You can read about guides that teaches you the best way to pull in readers is by writing unique contents by using your creativity. They show you the ways of how you can get creative in blog posting and they tell you that being different from others will not make your readers bored.
Today, you will learn something different about those talks. I will be posting 5 advantages of blogging about what others are blogging about. I am posting this because unique contents is something you must squeeze hard out of your head. The Internet is booming with contents because you are not in the stone age of the Internet and it is a hard thing to do for you to produce unique contents.
The 5 reasons that I have compiled are:
- Free yourself from pressure
Unique contents need time, effort and also your own flair in writing to make the whole articles up. Getting creative is hard and structuring a quality article is even harder.
People out there who have tight schedule for things will not be advised to produce a unique article in each and every one of your blog posts. Straining your mind and body to produce a unique article a day is hard and pressurizing. When you are pressurize of doing something, you tend to look at it as your job and you will dislike it.
If you are blogging on what others are blogging about, you will have reference and you will not need much thinking about a post. If you are a good writer, an article for your blog can be produced in just 10 minutes!
- Pitching traffic from source articles
When you are writing about something which you refer from other blogs, you link it to the source articles. When you do so to a Wordpress blog owner, he /she will receive a notification about the linkback. He might pay your site a visit as well.
When you have a pingback displayed in the comment section of an article which receives a lot of traffic, you will get some traffic over to your blog if your excerpts sounds relevant to the visitors.
- You have different base of readers
Some readers might only read blogging tips from Wayne Liew Dot Com and others might only read blogging tips from Problogger. Readers don’t read many blogs nowadays. Bloggers can visit a lot of blogs to do comment marketing but they can’t cover blogs on the same at once as well!
Think about it. The consequences will be bad if someone nudge you with this message:
Why didn’t you tell me this on your blog? I nearly missed out the fact that Google is penalizing blogs with paid posts! Luckily I read it on XXX. I will go there and never come back here any more!
What will you think?
- Your opinion is precious
Some readers are your fans. They don’t listen to others and they only want your opinion on certain doubts. This is why even you blog about something hot, people will not leave. You have your own opinions on that particular matter and only even your writing style is the one wanted by your readers.
The key to blog on what others are blogging is to add in your opinion as much as possible. A post just to notify your readers about an event is not interesting compared to a post full of juicy opinions from you. Also, you will have the chance of voicing your own opinion on the issue and link to it in your future posts.
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Networking with fellow bloggers
When you have your say on an issue or create a conflict with what people are heavily discussing, you will make either friends or enemies. Conversations will create the opportunity to know more about fellow bloggers and Cross Blog Conversation is what you need to read in order to get hold of this trick.
When you have friends, or even enemies with related blogs, they are the ones who will quickly respond on your articles and provide feedbacks. Some blogs with great contents don’t get comments because the blogger don’t network and interact. Try to start interacting by blogging about contents of others.
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I have gone the opposite way once with 5 Reasons To Tap Saturated Niche and now hopefully with this one, you are able to see things from the other way.
Conclusion on Blog About Contents of Others
It will be great if you can find some space within your posting frequency to fit some posts that are blogging about contents of others because of the advantages stated above.
However, be aware that blogging about other contents might chase first time visitors away. First time visitors come to your blog because they want unique contents. They want to find new source of contents and if they find something which is same as what they can find elsewhere, they might just click away.
Your Thoughts On Blogging About Contents of Others
Have you blog about contents of others whereby you have add in your own opinion? Are they easier to produce than unique contents? How unique contents (if you have 
) have done to your blog? Is it worth the sweat?
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December 17th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
“Have you blog about contents of others whereby you have add in your own opinion?”
More like I summarized what they originally wrote, i.e. your nofollow free plugin thingie. Did not add in much of my opinion though, I think.
“Are they easier to produce than unique contents?”
Definitely easier to summarize articles, and add in some opinions of my own, if any.
“How unique contents (if you have
) have done to your blog?”
Well, I think my Hellgate : London vs Guild Wars article is somewhat unique in a sense that it is a Hellgate : London bashing spree and folks have been calling me Mr. Bias. -_-
“Is it worth the sweat?”
Are you referring to blogging about contents of others? If that content is useful, not why? Share the love aye.
Not sure if it is worth the sweat or not.
If not much time is invested into that blog entry, and it farmed much traffic then it is hell damn worth the sweat.
December 17th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
my blog sure got no content that people would like to blog about. Except maybe the part about a borked contest that I had to give the prize out eventhough there is only one contestant that sent in their entry. lol….
December 19th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
@ Deimos
I once did this with my PayPal finally allows withdrawal post. I didn’t sweat but did when it successfully got linked by many bloggers.
@ kljs
I am sorry that I have inquired about the contest but didn’t submit an entry because I got stuck at some point.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Don’t worry Wayne, there is still two more running!
December 27th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I usually blog about others’ blog posts when I really don’t feel like writing and when I don’t have any posts written in reserve. Not only is it better than posting absolutely nothing on a given day but it also provides a chance to network with the other blogger…
December 28th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Networking with other bloggers by blogging what they are blogging about will not only allows you to make your blog known to the source blogger. It also helps to nick some traffic from the source blog.