Are bloggers casting a dark-spell on bread'n'butter of genuine content writers?

Is blogging for popularity successful?

[yogis]

I wish to understand the googles attitude towards Blogging. There are certain optimizers and content developers - who are whole-heartedly blogging on the net to improve the link-platform of their sites. Although the short term effect looks positive - does google [or for that matter any SE] consider penalizing if blogging goes out of legal parameters? I've learned that blogging can be used for creating inbound links thus avoiding outbound links and finally link-exchange strategy.

Are the bloggers begining to cast a dark-spell on bread'n'butter of genuine content writers?

Any thoghts?

[rogerd]

Hmmm, your post raises two issues:
- blogging for links
- blogging vs. "genuine" content writing

I think blogging for artificially high links will decline as a technique as the SEs filter or downgrade such linkage.

I don't know if there's a conflict between blogging and other content writing. Some bloggers write great content, and some non-blogging content writers produce drivel.

Perhaps bloggers produce more drivel simply because of the low "barrier to publishing" - you can log into your blog from anywhere, dash off random thoughts, click "submit", and bingo, it's on the web. Then again, you have content writers who churn out copy that doesn't say much but does contain keywords at a specified density.

[yogis]

thnx a lot Rogers. Its a whole new genre of Bloggers waiting to hack the SE's alogrithm.

You wait and seee