The internet would be a sad place without bloggers. The
blogosphere provides a big chunk of the information found in the internet and
no matter how many content marketers will post that “blogging is dead”, there
will always be at least one person every day that will decide that he wants to
blog his ideas.
I know this to be true because since I started my second
attempt to blog last November 3, 2012, I have met a lot of pinoy bloggers and
even more international bloggers who started blogging even after I did.
If you read any content in the internet in the past about
popular topics and it was posted by some guy in the internet, chances are you
were reading a blog.
If you want to know what a blog is, Wikipedia may have a
better explanation for you.
Or you can check out some of these books about blogging by
bloggers: Blogger Books
This book in particular introduced me to blogging and most of my blogging knowledge initially came from it:
Bloggers need your support.
They compete against one another
and swim with the waves of google algorithm changes to provide information for
those who need it.
A lot of the beginner pinoy bloggers quit because they don’t
get enough support from the rest of the pinoy surfing society.
You may be thinking that most pinoy bloggers are just
spammers. A lot of them are and you will see many more SBLOGS in the internet
as you surf, but there are many great content makers out there that provide
informative, engaging, useful, and entertaining articles.
It is important that online surfers must recognize these
kinds of blogs when they see them.
How to spot a good blog:
The blog has served its purpose if you answered yes to even
just one of the following questions:
Did you find the content useful?
Did you learn something new from it?
Did you enjoy your time in it?
Is it serving a cause?
Did it make you want to react (in a good way)?
Here are some links on how to spot a great blog:
One Essential Characteristic of a Pro Blogger by Darren Rowse
10 Characteristics of Great Blogger by Rahul Banker
How to Support a Blog
If you found a great blog on the web, support it (especially if it’s by a Pinoy) by following at least one of the following tips.
Read blog posts
Reading the blog posts of a blogger is one of the most common ways of supporting. Its free, it only takes a maximum of a few minutes and you may actually learn something. Isn’t that a bargain?
Return to the blog regularly
Remember the URL or bookmark it to make sure you don’t lose it. There are some bloggers with easy to remember domain names like mine: GREEDY BEN.
Say it with me:
GREE-DEE BEN
Wasn’t that easy?
Bookmark the blog
As mentioned in the previous tip, if you like a blog, make sure to bookmark it. It is the star icon found on the upper right part of the chrome window. This allows your browser to store the blog URL to easily retrieve it in the future.
Share it to your preferred social networking website
Share, like, retweet, pin, or +1 it or you could do all of that. It’s just click to you but it’s worth a lot to the blogger.
Sharing shows that the content he or she created was important to someone and it helps other people who needs the content find it more easily through all the other crappy content in the internet.
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Tell your friends about it
Word of mouth is a great natural marketing strategy. It builds a community of people who know each other rather than random surfers from google. People who are part of a community are more likely to return in the future.
Supports their products
I’m not talking about the products you see in the adsense widgets; the blogger makes less than 1 peso from those per 1000 views. The products I’m referring to are the ones the blogger themselves produced.
Many bloggers make tutorial e-books, webinars, videos on youtube and similar digital products. Some even sell tangible stuff like books, gadgets, hardware and other popular stuff. Supporting these products can help the blogger make a living out of something he loves.
Donate
Some blogs are non-profit and the only way they find the funds to continue their blogs is through donations from patrons.
Subscribe to the feeds
You can either subscribe via email or through the RSS feeds. This will allow the blogger to contact you every time there is something new in his or her blog.
You could also follow the blog or the author in facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin, pinterest or any other social networking online communities that will become popular in the future.
Comment on a post
Reacting to a comment is also a great show of support to the blogger. If you read the comments on blogs, you will see that a lot of the comments are for leaving links to a website and this gives making comment a bad name.
It is nice however, to find a genuine comment in a blog once in a while. Bloggers like criticism as long as they are useful and constructive. We could always delete the blog comment if it crossed the line.
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Supporting a blog means sharing it with others. It would also be best to have a community of bloggers whom you can meet up personally in a week to share ideas and such.
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