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Do You Know You’re a Boring Blogger?

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The number 1 advice people always say to you to succeed in blogging is that you need to create good and high quality content. So there ya go! Because of it you’re forced to write articles like a freelancer, you’re fed into acting like you need to be like Darren Rowse and stuffs. The end result, you become a boring blogger.

Most people get it wrong by thinking that writing top-notch content is all about the perfectness of the grammar, the formality of how words are written and just sounding absolutely professional. Believe me it’s not! The problem with most bloggers is that they try to be perfect and because of that, they sound like a robot. It’s just like reading an article in a monotonous tone. Try reading books in your school library and you’ll know what I mean.

Ironically sometimes, you don’t realize that you’re starting to bore your readers to death. Results? A decline from just about everything (readers, subscribers, traffic , etc). Anyways here I compiled a list why you might be or starting to become a boring blogger:

  • You sound like a lawyer – and you don’t need to. I don’t know but professional blogging for me is not really about being professional words-wise or with the proper grammar and stuffs. Pro Blogging is about treating blogging as a serious business. So if you’re a 15 year old kid who’s trying to sound like your teacher, then you’re not helping your blog.
  • Generic Articles – generic articles is a really big NO NO. Or at least minimize it. Generic articles is like the ones that has been tackled 300 million of times and you still tackled it and talked it in a none unique way. Articles like “how to earn money from blogging” or “Make Money By starting a blog”. You see, it’s hard not to regurgitate a topic. But you make it unique from the rest by adding something unique and breaking it down to more specific topics.
  • Transformed into a  news site – Blogs like TechCrunch can certainly do this considering the audience that they have right now but smaller bloggers SHOULD NOT. I see a lot of bloggers just writing the same news on their blogs w/c really adds 0 value. Just because Dennis Yu is popular,  does it mean you have to write about him too?
  • All Promotional stuffs – I guess we can blame a guy named John Chow for this? lols. It turns me off so much when I see someone promotes a product for the obvious sake of just earning a commission. How many times do you see someone make a clickbank product writeup and then recommend it to people w/o even him knowing what the product is really all about? Booooring stuff!

There’s nothing wrong in being quirky and putting some humor in your posts. At least in this way, you don’t get to have them have the impression that you’re a lame, boring blogger that makes  “robot-ish” sounding articles. By not being that, you are easily separating yourself away from 70% of the bloggers. What do you think? Does this article make any sense to you?

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  2. I read the article and definitely it says that you are not a boring blogger :D… Main thing needed for every bloggers, is to engage their blog readers. So we can include some interesting factors like stories, personal experience and some humor with that.. This make them to read the post completely without any bore…
    .-= Deepika´s last blog ..Do You Like This Theme? =-.

  3. Haha! I know what you mean! When people write without feeling or personality, their writing would be so extremely boring. When people write with a lot of feeling and personality, their writing will sound very engaging and interesting, like yours 😉 .

  5. Very good points! I have to admit I don’t really care about the grammar (as long as it’s at least readable) if I can see the personality of the blogger shining through. I also HATE it when I see blogs promote things over and over, as if they can’t think of anything to write or worse, the DON’T WANT to give to their readers any more, they just want to take. Great post!
    .-= Ruth – Web Career Girl´s last blog ..Remember to Set Goals Bigger Than Your Work =-.

  11. I think the best part about your blog, Melvin, is that you really show some strong personality and character through your posts. It’s enjoying to read through someone that actually seems like they are speaking!

    It is true that many bloggers try to imitate the top dogs in the industry, which makes them lack character in their blogs. The big guys can get away because they got traffic, but when you’re just starting out, you really want to seem like a human being, not some article spinning robot. Sooo true.
    .-= Static | ahnternet´s last blog ..BloggersBB Launch Contest Giving Away $1000+ Prizes! =-.

  13. But again we have to consider his lofty stature. Because he’s a famous blogger he can just do anything and reap a lot of good benefits from it.

  14. hey thanks Static. I believe that by really just trying to be yourself and just spitting out your own personality there, you’re letting people really feel that you are real and is serious about building a good relationship with them.

    And thanks.

  16. Yes, this post really makes sense. I have been trying hard not to bore my readers as well a imitate other top bloggers. Blogging is a learning process and we should be aware of what works and what does not. Also, reading interesting blogs like this can make ones journey to learning much easier.

    Nice contribution here Melvin. 🙂

  20. No not really. Even if you don’t have sense of humor, you can still be not boring. In this world, its not that hard to figure out if someone is boring or not.

  21. I thought that writing poor articles will get your readers bored, writing in professional will get readers bored too. I strongly support your point of view.

    Well, I am more on writing personality and my feeling.
    .-= Simon Liew´s last blog ..Visit to FRIM, Selayang =-.

  22. Ooow I am so sick of seeing generic articles on blogs from people that have succeeded online, got even more greedy and are doing a dozen projects then they post just something that hundreds of blogs have been posting about. The exact term is generic articles yea, you really nailed that one.
    It’s important to keep it fresh as much as you can because there are thousands of blogs out there – what makes you stand out? Repetitivness and generic articles certainly don’t! Thanks for the post Melvin.
    .-= Gordon´s last blog ..Getting Your First Traffic Spike =-.

  26. Honestly, most blogs ARE boring! If a blogger is honing his writing skills along the way, great! Sadly, many bloggers don’t improve much in this area since they focus their energy on promoting and monetizing.

    Besides, a good number of bloggers don’t realize how bad their writing is so they don’t even know to work on it.

  30. I agree completely with you on this one! I just gave someone similar advice today about blogging – to make it personal, interactive (ask questions and invite people to comment), and most importantly, to not be afraid to infuse your personality into what you’re writing, especially if you have a good sense of humour. Textbook-style writing is not going to make you stand out!

  33. Boring is not a good thing, on a blog, in conversation, or just as a person. But boring, I think is what most of us newbie bloggers sound like (OK … after one year you are no longer a newbie – got christened, had some success, setbacks, and comebacks)… its because most of us are scared out of our skins and it takes a lot of guts just to get started so we don’t want to sound stupid, ignorant or create some faux pas or an etiquette mistake (which we still know nothing about but are sure that there is an unwritten rule of online manners 🙁 ) and we don’t want to offend………..so, we end up being b-o-r-i-n-g! Eventually we become more comfortable, and hopefully not so boring. 🙂

    best……………valentina
    .-= Valentina´s last blog ..The Week That Was: Jan 17-23 =-.

  36. Although its nearly impossible by now to produce something unique, I still think thats not reasonable to post rehashed generic article. The bottom line is be creative

  40. Hahahaha yes, I agree too with this! Especially when you mentioned John Chow…but think about, it, it is really true. The mentality is as such that bloggers (myself included) tends to take on a different personality other than ourselves when we blog, as we think our readers want “that”. Yet, that cannot be further from the truth as it’s our personal perspectives and personality that makes our readers loyal to come back for more.

  41. Most of my Phillipine friends do tend to be bubblier and fun-ner (is that even a word) in their personalities – quite cheeky too! =)

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