Internet – Nickcarnes.com

A Blog Pirate: Someone who tries to steal the spotlight from a more successful blog in order to make their blog noticed and to increase their traffic stats.

This is usually done by pointlessly criticizing posts in order to drive traffic to their blog. Most blog pirates surf the “What’s Hot” on the front page of blog hosts (I.E. WordPress.com) hunting their next victim. They also search through the tags pages to see what blogs have the most comments (thus a high level of traffic) and rips into the author of the blog and/or their content. If you have ever crossed a Blog Pirate you will see why they have to steal the spotlight, its usually because their content is not good enough to draw their own crowd and keep them.

Blog Pirates know that most authors will defend their content thus linking to the pirate and driving their readers (traffic) to the pirate’s site, they also know that when people search for key words pertaining to the victim’s blog in Google the searcher will be driven to the pirate’s blog as well, thus attracting extra traffic. Blog Pirates are interested in one thing, signing on to WordPress and immediately going to their daily stats and seeing how many hits they had that day…nothing more, nothing less.

Watch it! You may be hijacked by a Blog Pirate today 🙂

Join the Conversation! Have you ever been attacked by a Blog Pirate? Know anyone else that has? I’ve been attacked and I know others that have been attacked as well.

My Grandma always told me that if I wanted a job, I better wear a suit to the interview, or at least a shirt and tie. Why? Because image is important. That is why 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 is one of my favorite verses. We are encouraged to become all things to all people…now my story:

I eat lunch at Panera Bread approximately 3-4 days a week, sometimes more. They have the best soup in town and that is all I eat for lunch. Yesterday, as I was waiting for my name to be called to pick up my lunch at the pick-up counter I was setting my laptop up, when I was approached by a guy I didn’t know. He was a big guy, with those big ear rings that stretch your ears and make big holes. He was wearing a black t-shirt, and jean shorts. He looked like the kind of guy that would be interested in heavy metal rock music or something. He was friendly and said, “I know you don’t know me at all and this may be weird, but do you use the internet in here a lot?” I told him that I did, so he proceeded to ask me if I would go help his friend access the internet. He was concerned that my food would get cold, so he told me to bring it to their table with me, but I told him it would be ok.

I did the best that I could to get this guy’s friend’s computer to connect to the internet. His friend was a smaller version of the big guy, except he had longer hair in a ponytail with a hat on. He had camouflage shorts on with a black t-shirt. As I attempted to work on the computer, both guys were very friendly, talkative, and they shared how they were in town for some reason, but they were originally from York, Pennsylvania. I don’t remember too much of what was said as I was focusing on helping them out with their computer issue. I thought I had fixed it, and as the browser was taking them to Panera’s log-in screen, a parental control screen came up requesting a password. The guy who owned the computer was straight up with me and said that his wife has most of the internet blocked because he struggles with things on there, most guys would not admit that. I told him there was probably nothing I could do to help him log on to the internet because of the parental lock, so I told them good luck and went to eat my lunch, but I couldn’t help myself, knowing that these guys needed the internet for something important for their trip, so I went and offered for the guy to use my computer, he did, and both guys were overjoyed that I was willing to help them. These guys were super nice people.

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