You Should Have a Personal Blog!
Posted on September 25, 2009 by Melvin
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 dedic 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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Discussion: 32 Comments
Developerholic
- 25th Sep, 09 01:09am
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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Melvin Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 3:17 am
hey girl thanks. I can’t call you by name because Im pretty sure your name is not Developerholic.
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jan geronimo
- 25th Sep, 09 01:09am
Hmmm. My personal blog is just sitting on its ass. Waiting for what? I don’t know. I’d write posts for it this weekend. Thanks for the reminder.
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Walter
- 25th Sep, 09 01:09am
Personal blog is liberating when you have some deep thoughts you want to let out. I love to write and blogging is one of my channels.
Walter´s last blog ..Finding myself beyond my identity
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LetUpdate
- 25th Sep, 09 03:09am
I already have a died personal blogs in wordpress.
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Deneil Merritt
- 25th Sep, 09 05:09am
I have my personal blog and write posts for it everyday. My passion really came out on my blog.
Deneil Merritt´s last blog ..Why My Ebook Never Sold A Copy!
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Ricky
- 25th Sep, 09 09:09am
Sometime personal blog is not that good when you think about keyword reach domain and other aspect. But again the success of any blog is measured by the knowledge and marketing skill of the blogger. Nice website you have.
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Melvin Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 3:19 am
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
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Forest
- 25th Sep, 09 10:09am
My personal blog died too… I don’t think I like writing about myself! Cheers for your link though, sucks about the Camera
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Agent 001
- 25th Sep, 09 12:09pm
I have thought of having a personal blog long time ago. It is just my laziness that I an unable to make it happen.
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dlysen
- 25th Sep, 09 01:09pm
Its nice to have a personal blog where you can share your idea.
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Rod Macbeth
- 25th Sep, 09 05:09pm
My blog’s main theme is IM but I’ve been thinking of mixing it up with non-IM material.
Where is it written that a blog has to have one theme?
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Melvin Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 3:23 am
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.
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Benjamin Cip
- 25th Sep, 09 10:09pm
I have my personal blog, but it is more a bussiness Blog rather than just a personal blog….(-_-;;
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Ben Moreno
- 25th Sep, 09 11:09pm
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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Melvin Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 3:41 am
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.
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Nhoel
- 26th Sep, 09 04:09am
YEAH, I THINK PERSONAL BLOGS IS A MUST FOR EVERYONE.
BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT AND IM GLAD I CAME OVER WITH YOUR BLOG.
thanks again,
-Nhoel
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Liane YoungBlogger
- 26th Sep, 09 06:09am
I have a personal blog, but of course, it’s personal. haha. only for my friends and people I know in rela life. ’sides, where’s the fun in having a personal blog if my english readers won’t understand everytime I ramble about certain ‘tagalog’ words
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Kelwyn Suite
- 26th Sep, 09 08:09am
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.
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Melvin Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 3:43 am
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..
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steppinout
- 26th Sep, 09 04:09pm
I don’t have any personal blog since I hate to talk (write) about my personal life.
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Agent 001 Reply:
September 27th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Personal blog doesn’t mean you always have to write about personal things. You can post anything there. You are not bound to anything.
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Make Money Online for Beginner | Jun
- 27th Sep, 09 06:09am
Hi
I have started a blog almost a month ago and im pouring up my time on link building, im also on MMO, coz personal blogs won’t do much on money making, after generating enough good back links i got PR0 on google now.
check out mine blog http://makemoneyforabsolutebeginner.blogspot.com/
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Don
- 27th Sep, 09 11:09pm
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.
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Chris Peterson
- 28th Sep, 09 11:09am
Hi Mel,
It must be kinda nostalgic! I can sense it. It’s nice to know that from you.
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Extreme John
- 28th Sep, 09 06:09pm
I agree I think people can really use a personal blog as an excellent personal outlet and if they make money online while doing it thats great news.
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elmot
- 29th Sep, 09 09:09am
No one earns online by not starting it. Hehehhe!
Oo nga eh, useless infos are all over those two big blogs but they earn online…the reason: coz they started to blog. And they are still blogging. Consistency. Patience. Perseverance. That is it I think.
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Web Career Girl
- 30th Sep, 09 01:09pm
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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lg
- 6th Oct, 09 02:10am
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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Millionaire Acts
- 6th Oct, 09 09:10am
Nice! I think I should start my own personal blog if I found the time. I did not know that Jeremy and Darren had their own personal blogs. I will check them out.
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Dexter | Techathand.net
- 15th Oct, 09 09:10pm
It is also my reasonwhy i started dexterpanganiban.com to start blogging about anything and not just about SEO and Tech Stuff although the mentioned blog is also heading to MMO niche.. I can say it is branding
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pokkisam
- 1st Nov, 09 07:11am
Yes It’s must for everyone who is having website… and who don’t have website..Better start a blog show “U”
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