Shake your money maker.
It’s good to be able to make money from your passion. If your passion is blogging, you may want to give more thought to the originality of the content on your blog.
Remember, there are millions of bloggers on the Internet. To one degree or another, bloggers use links, software, social networks, tags and other methods to market their blogs. Everyone is doing the same thing. Some bloggers do it better than others. But when you get right down to it, successful blogging still comes down to content. The reader wants articles that entertain or have useful information. The challenge for the blogger is originality.
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The way I see it, everyone on Triond is really blogging for Triond. We are bloggers for Triond. We try to entice readers to click on our content. In this situation, originality can be crucial.
Originality in an article is very difficult to come by. We bloggers are creatures of our environment. We feed off of each others’ ideas.
Take this article for example. I haven’t read an article about originality on Triond. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. My point is this article is trying to be original. The title is trying to be original. This poor blogger is trying to be original and it hurts. I have the suspicion that I’m not being original at all.
Still, we Triond bloggers have to keep pushing to come up with a new twist or a unique insight or even several old ideas put together in a new way.
I’m just standing up for originality. I wish my blogging had more originality.
October 11th, 2009 at 3:46 am
It is there, the originality and creativity. You just have to dig a little.
October 11th, 2009 at 3:49 am
If you want to be creative and original you gotta find it
October 11th, 2009 at 7:55 am
You’re great at what you do, don’t pull yourself down so much. People don’t search for original content, they search (and will continue to search) for the same things for as long as the internet is around. People always have the same questions, the idea is finding new ways to answer them.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:05 am
I think your advice in a previous article to write about what you know helps us to be original or to put an original slant on a familiar issue.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Well said
October 11th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Nice thought… appreciate it!
October 11th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Joshua, yes it is there. It’s just that it’s so hard to find. I guess that’s why originality has such great value.
October 11th, 2009 at 11:50 am
royee, you’re right about that. It takes real effort. I guess nothing worth doing well is easy.
October 11th, 2009 at 11:57 am
emmahaynes, yes you’re absolutely right. I guess new ways of expressing old truths are as close as we can get to originality. And some pretty original things can come from that.
October 11th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on being original. Nice article.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Frances, I think writing about what you know definitely will help with originality. It gets the mind going in new directions on a familiar subject.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Papa, blogging is such an important part of the Internet experience. Too bad so much of blogging seems to be rehashing what someone else has written.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Sourav, I like blogging and like every other blogger I have to remind myself to try to come up with something new as much as possible. It’s not easy.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Jane, I think originality is difficult to find. It is probably even more difficult to produce.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Indeed originality is hard to find. That what makes an article different from each other
October 11th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
People can talk about the same thing and still be original…. by saying things from a new direction, with a different tone or style.
Great read, thanks.
October 11th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Great ideas and topics you come up with. good work. Originality and creativity go hand in hand. There are ways to do it. I bought a journal and I take it with me anywhere I go and just jot down ideas. some people look at me strange but who cares.. lol.
October 11th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
. A suggestion to be followed by everyone.
October 11th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
You are so right…as mentioned in my other article in originality, “Do you writing any more?”, we have to strive for it..people are mostly reycling the same thing. There has to be a stop to it…I can see you are at it already! Great work!
October 11th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Nobody writes and thinks like Guy Hogan so in my opinion your works are original on your own right. You have another point worth pondering my friend, thanks.
Will
October 11th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Yes, I’ve often wondered about the originality aspect. I don’t want to spend my writing hours re-churning information that anyone can find on Wikipedia. For me, writing on Triond has become a way of trying to hone my craft for bigger things. Maybe I’m just shooting for the moon, but we all have to start somewhere.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Borneon, I do try to make my articles as original as possible but it doesn’t always work.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Tichimes, that’s mainly what a writer has to do. As an old saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
marlene, I use to carry around a little notebook but I haven’t done that in years. Maybe I should get back into the habit.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I certainly know what you mean, we do try our best.
October 11th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I think it’s so much about content but not sure always sure about originality? I read that many writers are writing about celebrity tabloid stuff and getting readers’ attention. That doesn’t seem original to me but it sounds effective. It’s kind of overwhelming we are dealing with demographics. I try to make an article appeal to everyone but that’s unrealistic, knowing that what I’m writing will appeal to a certain group(s). But then, I see Triond writers posting those amazing feat or amazing factual stories and headlines that seem original and are effective.
October 12th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Great piece..You imparted as a great thought! Thanks
October 12th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
chitragopi, it’s a suggestion I struggle to follow all the time.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Write Easy, all we can do is just to try to come up with new ideas or with old ideas that have a new twist.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
deep blue, I do the best I can. It’s a constant struggle.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
blackrockrose, I think Triond is an excellent place to start and you have to aim high. If you aim high you are sure to hit something.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Ruby, it is so tough to try to be original. You just have to keep pushing yourself and hope for the best.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
J J, there is no doubt that writing about celebrities and other popular topics can get lots of readers. A writer has to make a decision, to write about popular topics or to try to be original. It’s all up to the writer what kind of writer to be.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
giftarist, originality in writing is to be greatly admired because it is so rare.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 am
I have always tried to be original, unique, However things that interest me, don’t always interest others.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:21 am
thanks for the information