Take care of your people

There are always new and easy ways to look at how to make money blogging and people are doing their best to make things easier and faster, which I don’t have a problem with but sometimes I wonder if feeding the desire to “do it with no effort” is making us all get way too lazy and wanting lots for little effort.

What I am talking about is the rise in RSS feed blogs that are put together just using keywords and RSS feeds from around the web. You use a plugin that will allow you to pull in content written by other people and build your blog using that only.  It is becoming popular because you can start one, set it up and then forget it (or so the “experts” promoting it say) -  and yes, that may be true but what kind of support are you giving to people reading it – very little really.

I have visited a few RSS feed blogs and the really terrible ones just pull in a title and a couple of lines from a blog and then the link goes back to the blog they pulled the content from. Some use article RSS feeds and pull in articles from different authors that is used as your blog content (not too bad I guess) and then there are those that use sites like eBay and other affiliate based networks to pull in specific products relating to your blog and its key words.  Of course a few blogs might use a combination of all 3 feeds to create one blog.

Maybe I am just too “ole skool” in my delivery – wanting to be proud of what I produce and share around the web. I know RSS feed blogs work because people make money online with them all the time – but are they a great way to go or will they end up being slapped by Google in a few years and worthless?

Blog Success partner Jack Humphrey said something in a video yesterday that struck me. He said “take care of your people” – yes we all have a desire to make money blogging but at least think about the people who will be visiting your blog and give them something more to look at than a bunch of advertising related review articles!

If you watched the video yesterday that outlines Jacks 10-10-30 method – 10 blogs, 10 topics, $30 a day – you will notice that although he pulls in posts from other sites he spends time looking for quality content and he recommends that you take a little time to add your own message to it. Create a paragraph or two at the beginning, introduce what you are about to provide as content, then go to the end and summarise it all. The whole thing takes minutes once you get into that routine of course and you have the satisfaction of knowing you are not just creating thousands of blogs that mean very little to you or the people who read them.

Ten blogs I can definitely handle and it won’t take me away from building this as an authority site on blogging, strategic blogging and developing a proper foundation to start a blog business on – from goal setting to vision building.

As Membership Manager of Blog Success I spend a lot of time learning too because I am still on my way towards something – the great thing is I can see the light at the end of the tunnel because I know all I really need now is to keep blogging and to wait – 4 years of blogging regularly and providing great quality information will help me to get there. In the meantime I will use my 10 blogs on 10 topics method too and build that up for extra income. Its all good

The most important thing for me is I have found someone to learn with who really does focus not just on what’s in it for you but also what’s in it for your blog readers too because if you don’t take care of your people you won’t be taken care of yourself!

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