Comments on: Blogging is Dead

By: Thomas W.

Thomas W. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:14:54 +0000

Enter XSpammer on reddit IAmA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9ebku/i_was_also_an_illegal_email_spammer_for_5_years_i/ :

“… I spammed all through my high school years. Primarily mortgage, but also pharma, replica watches and adult. I hit inbox at ~85-95%. … At my mailing peak I was running: 2-3 servers in Korea. 5-6 servers in China. 4 servers in the United States. … ”

Holy crap. A lot of insights revealed, also technical stuff.

By: Make Money Online with High Impact Blogging

Make Money Online with High Impact Blogging — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:50:27 +0000

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By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:44:18 +0000

@Chat Business: You’re right. Flogs do, as they typically want to make their landing page look really legit for the search engines, but the content factory blogs usually have no comments or single comments from readers, but not the site authors.

By: Chat Business

Chat Business — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:20:45 +0000

very interesting, i think those automated blogs don’t talk with their readers in comments though

By: Asswass

Asswass — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:42:58 +0000

Hey Paul I believe that there’s a solution for everything in this world. A virus is killed by an anti virus, Spam is killed by akismet and not wanted email folders, Robots are killed with captch, and the list goes on. What I’m trying to say is thist type of problems are always going to exist and we need to be prepared. I hope that High Impact Blogging is the solution of these copycats.

By: Thomas W.

Thomas W. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:23:28 +0000

@Vivian: I agree. Although I would say that selling eBooks is often done by bloggers. And I’m curious, what do you think IS the best way to make money then, if it’s not blogging?… Selling guns and drugs? Maybe even online

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:48:15 +0000

@Liz: I’d like to think of it as Traditional Blogging is Dead, but High Impact Blogging is going to completely dominate the Internet.

I’ll be writing about it soon, but here’s a question to ask yourself. If you were Google, how would you differentiate between a “Real” blogger that writes content that people will want to see on Google and read, vs a “Fake” blogger who’s dumping crap content on a regular basis.

# of Posts on the Blog isn’t it.
Posting frequency isn’t it.

Both those can be spoofed. What do real Blogs have that Fake Blogs don’t? This is the start of High Impact Blogger thinking.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:25:51 +0000

@Paul. I see your point. This is similar to what happened in the publishing industry. You may have a great manuscript but if you can’t get it in front of an editor’s eyes it won’t be noticed or published.

We’re witnessing the death of an old economic system coupled with death of blogging. As Thomas wrote: “yes it’s a wild ride, but who promised life would be a walk in the park?”

By: Thomas W.

Thomas W. — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:03:30 +0000

@sanjay sharma: Most of the jobs in production is leaving or have left my country and that forces people into information technology or leadership, or retirement. If we’re not willing to go through the temporary pain of growing new competences, we’ll be creating long term suffering. I’m grateful for any software making me succeed as a blogger, but yes it’s a wild ride, but who promised life would be a walk in the park?

By: Thomas W.

Thomas W. — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:39:45 +0000

@Paul: Do you have any examples of an original article and its variations? I would like to see the difference…