Top Ten Paradoxes I’ve Found In Blogs and Blogging
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eli
on 3/21/10• Categorized as Consulting
Surfing the net and visiting some blogs can be an amusing as well as enriching experience.
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For example, for several months of visiting some blogs to read, I’ve found out some paradoxes that tend to amuse as well as entertain.
What is a paradox? Encarta defines a paradox as something absurd or contradictory, a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory but in fact is or may be true.
Below are the top ten paradoxes that I’ve observed and found in blogs and blogging:
1. A blog which gives tips on search engine optimization (SEO) can’t be found on search engines results page, and its URL, content and keywords do not appear also when searched.
2. A blog that provides advice on how to increase your Alexa traffic rank (in Alexa, a lower traffic rank is better, higher is worse) has a very low Alexa traffic rank of 2,993,997!
3. A blog that has a lot of posts about boosting traffic, like a post titled “34 Ways To Boost Website Traffic” and how to generate daily visitors, is only generating an average of 10 visitors a day for the last 30 days.
4. A blog titled “Self-Reliance” with keywords as self-reliance, financial independence, frugal, being thrifty, is posting about the birds and the bees, going to Hongkong to shop and spend money.
5. A blog that talks about food and recipe publishes different posts dealing on a lot of topics, except food and recipe.
6. A blog that boosts of publishing original content, with a copyright after each post, get the articles that it is posting from Free Articles directories and also from private label rights (PLR) articles.
7. A blog that provides a lot of tips on blog monetization, maximizing blog income from ads, and whose owner claims to be making $ 3,000 a month from blogging and income from ads, has zero ads and is looking for ads, with an ad that says: “Your Ad Here”.
8. A blog that publishes many articles on how to make money blogging, how to earn a million dollars from blogs, how to generate thousands $$$ a day from affiliate income, has a Paypal “Donate” button asking for donations from the readers to “help maintain the site.”
9. A blog that is particular about niche and gives tips on how to find a niche and niching and which claims to be a blog about nature, always posts a lot of pictures of celebrities, some in skimpy outfits.
10. A blog with an Entrecard widget and has posts giving tips on how to be popular in Entrecard and how to increase ad prices in Entrecard, could not be found in Entrecard Top 500 most popular blogs, and its ad price is only at 8 ec/day.
Indeed, the blogosphere, like the real world, is full of paradox.
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Wow, Eli! Those are such good examples! How amusing. I think I have run across some of those sites you allude to, isn’t it so amusing? My favorite is #7, the moneymaking blog without any ads!
Some of these made me laugh. The blogosphere is full of people pretending to be something they’re not.
I could not stop laughing my head off! Hahaha! So paradoxical indeed.
I really adore your accurate observations and investigations. This is very entertaining coupled with authentic facts. Love it!
Goodness, I hope none of my blogs hit your paradox list. Seriously though there could be very valid reasons explaining some of these paradoxes. For example a new blog on SEO could have very good tips yet hasn’t been indexed by the search engines yet because it is new. You also could have just visited the blog on an off day. OTOH there’s no excuse for a niche blog (eg. food/cooking) to continually post off topic for the niche. The ones that really make be snicker are the ‘mommy’ blogs that are supposed to be about their family and kids with about 90% of the posts being paid posts about anything but family and kids. I especially like it when someone writes a wonderful (not!) post on how to find a good Chicago lawyer when they live in a foreign tropical country and have likely never been outside of their country. There’s a lot of blogging paradoxes out there. At best you learn from them and get a chuckle or two
You’ve hit the nail squarely on the head, Atty.
It all boils down to one thing though. Blogging hypocrisy is evidently becoming rampant. More and more bloggers are concerned with generating revenues at the blogs. figures, stats, etc. Sad but true…
this is funny but true. i’ve encountered a lot of “free advices” when i bloghop but i usually take them with a grain of salt.
I’ll add a few:
Blogs that suggest you should use your own unique theme, when they haven’t followed their own advice.
Blogs that try to make money online, and who put free Project Wonderful ads above paid ads from other networks.
Bloggers who comment on other people’s blogs to say little more than “I agree” when they obviously haven’t read the post and they are doing some of the things mentioned in the post.
Blogs that are written in English, but where the quality of the writing is terrible. Some blogs are so badly written, they are pretty much unreadable. If English isn’t your first language, why not write in your native language instead?
Funny, I thought I’m the only one who noticed that…..hehehehe
I like the what Lainy had to say, Eli, “blogging hypocrisy.” You point this out so well in your article.
I have noticed a lot of those paradoxes but just never put it all together. It is really interesting to read all different kinds of blogs. Glad to hear someone put it all into real words. Very interesting stuff.
I had a good laugh at this post Eli, I am sure we could add another 10. You know what’s even funnier I could name each blog you alluded to, some of them have more then just one of your points that could easily be included.
That’s a nice world you used, Paradoxes, I think that must have come from you being a lawyer and having to take lawyer speak 101, lol.
There is one I think you must ad, the blog that “teaches” you how to optimize your blog to make it run better and load faster. That is still loading after you finished reading the post they wrote, lol.
And please just because there are plug ins to be used, that doesn’t mean you have to add every one. I know my blog sometimes takes a while to load and I don’t pretend to be the quickest blog, but that is inevitable when running a newspaper style blog that has many articles and pictures on the front page.
I don’t even mind so much if the blog does take a while to load, but there better damn well be something of interest to read once it finally does.
My two cents
I’ve often thought the same thing Elly! A blog post along the same lines has been in the back of my mind for a while now. You’ve beaten me to the punch!
Whew… glad the nature one isn’t me- no celebs for sure! The one that bugs me most has wildlife in the title, but is clearly about a wild life!
I can see your view…maybe some are trying to find out what brings comments or more traffic. Some time it is time to change a title and description of a blog. I have to admit some of your list was funny, And I probably fall head ins in a few,lol,.
Wow!! I am not sure whether to laugh or to find whether I am at fault too!!! I guess I am ok. But whatever you have said, you were spot on.
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Is this possible?
Am I the only one that noticed that these aren’t paradoxes? These are just things that are ironic. A paradox is a statement for idea that contradicts itself so that it has no meaning and cannot exist. These are not paradoxes.