20 Dec 08 Content is King, It’s also Cha-Ching!

“Content is King, It’s also Cha-Ching”

Taking into account Technorati’s count on February 11, 2008 of 185,620,000 and adding a calculated 175,000 new blogs everyday – Today, as of December 20th 2008 there are a total of 217, 236, 376 blogs! You can view the running count here. (The flash counter adds 1 new blog every 2 seconds (based on the 175K new blogs daily).

That’s a lot of blogs, and even more content! According to Wordpress.com, their stats stand at 5,037,838 blogs and a whopping 43,332,247 words today! The user generated content on the internet is staggering, and you would expect that.

So, in this competitive online world you cannot be soft – go hard out with what you write and write it like you mean it. You have to stand out from the crowd because your website falls into one of the following two categories;

~ Lots of Interested Users, More Competitive

~ Not many Interested Users, Less Competitive

If your blogging for any reason other than personal “writing” you are most likely to fall into the first category.

You might ask yourself, how do I make myself stand out? Well simple, do something out of the ordinary. Everyone can write, but it takes determination, perseverance and dedication to run a website that will have your visitors returning back and back again! Look around you, see what other people are doing and try to do something better, I know this is easier said than done, but nothing’s free in this world and you got to get out there and earn your respect. Don’t worry about money as you start, because with respect the $$ piggy bank is not too far behind.

Just a last pointer, is that write in topics you are personally interested in and not for the money. 95% of new bloggers fail because they try to write for high paying keywords and niches. What good is a high paying keyword if you give up in 2 months? If you don’t see yourself writing content about the topic in one year’s time, don’t even bother starting.

Firstly find out your passion and your interests and then go from there. Good luck to you, in your journeys!