Are Personal Bloggers Taking Their Blogs Too Seriously?

A lot of personal bloggers have been putting almost the same effort into blogging as those bloggers that blog professionally.

Is that a good thing?

Or, is that a bad thing?

Well, the truth is that personal bloggers have mixed feelings about this.

There is a group of personal bloggers who believe that personal blogging should be kept as simple as possible and that trying to implement the things that professional bloggers do with their blogs (for example, the application of On-Page and Off-Page SEO), takes the fun out of blogging.

Then there is another group of personal bloggers who believe that learning and applying the same things as professional bloggers (such as SEO and writing effective content) will enhance their personal blogs.

Now, the group of personal bloggers who believe that personal blogging should be kept as simple as possible will perceive the group of personal bloggers who operate their blogs in almost the same manner as professional bloggers, as taking their blogs too seriously.

The God’s/Goddess’s truth is that both groups of personal bloggers are entitled to run their blogs in the manner that they see fit.

Therefore, the group of personal bloggers that run their blogs almost in the same manner as professional bloggers do may not view their extra effort as taking their blogs too seriously.

Personal Blogging Has Come A Long Way

Back in 2008, personal blogging was extremely simple; they were diary-type posts that contained few words and pictures.

Today, it is possible for you to come across personal blogs that contain well-written and well-formatted blog posts with relevant professional grade-looking pictures; their appearance has a striking resemblance to those that are produced by professional bloggers.

Personal bloggers have the choice of presenting their blog posts in a slapped-together amateurish manner or a professional manner.

For the record, I am in no way insinuating that one is better than the other.

I am merely pinpointing the extra effort that some personal bloggers go through to make sure that their blog posts are presented in a professional manner.

Some Personal Bloggers Are Using SEO Plugins

If you thought that SEO plugins were only for professional bloggers, you would have to wipe that thought from your mind.

Why?

Because SEO plugins were created to be used by any blogger who wants their blog posts to rank well on search engines (And, there are personal bloggers who desire that sort of thing).

The truth is that there are personal bloggers who want their blog posts to be found by anyone who is conducting a search query via Google, Bing, Yandex, etcetera (The more eyes that they have on their blog posts, the happier they are).

There Are Personal Bloggers Who Take Spelling And Grammar Seriously

The truth is that most people would allow personal bloggers to get away with spelling and grammatical errors.

Whereas, most people would nail a professional blogger to the cross if they discovered spelling and grammatical errors in any of their blog posts.

These days, lots of personal bloggers are making a conscientious effort to ensure that their blog posts are devoid of spelling and grammatical errors.

Those who are weak in the areas of spelling and grammar are known to utilize:

• Grammarly
• Ginger
• ProWritingAid

A lot of personal bloggers believe that blog posts without any spelling or grammatical errors is the best kind to publish on their blogs.

Some Personal Bloggers Are Using Paid WordPress Themes

I have to admit that most of the paid WordPress themes are professional-looking.

Therefore, if a personal blogger wants his or her blog to stand out from the rest of the other personal blogs on WordPress, they may choose to purchase one of WordPress’s premium themes.

By the way, any WordPress blogger is free to purchase any one of WordPress’s premium themes if they dislike the way in which the free WordPress themes look.

Final Thoughts

Personal bloggers are entitled to treat their blogs in the same manner that professional bloggers treat their blogs.

Whereas, those personal bloggers who prefer the old-fashioned simplistic way of blogging are entitled to carry out their blogs in that type of manner.

However, it would be wrong to think that those personal bloggers who are going all the way out with their blogs are taking their blogs too seriously.

The God’s/Goddess’s truth is that every personal blogger on the face of the Earth is supposed to know what is appropriate for their own blog and act accordingly.

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