Sep | 10 | 2009

Blogging Rewards

Posted by Jimmy as Opinion

As a blogger what rewards do you get from what you are doing? Obviously lots of pro-bloggers do what they do for the monetary rewards and/or reputation building. But is this the only thing that you’ll get from blogging, and more importantly are these the valuable things you’ll get out of blogging? I would be a hypocrite to say that the additional income from pro-blogging is something I love to spend but looking at the long run I think the other rewards far outweigh the monetary gains.

A couple of treasures blogging has brought me:

Knowledge – Needing to come up with a new post regularly has kept me on my toes and pushed me to read and read and read in order to come up with new material. Undoubtedly learning will still continue if I didn’t blog but on lazy days wanting and needing to share something to my readers pushes me to keep on learning.

New friends – Though most people you interact with online stays as simple online acquaintances I am fortunate to have a handful who I now consider to be real friends with a couple of them I’ve actually met. Comment discussions have turned to emails, phone calls, and dinner. The funny thing is that these friends are now people I keep in touch with more than some of my older friends, although interaction is still mostly through our blogs! Note though that these new friends are readers of my personal blog and not the topical ones.

Comments (6)

6 Responses

Taking a Breather: Say Bye to Your Blog but Not Your Readers « world net blog
09|Nov|2009

[...] Blogging Rewards As a blogger what rewards do you get from what you are doing? Obviously lots of pro-bloggers do what they do for the monetary rewards and/or reputation building. But is this the only thing that you’ll get from blogging, and more importantly are these the valuable things you’ll get out of blogging? I would be [...] [...]
Blogging Rewards « world net blog
10|Nov|2009

[...] Posted in Blog article by paekiss on November 10, 2009 Blogging Rewards As a blogger what rewards do you get from what you are doing? Obviously lots of pro-bloggers do what [...]
Blogging Rewards « world net blog
11|Nov|2009

[...] Posted in Blog article by paekiss on November 11, 2009 Blogging Rewards As a blogger what rewards do you get from what you are doing? Obviously lots of pro-bloggers do what [...]
Blogging Rewards « world net blog
13|Nov|2009

[...] Posted in Blog article by paekiss on November 13, 2009 Blogging Rewards As a blogger what rewards do you get from what you are doing? Obviously lots of pro-bloggers do what [...]
Blogging Rewards « world net blog
16|Nov|2009

[...] Posted in Blog article by paekiss on November 15, 2009 Blogging Rewards As a blogger what rewards do you get from what you are doing? Obviously lots of pro-bloggers do what [...]
Fight Blog and Email Spam « world net blog
16|Nov|2009

[...] Blogging Rewards As a blogger what rewards do you get from what you are doing? Obviously lots of pro-bloggers do what they do for the monetary rewards and/or reputation building. But is this the only thing that you’ll get from blogging, and more importantly are these the valuable things you’ll get out of blogging? I would be [...] [...]

Our Features

Design and Themes

Is Your Blog W3C Compliant?

Last night I checked my personal blog’s code hoping I can proudly display the W3C Validated Button. Since I use Blogger and do not really do anything to clean up the code (beyond adding Alt-tags to the images I embed) I wasn’t surprised at all to find that my blog contained lots of errors – [...]
Read on
More Design and Themes Features
Software and Widgets

Wordpress Plug-ins

If you blog using Wordpress and can’t do something that you want done like adding Sphere-related content at the end of your blog posts you might be surprised to find out that there are already plug-ins available that make it happen.
To find good Wordpress plug-ins all you need to do is search for “wordpress [...]
Read on
More Software and Widgets Features
Reviews

A Friend In Need

I’m helping out my friends from the UA&P – IShareHappiness Blog Team.
Whenever you feel pessimistic, angry, troubled, frustrated, and depressed – what have you – you need someone to talk to. Someone who could help you be more optimistic and help make you feel that there is hope. Sometimes it’s hard to talk to someone [...]
Read on
More Blog Reviews
Monetization

Review: Logical Media

Logical Media is one of the innovative services that pay for ad placement within blogs. Do you have a blog and are you seeking a way to make additional money from the blog? Are you seeking a way to offset other programs with the use of ads? Through the registration with Logical Media, the blogger [...]
Read on
More Monetization Features
Marketing and Search Optimization

Search Rank Drop and False Alarms

Happy Holidays!
What are the chances of someone being concerned about their blog’s search ranking dropping on Christmas Eve? I have no idea but then again if I’m writing about it right now then there’s probably someone somewhere around the world doing SEO at this very minute.
If you have experienced a sudden drop in ranking, [...]
Read on
More Marketing and SEO Features
Blog Resources