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I am looking for an argument. Not a discussion, simply because a discussion does not get the adrenaline levels pumping. An argument does. Since I have been binging for the past two days without any real exercise, I thought I will take this weekend to argue about something so as to put my heart's machinery into some action to avoid it from clogging up prematurely. The topic of the argument, should there be any takers, is:
When You Write An Article, Do You Secretly Hope That It Will Be Read By Humans?
I do. No matter what I have been taught and what I have been learned, I always secretly hope there will be some interested people who will read what I have written.
There are three schools of thought when it comes to writing and posting your articles in a public domain where it is exhibited in all its naked glory to the whole wide world. One is from the school of so called "truly a pure blogger". This species has lots of character and personality that you either admire or despise. To them, their argument is, "I write for myself, so if you do not like what I wrote, f***k off!" Commenting in disagreement on these blogs brings you a lot of misery and bewilderment.
Why bewilderment? Bewilderment because if they are writing for themselves and themselves only, why for the sake of my aching left knee are they posting their writings in the World Wide Web? There is an application called Microsoft Word that lets people write all they want, whatever they want, for their own eyes and pleasure without having to expose their writings to anyone but their perverted selves. Even if they can't afford MS Word, there are free versions available which do the same thing as effectively.
So my argument is, these people are in fact secretly hoping people do read what they have written. I give myself one up. Nyek, nyek…
The second school of thought tells writers, or rather bloggers, "Write for search engines, to Hell with human readers".
On this, I admit I do have a bunch of blogs that are solely for robots with artificial intelligence. The comments templates have been ripped off from those blogs and even if there is a comment template, it has been switched off. So no comments from either robots or humans in those blogs. These blogs show no passion and commitment in the articles. Any unfortunate human being stumbling into those blogs gets an apology in my silent prayers for snaring them and putting them through a small mental torture just so they will "click" out.
Since I admit, is there still room for an argument? You bet there is, as I believe like me, most of these bloggers also have a nice anchor blog that boasts and rants about their "knowledge" of how they are able to create antisocial blogs that attract tons of organic traffic. It is from these blogs that the argument stems, because most of them will be boasting, "Hey, I write for Search Engines, so if there are no readers or loyal followers, I don't mind".
Do they don't really mind? I highly doubt so. If they truly do not mind not having a single human reader to their flagship blog, they might as well spend their time creating another "robotic" blog and make more money for themselves. Now that's where idiosyncrasy comes into play.
They have been so "well-trained" to manipulate organic traffic that they can't help themselves each time they write a post. The Post Title must be Search Friendly with highly searched keywords. Their post content must consist of all the keywords that they are targeting. They know they can get traffic, but organic traffic will never give them due recognition. A blog that is structured for organic traffic can get thousands of visitors, but none will make a comment. However, this is their flagship. They need people to tell them that they are good.
Secretly they yearn for recognition for that knowledge. No matter what they say and try to force themselves to believe that they can still survive without social readers, secretly they hope humans will read their search optimized post. Deep down, they will be hoping to see a comment or two. It's human ego.
And the third school of thought……… ??? Naaah… I will leave room for arguments. Furthermore, this post is getting too long winded. I was just looking for an argument. This has become a rant.
So till the next week my friends.
Have a good weekend.
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Personally, it is the desire for humans to read my stuff that I have to argue with myself when I do multiple postings across various directories. I tell myself it is important, because the same people don't hang out on the same sites so I'm getting my all to important info out to the masses.
There is the reality that we have to do some our own link building in order for our flagship content to get to the top and be found by the searchers.
I leave comments on, on the other sites, because I still like to know if people are finding content even if it wasn't intended for humans.
cd :O)