4 Ways to Make Your Blog Stand Out from the Pack

Search Engine Watch ^ | April 13, 2014 | Jayson DeMers

[eyedigress]

Ha! Have a good week my FRiend.

[humblegunner]

I never understood the anger directed at bloggers from FR.

I don't think it's from FR, just a few of the posters.
Try not to assign motives to the whole based upon a few.

If the article is well written and pertinent, I don’t care who wrote it.

Even it's from someone pushing their own material?
Even if they are tapping into FR's traffic to make money?

I’m actually supportive of alternative media

Well, what we've got so far is a bunch of dirty-shorts
mooks ripping off MSM material and re-writing it in such
a way as to get you to click on it.

Me, I don't see rewarding them as being a good thing.

[upchuck]

Imagine what the forum would look like if every FReeper that has a blog posted it here.

[jjotto]

It would be like the Religion Forum, only more interesting.

[Tainan]

Make it a lot easier to sort out the nut cases.

[Marie]

So first you get mad that they’re ‘pushing their own material’ then you get mad that they’re ‘ripping off MSM material and re-writing it in such a way as to get you to click on it.’

Either way, it doesn’t matter to you. If it’s not an MSM article, it’s a dirty ‘blogger’ who needs to be beaten down. If they’re promoting their own material (as any capitalist will do) they suck. If they’re promoting someone else’s material, they’re a dirty blogger that needs to be beaten down.

As I see it, you’re pro MSM and anti free speech and free journalism.

The internet has done more to wrestle the iron grip of propaganda from the MSM than anything in human history. Bloggers have done more to keep the MSM reigned in and tried to keep them honest. This is the greatest human experiment since the foundation of our country and should be encouraged.

And no. I do not - and never have had - a blog. I just get really irritated when I come across an interesting commentary and I’ve got to fight past the ‘blog pimp’ accusations before I can debate the actual content.

Please don’t forget that many websites that we reference regularly once began as blogs. They gained credibility over time.

[PIF]

Good G, my blog must be at the top of every search done and read by millions!

Having used his advice without being told years ago, I can safely say those may be the very reasons I no longer post to it. That and I no longer wished to deal with inane and insane lib commentators.

[humblegunner]

So first you get mad that they’re ‘pushing their own material’ then you get mad that they’re ‘ripping off MSM material

I'm never mad. And you're almost right about the material.
They are pushing stolen material to get blog hits.

Either way, it doesn’t matter to you. If it’s not an MSM article, it’s a dirty ‘blogger’ who needs to be beaten down.

If the dirty blogger posts his material in full, I generally won't beat him down.

If they’re promoting their own material (as any capitalist will do) they suck.

If they are USING Free Republic as a free advertising tool, they do indeed suck.

As I see it, you’re pro MSM and anti free speech and free journalism.

Wanting them to post their material in full is anti free speech?
Interesting. Just because the MSM can't be trusted does not automatically mean that blogs can be trusted.
Citing your dislike for crap sandwiches is no reason to switch to rotting roadkill.

The internet has done more to wrestle the iron grip of propaganda from the MSM than anything in human history.

Now you think I dislike the whole internet?

Bloggers have done more to keep the MSM reigned in and tried to keep them honest.

Indeed, made-up garbage and stolen material with no checking or oversight is an awesome thing.

This is the greatest human experiment since the foundation of our country and should be encouraged.

BLOGS are? You're cracked.

I just get really irritated when I come across an interesting commentary and I’ve got to fight past the ‘blog pimp’ accusations before I can debate the actual content.

Yes, scrolling is hard.

They gained credibility over time.

At least we agree that blogs lack credibility.

[Marie]

I completely agree with you that, if they’re just posting an MSM article, they should link to the direct source and not take credit. Absolutely. That’s stealing.

But if it’s original material, they don’t have to. If they wrote original content, they have every right to get the hit as a big publication does. People don’t like it, they don’t click. There’s no reason to tear them down.

Here at FR, we reference blogs all the time. These are *all* conservative blogs.

20) Althouse
19) Vox Popoli
18) Atlas Shrugs
17) IMAO
16) Rachel Lucas
15) Legal Insurrection
14) Moonbattery
12) Michelle Malkin
11) Liberal Logic 101
10) Redstate
9) Naked DC
8) The Campaign Spot
7) Newsbusters
6) Twitchy
5) Ace Of Spades HQ
4) Breitbart
3) Gateway Pundit
2) Instapundit
1) Hot Air

We link to them, click on them, support them, help their advertising. There no reason that we shouldn’t support the little guys, too.

In all honesty, I think that FR should have an ad column and rake in the cash. And we’ll all use Adblock Plus, block it so it doesn’t bother us, and everyone will be happy. It’s capitalism and I love it! :)

[humblegunner]

I don’t recall having commented about any of those twenty.

You don’t see those authors pimping their own stuff here either.

Not every blogger is equal.