So I don’t really know if I can still compete to the blogging Idol. I would be entering the busiest week of this month. If you aren’t subscribed to my feed then consider subscribing now! 😉
Most people are thinking “how can I make my site popular?” And I admit, this is something that everyone of us wants but only few can have it. You see all the tips everywhere on how to run a blog and get tons of traffic and readers and how to promote and so. But the truth is, it boils down on how you make other people like your site, how you can provide them something that is useful. For this matter let’s take some examples on sites that do this one very well.
JohnChow.com – I know many are despising and hating Chow for putting so much ads on his site, for doing ten paid reviews a day, for having posts not related to making money online and more. But does it make his traffic suffer? how about the comments? Not even close! The truth about Chow’s traffic is that people enjoy him as him! I have seen many video posts of Chow and he’s very hilarious (looks very hilarious)! In this way, he provides ENTERTAINMENT for people like us. Of course, he’s still one of the more established make money online blog. But he does this with a twist! That’s what make John Chow’s blog grow!
JackBook.com – Well I am sure not many of you know this site. But I think it’s a popular one! Jacky Supit, the owner is a Malaysian blogger. Upon looking at his blog you can count on both of you’re fingers why you will not like his site so much. Plenty of ads, lack of value of posts, atrocious grammar (worse than mine), an ugly tagline of “a master of blogger”, a 728X60 advertisement at the top of his header and doing reviews about casinos! Yeah, I don’t really much comment on his site. So why there are about 50,000 people following his site? Because he provides things! He converts wordpress themes to blogger for free, he shares his hacks to blogger blogs, he let people scorn at him, he’s very generous with most people and many more. That’s because he started with Blogger and then later moved with wordpress and he’s also a good coder. To count the rate of positives over negatives is just too much. Now, no wonder why many people are subscribed to his feed.
DoshDosh.com Dosh Dosh is probably my favorite blog. It is probably one of the more super duper informative blog about many things. Blogging, Social Meda, Internet Marketing and so. With Doshdosh I know people don’t bother with the anime faces at his blog. Now think if someone unpopular do this tactic. I’m sure people would question it and scorn at it. Also Dosh Dosh has also decreased his posting frequency. I think he’s just posting two to three times a week! Does it affect his traffic? No! Because every single post there is marked with educational and proven tips and techniques (in a formal language) that we could surely apply.
You see, these blogs are blogs that other people can easily think the reverse way what we (I) think of them. But because they have overdelivered with something that is beneficial to us, readers, they remained to be at the top of their niche. At the end it’s not important, how your site looks like, how you hide your privacy too much and even where you came from! It boils down to how you can greatly affect the society, and that is what people will follow!
You and you’re blog, what do you provide to the society? Do you just do it in hopes that you’ll make money from it sooner than later? Or you really have a genuine intention of providing something?
i know all the three 😀 i think no one can beat(one will come one day ;)) johnchow! for jacky untill his do blogger themes no one can stop look at him! and DoshDosh its the most lovable of mine with some cute toon chicks 😉
It seems that you forgot my blog… just kidding 🙂
Another great example is pearsonified.com He usually goes months without posting yet his subscribers continue to increase!
I am happy to say I am similar to DoshDosh. I provide useful content (I hope and I try) and I have a formal language (very much more so in interior design, with sophisticated descriptions and comments on designs, letting the details come to life with delicate adjectives) and I hope this will help my site become popular. I am starting one more, and hopefully at least one out of those total 3 will rise up the Eiffel Tower.
Nice article with interesting points. I have personally seen many blogs with very decent articles/posts but no traffic what so ever, why? Well with especially new blogs that are just starting out in their competitive niche you really need to grab people’s attention and sometime just by having “great content” doesn’t cut it anymore.
Well the secret of money making is not to say about your plans to the people.. Just teach the readers about tips or blogging ideas and then make good amount of money by affiliates or refs.After this show your monthly huge income which obviously interests the readers.This is the same case with Johnchow,he shows 40k+$ earning which people really like and want to know but john chow doesn’t do that! He has a strong marketing contact and network which makes his blog the best!
I used to read Jackbook but now he does such a nonsense Paid reviews which are totally irrelevant and also he ads 18+ humor (whale penis) which distracts some users…
Finally I don’t read Dosh Dosh coz he has some high quality content which are not really useful to me.. Its boring! 🙂 If their would be celebrity faces instead of Anime then I would have thought of reading his blog.
For now,I left reading all the blogs mentioned… 🙂
Dosh Dosh gives very high quality content. As for John Chow, he still earns $40,000 a month by writing about food and his income statement.
@rockstar sid, yeah jacky seeemed to follow the footsteps of chow whom he said he is worshipping… doshdosh post qualities are so high…
@salwa, i second it.,.. great content isn’t enough nowadays…
I own a very popular networking website and if I have learned one thing bloggers don’t’ click many ads! I’m not too sure but maybe it’s because they can’t click Google ads in the first place.
So what I did is switched over to neverblueads so now if a blogger wants to click an ad they won’t get into any issues with google. I’m testing the waters right now in the blog forums but I haven’t been to sucessful with making money online.
thanks god I work full time…
Long made short: Who would miss out on a chance to get free stuff!
I think many blogs are started now-a-days to gain the attention of the people towards ther sites and we are using wordpress(plugin a,themes,etc;)Â which is helping a lot to make our blog look more attractive .
yeah, those things are in nowadays….
Certainly all the three bloggers are great and their blogs so awful that once a visitor visits the blog, he cannot come out of that blog.Of course JOHN CHOW ,DOSH DOSH and JACK BOOK are the blogs which cannot be beaten by anybody.These bloggers are greatest in the blogosphere.
If your referring to the marketing business, your right. Ever consider non-marketing blogs? I thought so.
this is out of topic. Thanks for the birthday greeting and yes, It was a very special day for me, because I have money already. My cousin gave me money as a gift, so I could buy something for myself.It’s time for me to grow up and move on 🙂 Be better than I was before. 🙂
perhaps the main points of the 3 bloggers you cited can be summarized into “presence and impact”. no matter how they lobby barehanded but because they have established an impressive presence already, they still get what they want. and by impact i mean, no matter how shallow they can be on certain days, they still got the long lasting impact, imprinted on people’s minds.
The casino review was my fault. It wasn’t Jack’s. As for the record. The review was an isolated incident. It was only once so you couldn’t say the he does casino site reviews but he once did because of an error on my part 🙂 btw, this is Rome. The blogger behind the blog that you called ugly 🙂