Who is your real idol blogger?
Ajith | Nov 2008 | Your Opinion
Many of you would have started blogging after getting inspired by one of those big names in the blogosphere, right? I started this blog after hitting John Chow’s blog, via a PPC ad click, earlier this year. I, like many others, was flabbergasted at the way he makes money and truly even chanted his home page title – I Make Money Online by Telling People How Much Money Online – as daily mantra for a few weeks!
While the biggies in the game mostly inspire you, there must have been some other bloggers, who kept low profile, but delivered great content to their audience. For these people blogging is a passion and not necessarily a means to make money. I am sure some of you must have started your blogging habit after reading and getting addicted to their way of expressing stuff. The purpose of this survey post is to understand who or which blog actually inspired you to start your own blog?
Well, I am not talking about Make Money Online blogs, high tech blogs or SEO blogs alone here. I would like to hear from all of you those who blogs regardless of how small or big your blog is. The following questions are expected to be answered in your comment:
- Who inspired you to start blogging? (Please mention the blogger’s name and provide the blog URL in your comment)
- Do you still read that blog regularly and draw inspiration?
- Which aspects of that blogger or blog did you like the most?
This is an opportunity for all of us to learn about some other bloggers and their blogs as well. So please shoot your comments!
Have a great weekend!
PS:- Soon after I started my blog, I realized that, there’s life beyond Chow, Shoe or Moo…
I think that it was Syed Balkhi (http://balkhis.com) that inspired me to start blogging after I found one of his posts through DP one day.
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I still read Balkhis every single day I can and consider it one of the best blogs around.
What I really like about Balkhis is that Syed writes really useful content, especially giving handy hints and time-saving tips. He responds very quickly to anything you say to him and, is successful, has a refreshing design and gives away free custom blog designs each month (and I won 1
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I actually already forgot who brought me to the blogosphere. Because I just started blogging with myself (personal blog) and after some months in surfing the net I found several pro blogs talking about tech, make money online, etc etc and that inspired me to make a blog like that.
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@Simon, Balkhis is definitely a very good blog. As you rightly said, he gives more practical tips out of his own experience. As for the design of the blog, I somehow find it difficult to figure out which is the most recent post due to its semi-magazine type design. And yes, I know that you won ‘pimp my blog’ a couple of months ago. Did he modify your theme yet?
@Hussein, hmm…but there must have been somebody (or many) who inspired you right? Well, it’s quite possible that you forgot about it as there are way too many blogs in those categories already.
Definately Yaro Starak from http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com. He was the first blog I read and the way he has built it from the time I started reading it has really inspired me!
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About me its different, when i entered blogging i was not aware of all these COW and Shoe etc, I just started blogging as my own, I was blogging on Blogger platform, but when i came to know about Wordpress i swiched to it, and now i am blogging on wordpress.
But no one inspired me, i power myself…
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Its was a article on blogging in one of the technology magazines that brought me to blogging.Though in the early stages i was turely inspired by Amit Agarwal ’s Digital Inspiration (http://www.labnol.org/)
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My idol blogger? I guess i’m still searching…
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@Tom, definitely Yaro is one of those inspiring great bloggers along with Steve Pavlina or Darren Rowse. There is a real difference between them and others like John Chow or Shoemoney!
@Chetan, ah…so you are like Hussein. I somehow believe that there must have been some inspiration from somewhere
think think think…
@Rahul, Amit’s digital inspiration is a great blog
I am glad that you got inspired by something other than typical MMO-SEO blogs…
@lili, No idols yet… hmm, find one here
Cheers to all
Shoe is my real blog idol blogger. Day by day i am learning much things from him.
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It was John Chow for me…and then there was no looking back
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@Onder, @ZK – Good to have you John and Jeremy fans respectively here… Out of the two, I like Shoe better these days
I like Mani Karthik (dailyseoblog.com).
@Anish, Good one… Mani Karthik was one of my first contacts in MyBlogLog. Of late, I haven’t been visiting it that often… Will again check it out
I read a lot of blogs, but my favorite is Darren Rowse at Problogger.net
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@Tom, Darren is truly amazing and he has not really come down on the content quality or his tone where a lot of ‘others’ mean only money. I like Darren and Yaro for that.
Yeah I agree Darren Rowse is where most people started.. Chow was more like the aggressor, he gives out tips on making money instantly…
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HI Ajith – Steve Pavlina was my inspiration. I found his blog after I read “The Secret” and the rest is history. I still frequent his blog, but don’t follow his whole food/juicing posts.
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Darren Rowse for me too, though I didn’t start blogging to be a Problogger. I started blogging for my website to help drive traffic, but it turned into something I spend a tremendous about of time on. Since I am very new to this (blogging and running a website), I’m still learning as I go.
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Truthfully, I started my blog many years ago after reading a story about it in a business magazine. I thought it would be a good idea to add one to my business website so I could exhibit some of my expertise. So, I really hadn’t seen many blogs until I created mine, and therefore, I really did come to it on my own, so to speak.
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@Melvin / @Carla, Darren really rocks! I am glad that many people are infludenced by him than John or Jeremy
It also proves that money is not always everything that you want from blogging! @Carla, c’mon, don’t be modest 
you are already there and not learning…
@Barbara, Steve is one of those ‘real’ bloggers. But as you rightly said the non-stopping juice of the day thingie has been a bit disturbing… Though he’s sitting in my RSS reader, the last one month or so, I have been just skipping it
@Mitch, It’s great to learn that you in fact read about blogging via an offline medium. The offline reading is a rare thing to see these days and I forgot the last time I went through a book completely. Thank god, I still read news papers on paper that is. I tgruly appreciate your source of inspiration!
Again, thanks everyone for your responses
nice read
@Anil, thanks.. keep visiting us
I was mostly inspired to blog by Tori from Paid Opps and Daniel from Daily Blog Tips.
However my blog content are completely of different topic as theirs. I was also motivated by my girlfriend who blog for the passion of blogging.
As for John Chow and John Cow and Shoemoney I am starting to feel fed up of their same rotating and no originality anymore posts. Sincerely if i have to choose between shoemoney and this blog dollarshower, I’ll choose this one. Just a way to say that I am not those who will simply follow the big bloggers even if their post are becoming annoying day by day.
The thing that keep your reader switch to your blog is the originality and ever changing content. That is always learning new thing.
@Kurt,
and thanks a lot for that. Yes, originality of the content is what people should go after.
This has been the most wonderful feedback I have ever received
And you know what, you actually inspired me to write the new post on ‘the blog ranks and ranking systems’
Thanks again…