What Makes a Good Blogger?
This question have been circulating in my mind for quite sometime now. What makes a good blogger? Owning a good blog of course. But what is the exact defenition of a good blog exactly?
Is it a well designed blog? With an immaculate timplate and flashy header? Is it the frequency of posting? Going on like an international news website feed with a post every half an hour? Is it how fast they post? Being the first to blog about something happening before everyone else? Is it the importance of the posts, the weight and quality and work done behind each and every one? Is it by the lengths they would take to put together something special and different as a post?
Are good bloggers always popular? Is a popular blogger a necessarily good blogger? How can you tell that this blogger is more popular from another? Alexa? That can easily be manipulated. The number of comments received on each posts, or by the number of people reading per post? Who should those readers be? Kuwaitis? Expats? A mix? Or perhaps people abroad? They count as readers, don’t they?
Is the number of events the blogger attends -or crashes- a factor in their importance or popularity? The number of goodies they get to try first hand? What if the blogger is screening their events and being picky, are they sending out the wrong message? How about the number of ads on the blog? The more occupied ads, the more popular? What if most of those ads are from wealthy friends and family members with businesses?
What about the blogger himself? Must he look exactly like the image they portray on the blog? Must they look hip, young, well dressed, and be friendly too? Would meeting the blogger change the way people view the blog? Does the blogger have to be friendly and enthusiastic in real life, or a snob, or just be whatever they are? Do you care who the blogger is and what’s his character is like before reading or inviting them?
How can you tell that this is a good blogger and this is not so good? What makes this blog an important and influential blog that must’nt be ignored? What makes this blogger your favorite, a must check first thing in the morning to see what they’ve posted blog? I am still wondering, and I think I am truly at loss regarding finding an answer to that question.
