Comments on: Your Opinion on Reblogging

By: Organic Social Media Marketing | Stephan Miller

Organic Social Media Marketing | Stephan Miller — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:41:44 +0000

[...] of social networks. I would open 4 tabs at the same type. In each tab, a different flavor of meme trackers. This was all to teach me what a good story was. I had some success with this method. But I was [...]

By: Adding Related Feeds to Your Wordpress Posts | Stephan Miller

Adding Related Feeds to Your Wordpress Posts | Stephan Miller — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:01:22 +0000

[...] In an effort to find something that would do this for me, I had to get more specific. I ran into reblogging and the semantic web. Somewhere along the way, I forgot my original concept and started chasing the [...]

By: A Question of Semantics | Stephan Miller

A Question of Semantics | Stephan Miller — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:23:21 +0000

[...] while ago I wrote a post questioning the issue of reblogging. Posts are often reblogged on meme tracking sites which use an algorithm to detect popular stories [...]

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:42:32 +0000

Thanks. To tell you the truth I am not sure of the point of this post either. I have written a few like this. They are just one big question, but no real answer. But, then again, maybe a point makes things to concrete and breakable. A question keeps you looking. An answer makes you stop.

I just have always been the type of person who reads a book and then reads some of the books referenced by the original book. It gives me a bigger picture and more background.

Let’s say I wrote a post on promoting feeds. A post like that will be out of date in a week. But if I found something new related to promoting feeds, it may not be enough to write a whole new post. I could bookmark it and it would be nice to have widget or something to show the “update”.

I was thinking I could do this with tags. The post is tagged “feeds” and the bookmark is tagged “feeds”. Wouldn’t been cool if someone reading the post sees the newest bookmarks I have found relating to the post.

Or as I research a post, the bookmarks will be waiting to be matched to the post once it is published.

In essence, the value of the post will go up, as more links get attached to it. I think I could just use the concept of the “Related Posts” plugin for a “Related Bookmarks” plugin. But, then again, maybe I am trying to turn a blog into a wiki.

By: 21stcenturyman

21stcenturyman — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:26:28 +0000

I do not know if I understood the topic of your post, but all I can say is this:
Your blog was one of the first and it has been one of the major influence in my experience in blogging since I first started. As I have stated before, I am in this business to make money but I am not in “The” business of “Making Money”. I tried to find a niche in the blogosphere about security, and that’s what I am sticking with, because that’s the knowledge that I can share. If 90% of what you have learned, you did here, so have I.
Even though you are much younger then I am, I like to come here and get a lot of knowledge and new perspectives about blogging and everything else.
Keep up the good work.

The Twentieth First Century Man

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By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:57:06 +0000

I am too. I just want to explore all options before I settle on a decision.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:36:59 +0000

Difficult subject with probably lots of people having varied opinions. Like most subjects, I tend to see the reblog as having a place in the blogosphere. Whether or not it has a lot of utility may be an entirely different can of beans. I guess I would lean towards the lifestream plugin…but then again I’m a plug it in and forget it kind of guy…LOL

Tommy

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By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:05:04 +0000

mondoreb,

Damn, that’s why I hate Adsense anymore. It’s great for filler. To pick up the pocket change left by real transactions. For now all I can say is affiliate programs have made me the most. I run Adsense side by side with links to affiliate product landing pages. Adsense accounts for about 1%. Just off the top of my head, you could have a potential of at least $5000 a month depending on your niche and picking the right products.

I am working on a system of matching right now similar to the parallel posts/research ideas. It’s a parallel post/research/affiliate link idea. Tags and feeds are amazingly simple yet can do a big job. I looked at Yahoo Pipes last night after this post. I will probably using Pipes to test the concepts then build my own.

JT,

I make money. I make traffic. I am not looking for that. This blog makes 1% of my online income. If I was here to make money here, I would need a shrink.

I am talking about the effect you get when someone starts speaking in the middle of their thoughts. Posts on many blogs are like this. If the person reading the post doesn’t have the background to understand the process that led to the post, you have lost a reader.

Or you could refer to other’s sites for the research leading to the post, like a bibliography or footnotes. Posts use tags. Bookmarks use tags. Using a specific set of tags would create an evolving bibliography for past and future posts.

Blogs are not books. Most are not planned out ahead of time. Even big bloggers have gaping holes in their subject matter. I am just looking for a solution. That is what I do.

Change can have varying results. Not changing has a definite result, fading away. So I always go for the first, because it’s the odds on favorite.

Plus I think I have a better idea after this post. It starts with this idea I learned from Pipes: Everything can become a feed.

By: JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes

JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:29:28 +0000

I personally believe that such a prospect is as useless as spam itself. What’s it good for? Not for traffic, and as such not for profit. I started out blogging with aggregated reblogs and I got good profit for one month and once google found out I got search penalties, banned from adsense - and the site was useless after that. I have one I kept all this time just to see what happens and it never gets more than ~100 visitors per day (at one point it got more than 25,000 per day).

Reblogs and aggregated sites are nothing but trouble (and bad karma)…

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By: mondoreb

mondoreb — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:58:28 +0000

Stephan:

Lot of good points for one post! I am looking for a couple answers and Googled a few things and your blog came up.

I started a site 6 months ago and have worked like crazy to build traffic and unique content. My page rank is 5 (without any “tricks”) and I’ve had almost 600,000 pageviews in that time.

I just moved to a .com for expansion reasons (I was on blogger). And now I have to build everything up from scratch again–probably another 6 months and a little luck.

Do you have any suggestions on how to 1)speed up the process? and
2)make any money? For 600,000 views, I only made about $50 on Adsense.

From reading your site, you seem pretty down-to-earth and knowledgeable.
You can be vague if you charge for specific info, but I’d be grateful for any help.

Thanx!!

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