Do successful bloggers have a great ego?

Jul 04, 2008

I was just now reading this very old post at technosailor about most successful bloggers having a big ego. The writer says that successful bloggers do things in order to gain attention from search engines, from readers and from other bloggers and this satisfies their ego. So is it necessary that if you want to be a successful blogger you need to have an ego?

It depends on how you perceive ego. Some say it is your inner consciousness and some say ego is what you think other people think of you. In blogging personality, attitude and attention do matter and in fact they matter a lot. To stand apart your blog required an identity, a unique personality so that people can instantly recognize you and then remember you. Along with remembering you they must also remember you in good stead. It is no use being notorious because although you will get attention initially this attention won’t last long. You need positive attention, you need people to like you and appreciate you and value whatever you publish on your blog. For some this is ego boost and for some it is a step towards something else.

People blog for different reasons and of course there are people who blog merely for attention. But some people mean to do business from their blogs, through their blogs. This business can be selling ads, promoting affiliate programs, promoting own business, spreading awareness regarding a social cause and disseminating religious and political messages. Of course social work, religion and politics don’t come under the ambit of doing business but after all it is an objective. For such people – who are blogging for one of the above-mentioned objectives – blogging success is not merely a satisfaction of the ego. They are not bothered about their personal fame (although very few people dislike the idea and the outcome); they are more bothered about the effect it is going to bring about.

Having said that I have often noticed that successful bloggers do develop a certain kind of “superior” attitude and I don’t mean it in the negative sense. Success takes lots of perseverance, skill, effort and networking and there are very few people who can sustain for a long time. This obviously fills a person with a sense of achievement. Nonetheless, there are few bloggers who remain untouched by all these feelings.

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2 Responses to “Do successful bloggers have a great ego?”

ramiro marques
July 6th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Great post! Let me tell you why I blog every day: usually more than 5 posts per day.
I am a portuguese blogger with a big interest in education. As a teacher and a writer I have strong ideas about education and I like those ideas can be heard. Blogging is one of the best ways to be heard.
Trixie
July 7th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Hard work is the key of success and became visible on social network site, actually every individual have their reason why they blog, other just to be notice to gain some attention, but most of the time do it because they want to earn from it.
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