Blogging is beyond probloggers and money making gurus

Blogging is a phenomena today. No doubt about that. User generated quality content, networking and folksonomy has become the essence of blogging. And this is what makes it a phenomena. There are no juniors and seniors in the game as many believe. According to me, everyone who manages to generate quality content is a star – irrespective of whether he started his blog one month back or 3 years.

It’s disappointing when there are categories and lists in blogging. There are bloggers who are categorized as A-List and “Pro – bloggers”, while others are “Z-List” and newbies. According to me this is rubbish, because somebody categorized them on the basis of
– who’s making more money
– who’s got the biggest network
– and who started the first.

None of them is a genuine scale to measure the quality of a blogger.

If it’s making money, then only the ones who managed to initiate an affiliate network, or only the one who managed to make 1000 MFA articles(by employing 5 copy writers), will manage to be the top bloggers. Or if it’s about “starting it first” then those who started blogging in the last 2-3 years are losers.Right?

These days every second blog you come across is a “How to make money online” blog or a technology blog. It’s anyone’s guess that if everybody blogger get’s a 5 digit check from Google, then there’s definitely something wrong in the system. Either there are fraudulent clicks or even if they were genuine, the advertisers should be suffering in their ROI figures(more clicks-no buys).

Okay, let’s ignore the money part – it’s a boring game. I saw this interesting comment on bloggingtips, in my article. It was from a gentleman called Dollar Bear who was frustrated that every other blog he came across was a “Tips to money making one” and clearly he was not interested. He says – I’m not in that group. I must appreciate his statement. It is the voice of a thousand plus bloggers who are sick of the money making blogging thing.

They want to blog because they need to tell the world a different story about something we all have turned a blind eye to, or they want to think differently about an axiom – or they simply have a new business idea. Shouldn’t such kind of talen be recognised and appreciated? What if he too jumped into the bandwagon and wasted his time trying to monetise his site, thinking about the ad-sizes, referrals, links and stuff? That would corrupt his mind – would it not?

The blogging community is a network – the “blogosphere” as it’s called. There are many think-tanks out there who want to make a point.
Any sort of classification and labelling, be it based on the money, or the popularity only corrupts the idea, and should not be entertained. I’d be happy to listen to your thoughts on this..

Possibly related SEO & Social Media Articles

• Do you blog for making money from it or for helping others ?
  Let me tell this outright. I don’t quite like the idea of people blogging just to make money from it. I could be wrong, but even if I liked the idea, ( like I have tried to, many times ), some things would just stand out glaringly awkward and remind me that something isn’t right. I [...]...
• I’m tired of blogging. I’m quitting
  Have you thought about it? If yes, this article is for you, if not quit at once. When I first started a blog on a blogspot account, I was in a very bad shape, to be honest. Just like you, I was in the learning phase of the blogging phenomena. I picked a free template, tweaked it a [...]...
• A wordpress plugin that will help you make money from your blog
  Wordpress plugins are made keeping in mind the utility and functional aspects of your blog. Sometimes, they turn out to help you make money from your blog as well. Here is a great plugin which was meant for something else but ultimately will help you make money online. This wordpress plugin is actually made for making [...]...
• How much money do i earn from this blog?
  A question everybody (except John Chow, Amit Agarwal or Darren Rowse) is hesitant to answer. Well, there is nothing to hide after all I don’t believe that the success of a blog is in making money online. It’s got to do more with the brand building socializing etc for me. And any income that comes [...]...
• First posts of top blogging legends
  So you started blogging only months back and already feeling bored with no backlinks, no popularity and no recognition? Think again. For the blogging legends, success did not happen overnight. It took them years of posting, consistency, knowledge sharing and socialization(just to name a few) to make it big today. Ask anyone of those celebrity bloggers [...]...