Don’t lose your originality
Something that a lot of bloggers strive to achieve and in most many situations end up giving up on, is a little thing called originality.
There are two main ways to be original and keep the originality: Personality and Original Content. We’ll talk about both.
Personality
When starting a blog, most bloggers try to give it a “personal” touch, or to have a unique way of delivering content. One blogger that particular stood out to me in doing this is Jason at The University Kid.
He gives his posts a personal touch by talking directly to you, and steering clear of talking in third person about himself. This is something that looks professional at first, but can really become irritating to readers eventually.
In the same way, many bloggers make their blog original or personal by using techniques like these. But the problem is keeping the originality in there.
It’s not so tough throwing in personal touches, or a corny joke here and there 
, but eventually, if you don’t keep at it, your can lose your originality, and eventually lose your charm as a blogger, and your revenue, readers, and reputation may be lost.
Original Content
As is having personality in your blog, having original content is not hard at all; when starting out. After the first week or two, maybe a month, it will become extremely hard to have original content.
One of two things usually (and unfortunately) happens when you reach this point as a blogger.
- You get “stuck”, and give up blogging.
- You end up just reiterating what someone else has said.
When you do this, you end up killing your blog.
Don’t Give up!
But don’t give up friends, as that doesn’t have to be the end!
I’ve learned that you can do one thing to “spice” up your blog and content, and really keep that personal touch and originality to it, is to talk about unique viewpoints on something already brought out by a friend or blogger.
At some point, you are just not going to have something to write about that absolutely no one will have ever said, hinted to, or thought about for that matter. 
But you don’t need 100% unique content! I know you guys are going to trash me for it , but hear me out.
Like I said, you’ll have extreme difficulty at some point to find something totally unique to write about. But what you can do is this: Take a point, story, tip or anything else talked about by someone else, be it a blogger, friend, co-worker, etc.
Than what you do is take whatever it is, and revamp the meaning and the way it’s portrayed. What this means is take something someone says and either change the point or meaning of it, or take something said and then write about it from a different viewpoint. If someone looks at the grass from this side, write about it from the other side! You’ll get more buzz for contradicting/agreeing with another blogger, and people will just eat up the content and try and piece together each side.
I think that this is a great tip and I personally use it myself, and I hope you will too!
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Someone has been reading through my blog! This is what I lack!!I am nogood at finding inspiration without copying lol
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This post brings up a great point and I’m not sure why I didn’t think of it before
I guess I can relate to this a lot because I tend to give up on blogging when something bad happens 
-Mike
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I agree Mark, I wrote a similar post to this one called blogging voice a few days back, its something every blogger should and needs to learn to become great!
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I agree with all of you guys that everyone struggles with this, and it’s something everyone must overcome. I hope you all do well in this aspect.
I feel as long as you write it as you would say it and not hold anything back you will always have originality on your site. Just don’t be afraid to put what you really feel. Then again everyone always trys to write the best pots that they can and sometimes you have to eliminate some of those aspects in order to achieve that.
Good post Mark.
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This is what I meant by killer content. Good stuff, thanks for the plug
Wow thanks Jason, it’s great to hear you say that.
And no problem about the plug, you blog portrays exactly what I wanted to emphasize. 
Regards,
- Mark Cuda | http://www.monkeyblogger.com
Great post Mark. We’re starting to see a lot more duplicate content. I truly believe that you need to stay creative and original if you want to succeed.
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Yeah, duplicate content is becoming more and more common and it really puts readers off when they read something for the 15th time.
Great post. I agree that a bunch of new bloggers run out of material and just give up… that’s why some blogs end up dieing after a month or two!
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Thanks for the comment Sammy, good to see a new reader here, I hope you subscribe to our rss and I can’t wait to see you back again!
By the way, I checked out your blog, very nice! And I commented too 
yea great posts! When you find your unique blogging style that is when things start to get easier. Copying other people is harder than you think.
I agree Jason has definately found his own style! BTW nice blog!
I think a lot of people see those who are successful and try to imitate instead of learning from them and adapting it to their own style.
I love many bloggers, but, I won’t start sounding like Garry Conn, or writing like TUK! I just set out to be myself from the beginning, and decided to make it or break based on that. I learn as much as I can but always try to remain myself.
People can tell when you are being yourself, so what if you’re not the best post writer, or have the most knowledge…..as long as you are trying to help folks, that’s what they will remember!
Can’t believe I missed your blog last week on my “blog discovery expedition”. Well, I am here now, so like I told the others….get used to seeing my mug!
see ya
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