Comments on: Don’t Post About Holidays

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:25:35 +0000

I’m not a fan of these posts and I don’t write them, but I think they have a place on some blogs. Not the make money niche, but more so for personal. Even if it is repetitive it can still be relevant depending on the type of audience.

By: 45n5

45n5 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:07:07 +0000

@titus – there is nothing wrong with personal posts, but this is different, it’s like everyone posting, “hey today is tuesday”, it’s repetitive and irrelevant

@david – spot on, what a waste of readers attention by reminding them again it’s easter when they could do something useful with it.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:39:06 +0000

Thank $@%@%@ for this post. I have no problem with people wishing others well for Easter, but do it at the end of a useful post, don’t dedicate a whole post to doing so.

What’s worse is all the bloggers that go off on tangents and start bringing religious phrases onto an MMO/Blogging tips blog… makes me unsubscribe pretty quick

By: Blantonious

Blantonious — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:30:23 +0000

I think rather than post on the holiday take the day off and spend time with your family.

But I do hope everyone had a good holiday!

By: David

David — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:02:00 +0000

Hi Titus,

I can see how this post might ruffle some feathers, but again, this is only my personal opinion. And really, I don’t mind personal entries, but I am focusing more on the problogging/make money online blogs. If you read the 45n5.com/moneylinks around easter, you would have seen hundreds of posts saying “Happy Easter” and in our niche, it was a waste of space on my screen and feed reader as I got the hint with the first post.

I think I am right on the money when it comes to expanding upon the idea or bringing the holidays in as part of a larger post to stand out from the myriad of people writing “Happy Easter”.

And it is my time and my energy that people are wasting. I only have so much time, and paging through “Happy Easter” one hundred times is not my idea of fun. And this post could be used for any holiday, and for any major news item to be honest.

The real message here is “stop being the same as everyone else, say something new.”

By: Titus Ferguson

Titus Ferguson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:43:37 +0000

I think you are way off the mark here David.

If the blogosphere eliminated personal type entries such as we see at Easter iy would become so imbearably dull that everyone would leave. Only so many people constantly want to read impersonal posts. The majority of readers like to know what is going on in the bloggers life, thats why they read their blog.

As far as “You are wasting time, space, and energy”, how does that comment make any sense? Since when was there a such a small amount of space on the internet that blog posts are using it up.? And does it really matter if to you what some people use their time and energy on?

I enjoy many of the things that you write, I just think this post should have been a bit more thoughtful.