Blog Stereotypes: What Type of a Blogger are you?

If you could categorize yourself as a particular type of blogger what do you think it would be? I’ve been trying to think about all the different categories that Bloggers could fall into & he’s what I’ve come up with.

Pro Blogger: This is someone who blogs full time, in fact they eat sleep & probably dream blogs too. This takes extreme dedication aswell as a good Feed Reader :p

After Work Blogger: This type of blogger still has a full time job, they blog sometimes from work *cough* or blog when they get home. They don’t tend to take things as seriously as the Pro Blogger. There could be a small percentage of this type of blogger that Borders on Pro Blogging, perhaps wanting to take things to the next level & quit work altogether.

Blind Blogger: Eyes on the prize, all this type of blogger can think about is cold hard cash. The problem tends to be that in the confusion most of their posts tend to be useless, recycled or even copied. There is a small minority of this type of blogger that does reach their goal, however it usually takes a while before they realize that in order to make the big bucks you need to blog about more commercial things like Gadgets or Celebrities.

Corporate Blogger: Yes, even companies pay people to blog. In fact my company has a Corporate Blogger who generates a huge amount of hype for us. This type of blogger is very focused on creating viral content that will spread & help bring brand awareness & new business to the company. They are generally very switched on & have a good marketing or blogging background.

Spam Blogger: Splogs or Spam Blogs are a very real threat to Blogging in general. I reckon I get about 5 trackbacks per day of people scraping my posts & about 15 unwanted spam comments per day. Spam Bloggers use auto content generators to pull stories from other Blog’s RSS Feeds, the key for them is mass generation in the hope that more pages online equals more money.

Hobby Blogger: This type of blogging usually occurs from people passionate about something, like sport. I’ve seen blogs of this type start out small then become huge. In fact I think that this type of blog normally does very well, why? because the blogger is posting because they are passionate about a particular topic, they’re not posting to get money nor are they posting for recognition (well maybe sometimes :p)

Review Blogger: This type of blogger most reviews products or gadgets & includes detailed photos or guides. Normally this happens on Gadgets blogs but more & more frequently we’re seeing people review Ecommerce Products, Ebooks or Software. Blogs can be great for an unbiased opinion towards a product or service but generally whenever you see an affiliate link promoting the software or service they’re probably talking it up

Comment Blogger: Instead of Blogging this these guys prefer comments on other blogs & interacting on a social level with other bloggers & commenter’s. Eventually most of them end up starting their own blog, advantages of this is that you’ve already made others aware of who you are, so when you finally get a blog started you have a network to promote it.

Political Blogger: These Bloggers love a bit of controversy & also love stirring up trouble. Not afraid to post their opinions online, usually stand by their guns & will defend their point to the death. Beware.

Journal Blogger: The original type of Blogger that uses blogs to talk about their day to day life. This type is very fanatical, they will take pictures everywhere they go, perhaps videos & post them on their blog. General women bloggers of this sort seem to do much better than males, I wonder why

What type are you? I definately fall into the “After Work Blogger” category. I don’t trust blogging & online revenue streams enough to not have a day job as well. Call me paranoid :p

In a later post I’ll look as what factors drive people to blogging & why so many people are now doing it.