Moving To Twitter, Less Blogging, etc.
Time to make a post kind of detailing the huge change that I posted a week or two back about “moving to Twitter”. First I had a small message in place of this blog, but after realizing that was stupid, a pop up will suffice. I just took that down too, most people should have seen it by now anyway.
As a preface, just go sign up for Twitter and follow me. You may think Twitter is stupid and you want no part of it, but I’ll be sharing tips there so you might as well at least join to follow me and some of the other guys that post useful information.
So. I started uberaffiliate a while back when I actually started seeing success with affiliate marketing. I wanted to share my success and experiences so others could learn from it, while also building a name for myself. Both of those things worked out great I think. Good name, bad name, sellout, good advice, fake advice, whatever anybody wants to call it…this blog has been great for me and for most people.
Over time though, you do start seeing the people claiming “bad advice, sellout, etc.” more…it’s natural. And this post isn’t to bitch and moan, it’s to explain. After a certain point in time, blogging just got repetitive. And that was natural, a person can only write about so much before they start to go over what they’ve already talked about. So instead of my long articles on how I have a good Adwords quality score every other day, every other post turned into something not so significant (knowledge wise). People start moaning about that, blogging loses it’s lacquer, posts become infrequent as well as partially useless (aside from a few good posts I’ve had lately).
I wind up talking to Dr. Ngo at 1am a couple weeks ago just talking about whatever, and one of us brought up how I haven’t really been blogging at all anymore. That’s when he said “You should just start Twittering instead of blogging”. I started thinking about that, and it seemed like a good solution. Nothing good was coming from my blog frequently anyway, and Twitter was really easy to use. It kind of provides a more “real” feel too, as I could talk about my campaigns and projects as they’re actually happening. That’s when I thanked Ngo for the idea, and the next day is when I put that page up in place of uberaffiliate.com.
Fast forward to now. Taking uberaffiliate down in general was stupid, I’d have to move the archives and lose my SEO and whatnot…newb idea my bad. I’m tweeting a lot now and I’ll admit, I do like it a lot. It’s a lot more social than the blog which I like, and if you really dig into it you can get some decent tips from people.
About blogging? DoshDosh has the idea. One kickass post every month or so. No pressure to blog every day, no pressure to always find something new to write about, just one major topic every month to really cover. I already have an idea about my first post I’d do like that, so maybe we’ll see something like that soon.
As a wrap up, I’ll be tweeting every day still and I’ll be there more than here, but I will still be blogging every now and then., just understand the posts will be spread out a pretty decent amount. Going to save all the off-topic talk for Twitter.
That is all.
Why not have the top of your content area display your most recent XX tweets? That would be a happy middleground and keep people coming back to your blog should/if/when you want to revisit writing more regularly.
Well thanks a ton for ubercamp and all your posts. I remember when my room mate and I heard about affiliate marketing and your guide was one of the first things we ran into. We didn’t leave our apartment for a week and every word we read felt exciting lol.
Your site has completely changed our lives since then.
Good move man.
Just keep posting quality stuff every so often, and the ppl that want to follow your day-to-day stuff can follow you on Twitter.
ill.
I think before the wide use of RSS readers, it was more important to blog every day so that people would continue to check your site for new posts. Now, there’s no need to keep checking the site, users can just sit back and wait for the new posts to come to them.
In my country the politicians want to take the law – every blogger to pay tax…
Ruefully…
Keep posting !
Less blogging more micro blogging as stuff happens. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out.
I agree with your comment about DoshDosh. Certainly a few powerful posts a month (surely more than one a month is doable) is better than lots of rubbish posts just for the sake of adding content.
I have fallen into the trap of posting several times on my blog. It is easy to just post something just for the sake of posting.
Quality not quantity is more valuable and in the long run more profitable.
I think twitter is marketing tool that can be use to get traffic to blog, so better still blogging. thanks. from david
Better blog and tweet at the same time. Let Twitter driive traffic to your blog. So, your blog needs to be updated frequently to let people see your new stories…
yes, good move..I’m following you on Twitter now..
I must be honest here. I find Twitter as the whole blogging idea killer. Twitting and following are some ideas just to increase traffic and earn more money. And blogging only for money is for me something that I don’t agree with as another form of getting more money. Trully I remember times where blogs were a places to share thoughts and ideas between ordinary people. Some kind of diary with audience. And now it is just another form of business. Sad transformation.
I think blog is still the primary source of content and Twitter is just a channel to interact with your readers/followers and drive them to your blog.
I see many my friends are posting every day.They write about their own stories, about their experience, give advices here and there. On my opinion one useless post can make their visitors to run away and never come back.If the Blog Owner supposed that the story of his dog or his Grandmother is interesting for him, why the visitors should be interested in this?
It’s much better to make several posts monthly than to post something useless every day.
Twitter like a solution couldn’t replace the blog because direct selling from your Twitter Updates is not effective from my own experience.
i think twitter is good to bring loads of quality traffic also
Today Pearanalytics publish a study about twitter:
The results were interesting. As you may have guessed, Pointless Babble won with 40.55% of the total tweets captured; however, Conversational was a very close second at 37.55%, and Pass-Along Value was third (albeit a distant third) at 8.7% of the tweets captured.
With the new face of Twitter, it will be interesting to see if they take a heavier role in news, or continue to be a source for people to share their current activities that have little to do with everyone else. We will be conducting this same study every quarter to identify other trends in usage.
Well, damn, I haven’t been here for a while but I was wondering what was going on. But eh, one useful post is better than none if you ask me.
Jay
That’s why they call tweeting, micro-blogging! ;)
I think that your decision is sensible and fully justified, provided of course that you keep posting the insightful articles here Personally, I also enojy your day-to-day posts, so I’m going to follow you on Tweeter as well, but let others have a chance to choose what they prefer.
Well, interesting decision. I think twitter is easier to manage than blogging in the sense that it takes less time than blogging… just my opinion