Welcome to the readers of ProBlogger. I hope you have enjoyed my guest post on Understanding the Blog Lifecycle to Avoid Common Downfalls. I thought I would take a quick second and give you a little more information about BuzzMyBlog.com and what we do here.

BuzzMyBlog.com is a blog dedicated to bloggers helping bloggers to become more successful. It is an open and interactive community that encourages collaboration and group discussion to learn how to improve your blog and earn more money. I am not a fan of pointless contests, annoying pop-up ads, or other gimmicky tricks to earn a few bucks. Instead, I prefer to focus on helpful articles, expert interviews, and dedicated reviews of my readers. I invite you to see for yourself why BuzzMyBlog.com is not your typical "Make Money Online" blog. Here are a few noteworthy posts worth checking out.

• The Weekly Buzz is a special feature we do here at BuzzMyBlog.com and explains how the blog got its name. Each week I spotlight a member of our community and provide a free review of their blog. I also award a prize each week that the winner can use to promote their blog. I said I am not a fan of pointless contests. This is not a pointless contest. It is entirely for the benefit of my readers. The general principle is if everyone takes a few minutes to give the winning blog some good "buzz", the effort will be returned to each person many times over when its their turn in the spotlight. You can join the Weekly Buzz community here.
• A Step By Step Guide To Monetizing Your Blog - I am currently in the middle of my six part series that outlines my blog's monetization strategy. I encourage you to follow along and share any experience you may have so we all can learn how to make more money with our blogs. 
• Ask A Pro is a feature of my blog that interviews well known bloggers. Instead of asking one blogger a bunch of boring questions, however, I ask many of the top bloggers one good question.
• Finding Your Place In A Crowded Blog Niche is one of my favorite posts that really sums up what BuzzMyBlog.com is all about.

Please take a look around make yourselves at home. If you like what you see, feel free to sign up for my RSS Feed and follow along.

Thank you for visiting.

Jeff

I'm Jason Boom, writing as a guest here at BuzzMyBlog.com. Jeff's site, as many of you know, emphasizes his difference from other make money bloggers. Instead of monetizing his site with tons of ads, he wants to help you and me gain momentum in this difficult niche. He wants to help others make money. That is different than many other blogs out there, but I'm not here today to talk about being different, I want to talk about being the same.

There are certain things bloggers should want to do differently. We should want to write in a different style from other bloggers in our niche. We should want to create a website that has a different logo, theme, and colors than other bloggers in our niche. We should want to find unique marketing ideas to set ourselves apart from the masses. All in all, we should want difference on most things considering our blog. It's what helps us grow our readership. Why would someone stick around our blog if we looked and sounded like every other blogger? They wouldn't.

Embracing Sameness

There are certain things bloggers should do to fall in line with the conformed crowd. I have yet to see a successful new blog obtain readers without these devices.

1. Join blog networking sites like MyBlogLog, MyBlogCatalog, and Entrecard. Without these sites, many of us cannot work on branding our sites, network with other bloggers, or even gain traffic to our sites.

2. Use known conventions when creating our site. We don't want to have a site completely unusable. The sameness comes when we use traditional navigation features, unless our experimental navigation somehow sets us apart from the rest.

3. English. Let's face it...pig latin would be hard to read and even harder to write. Don't do it.

The accepted conventions keep us tied closely to the definition of a weblog. If we veer to far from the norm, then we may not readily find traffic. Sameness should not identify our blog, only propel it towards its uniqueness. Jeff does a great job balancing his differences with his sameness. How about you?