Top 10 Most Overdone Blog Posts
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I was desperately behind earlier this week in keeping up with my RSS feeds because of family priorities and my own clumsiness. I committed to catching up in Scoble’s “River of News” style, going chronological to be sure I followed the currents of the last two weeks. In so doing, I found myself skipping over large numbers of posts because they were so incredibly redundant. Like every story about Paris Hilton this week.
Ok, this century.
Now I know what a Tijuana hooker feels like. After getting the same junk shoved in my face for hours on end, I was just going through the motions.
With that, I give you…
The Top 10 Most Overdone Blog Posts
1. Posts about writing “flagship” posts or “pillar” articles or the ominpresent “Killer Content“. We get it.
2. Any post with the word “linkbait”. I keep reading it as “jailbait”. The penalty should be the same.
3. Posts about making money with Adsense. Really, you can make money with Adsense? Who knew…
4. Any post about PageRank not written by someone with the last name “Cutts”. ‘Nuff said.
5. Any post about generating traffic with Digg. Thems that gets it already do it. Thems that don’t never will.
6. Posts that decry bloggers for writing paid posts in a misguided attempt to apply the ethics of professional journalists (wait…tee, hee… ok, moving on…) to bloggers. Quit trying to box us in to your system, man. We’re freelance writers and the blog is just our distribution channel. Nothing more, nothing less.
7. “Me-too” posts written simply for the purpose of fellating other bloggers into linking back to your posts.
8. Posts telling people how to become profitable bloggers.
9. Any “How-to” post that does not contain the word “stripper”.
10. All Top 10 lists. 
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