blogisland

I was liv­ing on blog island.

And it sucked ASS.

What’s blog island?

What’s more impor­tant than what it is, is how you get there.

To get to blog island, the first thing you have to do is start blog­ging.

And you do all the reg­u­lar stuff that they say blog­gers are sup­posed to do.

You fig­ure out all the basic stuff like:

… all that sort of begin­ner blog­ger stuff.

And peo­ple start to notice you.

Then you make a left turn at My Poo Don’t Stink Avenue, and sud­denly you’re on Blog Island.

Maybe you stop respond­ing to com­ments on your blog. Not because they’re too many, but because you just can’t be bothered.

Or per­haps now that you’re becom­ing a BFD, you don’t see the point of stoop­ing to com­ment on other people’s sites any­more. After all, you paid your dues right?

And why have a blog roll? Link­ing out to other people’s sites is stu­pid right? Because then you can hold them cap­tive! Forever!

Could be you get such good results from blog­ging that you stop and use the excuse that you have all this work to do.. (Yep. That one’s about me. And not in a pat-self-on-back way…)

Blog Island is the place you end up in when you stop doing the things that made you a suc­cess­ful blog­ger in the first place.

Like…

Writ­ing about other peo­ple you admire . and link­ing to their posts.

Or being pas­sion­ate about some­thing, then writ­ing about it with every drop of that passion.

Or read­ing your favorite blogs, and link­ing to your favorite blog posts.

Blog­ging is as much about con­sum­ing, com­ment­ing on, and link­ing to great con­tent as it is cre­at­ing it. All 4 activ­i­ties work sym­bi­ot­i­cally together to turn you into a great blog­ger whose posts are read by actual humans.

Stay off blog island. No excuses.

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