Bad Blog Tip #2: Imitate & Emulate
In our series of Bad Blog Tips, we will share with you the most effective ways of creating an atrocious, abominable and otherwise useless blog. Follow these nuggets of wisdom and soon your blog will be more rotten than spoiled milk.
Today’s Bad Blog Tip comes from some of my experiences from around the web. I write for several blogs and read even more, and one of the most striking blogging crimes I’ve seen is blogs in the same niche imitating more innovative and well layed out weblogs.
In our last post we discussed outright copying, such as copying and pasting or freehand plagarizing. However, there exists a realm in which some bloggers feel that they are doing no wrong. I’ve witnessed authors make a similar post or series of posts immediately after the better author does it.
Additionally, these same type of imitators rob ideas from comments on these great blogs while giving no credit to either the commentor or the original post author. In order to be a bad blogger, you must emulate, if you will, these emulators.
Every day, visit the top blogs in your niche and read what they are up to and writing. Next, follow suit and do the same thing. We must stress that this isn’t outright copy and paste but rather interpolation without respect or credit.
Never mention that you were inspired by an author’s great post to put your own spin on it, just go ahead and pretend that you are an innovator when you truly are not.
This is so funny yet true. People steal my idea alls the time. This is definitely a must if you want to lose money and credibility.
Here is a true story from my blogging experience. I cannot disclose my blog or niche for privacy issues, but I started my blog about a half a year ago.
Several other bloggers in my niche were helpful and kind, but one refused to acknowledge my existence. Then, out of nowhere, they started copying my every move.
They have been blogging for about 3 years so I found it odd that they would start stealing my ideas.
First, I got a domain name and one day later they got one!
Next, a commentor left a cool link in the comment section that I was going to post about the next day but this other blogger stole the link and posted it on his own site.
Then, I shared with my readers an accomplishment of mine and the next day the other blogger bashed what I had earned.
Needless to say, my blog is gaining in popularity and is only slightly behind this blog (that has been around for years) as far as Alexa rank and visitors per day.