Envy Blogging is the term i use to define when a blogger creates content similar to an already established and popular blog online in hopes of attaining the same traffic over a short period of time. At first it’s pretty harmless and well intentioned, like giving out their own opinion on the matter and leaving trackbacks to get the traffic to come towards them, as soon as that starts working for them, it gets hard trying to keep up with the ferquence of the content coming their way, the work tht they have to put into content now is much harder and before they know it they are copying quotes and important paragraphs from those blogs onto their own and making it their own content and at some point even this becomes harder, letting your content creating abilities fade away is the worst thing a blogger can ever hope for, the moment you actually don’t have anything to say or don’t have the will to write more is when a blogger becomes a spammer, this is where harmless opinions turn into spam, yep, this is how spam blogs are created. The ones that use your feed to copy your own content leaving the original blog a trackback.
Alot of bloggers can find spam links in their wp dashboard everyday that come from blogs that have copied their content without any permission.
Although i think blog envy can make really good bloggers over time if they keep at it and try to develop their own skills more but the most conversions that I have seen are for the worst.
If you are giving your own opinions and struggling to have a solid voice in your blog, then thats a really good trait to have and it’s infact an early sign of a successful blogger. Being a blogger is not about having one constant shedule and keeping at it until you have minor or medium size success, It’s about constantly developing your skills and making your self better at your flaws.
While we are on the spam topic, it’s not all bad if your content is being copied, all you’ll need to do is add the “read more” lines to all post after a few lines, thennever accept the trackbacks. This way 80% of your content says safe and you get one nifty little link from it (at a time).
This spamlogging is actually one of the reasons techcrunch is so popular (my opinion), they have really good content that people like to copy to their own blog, there are tons and i do mean tons of these feed aggregator blogs that copy content off of techcrunch to get some minor income going on their blogs.
Blogging envy is not all bad, its just a part of the circle of blogging, it helps small bloggers get bigger and bigger blogs grow even more!
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