{"id":2338,"date":"2007-04-04T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/why-cant-i-be-this-smart.html"},"modified":"2007-04-04T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T14:42:00","slug":"why-cant-i-be-this-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/why-cant-i-be-this-smart.html","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t I be this smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I spend all my time adding blogs to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingchicks.blogspot.com\/\">Blogging Chicks<\/a> blogroll and now my <a href=\"http:\/\/christianblogosphere.blogspot.com\/index.html\">Christian Blogosphere<\/a> blogroll trying to improve our Google, Technorati and TTLB ranks when I could have let others do the work for me like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethinkingblog.com\/2007\/02\/thinking-blogger-awards_11.html\">this blogger<\/a> did. There are now all these blogs (5 at a time) that will be linked to her blog.  Brilliant!!!  Not to mention the traffic it generates, doubly brilliant. This award is aptly named.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not smart enough for the world of blogging.  I&#8217;ve got to figure out how to get others to promote our blog for me <a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i129.photobucket.com\/albums\/p224\/michelercb\/baby-emoticon.gif\" alt=\"Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Updated:<\/span><br \/>\nOK, I see the flaw in the scheme <a href=\"http:\/\/centuri0n.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/meme-awards.html\">here<\/a>.  Not everyone cooperates and does it properly or understands what they are supposed to do (that&#8217;s the problem with memes, they&#8217;re like playing telephone).  No links to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethinkingblog.com\/\">thinking blog<\/a> on that blog (this is actually a blog from my Google Reader, I didn&#8217;t know that he got the award until after I posted this article &#8212; I have been noticing the awards on the blogs of women that I&#8217;ve been adding to the blogroll and finally clicked on one to see what it was all about).<br \/>\nI guess there is no easy solution, no substitute for the hard work of writing something or linking to something that people find interesting.  Bummer!<br \/>\nTags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/thinking+blogger+awards\" rel=\"tag\">thinking blogger award<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/meme\" rel=\"tag\">meme<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I spend all my time adding blogs to my Blogging Chicks blogroll and now my Christian Blogosphere blogroll trying to improve our Google, Technorati and TTLB ranks when I could have let others do the work for me like this blogger did. 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