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Do you know what is Competitive Blogging means?

See the pictures below

Can you see? In the span of less than 1 hour. How many pings in Innit showing the same topic?

All were about Spain winning their 1st FIFA World Cup title.

And imagine when a person , like me, open Nuffnang Innit and see almost a full page of posts with same topic. You think I’ll click on each and every one?

Nope. I believe you will not do so.

From there, I can conclude that everyone is trying very hard to get good topic to attract traffic. But like the case above, how much traffic you think you’ll get? All the traffics will be divided among those with the same topic.

I admit. I admit that thinking about a new topic that able to attract reader is hard.Sometime you’ll have a lot of new topics. Sometime you can get out of ideas and don’t know what to write. I do end up with the situation like this, always.

There was once, I thought I was fast enough to finish a post and ping in Nuffnang Innit because the news was fresh from oven barely an hour and I hope be able to attract traffic. But right after I finished my post and ping in Nuffnang Innit, damn it, there was a post with same topic pinged 2 minutes earlier than me. I guess to be ahead of everyone in this internet blogging, especially you’re going to blog about general topics where people is interested it, 1 hour is too long. If you can do it in less than 10 minutes after the news come out, then it’ll mean something.

By the way, the post that I mentioned up is Paul’s prediction for Germany and Spain. Paul’s prediction, another hot topic. Once the news come out, a lot of people will blog about it and even until a day later, people will still blog about it.

I’m not trying to pour cold water on anyone but do you think you’ll get concentrated traffic by posting something which is a day late in internet? I don’t think so. You will get traffic but not a lot. I know, trust me. I’ve done that.

So either you can make sure that yourself is ahead of everyone, do it. If you’re like a day late and or maybe half day late, I suggest it’s good for you to think a new topic to write.

I remember when I started blogging since October 2004, blogging wasn’t that competitive as now.

But now,

I can see people post up the cheque they got from blogging

I can see people resigned from their daily 9 to 5 job and become a full time blogger.

I believe Nuffnang gets a lot of new registration everyday.

It’s hard to see a blog without advertisement.

By seeing this trend, I can say that blogging today indeed is a serious business.

Serious business is blogging.

J

p/s: I hope this is a new topic. I used 2 days to think, leh.he he