Want to start you own blog or website? Why? What do you have to offer? If you don’t have a reason and have nothing to offer, don’t do it. I would hate to spend time visiting a useless waste of bandwidth and I would definitely hate to spend time visiting a site that regurgitates the same thing I’ve already read somewhere else. If you don’t want to be a complete and total failure, offer your visitors something unique. Offer your visitors something new. If you clone other websites you’ll end up reading yours alone.
Plz explain, those clones don’t look alone!
Now hold on one minute, the above clones are not alone, they have each other… Yay for them! Their similarities will force them to live a life of tragedy, a life of abandonment, a life half-full, half-empty, half-loved, half-visited, traffic-split.
Enough drama, conclusive evidence plz.
Imagine yourself walking down the street when suddenly out from the bushes jumps the cutest little kitten you have ever seen. What do you do? Some people might run, some might scream, but most would feel their hearts warm, their knees buckle, and their hands overcome with the uncontrollable desire to touch the little critter. After a few purrs and some ear scratching, you remember that important meeting you’re late for! OMG!
As you flee the scene in a hurry suddenly out from the bushes jumps the clone… What do you do? Some people might engage in another mutually gratifying exchange of purrs and rubs, but most would say, “Get lost”, “Outta my way”, “Quit following me”, “You again?”. And so you have conclusive evidence that the clone goes unloved, even though equally cute.
I’m not sure that proves your point…
Oh how you are wrong conversational paragraph title. Imagine that it was not the clone who emerged from the bushes. What if it had been something different, something unique? What if it were a squirrel juggling peanuts? I guarantee you that person would have stopped again to observe the spectacle. You cannot refute this argument. If you clone you’ll end up alone. You don’t have to juggle nuts to succeed, you just have to avoid being a rerun, a repeat, the same show already seen.
Ok fine, so I should be unique… How do I do that?
The best way to be unique is to be yourself. Until human cloning becomes prevalent, that should work. Focus on what you do best, make your site about something you enjoy, something you like.
But, I have no friends, nobody likes me, I’m actually a total ass…
That’s ok! Your failures and inadequacies in real life will be your assets online. You can be boring, arrogant, annoying, you name it! Be yourself and you’ll find your niche. Best of all, you’ll connect with people who share your interests and who might be able to tolerate you despite your shortcomings.
So, what did I learn?
Don’t clone, be yourself, and once your site becomes popular, give all the credit to me.
