A blog is a very powerful media platform if you have an effective writer behind the scenes. A blog can build an industry, a business, and educate individuals across the world. TechCrunch.com is a great example of how a guy with an idea and effective writing skills impacted an industry with a blog.

The blogging community in the domain industry is unique in many ways and responsible for sustaining growth in the industry. Everyone has done a great job providing content on a niche in the industry for the most part. It is great to have three blogging sites and writers that cover the Industry as a whole, such as DomainNameNews.com, DomainNameWire.com and TheDomains.com. I really enjoy reading all the articles found on Domaining.com that bloggers take the time to publish. I try my best to read all of the content that is published. Many posts are insightful and provide different perspectives on topics of interest to domainers. The goal of most of them I would assume is to provide educational content that will help individuals understand the domain industry and help them find a level of success in the industry.

Blogging is not an easy job. Providing effective content takes time, research, and skill. Those who are consistent bloggers can be compared to professional writers in many ways. The skill to communicate effectively is essential in order to have a successful blog. You have to connect with visitors and make them want to come back for more of your content. The good bloggers do this and do it well. I recommend thanking them for doing so.

Bloggers who can not do this consistently fade away. We have seen many blogs fade, R.I.P. to those who have. If you think it is easy to become an effective blogger, I recommend you start a blog to see the work load involved in providing effective content daily or weekly with effective spelling and terminology to strangers from around the world.

Oh and by the way, you have to face criticism sometimes for the content you publish publicly, which can make or break a blogger depending on their response to this criticism. I find criticism to be a developmental tool that makes an individual a better writer in the blogging world. It takes courage to publish a comment from an individual who is bashing your content or point of view. At times, content is taken out of context to advance a visitors agenda. Frustrating to say the least when this occurs, but overall makes an individual a better writer and communicater.

Bloggers also get writers block, which is very frustrating when it occurs. Eventually, they get out of this slump and start providing great content again. Then there are life situations that occur that take a blogger out for a duration. This happened to SimplyGeo.com. However the good news is most of those situations are complete now and content is soon to come! Hope you all will enjoy it.

Recently, I have noticed many of the major bloggers taking a break from blogging. I am not surprized by this as many of them run successful businesses and need to focus on certain projects. Others just need a break from blogging as it can be stressful at times finding original content to publish. And some may be facing writers block, and waiting to get out of their slump. Eventually, I foresee all of them publishing content again in the near future.

It is fun reading content and comments on established blogs. Visitors get to become educated from the content and comments published. Based on SimplyGeo.com’s statistics, only 3% of the visitors that frequent the blog post comments to articles. This is probally the norm in all domain industry blogs. Visitors fear sharing their opinions publicly. This however does not mean that a visitor can not express their thanks to the blogger. Take the time to write a comment from time to time. Embrace and motivate bloggers to continue doing what they are doing by leaving comments and being apart of the community. To those who are on break from blogging, make sure to leave comments motivating them to come back and provide content.

Blogging is a team effort and it benefits so many people in the long term. Visitors, readers and comrades, take the time to thank and interact with blogging communities and show that you appreciate the content bloggers provide. It is not hard to say, “Thanks for providing this content, keep up the good work.”

If you take away all the bloggers in the industry, what will you have to read? Where will you get a variety of perspectives and education from? Where will you get ground breaking news from? Where will you get professional advice from? The domain industry was once boring when it was silent and secretive. Bloggers have made the industry vibrant, exciting and center stage in main stream media. They have inflicted change in the industry, that no one else could have ever done. Do you want a boring industry again? If not, support your industry bloggers and leave comments. The true value on any blog is not the content they provide, but the response to the content in the comments section. This is where the real value is contained for the visitor most of the time. Our job is to get your experience, education, and perspective out of your head so the world can learn from it. I ask you to please do your part and embrace the industry bloggers.

At this time, I would like to thank all bloggers in the domain industry for your dedication in providing effect content for my reading pleasure. Please keep up the good work!

Lastly, I would like to thank Francois for establishing Domaining.com and continuosly upgrading the platform. It is a long term investment that will continue to promote the industry as a unified front.

Have a nice day!
Steve