Chitika Blogpreneur Contest

I received an email today from Chitika.com. If you will notice, I have ads from Chitika on my site at the bottom of the page. If you click those ads, I make money. Since I only have about 3 readers on this blog, I don’t make very much money. Nevertheless, Chitika is sponsoring a Blogpreneur Contest. You can read about the contest here.

In this ad, Chitika explains, “To keep a successful blog today is by no means an easy challenge, and in this contest you will get a chance to share the secrets to your very own success in how you were able to get your blog up and running and what you think entrepreneurs can learn from you.”

Since my blog is fairly new, and as mentioned before, I only have 3 readers, I thought I would go through the process of entering this contest and instead change things up. I will tell how I got my blog up and running like asked and even mention what I think entrepreneurs can learn from me. It is pretty simple. If I have done it on my blog, do the exact opposite. For all of those Seinfeld watchers out there, think of the episode entitled “the Opposite.” In this episode George upon visiting the beach, decides that every decision that he has ever made has been wrong and resolves to do the complete opposite of what he would do normally. He suddenly begins to experience good luck, getting a girlfriend, moving out of his parents' house, and even landing a job with the New York Yankees.

So, take the George Costanza approach to a blog and do "the opposite" of what I have done. I have summarized the key points below. If only I would take some of my own advice.

1) Start your blog 5 years ago. Blogging and getting traffic to those blogs takes time. Also, there are about a billion blogs out on the net to compete with. Even though mine is advertised as being “30% Less Gay Than Other Blogs,” it still takes time to get that message out to the masses.

2) Don’t Suck. I obviously I have done the opposite of this. Who wants to hear about the World’s Biggest Fish Fry in some shit hole town in western Tennessee or which Jimmy Kimmel episode I like. Instead, write about some of the below topics which will surely get you traffic:

a) Paris Hilton
b) Britney Spears
c) Hot Naked Monkey Sex
d) How to Make Money on your Blog
e) How to Get Adopted by Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
f) Mail Order Russian Brides
g) Free Nascar Stuff
h) Midget Fighting
i) Paula Abdul drunk on American Idol

3) Pick a good domain name. I obviously am lacking here. First, don’t choose a free blogspot domain. Pay to get a good one. Again, Britney & Paris are good choices here. How about Britneydoesitagain.com or freenascarstuff.com. This is pretty self explanatory. Choose wisely.

4) Post often. The hardest part about writing a blog is coming up with ideas. Many successful bloggers will tell you to read other blogs to come up with ideas. I recommend you take this one step further. Steal from other blogs. There, I said it. Copy and Paste. Find something that interests you and is written well. Then copy and paste it over to your blog. I think this is frowned upon within the blogger community, but who cares. What's the worst thing that can happen? Is some Internet tough guy going to leave a dirty comment on your blog?

So that’s it. That is all I have. In my short blog life, I have learned what not to do. Hopefully you can do better.