despite jumping into Blogging with all the ‘great’ information on it floating around the web, one must realize that blogging does take a bit of work to get off the ground.

Conclusion:

It takes dedication, marketing, and creativity to be above the 3,000,000 blogs created monthly, and it will only get worse. You enjoy the rest of your day now.

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4 Responses to “The Age of the Amateur Blogger (Part 2)”

Karlonia(3 March 2008 at 8:50 pm)

Actually I think that you are correct on the “blog clutter” issue. Recently I have been focusing more of my Entrecard efforts toward the newbie bloggers in various categories (those with less ad credit values toward the bottom of the list), and I have been seeing an increasing number of 404 pages, abandoned blogspot blogs, and apparently inactive sites that don’t even have the Entrecard widget. I’m not sure what, if anything, Entrecard will do about this - perhaps they could institute some sort of inactivity rule, but with such a high influx of new blogs, that may be too much of a headache for them to enforce.

Entrepreneur(4 March 2008 at 4:35 am)

Not only is Entrecard being flooded with splogs, the 5,000 registered is a phantom number since we know that many users have more than 1 blog with someone having up to 30 on EC. So I think its safe to say that maybe there’s only 2500 real people with real blogs and the rest is fluff. EC can’t remove them right now because they need to show “growth”, but once they hit critical mass, they better or be considered a big joke when every other card you click on leads to a 404 or a blogweb.

1 Million in 365 Day(6 March 2008 at 5:15 pm)	3
New blogs are like newborn babies. You can’t simply abandon them. You have to nurture them, to watch out for their safety. As for Entrecard or any other ‘hotspot’ for blogs, that’s what will always happen. A lot of spam, splogs, gaming the system blogs and what not. These things will never go away..

Jonathon(7 March 2008 at 12:11 am)	4
You are absolutely correct, and I personally don’t think you were being harsh. Hopefully soon a solution can be found to stop the rapid increase in spam sites/blogs, because all they do is make the rest of us bloggers that put time and effort into our blogs look bad.

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