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You Should Have a Personal Blog!

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When I have first created this blog, MelvinBlog.com, I had a thought that this blog would really be a personal blog where I would put all the rambling stuffs, people I hate the most, new crushes, retarded politicians and many many more. For some reasons, the blog started gaining popularity and was pushed into the direction of mmo. Yes, the dirty and filthy make money online niche. I was reading my archives and haven’t really found good info related to making money online for the first 2 months I must say.

Quick turn of time, hey look! I had banners at the sidebar (many!), an impersonal about page, has set-up a landing page, and is even planning to run a mailing list soon! What the heck! Well I wouldn’t  want to be a hypocrite by saying that I dislike what I am getting now from this blog. Sure I had dreams of owning a website and monetizing it ala Engadget or Techcrunch, but to actually become one of “them”, hey its not what I planned at first.

Anyways enough ranting. You see there really is an almost non-existing space when talking about blogging personally and succeeding (or making money from it). It took me some time to realize that “hey I can’t just put useless stuffs here anymore” and have to really switch to someone who has to put up useful (or funny) content 80% of the time. You can say that shoemoney and johnchow and couple others are just posting useless content yet they get so much attention but just look how early they did blogging. They did it in time almost no one knew it existed.

So the whole point of this post is to just persuade you to start your own personal blog. Personally for me, having one makes me really feel the real essence of blogging. Just post stuffs, no worries on whether its good, no pressure at all, and its all fun! Shoemoney (jeremyschoemaker.com) and Problogger (darrenrowse.com) even had their own! It’s like really a useful tool when you’re doing nothing, you want to express out how your neighbor sucks, or want to speak about your crush and more.

Come on, a domain name just costs less than $10 a year and I know you guys are filthy wealthier than me that you had your own dedicated server so why not? And besides, you can even just use free platforms. Btw, maybe you’re wonderin’ out what’s my personal blog address (you may say I keep talkin’ yet I dont have one 😀 ). Its located at Mehlvs.com and its totally a free-writing blog. I would be very grateful to hear your own opinion. 😀

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  1. Hi there,

    Believe it or not but I have been following your blogs for quite some time now. A year perhaps but do not comment that much. Good luck to year endeavor and your new personal blog.
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  12. Hi Melvin. I just came across your blog from one of Daniel’s Tweets. You know, DailyBlogTips?

    Well, I just thought I would drop by and check it out. The MMO niche is really saturated like everyone says but I think it is so large that you can still make money. You just need an angle.

    Personally I prefer adsense with organic search traffic. Once you hit the right keywords you can make some decent money without having to do much.
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  14. Well as I’ve said, personal blogs are intended anyway not to be read ideally, so I don’t see why it has to be optimized and stuffs. just my 2 cents though

  15. well “blogging gurus” generally teach you that. That as much as possible you should just blog within your niche. I have a mixed take on that but since we’re talking about personal blogs, I dont think that rule should apply.

  18. Very interesting thought a bit further up regarding whether or not it’s compulsory for a blog to have only one theme.

    I’d love to see some comments on the thought. I’m sure there are many arguments in support of either side – one theme vs several themes.

  22. Yes, I have my personal blog. I actually post nonsense. Mostly about my gaming experience and movies watched. It really feels like stone went down from the heart when you post the entry.

  23. Well you’re comment is a little kinda unrelated to the post but I would say I agree. In fact thee one thing that made the mmo niche profitable is the fact that there’s a lot of people in it. Before people start a mmo blog and it takes about half a month before it can become profitabale but is a different case these days. Most people were able to generate income even after just a month.

  24. well the “guru” tip is that you don’t post something that is not within your theme/niche. But I guess I myself (and some of you) don’t really follow it.. 😉

  28. I agree with you on the benefits of writing a personal blog. I have my own anonymous personal blog and I love it. It lets me get my thoughts and feelings out into the world, and it is a great escape away from working!
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  29. I started a blog that turned out to be a personal blog. I passionately update it. Now, even the irritating chores become exciting ‘coz everything I do transforms into a post topic. Great solution!

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