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90% of Bloggers are Copycats

Yep, among the remaining 10% are the people on my BlogConnect list. Visit a site and you’ll even find the images loading from an external server and text matching exactly with the content on some other website.

Blogging is not made for copying stuff, whether it be a review, a limerick or just about. You’ve got Gnutella and Torrents for that. Visit a hundred websites, compile the content and I wouldn’t call it copying. It’s research. You upload stuff from other sites on your blog. It gives users a bad impression(for the returning visitors, at least).

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7 comments here

  • Increase the number of copycats.
    90% people that monetize their blogs are copycats. 95% that fill up every pixel on their blog with Adsense are copycats, coz good ad services require a good page rank which the copycats never acheive.

  • I disagree. 90% is a very high figure. No way dude.

  • Man, ever surfed Bloglines? Or some other blog indexing service?

  • Uhmm. I see Bloglines is an RSS reader :P…just forgot the name of a stupid blogging network, full of copycats.

    –Sorry for double posting.

  • Oh, come on! Most blogs are just full of email forwards, wallpapers and other copied stuff.

    Go look at the number of blogs wordpress hosts. See how many of them actually have content which is not available on multiple websites.

  • Accha, temme one thing; does stuff like posting a video in a manner similar to you did today, count? If not; then I can bet on it dude. Just keep pressing ‘Next’ on the WP bar, and then paste a random line on google with quotes. Take a random sample of ten and we will get our answer

    - Aditya #
  • Yep it does. But you’ve got to decide on whether posting one everyday from somewhere without having any theme and having them come randomly is fine or posting it once in a while and suiting the theme of your site is better.

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