Every good blog IS an infomercial
Eric Reynolds decries the rise of what he calls infomercial blogs, stating that everything you read on those blogs, including this one, can be found in the Digital Point forums. There's a good discussion about it happening over at ProBlogger, so I'll refer you there instead of rehashing the comments here.
Instead, let me address the point that I think was missed: every good blog is an infomercial. The point of a blog is to sell something: yourself, your ideas, your products, your causes, your services. Even if you're not explicitly selling something, implicitly you are. Why else would anyone read what you have to say?
Despite the rant at the beginning of his post, Eric gets it right at the end: Take your site and make it original. That's what I've been saying all along in this “useless” blog.
Eric Giguere is the AdSense expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and the new e-book Uncommon AdSense.
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